I Heart Huckabees, also known as I Love Huckabees, and written as i ♥ huckabees, is a 2004 comedy film from Fox Searchlight. It was produced and directed by David O. Russell, who co-wrote the screenplay with Jeff Baena. The film reunites Russell with actor Mark Wahlberg; they had previously worked together on the 1999 film Three Kings.
Albert Markovski (Schwartzman) is a young man who heads the local chapter of an environmental group, the "Open S...
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I Heart Huckabees, also known as I Love Huckabees, and written as i ♥ huckabees, is a 2004 comedy film from Fox Searchlight. It was produced and directed by David O. Russell, who co-wrote the screenplay with Jeff Baena. The film reunites Russell with actor Mark Wahlberg; they had previously worked together on the 1999 film Three Kings.
Albert Markovski (Schwartzman) is a young man who heads the local chapter of an environmental group, the "Open Spaces Coalition." One of their current projects is an attempt to stop the building of a new Huckabees store, a chain of "big-box" department stores akin to Wal-Mart or Target (Mike Huckabee was the governor of Arkansas, Wal-Mart's home state, at the time of the film's release). Albert is a rival of Brad Stand (Law), a shallow power executive at Huckabees. Brad infiltrates Open Spaces and charismatically displaces Albert as the leader. Dawn Campbell (Watts) is Brad's live-in girlfriend and the face and voice of Huckabees; she appears in all of...
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