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What Happened Was...

Jackie (Karen Sillas) and Michael (Tom Noonan, Manhunter, also writer-director) are co-workers at a New York law firm who, after months of flirtation, agree to meet for a 'first date' at Jackie's apartment. Their initially charged and playful interactions eventually evolve into a long, dark night of the soul, as the two would-be lovers get to know each other properly for the first time, and discover that all may not be as it seems. Winner of the Sundance Festival Jury Prize in 1994, What Happened Was... is a landmark work of American independent cinema anchored around two stunning performances, presenting an often hilarious, often bleak, but always excoriatingly honest exploration of dating in the big city. Radiance is proud to present the film on UK home video for the very first time.

LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES

• 4K restoration by Oscilloscope Laboratories 
• Uncompressed stereo PCM audio
• Interview with director Tom Noonan and producer Scott Macaulay (2021)
• Interview with star Karen Sillas (2021)
• New interview about the film with critic Charles Bramesco (2024)
• Trailer
• Optional English SDH subtitles
• Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Filippo Di Battista
• Limited edition booklet featuring new writing by Adam Nayman
• Limited edition of 3000 copies, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings

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Year: 1994
Country: USA
Cert: TBC
Format: Blu-ray
Region: ABC
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EAN: 5060974682126
Release date: 24/02/25

Press & Awards:

Sundance Film Festival - Winner Grand Jury Prize

Sundance Film Festival - Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award

"It's wildly heartbreaking and terribly funny. It means the world to me." - Charlie Kaufman

"An unsettling glimpse into the feelings that all our faces hide" - Own Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly

"The beauty and originality of What Happened Was... rests on defying the melodramatic conventions of Hollywood's psychodrama... intriguing and often mysterious... may present the most authentic chronicle of how people actually behave on a date." Emanuel Levy, Variety