Happiness is a 1998 black comedy-drama film written and directed by Todd Solondz, that portrays the lives of three sisters, their families and those around them. The film was awarded the FIPRESCI Prize at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival for "its bold tracking of controversial contemporary themes, richly-layered subtext, and remarkable fluidity of visual style," and the cast received the National Board of Review award for best ensemble performance.
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Happiness is a 1998 black comedy-drama film written and directed by Todd Solondz, that portrays the lives of three sisters, their families and those around them. The film was awarded the FIPRESCI Prize at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival for "its bold tracking of controversial contemporary themes, richly-layered subtext, and remarkable fluidity of visual style," and the cast received the National Board of Review award for best ensemble performance.
Helen Jordan (Lara Flynn Boyle), the youngest sister, is a successful author who is adored and envied by everyone she knows, and can have any man she wants. But her charmed life leaves her ultimately unfulfilled, and she vainly despairs that people only love her for her mystique and that no one wants her for herself, and that the praise regularly heaped upon her is undeserved. She is fascinated by her neighbor Allen (Philip Seymour Hoffman), who makes obscene phone calls to her apartment and tries to seek out a relationship with her. Allen...
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