Happiness

Winner by unanimous vote of the International Critics Prize at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival, Todd Solondz's Happiness paints a broad portrait of contemporary suburbia and the demons that haunt it.

At its center are three sisters-Joy, Trish, and Helen-and the men in their lives: an unreliable boyfriend, a husband who is a therapist, and an anonymous stalker, who turns out to be a neighbor. The most troubled of the men may be Bill, the therapist, who is also Trish's husband, as he struggles with his desires for his son Billy's pubescent classmates. When the police begin to close in, everyone's lives-and everyone's relationships-are changed forever.