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I Heart Huckabees (2004)

I Heart Huckabees
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Jason Schwartzman, Dustin Hoffman, Lily Tomlin, Jude Law, Mark Wahlberg ... (see more)

A husband-and-wife team play detective, but not in the traditional sense. Instead, the happy duo helps others solve their existential issues, the kind that keep you up at night, wondering what it all means.

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75% liked it
155,957 ratings

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61% liked it
175 critics

R, 107 min.
Directed by: David O. Russell
Release Date: Oct 01, 2004
DVD Release Date: Feb 22, 2005

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6 hours ago
Somehow managing to raise the money to pay for the all-star ensemble cast, the producer of this messy pseudo babble gets both of the stars.
1 day ago
The first half of the movie was so much fun. I dont know where it gets lost, but it does. My type?Totally=/
3 days ago
Wouldn't mind seeing it.
7 days ago
Filled with ideas and energy, I Hear Huckabees is also full of strange, awkward, silly, occasionally just plain cheesy moments, but all of it fun and interesting. The cast is part of the fun and part of the problem with the quirky/awkward mix here: S... (read more)
7 days ago
Wow, I never thought I'd be able to finish this movie, yet I did and it was totally not worth it!

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1682 days ago
Nick Schager, Lessons of Darkness
Maddeningly uneven but mildly amusing.
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1889 days ago
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
There's ambition here, as well as a shaggy brilliance and a rare willingness on the part of a director to work out his questions in front of us, on film.
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1889 days ago
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times
I don't quite know what the point of it all was, but I do know that I enjoyed watching it.
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1889 days ago
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
The movie is like an infernal machine that consumes all of the energy it generates, saving the last watt of current to turn itself off. It functions perfectly within its constraints, but it leaves the viewer out of the loop.
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1896 days ago
David Edelstein, Slate
The movie fails, I'm convinced, because it approaches the problem philosophically instead of psychologically.
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