- Not exactly a movie, but more like a savage beating that you still wind up enjoying. Requiem for a Dream follows a group of family and friends through their downhill spiral, short respite, and further plummet all caused by drugs. The movie's plot perfectly paralles a strong drug's effects. There's intial struggle to get what you want, the euphoric high, then the unbearable plummet...
| - The story intricately links the lives of a lonely widowed mother (Academy Award Winner Ellen Burstyn), her son Harry (Jared Leto), and 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 their vision of happiness. Even as everything begins to fall apart, they refuse to let go,...
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