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A story of addiction revolving around four characters hooked on various drugs. Sara, who dreams of appearing on televsion decides to use diet pills to help her lose weight... Her son, Harry, his girlfriend, and his best friend are all addicted to cocaine and herion. They aspire to become big time dealers...
...Burstyn gives an award-caliber performance that is as raw and riveting as the movie that contains it...
...Ms.Connelly has never before done anything to prepare us for how good she is here....[The film's] full-on assault blazes through the central nervous system...
...Fascinating....Aronofsky brings a new urgency to the drug movie by trying to reproduce, through his subjective camera, how his characters feel, or want to feel, or fear to feel...
...Aronofsky is so compelling, so visionary a filmmaker, he keeps us riveted to his film...
...Aronfsky's second film is even more visually jazzy than his first....The result is highly impressive: a swooping, gut-churning assault on the senses...
...Both the direction and performances are Oscar-deservingly outstanding....REQUIEM FOR A DREAM is so devastating that it resonates like the echo of a dying scream... -- 4 out of 5 stars
...One of the most disturbing movies ever made...yet it's impossible to take your eyes off it... -- Rating: A