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Happiness (1998)
In controversial film-maker Todd Solondz's infamous
and subversive unrated film about pedophilia - a black satire on
middle-class suburban dysfunctionality:
- the character of unlikeable suburban dad and psychiatrist
- Dr. Bill Maplewood (Dylan Baker), a predatory pedophile, whose
aberrant behavior was exhibited in the scene at his adolescent
son Billy's (Rufus Read) little league baseball game, in the backseat
of his car (where he masturbated to a teen magazine), and during
sleepovers when he molested (off-camera) his son's schoolpal and
teammate (drugged with a tuna sandwich)
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Pedophile Dr. Bill Maplewood
(Dylan Baker)
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- the scene of the honest conversation between father
and son, about the father being a molester (a "serial rapist" and
a "pervert"): Son: "Would you ever f--k me?" Father: "No,
I'd jerk off instead."
- the famous ending scene of Billy proudly admitting
to his stunned family at the dining table: "I came" (he
had masturbated while spying on a buxom sunbather from his balcony)
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Awkward Conversation Between Father and Son
Billy: "I came"
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