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Release Date: 2009

Cast: Michael Lerner, Michael K. Williams, Allison Janney, Meng Ai, Carmen Marie Colon Mejia, Gaby Hoffmann, Chris Marquette, Fernando Samalot, Ally Sheedy, Shirley Henderson, Dylan Riley Snyder, Rich Pecci ...MORE

Cast: Michael Lerner, Michael K. Williams, Allison Janney, Meng Ai, Carmen Marie Colon Mejia, Gaby Hoffmann, Chris Marquette, Fernando Samalot, Ally Sheedy, Shirley Henderson, Dylan Riley Snyder, Rich Pecci, Ciarán Hinds, Emma Hinz, Renee Taylor, Paul Reubens, Charlotte Rampling ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Black comedy, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Indie, Ensemble 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. It stars Allison Janney, Shirley Henderson, and Ciarán Hinds, among others. 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... 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. It stars Allison Janney, Shirley Henderson, and Ciarán Hinds, among others. 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 compulsion to make 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 scene of Happiness. Trish has been raising her three children, Billy (now off at college), Timmy and Chloe. She has begun dating Harvey Weiner (Michael Lerner), who she hopes is normal. Trish's LESS