Parents Guide for
Happiness (1998) More at IMDbPro »

A brief sex scene occurs between a man and a woman; her breasts are shown, and his buttocks.

Two characters masturbate (not explicitly seen) and then their ejaculate is shown on another surface after they have finished. One of the masturbators is sexually harassing a woman on the phone while he masturbates. In the other scene, a dog is shown licking the semen and then licking the inside of a woman's mouth.

Two silhoutted figures are briefly shown having sex.

Two clothed people have sex on a coach; the man is shown putting his hand into the woman's shirt and groping her breast.

A man masturbates to pictures of young boys in the back seat of a car.

A father admits to his child son that he masturbated to avoid having sex with him.

-A character goes through a park and shoots at anybody in sight, with bloody results.

-A character commits suicide off-screen; his corpse is briefly shown.

-A man drugs a little boy in order to rape him. The rape is not shown. We learn that the man has also raped another boy.

-A woman is raped in her apartment. They are shown in the lead up and aftermath as clothed.

-A woman is pelted with vegetables by a crowd.

-A woman spits on a woman and drags her to the floor by her hair.

-A woman is shown with a black eye and bloody lip, probably from domestic abuse.

Very explicit and detailed sexual dialog, some relating to paedophilia and rape. The F-word is used twenty times. The S-word is used five times. Sexual and anatomical slang pepper the dialog.

A few characters drink alcohol and smoke cigarettes in some scenes.

No frightening or intense scenes but the atmosphere and themes of this film are daunting and mature.

One of the main characters is a man attracted to young boys and there are awkward and disturbing (though not graphic) scenes involving both him and his son, and him and his son's friend.