Requiem for a Dream

Requiem for a Dream

Release Date

2000

Director

  • Darren Aronofsky

Cast

  • Ellen Burstyn
  • Jared Leto
  • Jennifer Connelly

The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island people are shattered when their addictions run deep.

    Darren Aronofsky follows up his acclaimed debut PI 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 Award® winner Ellen Burstyn), her son Harry (Jared Leto), his beautiful girlfriend Marion (Jennifer Connelly) and his best friend Tyrone (Marlon Wayans). Requiem for a Dream is a hypnotic tale of four human beings each pursuing a different vision of happiness. Even as everything begins to fall apart, they refuse to let go, plummeting with their dreams into a nightmarish, gut-wrenching free fall.

    Photo credit: Artisan Entertainment

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