When their addiction becomes stronger than their resolve to be without, four individuals struggle to become free only to still succumb to the desires of the drugs.
21 September 1952, Taipei, Taiwan
23 July 1928, Brooklyn, New York, USA
12 February 1969, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
21 March 1942, Seattle, Washington, USA
7 October 1959, Syracuse, New York, USA
12 December 1970, Catskill Mountains, New York, USA
26 September 1968, New York City, New York, USA
23 July 1972, New York City, New York, USA
12 February 1972, Evanston, Illinois, USA
15 February 1956, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
26 December 1966, Brooklyn, New York, USA
February 20, 2014
As uncompromising a work of art as you can ever view.May 08, 2001
[It] may be a bummer to some audiences, so harsh is its view of the drug culture. But no one interested in the power and magic of movies should miss it.January 19, 2001
If this is the future of cinema, I'd rather be home watching television.September 20, 2011
A staccato narrative parallels the experiences and hallucinations of a woman on drugs with those of her son and his friends.January 19, 2001
Conveys, visually, sonically and dramatically, the siren call of addiction like no other movie has.September 17, 2010
"Dream" glamorizes nothing en route to a near-nauseating finale, which feels like a rollercoaster car hitched off the track and hurtled into hell's depths. A decade later, it still follows through with full force on its cautionary stomach punch.July 06, 2010
Unfortunately, about halfway through, the film takes a (deliberate) nosedive into the depths of human degradation from which it never emerges.May 14, 2011
Translating this into a music video would make a lot more sense than the film does in present formJuly 18, 2011
Aronofsky's second feature is an emotionally intense, relentlessly grim tale of forms of addiction that may rely too much on montage to achieve real dramatic impact.September 08, 2009
A gut-wrenching, formally adventurous masterpiece or an ugly, flashy piece of empty-headed propaganda?June 24, 2006
Burnished camerawork and ex-Pop Will Eat Itself head Mansell's part-punchy, part-elegiac score reinforce and counterpoint the increasingly nightmarish visuals.January 19, 2001
Both bleak and bleakly funny, appalling in its excesses and exhilarating in its execution.