Happiness

“You want. He wants. She wants. But nobody wants what I want.”

Joy Jordan (Jane Adams) is a shy, unsure woman who keeps trying to start over, and her two sisters, Helen (Lara Flynn Boyle) and Trish (Cynthia Stevenson), seem to have life more sorted out. Around them are their parents, their lovers and neighbors, each reaching for human contact in ways most people would find disturbing. Todd Solondz films these suburban rooms in a flat, patient style and lets the camera stay on what other directors would cut away from.