Happiness

i watch it because i thought it going to make me happy. it didn'tmake me happy why do they lie like that to the watcher. it show a man sit in the back of car and read a magazine. HOW BORING... Full review

This movie is an absolute surprise. Great acting, dialogue with character interaction that's second to none. Dylan Baker and Philip Seymour Hoffman absolutely outstanding. Baker is chilling as a pedophile. Absolutely creepy. You will watch this film with your mouth hanging... Full review

"Now how's this for a movie idea", says director Todd Solenz; " Let's make a movie that shows people breaking all ten commandments of God!" Better yet, lets create even more atrocities of human behavior and show people engaged in that... Full review

is exactly the right word for this movie. There is always potential in darkness, because Hollywood generally stays away. Unfortunately, this movie manages to be trite and predictable in it's darkness; something I thought was impossible in this type of movie.... Full review

is exactly the right word for this movie. There is always potential in darkness, because Hollywood generally stays away. Unfortunately, this movie manages to be trite and predictable in it's darkness; something I thought was impossible in this type of movie.... Full review

I appreciate some of the dark characters in this film, their struggles with loneliness and self-loathing, their sometimes brutal honesty. But I don't see the point. There is no lesson, let alone redemption, only the promise of more loneliness and self-loathing.... Full review

I appreciate some of the dark characters in this film, their struggles with loneliness and self-loathing, their sometimes brutal honesty. But I don't see the point. There is no lesson, let alone redemption, only the promise of more loneliness and self-loathing.... Full review

This film's not for the faint of heart, but I was first challenged and then encouraged by Todd Solondz's willingness to look at the worst of suburban life. Among the amazing cast, I want to single out Jane Adams (best known... Full review

Happiness is an all around good movie. It has some very well done comedy scenes, but also has a lot of dramatic elements too, some of which are disturbing. This movie also has the best ending possible. I reccomend this movie... Full review

Happiness is an all around good movie. It has some very well done comedy scenes, but also has a lot of dramatic elements too, some of which are disturbing. This movie also has the best ending possible. I reccomend this movie... Full review

Solondz' control, and Dylan Baker's phenomenally detailed performance, are such....the chic, disdainful writer Helen (Lara Flynn Boyle), the smug wife and mother Trish (Cynthia Stevenson), and the rather lost and unambitious Joy (Jane Adams) --.... ... Full Review

From the opening scene of "Happiness", Todd Solondz's new pitch-perfect black comedy, it is clear that none of the characters is going to achieve the title emotion. Most surprising of all in this ensemble cast is Lara Flynn Boyle, who gives the best performance of her career as the most vacuous of vacuous writers. ... Full Review

No one in the film is happy. But at two hours and 20 minutes, the film is punishingly overlong. ... Full Review

When I heard that Lion's Gate planned to rerelease Todd Solondz's deeply disturbing film Happiness as part of its Signature Series collection, I got all warm and tingly And it's what makes Happiness such a rewarding experience. ... Full Review

No one in "Happiness" is actually happy, but they persistently strive to be just that. Happiness" is filled to bursting with incredibly harsh and painful emotions, but as is standard with Solondz, much of it is downright hilarious as well, and intentionally so. ... Full Review

Late in "The White Ribbon," Michael Haneke 's black-and-white study of child abuse, class resentment and incipient fascism in a northern German village on the eve of World War I, one character, a baroness, expresses a wish to leave. ... Full Article

It's not just Joy who has been here before. If the opening scene from Life During Wartime , the new film from writer-director Todd Solondz, rings distant bells, that's because it is a carbon copy of the first scene from... ... Full Article

Venice - Todd Solondz assembles the same characters from 1998's Happiness but an entirely different cast for his latest film Life During Wartime , premiering on Thursday at the Venice Film Festival. ... Full Article

SYNOPSIS: A typical family and its satellites, at least so it seems. But that's not how they really are. There is Joy (Jane Adams), a single aspiring songwriter, who feels she should have a man and a stable life like... ... Full Article

Listening to Concentration is kind of like staring at those Magic Eye pictures from the '90s. It takes a while for the 3-D image to develop and finally pop out from its background. ... Full Article

If you're like me, you have fond memories of being 15. Life was fun and carefree, and there was a seemingly endless road ahead of you that promised adventure, romance and success. ... Full Article