Closing out Bleak Week New York 2025, filmmaker Todd Solondz, who has helmed multiple classics of despairing cinema starting with his celebrated debut feature Welcome to the Dollhouse, will join us for a discussion of his infamous sophomore feature Happiness, playing in a new 4K restoration, on Saturday, June 14.

4K Restoration! This dark ensemble-comedy is centered on the three Jordan sisters. Joy (Jane Adams) moves through lackluster jobs with no sense of purpose. Now employed teaching adults, she is dating a student, Russian taxi-driver Vlad (Jared Harris). Helen (Lara Flynn Boyle) is an esteemed poet who becomes amused by her perverted neighbor, Allen (Philip Seymour Hoffman). And eldest sister Trish (Cynthia Stevenson) is married to Bill (Dylan Baker), a psychiatrist with a very disturbing secret life.

The 4K restoration of Happiness will have its NY Premiere at IFC Center from June 6 - 12.