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HAPPINESS - REVIEW

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"Happiness"? REALLY?! That's like calling Requiem For A Dream : "Smiles". These characters are anything but happy, they are freakin' foul, miserable bastards and yet... it feels like they could just be real people you would meet in everyday life and never even imagine what perversions they'd be hiding. Think of Happiness as the Magnolia of perv movies: an ensemble of brilliant actors playing messed-up weirdos each going through their own uncanny plot. Except here they don't all come together through Aimee Mann songs and frogs but instead are all linked together through this one family. Think Hannah And Her Sisters ... with extra cum shots. The film begins with an awkward break-up scene where Jane Adams and Jon Lovitz brilliantly set the mood for the rest of piece: smart and funny but dark as hell and kinda unpleasant. We're introduced to Philip Seymour Hoffman's Allen, a sweaty fellow with a penchant for calling up random women fro