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Synopsis: Separated from her incarcerated husband Bill (Hinds), Trish (Janney) is about to be married again. Bill is a pedophile, so Trish couldn't be more excited to have Harvey (Lerner), a "normal" father figure for her two sons. But when Bill is released from prison and the boys finally meet their future stepdad, the family is forced to decide whether to forgive or to forget. Trish's sister, the virginal, angelic Joy (Henderson), is also haunted by ghosts of lovers past. On leave from her degenerate husband, Allen (Williams), and her job at a New Jersey correctional facility, Joy unwittingly leaves behind a trail of shame and exposed secrets wherever she goes. In one of the film's most stylized sequences, the image of Joy walking the dark streets of Miami in her nightgown maintains her innocence against a backdrop of self-affliction and desire.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Director(s): Todd Solondz
Production: IFC Films
  3 wins & 8 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.4
Metacritic:
69
Rotten Tomatoes:
68%
R
Year:
2009
98 min
$278,821
Website
474 Views


No.

Let me see what's available then.

Great. Come right this way.

Here now.

A waiter will take care of you

in just a moment.

Would you like

something to drink in the meantime?

No, thank you.

Great.

Um, hi.

[ Gasps ]

Andy.

Can I join you?

Oh, please.

Please sit down.

I've missed you.

Oh, God. Andy.

I've missed you too.

I felt so bad for what I did.

It was my fault.

No.

No, it wasn't. It was mine.

I shouldn't have -

It must have taken... a lot of courage.

I don't know.

I was just so sad.

I don't remember much.

It was so long ago, but I think

I must have done it the right way...

because I wasn't really conscious

of anything happening.

That's good.

The plastic bag was probably key.

Without it -

Oh. That would have been horrible.

Too horrible.

- You could've ended up -

- A vegetable. I know.

I always felt so guilty.

No. No, you shouldn't have.

I -

I guess I just overreacted.

I should have married you.

Really?

You think you would have been

happy with me?

It was a beautiful ashtray

that you gave me.

My name engraved.

Oh, I should have -

I shouldn't have spoken

the way I did.

I should've let you

just keep the ashtray.

That's okay.

Things worked out all right in the end.

I - I mean -

Do you miss life?

I don't know.

I miss -

I miss my room...

my laser disc collection.

I spent so many years -

I'm sorry I said you were sh*t

and I was champagne.

- That's okay. That's okay.

- [ Sniffles ]

Sometimes the truth -

I think it's made me a better person.

Do you think we could have

another go at it?

Like on a trial basis.

But, Andy, I'm married.

That's okay.

No one has to know.

It would be our secret.

Just you and me, together.

I have so many problems, Andy.

My husband and I -

I don't know what to do. He's -

[ Deep Breath ]

Oh, and I feel so betrayed.

Sometimes, cheating can help a marriage.

No. No, don't say that.

Cheating is wrong.

Unfair. It's hurtful.

One man for the rest of your life?

It's unnatural.

Oh, but I'm trying to improve things.

Tell me,Joy, please...

after all that's passed,

knowing all you know now...

do you wish you could've

been with me before?

No.

Eat sh*t, you f***ing c*nt.

You think you're improving

other people's lives...

saving them or freeing them -

from what?

The f*** do you know

about other people?

What? Idiot!

Why did I kill myself?

I should've killed you!

?? [ Man Singing In Hebrew..Sacred ]

[ Crying ]

- Mom!

- Yes, Timmy?

Is Dad really dead?

Why are you asking me this now?

Avi Fleischer told me

he found him on the Internet...

and that he was sent to jail

for raping young boys.

And now everyone at school

is saying that my dad's alive...

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Todd Solondz

Todd Solondz (born October 15, 1959) is an American independent film screenwriter and director known for his style of dark, thought-provoking, socially conscious satire. Solondz has been critically acclaimed for his examination of the "dark underbelly of middle class American suburbia," a reflection of his own background in New Jersey.[1] His work includes Welcome to the Dollhouse (1995), Happiness (1998), Storytelling (2001), Palindromes (2004), Life During Wartime (2009), and Dark Horse (2012). more…

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