Happiness
by Todd Solondz
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Actor: Dylan Baker, Jane Adams, Jon Lovitz, Lara Flynn Boyle, Philip Seymour HoffmanDirector: Todd Solondz
Brand: HOFFMAN,PHILIP SEYM
Cinematographer: Maryse Alberti
Writer: Todd Solondz
Producer: Christine Vachon
Producer: David Linde
Producer: James Schamus
Producer: Pamela Koffler
Producer: Ted Hope
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Letterboxed, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Letterbox, 1.85:1
Running Time: 134 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-04-27
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Lions Gate
Movie Reviews of Happiness
Movie Review: Hilarious disturbing movie
Summary: 5 Stars
I have a sick sense of humor so I really liked this movie. Saw it about 10 years ago and had to buy it to see it again. You really have to appreciate the unique humor in this movie.
Summary of Happiness
Three middle class New Jersey sisters seek love and happiness.Genre: Feature Film-Comedy
Rating: UN
Release Date: 27-APR-1999
Media Type: DVD
At times brilliant and insightful, at times repellent and false, Happiness is director Todd Solondz's multistory tale of sex, perversion, and loneliness. Plumbing depths of Crumb-like angst and rejection, Solondz won the Cannes International Critics Prize in 1998 and the film was a staple of nearly every critic's Top Ten list. Admirable, shocking, and hilarious for its sarcastic yet strangely empathetic look at consenting adults' confusion between lust and love, the film stares unflinchingly until the audience blinks. But it doesn't stop there. A word of strong caution to parents: One of the main characters, a suburban super dad (played by Dylan Baker), is really a predatory pedophile and there is more than an attempt to paint him as a sympathetic character. Children are used in this film as running gags or, worse, the means to an end. Whether that end is a humorous scene for Solondz or sexual gratification for the rapist becomes largely irrelevant. Happiness is an intelligent, sad film, revelatory and exact at moments. It's also abuse in the guise of art. That's nothing to celebrate. --Keith Simanton
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