Happiness
(BLURAY) 

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Contributors
Solondz, Todd, screenwriter,
Hope, Ted, film producer.
Vachon, Christine, film producer.
Adams, Jane, 1965- actor.
Ashley, Elizabeth, 1939- actor.
Published
[New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2024].
Format
BLURAY
Edition
Director-Approved Blu-ray special edition.
Status
On Shelf
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BLU ADULT HAP
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Subjects

LC Subjects
Child molesters -- Drama.
Comedy films.
Dark comedy films.
Families -- United States -- Drama.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Man-woman relationships -- United States -- Drama.
Paraphilias -- Drama.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

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Published
[New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2024].
Edition
Director-Approved Blu-ray special edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (140 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (12 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 17 cm).
Language
English
UPC
715515302210

Notes

General Note
Originally released as a motion picture in 1998.
General Note
Wide screen (1.85:1)
General Note
Special features: New 4K digital restoration, supervised by director of photography Maryse Alberti; new conversation between director Todd Solondz and filmmaker Charlotte Wells ; new interview with actor Dylan Baker ; trailer ; essay on folded booklet by screenwriter and novelist Bruce Wagner.
Creation/Production Credits
Music by Robbie Kondor; director of photography, Maryse Alberti; editor, Alan Oxman.
Participants/Performers
Jane Adams, Elizabeth Ashley, Dylan Baker, Lara Flynn Boyle, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ben Gazzara, Jared Harris, Louise Lasser, Jon Lovitz, Camryn Manheim, Rufus Read, Cynthia Stevenson.
Description
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. 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 humanity in those most often denied it.--Container.
Accessibility Note
English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).
System Details
Blu-ray; region A; 1.85:1 wide screen; DTS-HD stereo; requires Blu-ray player.
Language
Subtitled in English for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).

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Citations

APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Solondz, T., Hope, T., Vachon, C., Adams, J., Ashley, E., Boyle, L. F., Hoffman, P. S., Gazzara, B., Baker, D., Harris, J., Lasser, L., Lovitz, J., Manheim, C., Stevenson, C., Kondor, R., Alberti, M., & Oxman, A. (2024). Happiness (Director-Approved Blu-ray special edition.). The Criterion Collection.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Todd, Solondz et al.. 2024. Happiness. [New York]: The Criterion Collection.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Todd, Solondz et al.. Happiness [New York]: The Criterion Collection, 2024.

Harvard Citation (style guide)

Solondz, T., Hope, T., Vachon, C., Adams, J., Ashley, E., Boyle, L. F. and Hoffman, P. S. et al (2024). Happiness. Director-Approved Blu-ray special edn. [New York]: The Criterion Collection.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Solondz, Todd,, et al. Happiness Director-Approved Blu-ray special edition., The Criterion Collection, 2024.

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