Requiem For A Dream Film Opening

DVD Cover

(Darren Aronofsky,2000)

Box Office

Budget:

$4,500,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

$64,770 (USA) (8 October 2000) (2 Screens)

Gross:

 $7,364,000 (Worldwide) (2000)

See rest of box office information here http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0180093/business

Requiem for a Dream exposes four paralleled individuals and their menacing addiction to heroin, cocaine, and diet pills (speed). Taking place in Brooklyn amidst the waning Coney Island, the drugs are very easily obtained and keep each main character in its cycle of dependence. The protagonist Harry Goldfarb is your typical heroin junky with an ambitious plan of "Getting off hard knocks," with help from his cocaine crazed girlfriend Marion and his long time friend Tyrone. Meanwhile his widowed mother is obsessed with the glamour of television and eventually finds her way to a dietitian who pushes her into the cycle of drug induced enslavement.

Drugs. They consume mind, body and soul. Once you're hooked, you're hooked. Four lives. Four addicts. Four failures. Despite their aspirations of greatness, they succumb to their addictions. Watching the addicts spiral out of control, we bear witness to the dirtiest, ugliest portions of the underworld addicts reside in. It is shocking and eye-opening but demands to be seen by both addicts and non-addicts alike.

Here is the trailer for it.

The opening scene is 

The company idents featured in the opening scene are:

• Artisan Entertainment
• Thouand Words

Then the titles say:

Artisan Entertainment

and Thousand Words present 

  

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