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Requiem for a Dream

2000 · Drama · Darren Aronofsky · 1h 42m

Four people in Brooklyn, three of them young and one a widowed mother waiting on a call from a TV game show, each get hooked on something over the course of a year. Cut fast and hard, and it gets grimmer the longer it runs.

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