Is Happiness actually good?

Happiness sits in the 61.9% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 61.9% of them.

How does Happiness compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1990s, Happiness lands in the 60.9% percentile. The cohort comparison exists because a global rank flatters or punishes a film for its category rather than its quality.

How many reviewers is Happiness's score based on?

296 calibrated reviewers stand behind Happiness's score.

1998

global pct

61.9

Film · 1998 · Films · 1990s

Happiness

Name: Happiness
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Released: 1998

Scored from 296 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).

61.9%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

60.9%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles

82.5%

AI-adjusted percentile

296 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Todd Solondz's pitch-black ensemble comedy-drama follows three New Jersey sisters and the troubled people orbiting them, including a lonely obscene phone caller, a seemingly perfect suburban psychiatrist hiding monstrous secrets, and a poet whose life is unraveling. The interwoven stories probe loneliness, denial, and the gap between the lives people present and the ones they actually lead.

Happiness is a 1998 comedy and drama film. Inside comedy it is classed as Dark Comedy.

Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 24 of whom clear the calibration test. 4,081 other films from the 1990s form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 296 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 307 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.