I Heart Huckabees (Two-Disc Special Edition) | 
| Director: David O. Russell
Actors: Jason Schwartzman, Jude Law, Naomi Watts, Mark Wahlberg, Dustin Hoffman
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Category: DVD
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Rating:  232 reviews
Sales Rank: 36347
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dts Surround Sound, Dvd, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, Full Screen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 2
Running Time: 107 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.7
MPN: D2226961D
UPC: 024543169611
EAN: 0024543169611
ASIN: B0006TPE4M
Theatrical Release Date: October 22, 2004
Release Date: February 22, 2005
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Product Description
Kindhearted but confused activist andrew markovski hires a pair of screwball existential detectives to help him find the meaning of life. All the while a sexy french author is trying to throw a wrench in their plan by seducing andrews mind and body. Studio: Tcfhe Release Date: 01/15/2008 Starring: Dustin Hoffman Jude Law Run time: 107 minutes Rating: R
Amazon.com
Billed as "an existential comedy," I Heart Huckabees is a flawed yet endearingly audacious screwball romp that dares to ponder life's biggest questions. Much of director David O. Russell's philosophical humor is dense, talky, and impenetrable, leading critic Roger Ebert to observe that "it leaves the viewer out of the loop," and suggesting that Russell's screenplay (written with his assistant, Jeff Baena) is admirably bold yet frustratingly undisciplined. Russell's ideas are big but his expression of them is frenetic, centering on the unlikely pairing of an environmentalist (Jason Schwartzman) and a firefighter (Mark Wahlberg) as they depend on existential detectives (Lily Tomlin, Dustin Hoffman) and a French nihilist (Isabelle Huppert) to make sense of their existential crises, brought on (respectively) by a two-faced chain-store executive (Jude Law) and his spokesmodel girlfriend (Naomi Watts), and the aftermath of 9/11's terrorism. No brief description can do justice to Russell's comedic conceit; you'll either be annoyed and mystified or elated and delighted by this wacky primer for coping with 21st century lunacy. Deserving of its mixed reviews, I Heart Huckabees is an audacious mess, like life itself, and accepting that is the key to enjoying both. --Jeff Shannon
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 i heart huckabees April 30, 2009
Avery Rainey
The movie blew my mind! There are days when i want to have a detective follow me around and figure out the consequences in my life as well! A must see!
 This stinks March 2, 2009
Bradley F. Smith (Miami Beach, FL)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I watched the first 45 minutes as things grow increasingly absurd, but the more the plot struggles, the more unfunny it all seems. I didn't laugh in the slightest at anything going on here. A waste of talents, and Jason Schwartzman plays the identical character in 'The Darjeeling Limited.' Lilly Tomlin and Dustin Hoffman add zilch. A real dog.
Ranks with "Being John Malkovich" for weirdness. February 16, 2009
Patrick Nava (San Francisco, CA)
At least that's what I think. This movie is really quirky, and I love the performances of Mark Wahlberg as the fireman Tommy Corn, Naomi Watts as the Huckabees (Fu**abees!) model Dawn Campbell ("Looks like an Amish bag lady") and Jude Law as Brad Stand. Jason Schwartzman as the metaphysically troubled Albert Markovski, really delivers in his quest for answers to his existence.
The interaction between Dustin Hoffman, Lily Tomlin (the Existential Detectives) and their patients is marvelous. The snappy dialogue is really amazing; especially when you think about the timing involved to make the scenes funny. All the actors are on top of their game. Great "existential" comedy - ethereally speaking. I never tire of this movie. Shania Twain makes a short but funny cameo appearance (has to do with an ongoing joke).
 1.5 stars out of 4 December 22, 2008
One-Line Film Reviews (Ann Arbor)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
The Bottom Line:
Aside from an amusing performance by Mark Wahlberg, I Heart Huckabees has little to recommend it unless you enjoy fantastically pretentious movies that eschew sense-making in favor of directorial indulgence.
I Heart This Movie May 12, 2008
Meredith Folsom (Half Moon Bay, CA USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I don't like to write reviews - its work and I'm busy, but I'd like people to know about this really fun film. I love it, it's fun, it's clever and it makes you feel good. Dustin Hoffman and Lily Tomlin are great in this as a loving but bickering husband and wife team of "ontological" birthparents with differing beliefs. Mark Walberg, Jude Law and Naomi Watts are letting their hair down and not playing the usual Hollywood STARS that I too love, but in this case are putting their talents to another use - FUN! This film is especially for anyone that's had to suffer through a semester of Nietzsche or Michel Foucault. Interpretations can be endless, do they have to be so grim?
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