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DVD review: 'I (Heart) Huckabees'

Release date: Feb. 22, 2005
Notes: The two-disc DVD edition includes multiple commentary tracks, a "Charlie Rose Show" interview, 22 extended and deleted scenes and fake commercials. The single-disc DVD edition includes two commentary tracks.

Watchable, passable comedy with good ensemble performances from Dustin Hoffman, Lily Tomlin and Mark Wahlberg in the quirky tale of an environmental campaigner (Jason Schwartzman) who hires existential detectives to look into the mounting coincidences in his life. It's as nutty as it sounds. Director David O. Russell used some of the same nuances to propel "Three Kings," but this film too often shows how hard it's working to be whimsical. While a few scenes seem strained, some are inspired bits of lunacy.
-- Bob Longino

TO SUM UP
A husband-and-wife team play detective, but not in the traditional sense. Instead, the happy duo helps others solve their existential issues, the kind that keep you up at night, wondering what it all means.

FILM FACTS ...

Fox Searchlight Pictures

'I (Heart) Huckabees'

Director: David O. Russell
Starring: Jason Schwartzman, Dustin Hoffman, Lily Tomlin and Jude Law
Run time: 104 minutes
Release date: Oct. 15, 2004
Rating: R for language and a sex scene

On the web
Official movie site
View the trailer
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