Directed by:
Todd SolondzScreenplay:
Todd SolondzCinematography:
Maryse AlbertiCast:
Jane Adams, Jon Lovitz, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Dylan Baker, Lara Flynn Boyle, Cynthia Stevenson, Justin Elvin, Lila Glantzman-Leib, Louise Lasser (more)Plots(1)
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. (Criterion)
(more)Cast
![Wai Ching Ho](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/310/161310718_187a47.jpg)
Wai Ching Ho
China
Best movies:
Happiness (1998)
The Greatest (2009)
Keeping the Faith (2000)
Joe Lisi
USA
Best movies:
Happiness (1998)
The Company (2007) (series)
Quiz Show (1994)
![Gerry Becker](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/162/719/162719470_d3b012.jpg)
Gerry Becker
USA
Best movies:
Home Alone (1990)
The Game (1997)
Sleepers (1996)
Dan Moran
Best movies:
American Gangster (2007)
Happiness (1998)
The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001)
![Socorro Santiago](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/162/784/162784290_d540ad.jpg)
Socorro Santiago
USA
Best movies:
The Devil's Advocate (1997)
Happiness (1998)
Music of the Heart (1999)
Ann Harada
USA
Best movies:
Happiness (1998)
Jerry & Marge Go Large (2022)
The Art of Getting By (2011)
Lisa Louise Langford
Best movies:
Happiness (1998)
The Spitfire Grill (1996)
Cherry (2021)