Happiness (1998)

Booyah 90s Now

Todd Solondz pronounces his name wrong. Joe's got a tooth ache. Rob might've porked a girl at his elementary school. Gus Van Sant is smart. If you're writing something that confuses Rob, who the heck are you even talking to? For once Bill Clinton did something decent, but only to distract us from the billionaires taking our souls. A saxophone gets dunked into a basketball hoop. We don't have a rehabilitation based criminal justice system because our culture is against the idea of healing. Oprah is awesome but also kind of the same as Joel Osteen. Every Philip Seymour Hoffman performance seems like it might be his best performance. He's in this Solondz movie about three sisters who probably aren't happy while a bunch of folks have sexual compulsions. That's what we're talking about.

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