Ellen Burstyn, Jennifer Connelly, Marlon Wayans, Jared Leto, Christopher McDonald
Sara Goldfarb is a lonely widow who is revitalized by the prospect of appearing on television as a game show contestant, while her son Harry, his girlfriend Marion, and his friend Tyrone have devised ...( read more
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DVD Release Date: May 22, 2001
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February 4, 2010One of the weirdest movies I've ever attempted to watch...Yes, I said attempted. After about 20 minutes, all I could do was fast forward.
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December 28, 2009''You are my dream.''
The hopes and dreams of four ambitious people are shattered when their drug addictions begin spiraling out of control.
Ellen Burstyn: Sara Goldfarb
From Darren Aronofsky, I found this his most disturbing, most crushingly shocking yet.
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December 16, 2009Jared Leto stars as a junkie looking for a way onto easy street for himself, his bored upper class girlfriend Jennifer Connelly and partner in crime Marlon Wyans. It's easy to dismiss Requiem For A Dream as a simplistic "drugs are bad" fable, but if you watch it with unbiased eye...( read more)
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September 4, 2009Capitalism has lead to consumerism and consumerism has lead to addiction. We are now all drug addicts and greed is the drug and we must have it at any cost. Hard hitting social commentary from Aronofsky who goes from strength to strength.
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August 10, 2009If the stunning script -- particularly the clever dialog -- doesn't drive you up the wall, then the brilliantly coached dialect may step up and drive you to drink. A nightmare not to be endured.
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January 30, 2010A funny, gross, sad, & hysterical movie, all at once! At times I found it difficult to watch bc I had come to identify with, & be repulsed by, the characters, their dilemmas & their choices.
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Critic Reviews
May 8, 2001
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
January 1, 2000
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Aronofsky brings a new urgency to the drug movie by trying to reproduce, through his subjective camera, how his characters feel, or want to feel, or fear to feel. full review
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April 14, 2009this movie is so real and it depicts real people and real problems in our society. i really strongly feel a connection with this movie becuz it has alot of stuff that i have seen people deal with within my lifetime. it also shows that anyone can get addicted to harmful drugs. and that its not always on purpose. people should show more caution to who they trust and it might not always be the right person that is your friend. but a person needs to think how that person really affects u and if life might just be better without them.
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March 29, 2009Psh... will every1 stop the, "I'm never going to do drugs now, not that I ever would before" bullshit. When will people learn that "drugs" all do different things, have different risks and not all are addictive. Yes this film should put you off doing certain types of drugs such as smack, and yes you can become dependant on some weight loss pills, which are genrally illegal. Do you homework on drugs as individual substances and dont take the view that all illegal substances are life threatening, addictive and therefore highly dangerious.
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February 8, 2009A funny, gross, sad, & hysterical movie, all at once! At times I found it difficult to watch bc I had come to identify with, & be repulsed by, the characters, their dilemmas & their choices. LOL, eww, ...shit,... lmao, throughout the entire movie!
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July 15, 2008ohhhh...
i didnt saw yet this movie with Jared =( ...
hope see soon..
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August 1, 2007this movie is just...OK, i'm speechless... after watching this movie i could'nt speak for a few minutes.. it just shocked me.. and the cast..wow.. they were amazing!..
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June 30, 2007im deffinatley not gonna do drugs ever but was anyone else rather shocked at the scene were marion was doing sexual activities as a gambling thing just to get money for a fix
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June 27, 2007a damn good movie, great editing, one of my favorites but didnt influence me in the slightest on the whole drug use prevention front. thats a choice you have to make and if your gonna watch this film just to convince yourself not to try drugs then dont watch it. thats not the point of this movie. this movie is a peephole into the lives of people who are victims of circumstance, lacking the will power to overcome said circumstance and consequently attaining their just rewards. watch it because its edgy and because it is a masterpiece of modern cinema not because you think its an anti-drug propoganda campaign.
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June 23, 2007If u ever think about starting drug use.....watch this....see if u feel the sm after the film. i doubt it.
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June 12, 2007This has to be one of my favorite movies of all time. It is so real and something everyone should see before they die. Everything about Requiem for a Dream is amazing from the acting to the soundtrack to the direction, I love it. It is one of those movies that you see once and can't stop thinking about.
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