Directed by
Todd Solondz

Writing credits:
Todd Solondz

Plot Outline: Three middle-class New Jersey sisters all have their problems with their families and sex lives

At times brilliant and insightful, at times repellent and false, Happiness is director Todd Solondz's multistory tale of sex, perversion, and loneliness. Plumbing depths of Crumb-like angst and rejection, Solondz won the Cannes International Critics Prize in 1998 and the film was a staple of nearly every critic's Top Ten list. Admirable, shocking, and hilarious for its sarcastic yet strangely empathetic look at consenting adults' confusion between lust and love, the film stares unflinchingly until the audience blinks. But it doesn't stop there. A word of strong caution to parents: One of the main characters, a suburban super dad (played by Dylan Baker), is really a predatory pedophile and there is more than an attempt to paint him as a sympathetic character.

Cast in order fo appearance:
Jane Adams .... Joy Jordan
Jon Lovitz .... Andy Kornbluth
Philip Seymour Hoffman .... Allen
Dylan Baker .... Bill Maplewood
Lara Flynn Boyle .... Helen Jordan
Justin Elvin .... Timmy Maplewood
Cynthia Stevenson .... Trish Maplewood
Lila Glantzman-Leib .... Chloe Maplewood
Gerry Becker .... Psychiatrist
Rufus Read .... Billy Maplewood
Louise Lasser .... Mona Jordan
Ben Gazzara .... Lenny Jordan
Camryn Manheim .... Kristina
Arthur J. Nascarella .... Detective Berman
Molly Shannon .... Nancy
Ann Harada .... Kay
Doug McGrath .... Tom
Dr. Eric Marcus .... Courteous Waiter
Eytan Mirsky .... Angry Picketer
Lisa Louise Langford .... Radical Picketer
Anne Bobby .... Rhonda
Socorro Santiago .... Crying Teacher
Allison Furman .... Consoling Teacher
Wai Ching Ho .... Student #1
Bina Sharif .... Student #2
Tsepo Mokone .... Student #3
Jared Harris .... Vlad
Dan Moran .... Joe Grasso
Evan Silverberg .... Johnny Grasso
Marla Maples .... Ann Chambeau
Hope Pomerance .... Hysterical Woman
Matt Malloy .... Doctor
Elizabeth Ashley .... Diane Freed
Dan Tedlie .... Don
Marina Gaizidorskia .... Zhenia
Johann Carlo .... Betty Grasso
Joe Lisi .... Police Detective
José Rabelo .... Pedro
Diane Tyler .... Janet
Olga Stepanova .... Zhenia's Mother

Articles/Letters
N.Y. Times
Good Machine Letter
Bernard Weinraub
Kindra Peach