Happy Face Killer

Name: Happy Face Killer
Genre: Drama
Released: 2014-03-01
Cast: David Arquette, Gloria Reuben, Stefanie von Pfetten, Melissa M. Montgomery, Em Haine

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Happy Face Killer

TV-14

2014

1h 30m

Drama

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Serial killer Keith Jesperson (David Arquette) murders at least eight women over a five-year span and taunts authorities with disturbing letters and scribbled confessions signed with a happy face.

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Emma Stefansky

The Daily Beast

Maybe if Happy Face was anything other than Very Serious about its subject matter, these moral lessons wouldn’t seem so confused, but, as it is, the show doesn’t have a whole lot else to offer -- more interested in having its cake and stabbing it, too.

Jun 10, 2025

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Tanis J

Miranda C. Happy Face Killer IS a very real serial killer by the name of Keith Jesperson. Research it.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

04/07/25

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Jeffrey M

A somewhat formulaic but well-crafted tale about a serial killer, a truck driver who commits a series of strangulations of young women over a series of years, including his fiancee. David Arquette does a nice turn as the killer, who passes as normal in most situations but descends into a killing rage when he imagines woman are "causing trouble." Gloria Reuben is fine as the FBI agent who dismisses a false confession and tracks him down, and the gloom and dank of the Pacific Northwest casts an appropriate mood over the proceedings.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

04/01/25

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Miranda C

This movie is way off. The family and killer are not even close, missing one daughter, how things went with the murders were not acurate...this movie was just a joke. Good thing it wasn't based on a real killer....

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

03/29/25

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Rick Bota

Director

David Arquette

Keith Jesperson

Gloria Reuben

Melinda Gand

Stefanie von Pfetten

Diane Loftin

Melissa M. Montgomery

Felicia Boones

Em Haine

Sissy Peyton

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Synopsis

Serial killer Keith Jesperson (David Arquette) murders at least eight women over a five-year span and taunts authorities with disturbing letters and scribbled confessions signed with a happy face.

Director: Rick Bota
Producer: Harvey Kahn
Screenwriter: Richard Christian Matheson
Production Co: Front Street Pictures
Rating: TV-14 (S|L|V)
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (TV): Mar 1, 2014
Runtime: 1h 30m

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