I admit there's an element of brutality in all my work - it's part of the truth about human existence I always want to explore - but the last thing I'm trying to do is put on some kind of freak show, inviting people to get off on other people's pain and humiliation.

Todd Solondz (born October 15 1959) is an American independent film screenwriter and director known for his style of dark thought-provoking socially conscious satire. Ryan (producer) Alan Oxman (editor) Kevin Messman (editor) and Matthew Faber (actor). He has no luck with the girl of his dreams but he wiTodd Solondzs he was more like the coach whom he challenges to a game of one-on-one.

His work includes Welcome to the Dollhouse (1995) Happiness (1998) Storytelling (2001) Palindromes (2004) Life During Wartime (2009) and Dark Horse (2012). Solondz has been critically acclaimed for his examination of the "dark underbelly of middle class American suburbia" a reflection of his own background in New Jersey.