HAPPINESS
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As disturbingly funny as it is audaciously empathetic, auteur of unease Todd Solondz’s portrait of damaged souls reaching out for connection reveals the existential void underneath middle-class suburban “normalcy.” An extraordinary ensemble cast — including Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jane Adams, Lara Flynn Boyle, Ben Gazzara and Dylan Baker — embodies an array of loosely connected New Jersey deviants, depressives and misfits, among them a frustrated phone-sex pest, an all-American dad concealing his pedophilic urges and a lonely woman with a grisly secret, all of whom want just one thing: to be loved. One of the most controversial films of the 1990s, the unflinching HAPPINESS unnerves precisely because it dares to see the humanity in those most often denied it. (Note courtesy of the Criterion Collection.) DIR/SCR Todd Solondz; PROD Ted Hope, Christine Vachon. U.S., 1998, color, 140 min. RATED NC-17
Run Time: 140 Minutes
Opening Date: Sunday, August 10, 2025
Genre: Comedy, drama
