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Is there any source except IMDb for the alternative title? Was it ever used anywhere? --Yooden 02:38, 2005 Jan 27 (UTC)

There is a pop culture reference to this movie in the Fox cartoon Family Guy. Can't think of the episode off hand.

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A scene from the anime Perfect Blue is referenced shot for shot, within a similar thematic context in Requiem for a Dream. The scene is where Mima / Marion is curled up naked in a bathtub and both characters scream underwater. Thematically, the two scenes are similar because both characters in the scenes are mentally distressed over being the subject of sexual exploitation in both films. Darren Aronofsky purchased the U.S. remake rights to Perfect Blue for $59,000 and is in current ownership. [1]
Giovanni Ribisi was the original choice of Darren Aronofsky to play Harry Goldfarb. The reason for this was his resemblance to the look of Harry in the novel (i.e., curly blond hair). [2]
Because of the movie's graphic nature and depiction of the destruction drugs can cause, it is often shown in drug rehabilitation clinics to former addicts. ^{[citation needed]}
The author of the book Requiem for a Dream, Hubert Selby, Jr., plays the ridiculing racist prison guard in the climactic scene with Tyrone.
Many of the actors used in Darren Aronofky's previous film Pi are featured in Requiem in minor roles, including Mark Margolis, Sean Gullette, & Ben Shenkman.
When Ellen Burstyn first read the script offered by Darren Aronofsky, she was horrified by it and rejected the role. It was not until after she watched a video of Pi, Aronofsky's previous film, that she changed her mind and accepted the role.