Happiness

#happinessmovie

Psychotherapist Bill daydreams and struggles to stay awake while patient Allen talks. (0:06)

Bill takes a turn as patient with his psychotherapist or supervisor. (0:16)

Bill's wife Trish sarcastically tells Bill, referring to their son Billy, “He’s depressed.”
Trish: “Sometimes I wonder how any of your patients can talk to you.”
Bill: “Sometimes I wonder if they’ll ever stop.” (0:19)

Trish's mother Mona at the medicine cabinet yells to her husband Lenny, “Where’s my Valium?” (0:24)

A police officer tells struggling singer-songwriter Joy in a phone call that her friend Andy appears to have killed himself: “Looks like a pill-vodka OD with a bag over his head for a chaser.” Later at work she cries. (0:35)

Bill dumps the contents of some capsules into chocolate syrup for ice cream for Billy and his friend Johnny who is sleeping over. When Johnny turns down the ice cream he puts more drug in a sandwich for him. Billy falls asleep. (0:47)

Billy tells his family about his teacher: “Because she’s a drug addict... She’s a junkie...”
Trish: “Well if Mrs. Paley turns out in fact to be a junkie then she should be fired... When it comes to drug abuse and my children...” (2:00)

Bill admits to Billy that he sexually abused Johnny: “I couldn’t help myself...” (2:06)

diazepam | hypnotic | Pedophilia | psychotherapist | psychotherapy | Sexual Abuse of Child | suicide