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Requiem For A Dream [DVD] [2001]

Ellen Burstyn (Actor), Jared Leto (Actor), Darren Aronofsky (Director) | Rated: Suitable for 18 years and over | Format: DVD
4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (151 customer reviews)
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  • Actors: Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly, Marlon Wayans, Christopher McDonald
  • Directors: Darren Aronofsky
  • Writers: Darren Aronofsky, Hubert Selby Jr.
  • Producers: Ann Ruark, Beau Flynn, Ben Barenholtz, Eric Watson, Jonah Smith
  • Format: PAL
  • Language English
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.77:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 18
  • Studio: Momentum Pictures
  • DVD Release Date: 6 Aug 2001
  • Run Time: 97 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (151 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00005N53K
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,162 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)

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Fantasy mixes with the harsh reality of addiction and the desire for hope in Requiem for a Dream. Beginning at the dawn of a new summer in Coney Island, the film charts the relationship of Sara Goldfarb (Ellen Burstyn) and her son Harry (Jared Leto)--two characters who are lost with in a world of the self-absorbed desire to feed their addictions at the cost of hope and love. With a sublime score (performed by the Kronos Quartet) accompanying some intense visual imagery, the film sets up an almost fairy-tale wash over the characters' lives, with every hit of their chosen drug turning them into beautiful people surrounded by a haze which enhances all their features. However, unlike films such as Trainspotting which turn the dream into a nightmare then end with a huge dose of hope, Requiem for a Dream forces the viewer through all loss of hope and the descending madness of reality, as winter begins.

Darren Aronofsky's follow-up to the critically acclaimed Pi is a movie which exposes not only the terror caused by addiction of any kind--be it TV or Heroin--but also offers a powerful insight into the destruction caused by the desire to achieve "the American Dream". Based on the novel by Hubert Selby Jr, the film sacrifices dialogue in favour of imagery and movement: the editing and cinematography are reminiscent of MTV, however the movie takes this very aggressive style and moulds it to its own needs, adding a beautifully haunting narrative and powerful performances by its four main characters (Burstyn just missing out on an Oscar for Best female lead to Julia Roberts). Ultimately the viewer is left with a sense of desperation and despair: Requiem for a Dream exposes drugs and addiction in the most powerful and truthful way a film has ever managed, leaving no stone unturned.

On the DVD: This disc is bursting with excellent special features. The anamorphic widescreen picture makes the most of the film's stylish visuals, and the soundtrack offers choice of either Dolby Digital 5.1 or 2.0. As well as offering the obligatory theatrical trailer, scene selection and a fantastic director's commentary, there's also a "making-of" featurette, TV trailers charting the reviews and success of the film, an "Anatomy of a scene", and a wide range of deleted scenes. By far the best feature is Hubert Selby Jr's interview with Ellen Burstyn, which offers the writer a chance to put across not just his opinions on his work but also on life as a whole. All these features are placed within an impressively formatted menu. --Nikki Disney

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English
Region 2
Dolby Digital 5.1 English
Dolby Digital 5.1
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25 of 26 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
I was lent this movie by a friend who had watched it and recently bought it. As soon as I put it on I was absolutely at the mercy of this unflinching onslaught of a movie. It is brilliantly written, directed and acted. It wishes to hit home the dangers of drugs, both hard and even more socially acceptable ones. It did its job with visceral zeal and after the credits rolled, I felt completely wrung out emotionally. I think it is a fantastic film and one I never wish to see again. I don't need to, I got the message! Incidentally, my friend and I were talking about a list, published by some film institute, of great movies that you would only want to see once, and I said immediately that I bet Requiem was on it. He laughed and said it was around number 3 and actually come to mention it, he hadn't watched it once after buying it. Here endeth the lesson.
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35 of 37 people found the following review helpful
Requiem for a Dream 25 Mar 2007
By V. Lobb
Format:DVD
I found this DVD as a recommendation whilst searching for others and liked the sound of the reviews so I thought I would give it a go. I like a film to leave me with something and Requiem for a Dream certainly did this. Its fantastic, shocking, compelling, exicting and drepressing all at the same time. Its very well acted, espeically Ellen Burstyn's performance as a mother neglected by her drug addicted son with an addiction to television and eventually her own drug, dodgy diet pills. The visuals are amazing, they draw you in like a bad dream and the ending left me with a lump in my throat which I kept pondering for days. I would recommend this film to anyone however, would warn that if you are easily distrubed proceed with caution. Amazing!
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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Unspeakably powerful 15 July 2002
By A Customer
Format:DVD
I can honestly say this is the only film i have seen that had the power to change my thinking and outlook on life. Ever since i first saw it the characters, imagery and emotion of the piece have remained with me. Every aspect of this film is a triumph. Each of the four leading actors are stupendous and in my view both Connelly and especially Burstyn were robbed of oscars that were rightfully theirs.

