The Trouble with Bliss (2011) on Netflix
At thirty-five, Morris Bliss has no money and no job prospects, and lives with his widowed father in the East Village. Stephanie Jouseski, eighteen, is the daughter of a former classmate.
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Plot summary
Morris Bliss is thirty-five and stuck in Manhattan's East Village, in the apartment he keeps with his widowed father, Seymour. Travel is what he longs for, but he cannot afford it, and steady work has never come his way. His mother died young, and her loss left him shut down, so he has not moved forward since then. Then he meets Stephanie Jouseski, eighteen, the daughter of Jetski, a man he knew in high school. Their relationship is awkward, and it starts to unravel the static life he has held onto. His married neighbor, Andrea, also makes advances toward him.
Cast
- Mary Gogginas Mrs. Cruxo
- Melanie Torresas The Cindi
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Trouble with Bliss (2011)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Director Michael Knowles knew novelist Douglas Light only in passing from a cigar lounge they both frequented, and asked him about adapting East Fifth Bliss into a screenplay; the two then met several times a week to write it and smoke cigars.
- Rhea Perlman was initially reported to appear in The Trouble with Bliss, but her scenes were cut and do not appear in the film's final version.
