David O. Russell's smarty-pants head-trip, which aims to provoke discussion of big questions by wrapping them in hipster laughs, begins with a sputtering burst of profanity and ends up struggling in the sticky strands of its own elaborate contrivances. In the midst of an all-encompassing existential crisis, earnest environmental activist Albert Markovski (Jason Schwartzman) discovers a puzzling business card — "Vivian Jaffe -- Existential Detective" — in a borrowed suit jacket and decides to investigate a coincidence that strikes him as mysteriously portentous. On three separate, recent occasions his path has crossed that of a Sudanese stranger (Ger Duany) — three ti...
Released:
2004
Rated:
R
Length:
106 mins