Happiness
1998
*****
Director: Todd Solondz
Cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Lara Flynn Boyle, Jane Adams, Dylan Baker
Humour doesn't come much blacker than in this highly original collection of intertwining lives that revolves around the three Jordan sisters. The deeply troubled but wonderfully three-dimensional characters include a gullible young woman and a loving father who is secretly a pedophile. The cast is great. Life During Wartime (2009), a sequel of sorts, brings back the same characters with a different cast.
