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Genres:
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Comedy /
Drama
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Director:
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David O. Russell
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Actors:
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Lily Tomlin,
Jason Schwartzman,
Jake Muxworthy,
Isabelle Huppert,
Angela Grillo,
Ger Duany,
Darlene Hunt,
Benny Hernandez,
Richard Appel,
Benjamin Nurick,
Dustin Hoffman,
Jude Law,
Mark Wahlberg,
Naomi Watts,
Kevin Dunn
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Duration:
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107 min.
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Rating:
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(6.8/10)114.5
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Plot Summary:
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Determined to solve the coincidence of seeing the same conspicuous stranger three times in a age, Albert hires a double of existentialist detectives, who declare on espionage on his run-of-the-mill life while sharing their views on life and the nature of the universe.
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I Heart Huckabees
A young eco-activist hires existential detectives to sort out his life. Brainy anti-corporate satire from writer-director David O Russell and Jeff Baena
Was there a more subversive mainstream film in the 1990s than David O Russell's Three Kings? The story of three American GIs hunting gold in the post-Gulf War Iraq landed slapbang in the cultural heartlands. Only Fight Club came close.
Five years later, Russell's follow-up, I ♥ Huckabees (co-written with Jeff Baena), is equally defiant, mainly for its thrillingly brainy dialogue that ranges across philosophies before invariably being brought back to earth with a bathetic bump. Call it existential slapstick. It is also a more personal project, addressing Russell's Zen Buddhism and...
I hate Huckabees
David O Russell's self-styled 'Existential comedy' is his first film since the excellent 'Three Kings' and comes as a grave disappointment. Coming across like a nightmare collaboration between Charlie Kaufman and Woody Allen, the film lacks the emotional core of Kaufman's best work and the sly wit of Allen's, leaving nothing more than a series of dull, inconsequential sketches which add up to very little.
There's not much of a plot here but what little there is concerns enviromental activist Albert(Jason Scwartzman), who is troubled by a series of coincidences involving a tall African man. He seeks help from a pair of existential detectives(Dustin Hoffman and Lily Tomlin) to investigate these incidents and they start to intrude on every aspect of his ...
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