Requiem for a Dream
	Rating
	Type	Video On Demand
	Audience Rating	Unrated
	Release Date	2006-08-15
	Actor	Ellen Burstyn; Jared Leto; Jennifer Connelly; Marlon Wayans;
	Director	Darren Aronofsky;
	Length	102 minutes
	Special Price
	Lowest New Price	$9.99
Categories
Drama  Horror  Lionsgate
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Description
Darren Aronofsky follows up his acclaimed debut Pi together with this gritty emotionally charged film set amidst the abandoned beaches and faded glory of Coney Island, Brooklyn. Based upon the novel by celebrated author Hubert Selby Jr., the story intricately links the lives of a lonely widowed mother (Academy Prize Winner Ellen Burstyn), her son Harry (Jared Leto), his stunning girlfriend Marion (Jennifer Connelly) and his excellent friend Tyrone (Marlon Wayans). REQUIEM FOR A DREAM is a hypnotic tale of four human beings every pursuing their vision of happiness. Even as everything begins to fall apart, they refuse to let go, plummeting together with their dreams into a nightmarish gut-wrenching freefall.
Customer Reviews
DREAM or not to   2010-07-14
By KWLT Studios
great movie shows the affects of how many addictions can drive us crazy if we let our lives become unmanageable
DARK, HORRIFYING, SAD & BRILLIANT   2010-07-13
By Robin Simmons (Palm Springs area, CA United States)
Darren Aronofsky follows his stunning debut film with this brilliant, electrified look at addiction. What will be long remembered, is the stupendous, raw, brilliant, performance of Ellen Burstyn as a lonely, plump, widowed mother hooked on diet pills and TV. Jared Leto is her son and Jennifer Connelly is his beautiful girlfriend. Marlon Wayans is Jared's best friend. Based on the acclaimed novel by Hubert Selby, this deeply disturbing film adaptation burns itself into your heart and mind as these four individuals become possessed by something beyond themselves where their dreams become nightmares of dark desire. The disc is a very crisp transfer with a multitude of special features that include two commentary tracks, one by director Aronofsky and another by cinematographer Matthew Libatique. In addition, Ellen Burstyn interviews author Selby, there's a making-of documentary, deleted scenes with commentary, anatomy of a scene, production notes and more. Highly recommended. F
Amazing movie!   2010-05-22
By Laura Sullivan (California, USA)
My favorite movie of all time! I must have seen it over a hundred times. A definite must see film!
Joan Didion wannabe   2010-05-21
By Rudy Apffel (Oakland, CA)
This is a pretentious attempt to re-tell a 60's-70's gritty-realism tale (a la Panic in Needle Park and Play it as it Lays) about people we would be interested in who are trying to score a little extra-something from life but who are doomed by personal innocence-stupidity and by evolving social history over which they have no control. Requiem for a Dream is about 4 people who are simply losers, 4 people without insight, curiosity, education, talent, employment history or (surprise-surprise) prospects. 3 of them have very good looks. 1 of them is interesting as a person. In the real world they all would live out ordinary parasitic-creditcard-debt-ssi-unhappy lives and then die without notice beyond friends and family. Instead, they are artistically shown in this movie falling prey to demon-selfdelusions then to demon-drugs, and then coming to the ends of their individual ropes (the demons no help), and then dying (as we all knew they would). In this movie neither the writer nor the director seems to be aware of any character-moral difference between the three 20-something characters and the one 60-something character (Ellen Burstyn). All the characters are portrayed as hapless, witless, brainless, pathetic, flailing victim-losers. A movie reflects the mentality of the director, as a book reflects that of the writer (let's leave out art). My conclusion is that Selby (the writer) and Aronofsky (the director) knew little of life when they concocted this phony pity-jerk together. I remember when this movie came out: it was said that the anonymity of the 4 characters was the point. But in fact the point was Ellen Burstyn. Her NON-anonymity. 3 stars for a vapid historical yawn of a wannabe pity-jerk that was able to snag Ellen Burstyn: she's in it from almost beginning to almost end: worth seeing of course.
Film = Bad   2010-05-03
By Tough Guy
If I had the ability to take the intangible concept of this movie and transform it into a human being I would punch it right in the jaw then rob the movie/human hybrid of the $5 of rental money I paid for this film and call the cops to let them know a weird hybrid human was wandering the streets. I wish there was a word invented just for this film. I'll start, let's say this film is Vondarious. As is "this film was beyond bad, it's vondarious!" and the other person would say "whoa dude, that's pretty bad" and the guy would say "I know I know, but I had to say it. It's just the movie goes beyond bad it's seriously vondarious."