Directed by:
Todd SolondzScreenplay:
Todd SolondzCinematography:
Maryse AlbertiCast:
Jane Adams, Jon Lovitz, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Dylan Baker, Lara Flynn Boyle, Cynthia Stevenson, Justin Elvin, Lila Glantzman-Leib, Louise Lasser (more)Plots(1)
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. (Criterion)
(more)Cast
Jane Adams
USA
Best movies:
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
Happiness (1998)
Little Children (2006)
Jon Lovitz
USA
Best movies:
Happiness (1998)
The Brave Little Toaster (1987)
A League of Their Own (1992)
Philip Seymour Hoffman
USA
Best movies:
Mary and Max (2009)
Scent of a Woman (1992)
Cold Mountain (2003)
Dylan Baker
USA
Best movies:
Requiem for a Dream (2000)
The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
Road to Perdition (2002)
Lara Flynn Boyle
USA
Best movies:
Happiness (1998)
Have Dreams, Will Travel (2007)
Threesome (1994)
Cynthia Stevenson
USA
Best movies:
Happiness (1998)
The Player (1992)
Forget Paris (1995)
Justin Elvin
Best movies:
Happiness (1998)
Lila Glantzman-Leib
Best movies:
Happiness (1998)
Louise Lasser
USA
Best movies:
Requiem for a Dream (2000)
Take the Money and Run (1969)
Happiness (1998)
Ben Gazzara
USA
Best movies:
The Big Lebowski (1998)
Dogville (2003)
Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
Camryn Manheim
USA
Best movies:
Happiness (1998)
The 10th Kingdom (2000) (series)
An Unfinished Life (2005)
Arthur J. Nascarella
USA
Best movies:
Enemy of the State (1998)
Happiness (1998)
The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001)
Elizabeth Ashley
USA
Best movies:
Happiness (1998)
Mallrats (1995)
Split Image (1982)
Molly Shannon
USA
Best movies:
Happiness (1998)
Hotel Transylvania (2012)
The Replacements (2000)
Douglas McGrath
USA
Best movies:
Happiness (1998)
The Insider (1999)
Quiz Show (1994)
Anne Bobby
USA
Best movies:
Happiness (1998)
Born on the Fourth of July (1989)
Beautiful Girls (1996)
Jared Harris
UK
Best movies:
Chernobyl (2019) (series)
The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
Marla Maples
USA
Best movies:
Happiness (1998)
Loving Annabelle (2006)
The Christmas List (1997) (TV movie)
Matt Malloy
USA
Best movies:
As Good as It Gets (1997)
Lords of Dogtown (2005)
Happiness (1998)
Johann Carlo
USA
Best movies:
Happiness (1998)
Quiz Show (1994)
Hysterical Blindness (2002) (TV movie)