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Studio: Fox Searchlight Pictures
Rating: R
Genre: Comedy
Release Date: October 1, 2004 (Limited)
SYNOPSIS:
Albert Markovski (Schwartzman), head of the Open Spaces Coalition, has been experiencing an alarming series of coincidences the meaning of which escapes him. With the help of two Existential Detectives, Bernard and Vivian Jaffe (Hoffman and Tomlin), Albert examines his life, his relationships, and his conflict with Brad Stand (Law), an executive climbing the corporate ladder at Huckabees, a popular chain of retail superstores. When Brad also hires the detectives, they dig deep into his seemingly perfect life and his relationship with his spokesmodel girlfriend, the voice of Huckabees, Dawn Campbell (Watts). Albert pairs up with rebel firefighter Tommy Corn (Wahlberg) to take matters into their own hands under the guidance of the Jaffes’ nemesis, the French radical Caterine Vauban (Huppert).
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Lily Tomlin is not happy... Fuck you!
Whereas in THREE KINGS the quest was for 'gold', here in HUCKABEES the metaphorical gold could be considered the search for the meaning of life, or maybe more appropriate the meaning of existence. In a movie described as "An Existential Comedy" my first notion when sitting down with director/co-writer David O. Russell was not to ask him the obvious questions about the color palette of the film or how it was to work with such a stellar cast of names. I wanted to try and figure out just what all this meant, and not how should I translate it, but how does he translate it.