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Requiem for a Dream

Requiem for a Dream

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Key Information
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
Languages
Original Language: English
DVD Editions
: Format: DVD: Unrated; Sensormatic Security Tag, 1hr 42min
Release Company: Artisan Entertainment (April 24, 2001)
UPC: 012236118152
VHS Editions
: Format: VHS: R-Rated Version; Spanish Subtitled, 1hr 42min
Release Company: Artisan Entertainment (May 22, 2001)
UPC: 012236115786
Credits
Screenwriter: Darren Aronofsky
Professional Reviews
: (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
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Details: 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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