Watch four hopeful, borderline desperate people suffer.

Rating: 9/10 (5 June 2001)

This is not a "feel good" movie. This is not Trainspotting.
I loved Pi (same director as Requiem for a Dream) and I'm a big fan of the lovely Jennifer Connelly, and I heard that this was a good movie although Very Disturbing. Well, I thought I was ready since I've seen plenty of horror movies, a few "drugs screw up some lives" shows, etc. Wrong. In this movie, you first become attached to the characters. Although you know their choices are the wrong ones, you want things to work out OK. Then, you get to watch as their lives are destroyed.
This should definitely be mandatory viewing for rehab kids.