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Requiem for a Dream (2000)

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Reviews Counted: 112

Fresh: 88

Rotten:24

Average Rating: 7.3/10

Consensus: Though the movie may be too intense for some to stomach, the wonderful performances and the bleak imagery are hard to forget.

Runtime: 1 hr 42 mins

Genre: Dramas

Synopsis: 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... 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 surreal TAPPY TIBBONS SHOW, and learns that she has been selected to appear on an upcoming broadcast. When she can't fit into her best red dress, her doctor prescribes diet pills (uppers), to which she swiftly and painfully becomes addicted. Harry's cohort, an intelligent hustler named Tyrone (Marlon Wayans), completes the foursome. With its unflinching dissection of addiction, REQUIEM FOR A DREAM is a psychologically disturbing, visually captivating depiction of lost hope. The last half hour of the film is among the most harrowing of any film ever made. [More]

Starring: Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly, Marlon Wayans

Starring: Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly, Marlon Wayans, Christopher McDonald, Keith David, Sean Gullette, Louise Lasser

Director: Darren Aronofsky

Director: Darren Aronofsky
Screenwriter: Darren Aronofsky, Hubert Selby, Jr.
Composer: Clint Mansell
Studio: Artisan Entertainment

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02/07/01
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"Requiem For A Dream" is a movie about drug addiction, but that's only where the plot resides so the thoroughly drawn characters can work toward their imperfect dreams. Cinema history has been made with this

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05/16/09
Cole Smithey
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One of the most powerful I have ever seen. The film's score and editing will haunt you for years to come.

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Kevin McCarthy
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Joe Lozito
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12/30/06
MaryAnn Johanson
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07/24/06
Frank Swietek
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Requiem for a Dream is a great movie, and the few of us who see it will be acutely affected.

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05/26/06
Jeffrey M. Anderson
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There's a wholehearted commitment in every frame toward synthesizing the feeling of hopeless addiction. It's in the writing. It's in the chaotic cinematography. It's in the actors' eyes.

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02/24/06
Phil Villarreal
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03/16/04
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An unordinary, highly stylized, gritty hyperkinetic junkie movie -- unlike anything you've seen before.

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02/21/04
Greg Muskewitz
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05/22/03
Eugene Novikov
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Regulation viewing for people who think they know better, and the most chilling fix of genius in years.

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04/08/03
Harry Guerin
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