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Genres:
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Drama /
Horror /
Mystery /
Sci-Fi /
Thriller
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Release:
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Actors:
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Emil Hostina,
Sebastian Knapp,
Richard Rees,
Constantin Florescu,
Ana Maria Popa,
Matt Devlen,
Constantin Cotimanis,
Michelle Villa,
Jeremy Sisto,
Udo Kier,
Deborah Kara Unger,
Bruce Payne,
Lance Henriksen,
Eugene Byrd
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Duration:
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89 min.
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Rating:
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(6/10)80.5
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Plot Summary:
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Paranoid computer programmer Simon wakes up to find a package in his range one date. In defiance of attempts at securing his apartment, the packages carry on arriving. While cameras attend to Simon's every prod, he struggles to catch the answers to the mysterious forces intriguing past his fixation.
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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 ...
'Pretentious' is good when it's this funny
'I Heart the Huckabees' brilliantly describes the complexities and the moral haziness of the world in which we live. Movies with this subject matter are usually incredible morbid; the world is portrayed as a moral darkness, 'grey' decisions are made by fat business men, and the hero is some type of social outcast. David O Russell's production, just his The Three Kings before, is a new take on the subject. As with The 3 Kings, O Russell contrasts the dark subject matter against a refreshingly comical background. Rather than sulk about the state we are all in - this film waltzes like a dance through the battlefield - studying the lines that lie between us - and ensuring they are comically crossed. This turns a bleak message about the desperateness of human nature into one...
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