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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: Lions Gate
EAN: 9781588177339
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 1588177335
Label: Lions Gate
Manufacturer: Lions Gate
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Lions Gate
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 03, 2003
Running Time: 140 minutes
Sales Rank: 55216
Studio: Lions Gate
Theatrical Release Date: October 16, 1998
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Meet three sisters at the center of a struggle with the secret demons of middle class perfection. Theres joy who is rebounding from a break-up with her latest loser boyfriend helen a glamorous writer looking for drama in a relationship with a obscene phone caller and trish the housewife. Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 09/14/2004
Amazon.com:
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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Horrible mess of fringe people
Only in a film could one find such a menagerie of social misfits that somehow all manage to intersect in some tangential way. While lunatics, perverts, the socially inept, the depressed, ugly, fat and others do in fact exist, to find them all in such close proximity to one another is of course farce. Excuses can be give for why this is, given that it is a film and this is the story the filmmakers choose to tell. Fine. I still hated it. None of the characters were compelling and I could not relate ... Read More
Rating:  - Happiness... Not What You Think...
This film explores the ravages of sibling rivalry, the painful torment of twisted sexuality, and the loss of love and discovery of a new life. An amazing cast gives amazing performances. This film is not to be missed but it is also not for the faint of heart.
Rating: - A Must See
This movie reminds me as a dark comedy for personality disorders. Philip Seymor Hoffman does a fantastic job playing his rolse, as does Jon Lovitz, and the rest of the cast. Definitely a Must See!
Rating: - Adequate DVD edition of the most touching comedy ever filmed
Jared Harris' performance of "You Light Up My Life" serenades the main menu of this DVD. The fake cheeseball Russian accent and guitar strumming are sure to put a tingle in your tummy and warm you up for all of the sheer joy to be cherished in this film.
This disc's special features are sparse and typical of those found in early DVDs, but on the whole, they're competently implemented. Filmographies and brief career profiles of Jane Adams, Dylan Baker, Lara Flynn Boyle, Philip Seymour ... Read More
Rating: - Todd Solondz Does It Again
Todd Solondz follows up his brillaint Welcome To The Dollhouse with another great film in the form of Happiness. The dialouge delivered in the film is unique and somewhat racy but that's what makes the film intiurging. Dylan Baker plays one of the sickest charcter to emegre on the screen and Phlip Baker Hall delivers some funny lines as a sexually frustaed man. Not for all tastes but still a good movie
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