TITLE...........: Happiness (1998)
STARS...........: Jane Adams, Jon Lovitz, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Dylan Baker
DIRECTOR........: Todd Solondz
WRITERS.........: Todd Solondz
GENRE...........: Comedy, Drama
METACRITIC......: 81/72
TOMATOMETER.....: 83/89
IMDB SCORE......: 7.7
IMDB LINK.......: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0147612
RUNTIME.........: 2h 19mn
SIZE............: 9.18 GB
VIDEO CODEC.....: HEVC (Main10@L4)
BITRATE.........: 9000 Kbps (2-pass)
RESOLUTION......: 1920x1040
ASPECT RATIO....: 1.85:1
FRAMERATE.......: 23.976 fps
AUDIO...........: English Dolby Digital Plus 2.0 384kbps
SUBTITLES.......: ENG, FRE, SPA
SOURCE..........: Criterion Blu-ray
ENCODE DATE.....: 2024-09-19
CHECKSUM........: 19A66F713CFA099E9E596F077D9C01D0


As disturbingly funny as it is audaciously empathetic, auteur of unease Todd Solondz’s portrait of damaged souls reaching out for connection reveals the existential void underneath middle-class suburban “normalcy.” 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.


Extras

• Conversation between Todd Solondz and Charlotte Wells
• Interview with Dylan Baker
• Trailer