Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Happiness

Debut: 1998
Director: Todd Solandz
Starring: Jon Lovitz, Jane Adams, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Dylan Baker

I'm definitely not going to recommend this one to everyone. This movie is extremely dark, but very funny. It's the kind of humor that's pretty sick and twisted, but if you find it funny, you find it extremely funny.

It's basically about these different lives (lots of them) connected by three sisters, but the point to the story is that just about everyone is miserable. I'm not going to go into the baseline joke of happiness (involving an 11 year old boy) but it's similar to Welcome to the Dollhouse in the way that it has no real point to it, except to let you laugh at the lives of these miserable people. Nice.

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