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After his 1995 breakthrough, Welcome to the Dollhouse, director Todd Solondz was courted by a number of studios to make a big-budget film with top stars. Instead, he chose to make this aggressively dark comedy-drama of perversions and twisted lives. Andy Kornbluth (Jon Lovitz) explodes with anger after rejection in a restaurant from Joy Jordan (Jane Adams), one of a trio of middle-class New Jersey sisters. Joy's sister Trish (Cynthia Stevenson), a housewife with three kids, is married to
Oct 16, 1998 Wide
Apr 27, 1999
Trimark Pictures
All Critics (69) | Top Critics (18) | Fresh (40) | Rotten (8) | DVD (17)
Exhibits an almost pitch-perfect balance between condescension and compassion.
Happiness is tough stuff -- quietly confrontational, genuinely haunting, and, most disturbing of all, unexpectedly moving.
By far Solondz's best film, an original exploration of American suburban angst, with three Chekhovian sisters at the center and a gallery of "deviant" characters that are presented with humor in non-judgmental way.
It'll soon have you quoting German existential philosophers in coming to terms with it . . .
Regardless, if you can stomach the incredibly disturbing and challenging core of the film...then you're in for at least half of an interesting ride. It's worth a rental if you meet these qualifications.
A collection of loosely connected suburbanites come come to terms with their own flaws and failings in their quest for elusive "happiness". Todd Solondz's tragi-comedy no doubt met with shock and outrage from the moral majority and it is hard not to suspect that he was deliberately baiting the religious right with
March 1, 2007
Super Reviewer
Brutal, beautiful, and hard to watch...this film tests a viewers mind and has a cerebral aftereffect
October 26, 2011
Super Reviewer
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