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Happiness
MEANRANK
78/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #906
- IMDb #746
- Rotten Tomatoes #936
- Metacritic #695
- Letterboxd #654
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #1687
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- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #671
- Metacritic Critics #636
- Metacritic Audience #1085
- Criticker #240
- Douban #881
- Kinopoisk #2031
- AlloCiné #1682
- Trakt #1890
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Lowest is Criticker on 70, highest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 89.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A group of suburban individuals navigate their deeply flawed personal lives, each grappling with profound loneliness and disturbing desires. Their stories run parallel, revealing a spectrum of human discontent, from a psychiatrist harboring a dark secret to a lonely woman seeking connection. The narrative explores the vast chasm between the pursuit of happiness and the unsettling realities that often lie beneath a seemingly normal surface.
Details
- Director
- Todd Solondz
- Writer
- Todd Solondz
- Studio
- Good Machine, Killer Films
- Released
- 11 October 1998
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English, Russian
- Runtime
- 134 min
- Rated
- NC-17
- Budget
- $3.0M
- Box office
- $2.8M
- Awards
- 1 win, 0 nominations
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Awards & nominations
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| National Board of Review: Top Ten Films 1998 | National Board of Review: Top Ten Films | Winner |
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