• Requiem for a dream
  • Details: 2000, USA, Cert 18, 102 mins, Drama, Dir: Darren Aronofsky

    With: Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly, Marlon Wayans

    Summary: The parallel stories of four people - Sara, a widowed Jewish woman (Ellen Burstyn), her junkie son Harry (Jared Leto), his best friend and his girlfriend, all in search of a better life.

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  • Peter Bradshaw

    Peter Bradshaw: The excursion into the progressive circles of hell is recorded by Aronofsky with such precision that the whole film is unsettlingly like a gruesome yet compelling vivisectional experiment.

  • Legendary author of Last Exit to Brooklyn Hubert Selby Jr explains how a near-death experience became the inspiration for his junkie parable Requiem for a Dream

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