Happiness

Film Info
Release Year:1998
Rating:NC-17
Runtime:140
Genre:Comedy
Drama
Production Country:USA
Original Language:English
Russian
Cast/Crew Info
Director:Todd Solondz
Cast:Jane Adams
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Dylan Baker
Lara Flynn Boyle
Cynthia Stevenson

Description

"Happiness is a caustic, beautiful, funny, tiresome, and brilliant Molotov cocktail." —Slant Magazine

 

This dark ensemble-comedy is centered on the three Jordan sisters. Joy (Jane Adams) moves through lackluster jobs with no sense of purpose. Now employed teaching adults, she is dating a student, Russian taxi-driver Vlad (Jared Harris). Helen (Lara Flynn Boyle) is an esteemed poet who becomes amused by her perverted neighbor, Allen (Philip Seymour Hoffman). And eldest sister Trish (Cynthia Stevenson) is married to Bill (Dylan Baker), a psychiatrist with a very disturbing secret life.