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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 47 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: February 22, 2005
- Originally Released: 2004
- Label: 20th Century Fox
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Jason Schwartzman, Dustin Hoffman & Lily Tomlin | |
Performer: | Jude Law, Naomi Watts, Isabelle Huppert & Mark Wahlberg | |
Directed by | David O. Russell | |
Screenwriting by | David O. Russell & Jeff Baena | |
Composition by | Jon Brion | |
Director of Photography: | Peter Deming | |
Executive Production by | Gregory Goodman, Scott Rudin & Michael Kuhn |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 5/5 --
Brilliant existential comedy for adults only.
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Common Sense Media
[E]xuberant and often poignant....Schwartzman and Law are pitch-perfect in their roles...
Los Angeles Times
This feverish state-of-the-split-nation address finds Russell tossing everything that matters -- and more -- into the pot, and producing a pretty indigestible and very messy stew.
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Time Out
You don't get many clear answers from this film and maybe that's for the better.
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The Tyee (British Columbia)
[The film] captures liberal-left despair with astonishingly good humor...
New York Times
I have no idea what the film is really all about, but this top line cast makes it so much fun, it doesn't seem to matter.
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Urban Cinefile
There's a transgressive thrill in watching Huppert....Russell shares Kaufman's attention to the banal, and like ADAPTATION, this is a story that comments on its own unfolding.
Sight and Sound
Product Description:
David O. Russell, the director of dark incest comedy SPANKING THE MONKEY, slapstick ensemble FLIRTING WITH DISASTER, and Gulf War adventure THE THREE KINGS, has established himself as a boldly original filmmaker. With his fourth film, I HEART HUCKABEES, Russell continues to defy easy definition, mixing physical comedy, existential philosophy, corporate satire, and quixotic quest. Jason Schwartzman, proving that he is capable of more than simply reviving his iconic RUSHMORE character, plays Albert, an environmental activist prone to bad poetry and self-doubt. During his campaign to stop Huckabees, a suburban superstore, from destroying marshland, Albert's group is taken over by one of the store's vapidly charming salesmen, a pitch-perfect Jude Law. Utterly distraught and questioning the meaning of life, Albert seeks the help of a bizarre husband-and-wife team of "existential detectives." By spying on Albert's daily life, they seek to help him answer that most elemental of human questions, "Why am I here'"
A stellar ensemble class including Naomi Watts, Dustin Hoffman, Lily Tomlin, Isabelle Huppert, and an inspired Mark Wahlberg manage to do justice to the sparkling wit and intelligence of the script. In less adept hands, the pace and complexity of the film could easily become a chaotic mess. Yet Russell, in what is arguably his finest film to date, proves that a movie need not be esoteric to tackle the profound.
A stellar ensemble class including Naomi Watts, Dustin Hoffman, Lily Tomlin, Isabelle Huppert, and an inspired Mark Wahlberg manage to do justice to the sparkling wit and intelligence of the script. In less adept hands, the pace and complexity of the film could easily become a chaotic mess. Yet Russell, in what is arguably his finest film to date, proves that a movie need not be esoteric to tackle the profound.