Requiem for a Dream: Book vs. Movie
Darren Aronofsky's Requiem for a Dream (2000) adapts Hubert Selby Jr.'s 1978 novel. Ellen Burstyn and Jared Leto play a mother and son whose hopes for a different life become bound up with addiction.
About the book and the movie
- Author
- Hubert Selby Jr.
- Year
- 1978
- Pages
- 288Buy book
- Audiobook length
- 8 hr 20 minGet audiobook
- Narrator
- William DeMeritt
Harry Goldfarb and his friend Tyrone see a way out of their hand-to-mouth lives: buy heroin in bulk, sell it, and put the profits toward a future with fewer worries. Harry's girlfriend Marion shares his plans, while his mother Sara clings to the prospect of appearing on television. Their private hopes become increasingly dependent on the drugs they take to sustain them.
- Director
- Darren Aronofsky
- Writer
- Darren Aronofsky, Hubert Selby Jr.
- Year
- 2000
- Runtime
- 1 hr 42 minWatch on Amazon
- Cast
- Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly, Marlon Wayans
- Genre
- Drama
- IMDb
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Sara Goldfarb begins taking diet pills so she can fit into her favorite red dress for an anticipated television appearance. Across Brooklyn, her son Harry sells heroin with his friend Tyrone and imagines opening a shop with his girlfriend Marion. What begins as a summer of plans becomes a struggle to keep functioning as their dependencies grow.
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