Happiness - Criterion Collection Blu-Ray

The disturbing author Todd Solondz's portrait of damaged souls seeking connection reveals the existential void beneath middle-class "normality" in the suburbs, and is as disturbingly funny as it is deeply empathetic. An extraordinary ensemble—including Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jane Adams, Lara Flynn Boyle, Ben Gazzara, and Dylan Baker—embodies a series of loosely connected New Jersey misfits, depressed and maladjusted, among them a frustrated phone sex pest, an all-American dad hiding his deviant urges, and a lonely woman with a dark secret, all of whom want only one thing: to be loved. Happiness is one of the most controversial films of the 1990s, and the uncompromising Happiness is disturbing precisely because it dares to see the humanity in those who are most often denied it.

DIRECTOR'S APPROVED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION INCLUDESOR

New digital 4K restoration, supervised by cinematographer Maryse Alberti, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack

New conversation between director Todd Solondz and filmmaker Charlotte Wells

New interview with actor Dylan Baker

Trailer for the film

English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

PLUS: An essay by novelist and screenwriter Bruce Wagner

New cover based on the original poster by Daniel Clowes