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Release Date: 2012
Cast: Rich Pecci, Renee Taylor, Meng Ai, Shirley Henderson, Gaby Hoffmann, Chris Marquette, Allison Janney, Emma Hinz, Paul Reubens, Charlotte Rampling, Michael Lerner, Carmen Marie Colon Mejia ...MORE
Cast: Rich Pecci, Renee Taylor, Meng Ai, Shirley Henderson, Gaby Hoffmann, Chris Marquette, Allison Janney, Emma Hinz, Paul Reubens, Charlotte Rampling, Michael Lerner, Carmen Marie Colon Mejia, Dylan Riley Snyder, Michael K. Williams, Fernando Samalot, Ciarán Hinds, Ally Sheedy ...LESS
Categories: Movies, Indie, Black Comedy, Ensemble Film, Comedy-Drama, Comedy, Drama Film
Life During Wartime is a 2009 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Todd Solondz, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival on September 2009. It is a direct, but loose sequel to his 1998 film Happiness, with new actors playing the same characters, and imperfect continuity. It stars Allison Janney, Shirley Henderson, and Ciarán Hinds, among others.
The official synopsis of the film is: "Friends, family, and lovers struggle to find love, forgiveness, and meaning in a war-torn world riddled with comedy and pathos". Solondz said Life During Wartime was "a little more... MORE
Life During Wartime is a 2009 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Todd Solondz, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival on September 2009. It is a direct, but loose sequel to his 1998 film Happiness, with new actors playing the same characters, and imperfect continuity. It stars Allison Janney, Shirley Henderson, and Ciarán Hinds, among others.
The official synopsis of the film is: "Friends, family, and lovers struggle to find love, forgiveness, and meaning in a war-torn world riddled with comedy and pathos". Solondz said Life During Wartime was "a little more politically overt" than previous works."
Life During Wartime won the Golden Osella award for best screenplay at the 66th Venice Film Festival.
The plot revolves around the three sisters featured in Happiness: Trish (Allison Janney), Joy (Shirley Henderson), and Helen (Ally Sheedy).
Since the events of Happiness, Joy has married Helen's former neighbor Allen Mellencamp (Michael Kenneth Williams), who continues to struggle with his problem of making obscene phone calls. On the occasion of their anniversary, he gives Joy an engraved ashtray, which appears to be the same one given to her by Andy in the opening LESS
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