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Happiness

1998, Movie, R, 139 mins

Happiness: Review

No, it's not a wonderful life, and the world can be an awful place, a sinkhole brimming with loneliness, cruelty, depravity and human monsters who prey on small children. The world, that is, according to director Todd Solondz whose blistering, brilliantly transgressive satire is sure to rattle even the most jaded filmgoer. It's also a remarkably compassionate profile of American life at its most desperate. Read the complete review for Happiness

Happiness: Cast & Details

Year: 1998
Rated R

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Cast
Jane Adams: Joy Jordan
Lara Flynn Boyle: Helen Jordan
Cynthia Stevenson: Trish Maplewood
Dylan Baker: Bill Maplewood
Philip Seymour Hoffman: Allen
Ben Gazzara: Lenny Jordan

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Happiness: TV Guide News

How The Book of Daniel Came to Be | Today's News: Our Take | 1/6/2006
I'm pretty sure I'm still dreaming. As far as I can tell, this dream started a year and a half ago, so it's actually still June 2004, it's 3:30 in the morning, and I "wake up" with the first scene vividly playing out in my head: His daughter's been arrested. This guy (I hadn't even come up with names yet) has to go pick up his teenage daughter at a police station, way down in Riverdale, in the middle of the night. What the heck was she doing in Riverdale?! He's worried to death. He's angry. He's scared. But more than anything... he's uncomfortable. He is a WASP, after all — they don't go to police stations. And certainly not in the middle of the night! By the time he gets her and his wife home, it's dawn; they have to get ready for church. As he sits alone in his car, he reaches for the biggest obstacle in his life right now — his Vicodin. Then... Smash Cut to: the Pulpit. He's a priest! That's it. That's my way in. I finally found my way into a world that's bee read more

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