Happiness
“You want. He wants. She wants. But nobody wants what I want.”
The lives of several individuals intertwine as they go about their lives in their own unique ways, engaging in acts which society as a whole might find disturbing in a desperate search for human connection.
Genres
Comedy, Drama
Studio
Good Machine
Language
en
Status
Released
How Happiness performed
Budget
$3.0M
Worldwide Gross
$2.8M
Gross Profit
−$200,000
Return
0.9× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$403K
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~45/55, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (32% of the domestic run, typical for Comedy) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
Cast
Joy Jordan
Jane Adams
Joy Jordan
Allen
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Allen
Bill Maplewood
Dylan Baker
Bill Maplewood
Helen Jordan
Lara Flynn Boyle
Helen Jordan
Trish Maplewood
Cynthia Stevenson
Trish Maplewood
Mona Jordan
Louise Lasser
Mona Jordan
Lenny Jordan
Ben Gazzara
Lenny Jordan
Kristina
Camryn Manheim
Kristina
Billy Maplewood
Rufus Read
Billy Maplewood
Andy Kornbluth
Jon Lovitz
Andy Kornbluth
Vlad
Jared Harris
Vlad
Psychiatrist
Gerry Becker
Psychiatrist
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