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Release Date: Oct 20, 2000; Limited Release: Oct 06, 2000; Rated: Unrated; Length: 102 Minutes; Genre: Drama; With: Ellen Burstyn, Jennifer Connelly and Jared Leto
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By Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman is a film critic for EW

Darren Aronofsky's mind-bending visual and spiritual plunge into the seduction and terror of drug addiction may be one of the most disturbing movies ever made, yet it's impossible to take your eyes off it. Aronofsky interconnects the tales of four outer-borough New York nobodies. Three are hipster junkies, but the movie, in all likelihood, will be best remembered for Ellen Burstyn's role as a Brighton Beach yenta who goes to a diet doctor and ends up getting hooked on a tangled power surge of uppers and downers. Aronofsky has developed a hypnotically unsettling style of freakout sensuality. This is the rare dark-as-midnight movie that finds its unholy essence -- and, in a strange way, its morality -- by going ''too far.''


Posted Oct 20, 2000
 

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