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.