Todd Solondz is one of those directors who seems bent on exorcizing his personal demons onscreen.
The filmmaker's most notable movies have a running theme of human misery and inadequacy set against the hellish backdrop of white suburbia: Welcome To The Dollhouse featured an outcast young girl who hates her family and the bullies who torment her at school; Happiness boasted an obscene phone caller and a pedophile as its long-suffering protagonists.
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