Thursday, August 15, 2024

HAPPINESS (1998)






















Directed by: Todd Solondz
Starring: Jane AdamsElizabeth AshleyDylan BakerLara Flynn BoyleBen GazzaraJared HarrisPhilip Seymour HoffmanLouise LasserJon LovitzCamryn ManheimRufus ReadCynthia StevensonJustin ElvenLila Glantzman-LeibGerry BeckerArthur J. NascarellaMolly ShannonMarla MaplesAnn HaradaDouglas McGrathAnne BobbyEvan Silverberg

139 minutes
(NC-17 - strong language, mature themes, sexual situations, nudity, drug use)

PLOT:
A woman breaks up with her boyfriend, he thinks it's because he's fat. A man is unable to tell her next door neighbor he finds her sexually attractive. An old couple wants to split up, but they don't want to get a divorce. A therapist masturbates to teen magazines. An 11-year-old kid is insecure about the fact that he hasn't cum yet. Office workers try to recall the face of a coworker who recently died. A woman is sure she has everything she could ever want. The lives of these individuals intertwine as they go about their lives in their own unique ways, engaging in acts society as a whole might find disturbing in a desperate search for human connection. 

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