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Fresh off the breakout success of “Welcome to the Dollhouse”, writer-director Todd Solondz took a career-defining chance with this shockingly funny and upsetting story about the hopes, secrets, and misfortunes of a New Jersey family and those unlucky enough to be sucked into their orbit. An extraordinary ensemble cast—including Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jane Adams, Lara Flynn Boyle, Ben Gazzara, and Dylan Baker—embodies an array of loosely connected New Jersey deviants, depressives, and misfits, among them a frustrated phone-sex pest, an all-American dad concealing his pedophilic urges, and a lonely woman with a grisly secret, all of whom want just one thing: to be loved. One of the most controversial films of the 1990s, the unflinching “Happiness” unnerves precisely because it dares to see the humanity in those most often denied it.
