• Director(s)

    Todd Solondz

  • Production Year

    1998

  • Genre(s)

    Comedy

  • Approx. running minutes

    140m

  • Cast

    Jane Adams, Jon Lovitz, Philip Seymour Hoffman

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Happiness

child sexual abuse references, sexual violence, strong sex references

HAPPINESS is a blackly comic US drama in which the troubled lives of three sisters and the damaged people around them collide in disturbing, unexpected ways as they search for contentment and human connection.…

HAPPINESS is a blackly comic US drama in which the troubled lives of three sisters and the damaged people around them collide in disturbing, unexpected ways as they search for contentment and human connection.

sex
There is sight of semen after male characters masturbate. An 11-year-old boy talks about his attempts to masturbate. There are strong verbal references to sex and sex acts, including mention of 'cum'. There are brief scenes of strong sex which include some breast nudity.
sexual violence and sexual threat
A man talks about sexually abusing and raping a child; while there is some verbal detail, the attack itself occurs entirely off-screen. We do, however, see the man attempt to drug one of his intended victims in order to subdue him. We also see this man masturbating while looking at images of children, although there is no sight of explicit sexual detail. A flashback scene of sexual violence shows a woman being raped by a man, but visual detail is limited. A man makes anonymous, sexually threatening phone calls to a woman. There are verbal references to rape, sexually abusive behaviour and paedophilia.
additional issues
A man daydreams about shooting random people in a park with an assault rifle, resulting in sight of dead bodies with blood over them. We see a character break the neck of another and there are references to dismembering and disposing of a dead body. There is infrequent very strong language ('c**t') along with strong language ('f**k') and milder terms such as 'pussy', 'dick', 'shit' and 'ass'. There are undetailed verbal references to drug misuse.

  • Director(s)

    Todd Solondz

  • Production Year

    1998

  • Genre(s)

    Comedy

  • Approx. running minutes

    140m

  • Cast

    Jane Adams, Jon Lovitz, Philip Seymour Hoffman

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Passed '18' for adult theme, strong sexual references, language and sex
Classified Date:
27/10/1998
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Entertainment Film Dists Ltd
child sexual abuse references, sexual violence, strong sex references
Classified Date:
23/07/2024
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
Spirit Entertainment
sex
There is sight of semen after male characters masturbate. An 11-year-old boy talks about his attempts to masturbate. There are strong verbal references to sex and sex acts, including mention of 'cum'. There are brief scenes of strong sex which include some breast nudity.
sexual violence and sexual threat
A man talks about sexually abusing and raping a child; while there is some verbal detail, the attack itself occurs entirely off-screen. We do, however, see the man attempt to drug one of his intended victims in order to subdue him. We also see this man masturbating while looking at images of children, although there is no sight of explicit sexual detail. A flashback scene of sexual violence shows a woman being raped by a man, but visual detail is limited. A man makes anonymous, sexually threatening phone calls to a woman. There are verbal references to rape, sexually abusive behaviour and paedophilia.
additional issues
A man daydreams about shooting random people in a park with an assault rifle, resulting in sight of dead bodies with blood over them. We see a character break the neck of another and there are references to dismembering and disposing of a dead body. There is infrequent very strong language ('c**t') along with strong language ('f**k') and milder terms such as 'pussy', 'dick', 'shit' and 'ass'. There are undetailed verbal references to drug misuse.
Classified Date:
25/05/2000
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
Entertainment in Video Ltd
Classified Date:
14/10/1999
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
Entertainment in Video Ltd
Classified Date:
25/07/2024
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
Spirit Entertainment
Classified Date:
18/06/1999
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
Entertainment in Video Ltd
Classified Date:
23/12/1998
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Entertainment Film Dists Ltd
Classified Date:
17/07/2024
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
Spirit Entertainment

  • Classified date

    23/07/2024

  • Language

    English