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Release Date
• USA: Oct 27, 2000
• UK: 19 Jan 2001
DVD Release Date
• R1: May 22, 2001
• R2: 6 Aug 2001
Budget $4,500,000
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MPAA Rating
Rated R for intense depiction of drug addiction, graphic sexuality, strong language and some violence. (edited version)
Running Time
1 hour, 42 minutes
Country USA
Studio Artisan Entertainment, Thousand Words
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Other Titles
• Requiem for a Dream (2000)
• Delusion Over Addiction (2000)
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Genre: Drama, Drugs, Surreal, Tragedy, Psychodrama, Murder, Love, Suspense, Urban, Disturbing, Prison, Gore
Plot: 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
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Ellen Burstyn
The Exorcist, Playing by Heart, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood |
 | Jared Leto
American Psycho, Panic Room, The Thin Red Line |
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 | Louise Lasser
Mystery Men, Happiness, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex |
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