Saturday, June 18, 2011

Happiness (1998)

Director: Todd Solondz
Writer:    Todd Solondz
Cast:       Philip Seymour Hoffman, Dylan Baker, Jane Adams
Its brutal. Its like a Takashi film without the violence. I have seen it described as dark comedy, but its more like comic tragedy. Its unlike any other films I have seen where all the characters are unremarkable and very ordinary on the surface.

Its about three middle-class New Jersey sisters all having their problems with their families and sex lives. One of them is the loser kind, another the overbearing bourgeois kind and the third one a pretentious pornographic writer.

Rating: 4/5

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