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Key Information
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| Directors: |
Darren Aronofsky |
| Stars: |
Ellen Burstyn |
| Actors: |
Sean Gullette |
| Genre: |
Dramas |
| Subgenre: |
Drug Addiction · Friends · Surreal · Based On A Novel · Drugs · Dreams · Essential Cinema |
| MPAA Rating: |
Unrated |
| Available Formats: |
DVD: R-Rated; Sensormatic Security Tag |
| UPC: |
012236116622 |
| Release Date: |
2000 |
| Running Time: |
1hr 42min |
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Languages
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| Original Language: |
English |
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DVD Editions
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Format: DVD: Unrated; Sensormatic Security Tag, 1hr 42min Release Company: Artisan Entertainment (April 24, 2001) UPC: 012236118152 |
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VHS Editions
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Format: VHS: R-Rated Version; Spanish Subtitled, 1hr 42min Release Company: Artisan Entertainment (May 22, 2001) UPC: 012236115786 |
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Credits
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| Screenwriter: |
Darren Aronofsky |
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Professional Reviews
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(02/01/2001, p.79, Dan Jolin): "...Both the direction and performances are Oscar-deservingly outstanding....REQUIEM FOR A DREAM is so devastating that it resonates like the echo of a dying scream..." -- 4 out of 5 stars |
| More Information |
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For his follow-up to his darkly brilliant debut, PI, director Darren Aronofsky chose to adapt a tough and meaty piece of work: Hubert Selby's 1968 novel REQUIEM FOR A DREAM, a dark spiral into the abyss of barren fantasies doomed to extinction. However, in Aronofsky's frenetic, visionary, unique, and disturbing style lies the perfect setting for this story of four people whose intertwined lives are filled with eternally hopeful despair. This is a different sort of horror film. Harry Goldfarb (Jared Leto) and Marion Silver (Jennifer Connelly) are lovers in Brooklyn with dreams of setting up a small business and spending the rest of their lives in love--their version of the American dream. The two are also desperate heroin addicts, a compulsion that darkens their lives and leads Harry to repeatedly pawn his mother's television. His mother, Sara Goldfarb (Ellen Burstyn), is addicted to television, which is why she keeps replacing the stolen set. One day she receives a call from her favorite show, the surrea... |
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