“Happiness,” 21 November 1998, theater. Very rough, good, occasionally funny and nasty dark comedy from the director of “Welcome to the Dollhouse”. The most dysfunctional family in town. Mother and father (Louise Lasser and Ben Gazarra) are divorcing, one daughter is a successful modern feminist poet who knows (feels) she’s a fraud. Her neighbor is a repressed telephone harrasser. Daughter number two is married to a gay pedophile psychologist, doesn’t know the truth, and thinks she has the perfect marriage. Daughter number three is a failed songwriter who is used and abused by the world around her. She dumps one man (John Lovitz in a fine cameo), and he kills himself. Great bits with Russian immigrant thieves. A good, depressing movie. Not a date film.