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Happiness
- Director: Todd Solondz
- Writer: Todd Solondz
- Producer: Ted Hope; Pamela Koffler
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Prepare yourselves...
This film contains, possibly, one of the most powerful/harrowing/disturbing scenes ever filmed.
Happiness is only skin deep in Suburbia and has been interpreted in oh so many films...but, not like this...
A remarkable film - love it or hate it - but, it certainly makes a statement about our happy lives - and it really is all about sex in every shape and form.
Astounding.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
When a young woman rejects her current overweight suitor in a restaurant, he unexpectedly places a curse on her. The film then moves on to her sisters. One is a happily married woman with a psychiatrist husband and three kids. Unfortunately the husband develops an unnatural fascination for his 11 year old son's male classmates, fantasizes about mass killing in a park, and masturbates to teen magazines. One of his patients has an unrequited fascination for the third sister. Meanwhile the apparently stable 40 year marriage of the sister's parents suddenly unravels when he decides he has had enough and wants to live a hermit's life in Florida. Obviously, the whole movie is slightly warped in its viewpoint and certainly presents abnormal relationships among all of its parties.
Cast & Characters
Jane Adams as Joy Jordan;
Jon Lovitz as Andy Kornbluth;
Philip Seymour Hoffman as Allen;
Dylan Baker as Bill Maplewood;
Lara Flynn Boyle as Helen Jordan;
Justin Elvin as Timmy Maplewood;
Cynthia Stevenson as Trish Maplewood;
Lila Glantzman-Leib as Chloe Maplewood;
Gerry Becker as Psychiatrist;
Rufus Read as Billy Maplewood;
Louise Lasser as Mona Jordan;
Ben Gazzara as Lenny Jordan;
Camryn Manheim as Kristina;
Arthur J. Nascarella as Detective Berman;
Molly Shannon as Nancy