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Synopsis: Sara Goldfarb (Ellen Burstyn) is a retired widow, living in a small apartment. She spends most of her time watching TV, especially a particular self-help show. She has delusions of rising above her current dull existence by being a guest on that show. Her son, Harry (Jared Leto) is a junkie but along with his friend Tyrone (Marlon Wayans) has visions of making it big by becoming a drug dealer. Harry's girlfriend Marion (Jennifer Connelly) could be fashion designer or artist but is swept along in Harry's drug-centric world. Meanwhile Sara has developed an addiction of her own. She desperately wants to lose weight and so goes on a crash course involving popping pills, pills which turn out to be very addictive and harmful to her mental state.
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Darren Aronofsky
Production: Artisan Entertainment
  Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 33 wins & 62 nominations.
 
IMDB:
8.3
Metacritic:
68
Rotten Tomatoes:
78%
R
Year:
2000
102 min
$2,546,851
Website
3,064 Views


to know what's orange?

Well...

...it could be...

...that it's a little orange, too.

You know something?

What?

I always thought you are...

...the most beautiful

girl I've ever seen.

Really?

Ever since I first saw you.

That's nice, Harry.

That really makes

me feel good.

You know, other people

have told me that before...

...and it was meaningless.

Why?

Because you thought they

were pulling your leg?

No, no nothing like that.

I don't know.

I don't know or even

care if they were.

It just...

...it was meaningless.

You know?

When you say it...

...I hear it.

I really hear it.

Somebody like you could really

make things alright for me.

You think?

What is it?

Remember when I told

you about the store?

Yeah.

I've been thinking

about it a lot.

I put together some

numbers and it's...

...it's not impossible.

I mean...

...you know, you could do.

You should do it.

I mean we could

do it together.

What do you think?

Stop already.

I felt better in a red

dress than a cheese danish.

Three things is all I

did to change my life:

Three things,

No red meat,

Think about it, What do

they stick in red meat?

I ate red meat...

... to the point where I would

eat it slab right off, raw,

I turned it around,

You need to be passionate,

No red meat,

No red meat for 30 days,

No red meat!

Ada told us. It's gorgeous.

We're going to make it

a little darker tomorrow.

Why darker?

To go with my red dress.

Yeah, but now it's

looking like Madonna.

This is not Madonna.

And neither is this. But

soon... I'm going on a diet.

-What diet are you on?

-Eggs and grapefruit.

I was on that once.

Lots of luck.

It's not so bad.

-How long you been on it?

-All day.

All day? It's one o'clock.

-I'm thinking thin.

-She's thinking thin.

My Louise, she lost fifty

pounds just like that.

-Like that?

-Like what?

What did you do, put

her in a sweat box?

She went to a doctor.

He gave her pills.

-You don't want to eat.

-What's so good about that?

I'm sitting here not thinking

about pastrami on rye?

You really shouldn't talk like

that when someone's on a diet.

Oh, big deal.

I'll sneak another

wedge of grapefruit.

I'm thinking thin.

Oh Sara, the mailman...

Sara Goldfarb?

You have something

for Sara Goldfarb?

-I'm expecting something.

-Mrs. Goldfarb...

...Goldfarb...

-Sara Goldfarb.

-This is it?

That's it. Come on.

Alright, okay. Okay. Your

name. Spell out your name.

S-A-R-A

G-O-L-D...

...F-A-R-B!

Dynamite?

Dynamite.

Dynamite!

Alright we on our way.

Alright.

Brody's man says he got

some real fine sh*t, man.

Alright man.

Here we go.

Alright...

...let's do this right, man.

Come on baby...

...naturally.

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Hubert Selby Jr.

Hubert "Cubby" Selby Jr. (July 23, 1928 – April 26, 2004) was an American writer. His best-known novels are Last Exit to Brooklyn (1964) and Requiem for a Dream (1978), exploring worlds in the New York area. Both novels were adapted later as films, and he appeared in small roles in each. Selby wrote about a harsh underworld seldom portrayed in literature. His first novel was prosecuted for obscenity in Great Britain in 1967 and banned in Italy, prompting defences from many leading authors such as Anthony Burgess. He was highly influential to more than a generation of writers; for more than 20 years, he taught creative writing at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, where he lived full-time after 1983. more…

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