Indie Film Highlight: HAPPINESS (1998)

First Time Go · 2024-06-30

Every Sunday, I'll post a quick video -- and podcast -- about an indie film from at least a year ago. Today's film: HAPPINESS (1998).

Director: Todd Solondz

Written By: Todd Solondz

Cast: Jame Adams; Jared Harris; Lara Flynn Boyle; Phillip Seymour Hoffman; Cynthia Stevenson; Dylan Baker

SYNOPSIS

This dark ensemble-comedy is centered on the three Jordan sisters. Joy (Jane Adams) moves through lackluster jobs with no sense of purpose. Now employed teaching adults, she is dating a student, Russian taxi-driver Vlad (Jared Harris). Helen (Lara Flynn Boyle) is an esteemed poet who becomes amused by her perverted neighbor, Allen (Philip Seymour Hoffman). And eldest sister Trish (Cynthia Stevenson) is married to Bill (Dylan Baker), a psychiatrist with a very disturbing secret life.

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