Happiness: The Criterion Collection

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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 deviant 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.

With a new 4K digital restoration, supervised by director of photography Maryse Alberti, Happiness is given the Criterion treatment and released on 4K UHD and Blu-ray 30th September 2024 from Spirit Entertainment.