Ellen Burstyn's performance in The Exorcist redefined ... seem just as destructive as her son’s heroin addiction in Requiem for a Dream. From The Last Picture Show to Alice Doesn’t Live ...

Darren Aronofsky's film - Requiem For A Dream - dares to venture ... and the causes of addiction than almost any other film. Ellen Burstyn plays Sara Goldfarb, a lonely Jewish widow living out ...

No list of this nature would be complete without Requiem for a Dream, which tells the story of four characters battling terrible addictions. Sara (Ellen Burstyn) is addicted to amphetamines ...

Requiem for a Dream is a hypnotic psychological drama ... Meanwhile, Harry’s mother, Sara (Ellen Burstyn), becomes addicted to amphetamines in a desperate attempt to lose weight for a TV appearance.

Requiem for a Dream director Darren Aronofsky with Ellen Burstyn.Credit: Burstyn spent only four days shooting on that project, but according to Mundruczó she made quite an impression.

Ellen Burstyn (born Edna Rae Gillooly ... and Resurrection (1980), How to Make an American Quilt (1995), and Requiem For a Dream (2000). For playing a lonely drug-addicted woman in the last ...