Underplayed Gems

I Heart Huckabees (2004)

I Heart Huckabees poster
Original title
I ♥ Huckabees
Directed by
David O. Russell
Genre
drama film, comedy film
Country
Germany, United Kingdom, United States
Runtime
1h 46m
Rated
R
Rating
6.3 of 10 from 709 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

Existential detectives help clients find meaning in their lives. Their investigations collide with a rival who offers a different perspective.

quirkyphilosophicalcomedicthoughtfuloffbeatmetaenergeticabsurd

What happens

I Heart Huckabees (stylized as i ♥ huckabees; also I Love Huckabees) is a 2004 philosophical comedy-drama film directed and produced by David O. Russell, who cowrote the screenplay with Jeff Baena. A self-described "existential comedy", I Heart Huckabees follows a pair of detectives (Dustin Hoffman and Lily Tomlin) hired to investigate the meaning of the life of their clients (Jude Law, Jason Schwartzman, Mark Wahlberg and Naomi Watts). As the different investigations cross paths, their rival and nemesis (Isabelle Huppert) tries to drag their clients into her own views on the meaning of their lives. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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