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MPAA Rating: R Content Advisory: Brief Nudity, Adult Situations, Strong Sexual Content, Adult Humor, Profanity, Slapstick Violence Movie Release: 2004 DVD Release: 02/22/2005 Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV,Pan and Scan - Closed Captioned Audio Tracks: English, Spanish Subtitles: English, Spanish SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 46 mins Studio: 20th Century Fox Total Copies: 40 Genres: Comedy, Absurd Comedy, Ensemble Film See Also: I Heart Huckabees [Special Edition]

Five years after achieving commercial and critical success with his film Three Kings, director and screenwriter David O. Russell returns to the more idiosyncratic territory of his earlier work with this intelligent and offbeat comedy. Bernard and Vivian Jaffe (Dustin Hoffman and Lily Tomlin) are a married couple who run an existential detective agency where they sift through the lives of their clients in order to discover the source of their angst. The Jaffes' latest client is Albert Markovski (Jason Schwartzman), an environmental activist who has a very large rock and a great deal on his mind; their study of Albert's problems lead Bernard and Vivian to Brad Stand (Jude Law), a public relations executive with a chain of successful variety stores, Huckabees. While publicly allying himself with Albert's environmental initiatives, behind the scenes Brad is running roughshod over responsible land management with little care for the consequences. When Brad learns he's being watched by the Jaffes, he hopes to co-opt them by hiring them himself; however, the plan has unexpected consequences when their questioning leads Brad's girlfriend, well-scrubbed model Dawn (Naomi Watts), into reassessing her life and relationships. Meanwhile, Albert finds himself joining forces with Tommy (Mark Wahlberg), a firefighter and fellow environmentalist who has been having second thoughts about Bernard and Vivian's ideas and methods after a long-term investigation and has since fallen under the spell of nihilist poet and philosopher Caterine Vauban (Isabelle Huppert). ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

Jason Schwartzman - Albert Markovski
Isabelle Huppert - Caterine Vauban
Dustin Hoffman - Bernard Jaffe
Lily Tomlin - Vivian Jaffe
Jude Law - Brad Stand

David O. Russell's I Heart Huckabees frustrated some critics and audience members with its combination of screwball comedy pacing and lengthy conversations about complex philosophical theories. On this DVD, the director explains in great detail what he was trying to achieve during both his solo commentary track and during the track he recorded with cast members Jason Schwartzman, Mark Wahlberg, and Naomi Watts. Although rumors persisted that there were problems on the set between the director and some of the actors, one would never know it from listening to these actors discuss the enjoyment they felt working on the film. The image is presented in both a widescreen anamorphic transfer that preserves the original theatrical aspect ratio of 2.35:1 and a standard full-frame image. The English soundtrack is rendered in Dolby Digital 5.1 while a Spanish soundtrack has been recorded in Dolby Digital Surround. This is a very good disc, but a deluxe edition with additional extras is also available. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide