
Happiness(1998)
The lives of several individuals intertwine as they go about their lives in their own unique ways, engaging in acts which society as a whole might find disturbing in a desperate search for human connection.


“Prepare to visit a town you'd never want to call home.”
Teenagers Solomon and Tummler kill time in Xenia, Ohio, a small town that has never recovered from the tornado that ravaged the community in the 1970s.

Jacob Reynolds
Solomon

Jacob Sewell
Bunny Boy

Nick Sutton
Tummler

Chloë Sevigny
Dot
Darby Dougherty
Darby

Carisa Glucksman
Helen
Lara Tosh
Girl in Car
Jason Guzak
Skinhead #1
Casey Guzak
Skinhead #2
Wendall Carr
Huntz
Gummo is a drama, comedy film released in 1997 exploring themes of tornado, dark comedy, male friendship, ohio, suburbia, vulgarity. Directed by Harmony Korine, it stars Jacob Reynolds, Jacob Sewell, Nick Sutton. Teenagers Solomon and Tummler kill time in Xenia, Ohio, a small town that has never recovered from the tornado that ravaged the community in the 1970s.
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