Joy Jordan
Search results
Happiness is a 1998 American black comedy film written and directed by Todd Solondz, that portrays the lives of three sisters, their families, and those around them.
Oct 16, 1998 · With Jane Adams, Jon Lovitz, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Dylan Baker. The lives of several individuals intertwine as they go about their lives in their own unique ways, engaging in acts which society as a whole might find disturbing in a desperate search for human connection.
Jul 26, 2022 · Happiness (1998) Copyright © 1998 by Bella Cosa, Inc and Livingstone Pictures, Inc.Genre: Comedy, Drama, Black ComedyStoryline: The lives of several individuals intertwine as...
Jun 17, 2024 · Happiness. 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.”
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 ...
- (48)
- Comedy, Drama
Synopsis. Happiness is an ensemble drama that skips around between multiple story lines. The protagonist, Joy, is the youngest of three sisters. The film opens with her breaking up with a man. He responds with unreasonably malicious vitriol and ultimately takes his own life a few days later.
Oct 23, 1998 · Why see the film? "Happiness" is about its unhappy characters, in a way that helps us see them a little more clearly, to feel sorry for them, and at the same time to see how closely tragedy and farce come together in the messiness of sexuality. Does "Happiness" exploit its controversial subjects?
