2004   USA I Heart Huckabees
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Director:David O. Russell
Studio:20th Century Fox
Writer:David O. Russell, Jeff Baena
IMDb Rating:6.7 (39,313 votes)
Awards:2 wins & 4 nominations
Genre:Comedy
Duration:106 min
Languages:English
IMDb:0356721
Amazon:B0006TPE4C
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David O. Russell  ...  (Director)
David O. Russell, Jeff Baena  ...  (Writer)
 
Jason Schwartzman  ...  Albert Markovski
Isabelle Huppert  ...  Caterine Vauban
Dustin Hoffman  ...  Bernard
Lily Tomlin  ...  Vivian
Jude Law  ...  Brad Stand
Mark Wahlberg  ...  Tommy Corn
Naomi Watts  ...  Dawn Campbell
Angela Grillo  ...  Angela Franco
Ger Duany  ...  Mr. Nimieri (Stephen)
Darlene Hunt  ...  Darlene
Kevin Dunn  ...  Marty
Benny Hernandez  ...  Davy
Richard Appel  ...  Josh
Benjamin Nurick  ...  Harrison
Jake Muxworthy  ...  Tim
Peter Deming  ...  Cinematographer
Comments: An existential comedy

Summary: Billed as "an existential comedy,"I Heart Huckabees is a flawed yet endearingly audacious screwball romp that dares to ponder life's biggest questions. Much of director David O. Russell's philosophical humor is dense, talky, and impenetrable, leading critic Roger Ebert to observe that "it leaves the viewer out of the loop," and suggesting that Russell's screenplay (written with his assistant, Jeff Baena) is admirably bold yet frustratingly undisciplined. Russell's ideas are big but his expression of them is frenetic, centering on the unlikely pairing of an environmentalist (Jason Schwartzman) and a firefighter (Mark Wahlberg) as they depend on existential detectives (Lily Tomlin, Dustin Hoffman) and a French nihilist (Isabelle Huppert) to make sense of their existential crises, brought on (respectively) by a two-faced chain-store executive (Jude Law) and his spokesmodel girlfriend (Naomi Watts), and the aftermath of 9/11's terrorism. No brief description can do justice to Russell's comedic conceit; you'll either be annoyed and mystified or elated and delighted by this wacky primer for coping with 21st century lunacy. Deserving of its mixed reviews, I Heart Huckabees is an audacious mess, like life itself, and accepting that is the key to enjoying both. --Jeff Shannon


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