199 Tips to Be Happy (Spanish: 199 recetas para ser feliz, ) is a 2008 Chilean-Spanish drama film directed by Andrés Waissbluth and written by Waissbluth, Nona Fernández, Cristián Jiménez & Marcelo Leonart. Starring Pablo Macaya, Tamara Garea and Andrea GarcÃÂa-Huidobro. It is inspired by the story Noticias de Milo, which is part of the book Mujer desnuda fumando en la ventana by Marcelo Leonart.
A Chilean couple in Barcelona languishes under the influence of a humid and hot summer. While he tries to lead the promotional campaign for a book that promises happiness, she can't get her younger brother recently dead in Chile out of her mind. His days are shaken by the unexpected visit of a disturbing girl.
The actors participating in this film are:
Principal photography began on 28 July 2006, and ended on September 5 of the same year in Barcelona, Spain.
199 Tips to Be Happy was screened at the beginning of October 2008 in the Ventana Section of Chilean Cinema at the 15th Valdivia International Film Festival, in mid-November 2008 at the 20th Viña del Mar International Film Festival as part of the National Fiction Feature Film Competition and on 22 June 2009, at the 9th Festival La Chimenea de Villaverde.
It was scheduled to be released on 14 August 2008, in Chilean theaters, but it was delayed until September 25 of the same year to later expand to the Spanish market on 17 July 2009.