71SSIFF - 22/30 September 2023
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HAPPINESS

Todd Solondz
USA      134 m.
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The three well-off Jordan family sisters are still trying to find their bliss. At 30, Joy still hasn't found Mr. Right, making her married sister Trish secretly despair that Joy won't "have it all" the way she does, while the best-selling author, Helen, is set on the tracks of a terrible angst. Meanwhile, their parents are discovering that the Golden Years aren't what they're chalked up to be: Mona is on the point of getting a divorce and Lenny is partial to the idea of dying. Then of course, there's Trish's repressed psychiatrist husband, Helen's strange neighbour, and the Russian cabbie who singlemindedly pursues the American dream while he follows Joy's classes for adults. But an out-of-the-blue phonecall changes everything.
Director
Todd Solondz
Screenplay
Todd Solondz
Photography
Maryse Alberti
Music
Robbie Kondor
Cast
Jane Adams, Elizabeth Ashley, Jon Lovitz, Lara Flynn Boyle
Running Time
134 m.
Country
USA
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