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As disturbingly funny as it is audaciously empathetic, auteur of unease Todd Solondz’s portrait of damaged souls reaching out for connection reveals the existential void underneath middle-class suburban “normalcy.” An extraordinary ensemble cast—including Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jane Adams, Lara Flynn Boyle, Ben Gazzara, and Dylan Baker—embodies an array of loosely connected New Jersey deviants, depressives, and misfits, among them a frustrated phone-sex pest, an all-American dad concealing his pedophilic urges, and a lonely woman with a grisly secret, all of whom want just one thing: to be loved. One of the most controversial films of the 1990s, the unflinching Happiness unnerves precisely because it dares to see the humanity in those most often denied it. DIRECTOR-APPROVED 4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES New 4K digital restoration, supervised by director of photography Maryse Alberti, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features New conversation between director Todd Solondz and filmmaker Charlotte Wells New interview with actor Dylan Baker Trailer English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing PLUS: An essay by screenwriter and novelist Bruce Wagner

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As disturbingly funny as it is audaciously empathetic, auteur of unease Todd Solondz’s portrait of damaged souls reaching out for connection reveals the existential void underneath middle-class suburban “normalcy.” An extraordinary ensemble cast—including Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jane Adams, Lara Flynn Boyle, Ben Gazzara, and Dylan Baker—embodies an array of loosely connected New Jersey deviants, depressives, and misfits, among them a frustrated phone-sex pest, an all-American dad concealing his pedophilic urges, and a lonely woman with a grisly secret, all of whom want just one thing: to be loved. One of the most controversial films of the 1990s, the unflinching Happiness unnerves precisely because it dares to see the humanity in those most often denied it. DIRECTOR-APPROVED 4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES New 4K digital restoration, supervised by director of photography Maryse Alberti, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features New conversation between director Todd Solondz and filmmaker Charlotte Wells New interview with actor Dylan Baker Trailer English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing PLUS: An essay by screenwriter and novelist Bruce Wagner

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In Life During Wartime, independent filmmaker Todd Solondz (Welcome to the Dollhouse) explores contemporary American existence and the nature of forgiveness with his customary dry humor and queasy precision. The film functions as a distorted mirror image of Solondz's acclaimed 1998 dark comedy Happiness, its emotionally stunted characters now groping for the possibility of change in a post-9/11 world.

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Aviva has wanted a baby for as long as she can remember. Now a teenager whose desires baffle her well-meaning parents, Joyce (Ellen Barkin) and Steve (Richard Masur), she pursues motherhood with single-minded determination. With Aviva played by a rotating cast of performers, including Jennifer Jason Leigh and Sharon Wilkins, her journey unfolds as Todd Solondz trains his trademark dry wit on another set of taboos, probing the naivety and hypocrisy of post-9/11 middle America.

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Disc 1 (the 4K UHD disc) contains the film in 4K from the new 4K restoration. (The set's special features are on the Blu-ray disc.) Aviva has wanted a baby for as long as she can remember. Now a teenager whose desires baffle her well-meaning parents, Joyce (Ellen Barkin) and Steve (Richard Masur), she pursues motherhood with single-minded determination. With Aviva played by a rotating cast of performers, including Jennifer Jason Leigh and Sharon Wilkins, her journey unfolds as Todd Solondz trains his trademark dry wit on another set of taboos, probing the naivety and hypocrisy of post-9/11 middle America.

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From the director of Happiness and Welcome To The Dollhouse (Todd Solondz) comes the comedy that shines a light on the dark side of human behavior. Take a journey from innocence to experience. kindness to cruelty and love to hate with an emotionally needy college student (Selma Blair) and a dysfunctional family man (John Goodman) as they learn some of life's most difficult lessons. Masterfully balancing both fact and fiction, acclaimed writer-director Todd Solondz uses razor sharp wit and an observing eye to cut open his characters and skewer the American dream. Bonus Content: 2k Scan from the Interpositive Approved by Cinematographer Frederick Elmes Confessional, Yet Dishonest: Filming Storytelling—An Interview with Cinematographer Frederick Elmes Once You Start Writing, It All Becomes Fiction: Scoring Storytelling—An Interview with Composer Nathan Larson Alternate Censored Scene from the Theatrical Cut of the Film Theatrical Trailer

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Todd Solondz became the most talked-about new director in recent years with this acclaimed comedy about the suburban condition. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, Welcome to the Dollhouse follows 11-year-old Dawn "Wienerdog" Wiener (Heather Matarazzo), a junior high geek who just wants to be popular. Teased by her classmates, tormented by the school bully, Dawn develops an improbable plan to seduce the star of a high-school garage band. Bitterly funny and true to life, WELCOME TO THE DOLLHOUSE is a "mordantly hilarious suburbancomedy - excruciating funny." (Janet Maslin, NEW YORK TIMES)