Requiem for a Dream (Director's Cut) From:Ellen Burstyn , Jennifer Connelly , Keith David , Louise Lasser , Christopher McDonald , Lions Gate , Artisan ,
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: Lions Gate
EAN: 0012236118152
Format: Anamorphic
Format: Closed-captioned
Format: Color
Format: DVD-Video
Format: NTSC
Label: Artisan
Audio Format: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Manufacturer: Artisan
Number Of Items: 1
Packaged Height: 60 hundredths-inches
Packaged Length: 750 hundredths-inches
Packaged Weight: 15 hundredths-pounds
Packaged Width: 530 hundredths-inches
Publisher: Artisan
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2001-08-14
Running Time: 102 minutes
Studio: Artisan
Theatrical Release Date: 2000-10-27
Product Description:
Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 02/18/2003 Rating: Ur
Customer Reviews:
 A Sobering Tale of Addition, Drugs and Broken Dreams, 2008-10-23
Elegant and melancholy, Requiem is an unsettling drama that is as beautiful visually as its subject matter is depressing.
Each scene is excellently framed and contrasts in lighting, colors and settings allow the film's mood to parallel the highs and lows of the character's circumstances. As their predicament spirals out of control, and they shed the last vestiges of dignity and restraint, the film hurls you into their darkness - a chasm of moral bankruptcy, hopelessness and decrepitude.
Requiem approaches the material with an objectivity that often feels brutally cold, but it handles the characters with a tenderness that makes their already mournful fates emotionally crushing for the viewer. The film does not offer us the comfort of a happy ending, so don't expect to go home smiling.
The movie ultimately ends on a note that is starkly (and unavoidably) anti-drug, but this is not a preachy movie with some hidden moral agenda. The objective here is not to highlight the evils of drug use, but to mourn the human cost, weighed in hopes dashed, lives derailed and loves forsaken. This is after all, a requiem, a rueful ode to dreams buried and lost forever.
The Directors Cut DVD is the only version you should consider buying. It contains the full unedited version with mature material that was removed from the watered down theatrical version. Not a movie you'll watch often, but one that will always resonate when you do. Highly recommended.
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