This thread discusses the Content article: Happiness (dir. Todd Solondz)

Cool. One character does find happiness in the movie. The kid looking at bikini clad women and getting his first boner.

Good job! I remember reading Filthy's review of this a while back and having my interest piqued. Of course, he was a little less generous with his verdict, but that's expected, and no big matter.

I love this movie. I remember that one scene very vividly, where Hoffman's character calls up the skinny woman and asks her what she's wearing and then proceeds to jerks off onto his apartment wall.

The movie has a few nits, but I felt it deserved a 5 because on the whole the way it turned out, avoiding the major sort of pat potholing these films go into after a while, just made me...happy [:D]

i liked this film tremendously. Words like 'edgy' are bandied about very carelessly and a whole bunch of simon and garfunkel loving assholes (this is not as random a reference as you'd think it is. Do some research if you don't believe me), apply it to films like American Beauty and As Good As It Gets. American Beauty in particular was a deeply conservative film masquerading poorly as one that was a unforgiving commentary on contemporary america playing to old stereotypes and cliches like slutty girls are actually virgins and homophobes are all repressed ass-bandits. It was entertaining but compared to this film's near psychotic edginess all those films totally wilt. Todd could very well look at those directors and given them the "Well you are wrong cause I am champagne and you are shit" line with great conviction.
It's also got some of the most wracking, uncomfortable scenes ever - particularly the one where the pedo doctor answers his son's queries in this hopeless matter of fact way. Great review.