Requiem
for a Dream
(2001)
Starring:
Ellen Burnstyn
Jared Leto
Jennifer Connelly
Marlon Waynes
Director: Darren Aronofsky
Darren Aronofsky follows up his acclaimed debute (Pi)
with this gritty emotionally charged film set amidst the abandoned beaches
and faded glory of Doney Island, Brooklyn. Based upon the nove by celebrated
author Hubert Selby, Jr., the story intricately links the lives of a lonely
widowed mother, her son Harry, his beautiful girlfriend Marion, and his best
friend Tyrone. Requiem for a Dream is a hypnotic tale of four
humanbeings each pursuing their vision of happiness. Even as everything
begins to fall apart, they refuse to let go, plummeting with their dreams
into a nightmarish, gut-wrenching freefall.