Drugs`
This is a movie about a mother named Sara Goldfarb played by Ellen Burstyn, her son and only child Harry played by Jared Leto, his best friend Tyrone C. Love played by Marlon Wayans, and Harry's girlfriend Marion Silver played by Jennifer Connelly.
The movie opens with a scene in which Harry is in the process of taking his mother's television against her wishes. His mother is addicted to her T.V., and now that Harry has left home, it is her whole universe. Her favorite show is one where a man who has lost a lot of weight runs a game show. Her dream is to some day be on his show.
Harry's friend Tyrone is waiting outside the apartment to help him push the T.V. across town to the appliance man's store where they sell the set and use the money to buy Heroin. The next scene shows Sara, Harry's mother retriving the set back from the appliance man for what is most likely the hundreth time or so. Sara is what we call an "enabler"; she turns her head to whatever Harry does and makes excuses for him. From there Harry and Tyrone get high with Harry's girlfriend Marion.
Soon we see as the addiction progresses, Harry and Tyrone begin to hatch a plan to score a large amount of Heroin so they can sell it and have their stash for free. This is a common train of thought for addicts. It is this same type of cognitive process that leads a Meth addict to setting up a home lab and cooking dope him, or herself.
Then we see Sara get a phone call from a Television studio and are informed that she has won a contest and has been selected to be a guest on her favorite T.V. show. She has a problem though, she wants to wear the red dress she wore to Harry's graduation, but she discovers she can no longer get it zipped up as she has gained too much weight in the past few years. A neighbor suggests that she see the doctor her daughter did to lose the unwanted weight. She does and he prescribes a regiment of diet pills that she soon finds gives...
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