PANIC ROOM

GENRE:  Thriller/ Crime
MADE:  2002
CAST:  Jodie Foster, Kristen Stewart, Forest Whitaker, Jared Leto
DIRECTOR:  David Fincher
WRITER:  David Koepp

PLOT:  Meg Altman and her daughter Sarah move into an expensive and beautiful tri-level stone townhouse equipped with a panic room in Manhattan in the midst of a divorce.  On their first night three burglars enter in the night and Meg and Sarah are trapped in the panic room.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Misery, Flightplan, Inside Man

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REQUIEM FOR A DREAM

GENRE:  Drama
MADE:  2000
CAST:  Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly, Marlon Wayans
DIRECTOR:  Darren Aronofsky
WRITER:  Hubert Selby Jr., Hubert Selby Jr., Darren Aronofsky

PLOT:  A story about drugs, the reasons some turn to them, how far it could go and how far some are willing to go.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Trainspotting, Traffic, Basketball Diaries

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NOTE:  If you don't like watching scenes of people being high or getting high (and yes, that includes using needles) then do not watch this film.  It is a great film, one of the best  drug-subject films I have ever seen but I would never watch it again- yes, it is that hard to watch.  If you've watched "Trainspotting" and you felt Trainspotting was uncomfortable to watch then this will be undeniably more so.  An awesome film however with great acting, great story and great soundtrack.