Episode 74 - Happiness *Listener's Choice*

If you're looking for an uplifting film about the inner goodness of mankind, you've come to the wrong place.  "Happiness" takes the term 'black comedy' to even darker hues.  Writer-director Todd Solondz' tour-de-force centers around a family in New Jersey that has three adult daughters.  We follow their lives and the lives of their neighbors, in-laws and lovers.  Everyone is looking for their own version of happiness and most of them are deeply perverted or victim to perverts.  You've got Alan (Philip Seymour Hoffman) whose hobbies include prank calling random women in the phone book and ejaculating onto the wall (hmm, a pretty postcard would look nice here) Joy (Jane Adams) whose name belies the fact that she is completely miserable and Bill (Dylan Baker) a devoted husband and father who happens to be a malicious pedophile.  Yaaaay.  The film is a recommendation from long-time listener Aaron, clearly a sick fuck who joins the discussion with Andrew and Phil.  Our hosts discuss the performances in "Happiness", other films in the Solondz canon and other ways in which we're all just a little bit perverted. You can download the podcast here by right-clicking on the hypertext link and choosing "save as", or you can use the convenient player located below:If you cannot see the audio controls, listen/download the audio file here <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/InTheQueue