What is Requiem for a Dream about?
The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island residents are shattered when their addictions run deep.
Does it have a happy ending? (spoiler-safe)
No. Brace yourself.
Four Coney Island lives spiral into a relentless, drug-fueled nightmare where hope quickly fades.
Bleak and surreal. A full-attention watch at full speed. Emotionally it is devastating.
Streaming on Peacock, Kanopy (free), Hoopla (free), Fandango at Home (free), Plex (free) and Tubi (free).
Requiem for a Dream parents guide
There is no US rating to lean on, so here is what we tagged: strong sex and nudity, strong violence, and frequent strong language.
- Scare
- Mildly scary
- A few tense or eerie moments.
- Jump scares
- None noted
- Gore
- Graphic gore
- Blood and wounds shown clearly.
- Violence
- Strong violence
- Violence is frequent or intense.
- Sex and nudity
- Strong
- Strong means explicit or repeated sex, extended nudity, or sexual assault shown on screen, attempted or completed, even partly off screen. Any one of these is enough.
- Language
- Strong
- Frequent strong profanity or slurs.
How we rate: an AI reads what is known about each title and tags it 0 to 3; we check the tags against a hand-rated set and correct them by hand when readers tell us. Estimates, not a scene-by-scene review. Spot a mistake? Tell us.
Three questions
- Is Requiem for a Dream scary?
- Only a little. Requiem for a Dream has a few tense moments, nothing that follows you to bed.
- How gory is Requiem for a Dream?
- Graphic gore and strong violence. If graphic gore is a dealbreaker, skip it.
Cast and crew
Directed byDarren Aronofsky
StarringEllen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly, Marlon Wayans, Christopher McDonald, Louise Lasser
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