Director: Darren Aronofsky

Writer: Hubert Selby Jr. (Novel)
Hubert Selby Jr. (screenplay)

Actor: Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly, Marlon Wayans

Genre:Drama

The film based on the novel in 1979, the writer also is director, tells the heartbreaking story.

A poor mother and a son live in the United States. Son is a loser in life; he indulges in television and chocolate, and feels very lonely.

He expressed the hope that the time to bring back his youthful age, when the mother was wearing a red always attracts the attention of students.

In order to take out of miserable life, he decided to take the risk, and his girlfriend and friends make a lot of money by selling heroin. But inevitably this dream come true, he and his wife has mental and physical destruction.

His mother has entered the middle aged. She stands up with endless requests for his son, lived in a hopeless life.

One day, she answered a call from a television station invited her attended the TV program. She thought it was the dream start from being a super star. But when she found she can not wear red clothes any more, she began to swallow frantically slimming products…

Reference: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0180093/plotsummary