Research: Requiem for a Dream

I love love love this film. It's an adaptation of the book originally by Hubert Selby, Jr and was released in 2000. It was directed by Darren Aronofsky, and starred Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly, and Marlon Wayans.

The film depicts the different kinds of addictions, suffered by the main characters. The film charts three seasons in the lives of Sara Goldfarb (Ellen Burstyn), her son Harry (Jared Leto), Harry’s girlfriend Marion Silver (Jennifer Connelly), and Harry’s friend Tyrone C. Love (Marlon Wayans). Each character is ultimately destroyed by addiction and self-delusion - reflected in the mise-en-scene and camera work of the film, and obviously its name.

'Requiem' - A mass for the deceased. A deceased dream. In the book, Selby criticises the American Dream as unattainable, and each character is said to represent a part of it. For example, Tyrone wants money. The name comes from how each character substitutes their own dreams with addiction, and how they ultimately destory themselves.

Here's most of the films info, like the producers and distribution company, which I took from Wikipedia;