Ajay Naidu, Ben Shenkman, Joanne Gordon
God and man and math: The tawdry meets the Talmudic in this complex thriller about a tortured computer genius trying to beat the stock market.
DVD Release Date: January 12, 1999
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September 6, 2009A reclusive mathematics genius suffering from crippling migraines is on the brink of discovering a mystical number sequence sought after by a multinational corporation and a sect of Kabbalahists. The script wanders into an apocalyptic corner that it can't write it's way out of,...( read more)
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September 4, 2009Darren Aronofsky's low budget debut is a brilliant gritty drama of one mans downward spiral into complete madness through number crunching. It's really much better than it sounds, although I watched it with my dad and he thought it was nuts (I'm pretty sure he liked it though)
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August 18, 2009It's death, Max . . .
A dynamite idea -- Aronofsky is good at that. But between the idea and the execution, something happens, and it's not a really good something.
First off, I want to give high praise to Sean Gullette for one very intense, highly believable acting job.
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May 18, 2009Max (Sean Gullette) is a paranoid math genius, who through the use of his home-brewed super-computer (named Euclid) stumbles upon a numeric sequence that may be the key to sure money in the stock market or even a means to communicate with God. Director Darren Aronofsky, creates a...( read more)
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February 23, 2009Maximillian Cohen: 11:15, restate my assumptions: 1. Mathematics is the language of nature. 2. Everything around us can be represented and understood through numbers. 3. If you graph these numbers, patterns emerge. Therefore: There are patterns everywhere in nature.
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November 5, 2009Poco ortodoxa. Nada hollywodense... interesante pero... le falta algo.
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Critic Reviews
July 12, 2002
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail
January 1, 2000
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
The seductive thing about Aronofsky's film is that it is halfway plausible in terms of modern physics and math. full review
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February 22, 2007Infamous Hugo:
"A bit more interesting thjan Requiem for a Dream in my opinion but it fails at keep the attention until the end like Aronosky's previous film."
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November 20, 2006I thought this movie was pretty good, a bit phsycological and dramatic at the same time. A good start for the filmmaker Darren Aronofsky.
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