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Happiness / a Good Machine/Killer Films production ; written and directed by Todd Solondz.
Van Pelt - Video Collection (ask at Circulation Desk) DVD 037 496 disc + insert
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- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Criterion collection ; 1235.
- The Criterion collection ; 1235.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Families--United States--Drama.
- Families.
- Paraphilias--Drama.
- Paraphilias.
- Child molesters--Drama.
- Child molesters.
- Man-woman relationships--United States--Drama.
- Man-woman relationships.
- Genre:
- Feature films.
- Fiction films.
- Dark comedy films.
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (140 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + insert (1 folded leaf : color illustrations ; 18 cm)
- 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Edition:
- Director-approved DVD special edition.
- Place of Publication:
- [New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2024]
- Language Note:
- English dialogue.
- System Details:
- DVD, NTSC, Region 1; widescreen (1.85:1) presentaation; Dolby Audio 2.0 surround.
- digital
- optical
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video region 1
- Summary:
- "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.
- Participant:
- Jane Adams, Lara Flynn Boyle, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ben Gazzara, Dylan Baker.
- Notes:
- Originally released as a motion picture in 1998.
- Wide screen (1.85:1).
- 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.
- ISBN:
- 9798886072075
- OCLC:
- 1446225342
- Publisher Number:
- 715515304610
- CC3615DDVD The Criterion Collection
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