Happiness (1998)
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- Synopsis
- After his 1995 breakthrough, Welcome to the Dollhouse, director Todd Solondz was courted by a number of studios to make a big-budget film with top stars. Instead, he chose to make this aggressively dark comedy-drama of perversions and twisted lives....
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- Starring
- Jane Adams, Dylan Baker, Lara Flynn Boyle, Ben Gazzara, Jared Harris
- Director(s)
- Todd Solondz
- Distributor(s)
- Good Machine
- MPAA Rating
- Not Rated
- Runtime
- 139 min.
Critic Reviews
It is not a film for most people. It is certainly for adults only. But it shows Todd Solondz as a filmmaker who deserves attention, who hears the unhappiness in the air and seeks its sources.Read the full review
Like David Lynch, Quentin Tarantino, and Paul Thomas Anderson, Solondz revels in ironic pop passion. It's a signature moment when he transforms Air Supply's "All Out of Love" into a geek-love rhapsody.Read the full review
Thoroughly realized characters and relationships and Solondz's masterful ability to switch the tone from comic to tragic within the same scene help make Happiness a better film than it might have been otherwise. Much better, in fact.Read the full review
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