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Features: DVD, Special Edition, Widescreen, Aspect Ratio 2.35:1, Pan and Scan (TV Format), Aspect Ratio 1.33:1, Dolby Digital (5.1), Audio Commentary, Outtakes, Featurette, Extended and Deleted Scenes, Inside Look, Photo Montage, Informercial, Behind the Scenes, Trailers, English, Spanish Subtitled, 2 Discs
An exuberant offbeat comedy in which Dustin Hoffman and Lily Tomlin play detectives hired by kindhearted local poet and activist Albert Markovski (Jason Schwartzman) to investigate the meaning of three coincidences that could hold the key to life. The investigation soon involves other clients such as passionate, vulnerable fireman Tom Corn (Mark Wahlberg), cunning sales exec Brad Stand (Jude Law) and hot spokesmodel with an identity crisis Dawn Campbell (Naomi Watts). The hilarious case is further complicated with the detectives' seductive French nemesis Catherine Vauban (Isabelle Huppert) lures Albert and Tom into her way of seeing things. Outstanding performances and outrageous comedy make this smart, elating, poignant film from director David O. Russell "a snort-out-loud-funny master class of controlled chaos." - Manohla Dargis, The New York Times.
"A fresh, funny little romp." Dan Jolin, Empire
"...by far the most original comedy of the year." Glenn Kenny, Premiere
"Among the most insane mainstream movies ever released." Ty Burr, Boston Globe
Editor's Note
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.
| Features | "The Charlie Rose Show" Interview With D. Russell | | 22 Deleted/Extended Scenes | | Audio: English, Spanish Dolby Digital Stereo | | Detective Infomercial | | Full-Length Audio Commentary By D. Russell, Jason Schwartzman, Mark Wahlberg and Naomi Watts | | Interactive Menus | | Music Video: "Knock Yourself Out" By Jon Brion With Behind The Scenes Footage And Optional Commentary By D. Russell | | Outtakes | | Production Documentary | | Psas/Commercials, Trailers And More! | | Scene Selection | | Subtitles: English, Spanish | | Teaser Trailer | | Informercial Extra Dialogue tangents and Jon Brion's performances | | Behind the Scenes of the Detective's Infomercial | | 6 Open-Spaces Coalition PSA's | | I Heart Huckabees Commercials | | Photo Montage | | 22 Extended and Deleted Scenes | | 5 Outtakes | | Actor Commentary by Jason Schwartzman, Mark Wahlberg and Naomi Watts | | Inside Look In Her Shoes | | I Heart Huckabees Production Featurette | | Audio: English Dolby Digital 5.1, Spanish Dolby Surround Sound | | Includes Widescreen and Full Screen Versions | | Audio Commentary by Director David O. Russell |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Foxvideo |
| Release Date: 1/15/2008 |
| Running Time: 107 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2004 | | Catalog ID: 2226961 | | UPC: 00024543169611 | | Number of Discs: 2 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English, Spanish Dubbed | | Available Subtitles: English, Spanish | | Video: Color |
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| | Professional Reviews | New York Times
"[The film] captures liberal-left despair with astonishingly good humor..." 10/01/2004 p.E1Los Angeles Times
"[E]xuberant and often poignant....Schwartzman and Law are pitch-perfect in their roles..." 10/01/2004 p.E1 USA Today
"[W]hat emerges is part screwball comedy, absurdist farce, social satire and earnest self-exploration....Director Robert Zemeckis' feature debut truly encapsulates that time." 10/01/2004 p.6E Premiere
"[With] imaginatively conceived and executed special effects....By far the most original comedy of the year." 11/01/2004 p.20-2 Rolling Stone
"Russell is a true original. It's not in his DNA to play it safe....HUCKABEES is one more reason to follow him anywhere." 10/28/2004 p.107-8 Sight and Sound
"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." 12/01/2004 p.34-52 Uncut
"HUCKABEES is like no other film you've seen....It's full of ideas, non-sequiturs and puzzles, and insanely inspired..." 12/01/2004 p.177 Spirituality & Health
"David O. Russell has made a daring metaphysical comedy that touches on the insanities that rock our world." 05/01/2005 James Berardinelli's ReelViews 6 of 10
After seeing two previews for David O. Russell's I Heart Huckabees, I had no idea what it was - James Berardinelli
Chicago Sun-Times 6 of 10
Individual moments and lines and events in "I Heart Huckabees" are funny in and of themselves. View - Roger Ebert
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