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I ♥ Huckabees streaming

2004 Movie United States, Germany, United Kingdom Romance, Comedy 106 min FSK 12
By: David O. Russell With: Darlene Hunt, Andrew Cohen, Kamala Lopez, Ger Duany, Denis Hayes

Married couple Bernard and Vivian Jaffe operate their own detective agency. They're not ordinary detectives, but existentialist detectives whose clients want them to discover some deeper meaning of life. Their latest client is Albert Markovski, the poetry spouting, bicycle riding founder and director of the Open Spaces Coalition, whose raison d'être is the opposition of suburban sprawl in protecting open spaces. Their latest project is opposition to the construction of a Huckabees outlet on some suburban marshland, it a big box retailer. Brad Stand, a flashy Huckabees sales executive, is trying to seize control of the coalition to thwart Albert. Albert, who only "stumbled" upon Vivian and Bernard's agency, wants them to discover not anything related to work - in fact, he wants them to stay clear of his work altogether - but the meaning behind his encounters with a young, thin, tall black man, who he's run into in three different, unrelated situations. Regardless of Albert's request, Bernard and Vivian do look into his work in needing to see all aspects of his life, in the process Brad also hiring them in his continued takeover of all things Albert, which affects Brad's beautiful but insecure girlfriend, Dawn Campbell, the voice and image of Huckabee's latest marketing campaign. Bernard and Vivian further believe that both Albert and another of their existing clients, firefighter Tommy Corn, would benefit from being each other's "other". Tommy, whose wife does not understand him, believes all the world's problems are the result of petroleum. Tommy has recently come to an epiphany in reading Caterine Vauban's book he thought was given to him by Bernard and Vivian, but she who is really Bernard and Vivian's rival, a Frenchwoman come to infiltrate their cases. That epiphany, Caterine's theory, is that nothing is coincidental, she using science to back her theory. That epiphany may indeed be the center of what is happening as this collective tries to come to some meaning not only with the issues that brought them to Bernard and Vivian, but of what happens between them.

Filmium rating
65%

Mood

Philosophical
Quirky
Thought-Provoking

Cast & Crew

David O. Russell
Jeff Baena
Jonah Hill
Saïd Taghmaoui
James J. McCoy
Jake Hoffman
Scott Wannberg
Matthew Muzio
Lisa Anne Hillman
Shania Twain
Naomi Watts
Chuck Ford
Dustin Hoffman
Isabelle Huppert
Jay Giannone
Ger Duany
Kaied Hussan
John Rothman
Anthony Thomas
Mark Wahlberg
Tom Hoads
Jerry Schumacher
Stacey Annette
Richard Jenkins
Lily Tomlin
Ben Hernandez Bray
Meredith Hines
Lisa Guzman
Jude Law
Benjamin Nurick
Ashley Fondrevay
Jean Smart
Jason Schwartzman
Isla Fisher
Talia Shire
Angela Grillo
Altagracia Guzman
Jake Muxworthy
Sydney Zarp
Tippi Hedren
Matthew Grillo-Russell
Saige Ryan
Denis Hayes
Kevin Dunn
Anthony "Ace" Thomas
Andrew Cohen
Adam Clinton
Kamala Lopez
Chuck Saftler
Jamal Weathers
Shawn Patrick
Pablo Davanzo
Bob Gunton
Julie Ann Johnson
Patrick M. Walsh
Kimberly Cutter
Darlene Hunt
Michael Lovan
David O. Russell (Director)

Cinematic Technique

Dialogue-Heavy
Hyper-Dialogue
Quirky Visuals

Narrative Structure

Intersecting Storylines
Non-Linear

Pace

Slow-Paced
Thoughtful

Soundtrack

Collaborative
Jon Brion
Original Score

Style

Cinematic
Quirky
Stylized

Time-Period

Early 2000S

Central Conflict

Environmental Activism Vs Corporate Interests
Personal Enlightenment
Search For Life'S Meaning

Characters

Corporate Executive
Detectives
Environmental Activist
Environmentalist
Nihilist

Ending

Acceptance
Enlightenment
Interconnectedness

Historical Context

Early 2000S

Key Plot Points

Coincidences
Enlightenment
Fire Accident
Romantic Connection

Plot

Coincidences
Environmental Activism
Existential Investigation

Setting

Corporate World
Urban Environment
Woods

Shooting Location

Urban
Woods

Theme

Existentialism
Interconnectedness
Search For Meaning

Genre

Comedy
Drama
Philosophical

Audiences

Adults
Art-House Viewers
Philosophy Enthusiasts

Titles

I Heart Huckabees
I ♥ Huckabees

Box Office Success

Cult Hit
Modest

Critical Reception

Mixed Reviews
Polarizing
Thought-Provoking

Popularity

Cult Following

Ratings

55 Metacritic
63% Rotten Tomatoes

Reception

Cult Following
Mixed Reviews
Quirky

Production Countries

Usa

Release Year

2004
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