There are many great films, but what separates the great from the truly great are those that are completely unique, as is this one. I purchased this dvd on a limb and unsure what to expect, but from the outset the picture showed me a new cinematic language in its montage imagery, pacing, editing and what is surely one of the most brutally moving scores ever composed.

Aside from these, the film is unique in its honesty. Yes it is supremely dark in its subject matter and climax and thank god for it. For too long Hollywood has felt the need to produce pleasant, hopeful comfort film and neglected from portraying what is in many cases the unpleasant reality of life for so many people. In the real world lives get messed up and they dont always get better, sometimes they stay messed up, and finally we have a director, writer and studio prepared to admit this. The result is a film that many will reject and despise, because it challenges the shell that protects us and our enclosed existence from the reality of what is all around us, but a film that ought to be experienced, and treasured by those who appreciate what makes a great film.

To see 'requiem for a dream' is draining, exhausting and exhilarating, but it is not depressing. Several times i have watched this picture and found myself strangely uplifted, a downbeat emotion that very few films have ever aroused in me. You will not so much 'watch' this film as experience it and its power. It is a brief but heightened assault on the senses, and with brilliant acting, scripting, characterisation, imagery, poetic narrative and musical force, modern films come no better than this.

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Most Recent Customer Reviews
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This isn't a review. Its a purging. After watching this film you may well feel the need to do the same as its effecting, depressing but totally brilliant. Read more
Published 12 days ago by Syriat
Impossible to put into words
This is rated eighteen, but I'm of half a mind to say that this isn't suitable for anyone, any age, anywhere. It's that horrifying. Read more
Published 18 days ago by Michael Cater
The Ultimate Cautionary Tale
Deeply disturbing study on the devastation caused by addiction in all its forms and how one addiction leads to another regardless of its seemingly innocent nature. Read more
Published 22 days ago by Stalker
Innovative filmmaking at it's best!
It's hard to review a film that is as immersive an exhilarating as this; I was so sucked in to the fictional world that I forgot that it was even a piece of filmmaking. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Luke Munro
Not for me (or my mum!)
Loving indie films I bought Requiem for a dream. By the end I felt dissapointed and that my time had been wasted, as others have said it was a giant anti drug commercial without... Read more
Published 5 months ago by Hazy
OK, but expected more
I thought the movie was ok, but I expected it to be deeper and more realistic. I found it hard to believe for something like this to happen in the real life, especially the old... Read more
Published 8 months ago by Idan
Requiem for a Dream
I ordered this dvd Requiem for a Dream - it arrived very quickly and was pleased with it Thank you very much
Published 9 months ago by Angel958
Rare occasion...Acting very good.. Story very bad!!
Some slight SPOILERS/HINTS of the eventual end.

I'm a huge fan of most genres of films, I've only ever disliked one film and that was Lord of War every other one i've... Read more
Published 9 months ago by P. Wilson
requiem for a dream
this is one of my all time top ten DVD Ever with a great sound track to go with the unusual cinematography
that shows how addiction can take hold wen u lest expect it and... Read more
Published 9 months ago by rob258
A film that just doesnt get it.
After reading Selby's excellent gritty and harsh book i expected great things from the film adapation. Alas i was very disappointed. Read more
Published 11 months ago by S. Hyde
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