Happiness

(TriMark)

Todd Solondz's parody of suburban New Jersey complacency revolves around three sisters: Candide-like Joy (Jane Adams), celebrity writer Helen (Lara Flynn Boyle), and housewife Trish (Cynthia Stevenson), whose straight-arrow psychiatrist husband, Bill (Dylan Baker), turns out to have a weakness for young boys. When their son Billy confronts his father about his malady, Solondz achieves the balance of horror and black comedy he aspires to. More such humanity would have made Happiness more moving -- and funnier.