05-29-2021, 08:31 AM
Requiem for a Dream / 2000 / United States / 8.3 out of 10 Rating on IMDb
A movie about drug addiction from various kinds (medicine to real hard stuff) and the dream worlds the drugs create for the people that take them and get addicted to them but also the dark sides of their addiction.
IMDb Wrote:The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island people are shattered when their addictions run deep. Sara Goldfarb (Ellen Burstyn) is a retired widow, living in a small apartment. She spends most of her time watching TV, especially a particular self-help show. She has delusions of rising above her current dull existence by being a guest on that show. Her son, Harry (Jared Leto) is a junkie but along with his friend Tyrone (Marlon Wayans) has visions of making it big by becoming a drug dealer. Harry's girlfriend Marion (Jennifer Connelly) could be fashion designer or artist but is swept along in Harry's drug-centric world. Meanwhile Sara has developed an addiction of her own. She desperately wants to lose weight and so goes on a crash course involving popping pills, pills which turn out to be very addictive and harmful to her mental state.
A movie about drug addiction from various kinds (medicine to real hard stuff) and the dream worlds the drugs create for the people that take them and get addicted to them but also the dark sides of their addiction.