The searing, provocative coverage of writer-director Todd Solondz's film puts on two fronts: the first one is a surface layer of the assumptive contentment within a Middle America social class family. Underneath, their deep longings and perversions are exposed. Viewers may be turned off by the unbiased cohesion of righteous and deplorable behavior, but regardless of whether this is done in the name of black comedy or raw drama, it effectively shares with us a range of harsh and happy truths. Three Half out of Five Stars. Rated R. DIR: Todd Solondz. CAST: Jane Adams, Dylan Baker, Justin Elvin, Cynthia Stevenson, Lara Flynn Boyle, Jared Harris, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Camryn Manheim, Ben Gazzara, Louise Lasser. 1998
Review of Happiness
