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Directed By
Darren Aronofsky
Written By:
Darren Aronofsky, Hubert Selby Jr.
Cast:
Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly, Marlon Wayans, Christopher McDonald, Louise Lasser, Marcia Jean Kurtz, Suzanne Shepherd, Joanne Gordon, Mark Margolis, Michael Kaycheck, Ajay Naidu, Sean Gullette, Samia Shoaib, Peter Maloney, Denise Dowse, Ben Shenkman, Keith David, Dylan Baker, Leland Gantt, Bill Buell, Jimmie Ray Weeks, Gregg Bello, Henry Stram, Stanley Herman, Eric Cohen, John Getz, David Seltzer, Hubert Selby Jr., Darren Aronofsky, Diana Berry, Jack O'Connell, Scott Franklin, Abraham Aronofsky, Charlotte Aronofsky, Janet Sarno, Charlotte Aronofsky, Abraham Abraham, Aliya Campbell, Te'ron A. O'Neal, Bryan Chattoo, Eddie De Harp, Peter Cheyenne, Brian Costello, James Chinlund, Olga Merediz, Allison Furman, Robert Dylan Cohen, Shaun O'Hagan, Heather Litteer, Jenny Decker, Nina Zavarin, Scott Bader, Scott Chait, Daniel Clarin, Ben Cohen, Brett Feinstein, Ricky Fier, Andrew Kessler, Ross Lombardo, Carter Mansbach, Scott Miller, Todd Miller, Joshua Pollack, Craig Rallo, Geordan Reisner, Keith Scandore, Chris Varvaro, Ricardo Viņas, Chad Weiner, Jesse Weissberger, Greg Weissman, Chas Mastin, Ami Goodheart, Jim Centofanti, Lianna Pai
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Requiem for a Dream (2000)
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Movie Review by Lisa
May 29th, 2007
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Ass to Ass!!!
I can't tell you whether or not Darren Aronofsky did justice to Hubert Selby Jr. 1978 novel, as I haven't read it, but I would have a hard time believing that Mr. Selby would be anything but elated with Aronofsky's adaptation.
This film deals with addiction in various forms from food, to heroin, to prescription diet pills administered by a physician. The film chronicles 3 seasons in lives of Sara Goldfrab, her son Harry, his girlfriend Marion and friend Tyrone. Sara lives a lonely existence which revolves around food and TV, her son Harry is a junky who only visits when he needs to pawn her TV so when she receives a phone call saying that she has been picked as a contestant on a TV show she becomes obsessed with fitting into her little red dress and uses diet pills to help shed the pounds. Harry and Tyrone have big plans to buy a load of uncut gear, which they will sell for hefty profit. The film slips into the darker side of drug use we see Harry and Tyrone use up their cash of smack, and Marilyn sink to depraved levels just to get a fix, and then there is poor Sara who in her naivety sinks into insanity on a c*cktail of prescription meds.
Darren Aronofsky really knows how to capture the desperation and paranoia of drug use and Ellen Burstyn was truly amazing as Sara Goldfrab.
This movie is a little shocking and I do struggle looking at Jennifer Connelly now without hearing the words "Ass to Ass" but it is well worth viewing.
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 | Joe
May 30, 2007 5:11 PM
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| Ass to ass. While I do love that line, RFD is on my "top 5 most depressing" list. The shock treatments, the insanity, the rotting flesh......I have to watch when ever it is on..... |
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