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| | Requiem for a Dream (2000): Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly, Marlon Wayans - PopMatters Film Review |
 | | Requiem for a Dream is all about what it takes to get high -- to purchase a high, maintain it, and survive it, and to deal with its consequences. |
 | | Requiem for a Dream shows this surface as the most nightmarish, most horrific and mean-spirited, of game shows, a monstrosity emceed by Tappy Tibbons (the fearless Christopher McDonald, looking lechier than ever, shot in harsh and grainy video). |
 | | Both Tyrone and Harry are haunted by visions of their mothers (they're the only two troubled by embodied representations of their emotional pasts, as Marion's parents and Sara's dead husband never appear), and both succumb to melancholy and self-hatred at their inabilities to live up to expectations and hopes. |
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