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Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: Blu-ray
Brand: Image Entertainment
EAN: 0014381497557
Format: Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Subtitled, Widescreen
Label: THINKFilm
Manufacturer: THINKFilm
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: THINKFilm
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 20, 2008
Running Time: 95 minutes
Sales Rank: 10898
Studio: THINKFilm
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
In this powerful film, four very different people on the edge of desperation are unexpectedly linked by their destinies. A top-notch cast featuring Forest Whitaker, Andy Garcia, Kevin Bacon, Brendan Fraser, Sarah Michelle Gellar and Emile Hirsch unforgettably brings to life the stories of a clairvoyant gangster, a rising pop star, an unlikely bank robber and a doctor desperate to save the love of his life. Filled with surprising twists and turns, this suspenseful, action-filled drama employs both brutal violence and aching poetry in a moving exploration of the search for happiness in a gritty urban world.
Amazon.com:
Every so often a crime drama with delusions of existential grandeur comes ambling down the pike. Sometimes, as in Tom Tykwer's Run Lola Run, a philosophically-inclined filmmaker strikes cinematic gold. If video director Jieho Lee's erratic debut falls short of that estimable mark, he can't be faulted for lack of ambition. Set in an anonymous urban metropolis and divided into the four pillars of life--happiness, pleasure, sorrow, and love--The Air I Breathe means to illustrate Henry Ward Beecher's opening epigram: 'No emotion, anymore than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.' A mild-mannered stockbroker representing happiness (The Last King of Scotland's Forest Whitaker) kickstarts this disquisition into destiny when he decides to take a risk (all four principals are unnamed). Inspired by a coolly confident client who stands for pleasure (Brendan Fraser), he places an unwieldy bet on a fixed race, attracting the attention of sadistic loan shark Fingers (Andy Garcia, doing his best Al Pacino impression). Fraser's character reports to the latter, who manages sorrowful pop star 'Trista' (Sarah Michelle Gellar, last seen in the equally strange Southland Tales). The psychic henchman also looks after his employer's motormouth nephew, Tony (an uncharacteristically unconvincing Emile Hirsch). The lovelorn doctor (Kevin Bacon) who treats the hitman after an injury turns to Trista when his best friend's wife (Julie Delpy) falls ill. Whew. Inconsistent acting and clunky dialogue aside, The Air I Breathe infuses conventional genre thrills with introspection to intermittently engaging effect. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - It'll make you think...
"The Air I Breathe" represents an ancient Chinese proverb that says the emotional pillars to life are Happiness, Pleasure, Sorrow, and Love. I think they forgot anger, and a few others in there, but whatever.
This movie tells the tale of four intertwinded stories of four different lives, each of which representing and codenamed after the emotion they long for most, except in Trista's (Sarah Michelle Gellar) case.
SYNAPSIS (Don't keep reading if you don't want to know the ... Read More
Rating:  - Interesting Movie, Quirky & Artsy......
But still reminiscent of other movies like Crash, Magnolia, & Traffic. This movie contains an all star cast of well-know actors, whom play vastly different characters. Each main character's life is uniquely intertwined and it isn't until the end of the movie that we see the complete picture of how and where their lives intersect.
The movie plays out in four vignettes that make up the entire movie as a whole. Each major character we see portrays one of the following emotions of sorrow, ... Read More
Rating:  - A film of substance
If you like light weight films like "Harold and Kumar go to White Castle "or "Pineapple Express", this film is not for you." The Air I Breath" is a film that explores how our actions affect others, in ways, that we can not begin to imagine. The film follows what happens when a man take an unforseen action that ends in tragety for himself, but ultimately ends in joy for another, through a series of events in the lives of the characters in the film. It starts a little slow, but picks up speed taking you ... Read More
Rating: - Very intirguing movie. Nice piece of celluloid.
The stellar cast by itself would be enough to spice one's curiosity. Come on, Fraser, Garcia, Gellar, Whitaker, Bacon, Delpy, Hirsch... It's unresistible.
But, as the saying goes, the road to hell is full of good intentions, and this low-budget project could be a catastrophe. But it is not. The movie is farily good, captivating. All the actors involved give solid performances, no matter how much screen time they got.
Good movie.
Rating: - Emotions like waves are constantly in flux...
The Air I Breathe is a movie of the entangled lives genre, similar to Crash in that respect, and it also conforms by way of gratuitous violence and strip clubs it gladly flaunts. But that is not to say that the narrative lacks depth or emotional layers. The viewer becomes acquainted with three lives that will intertwine so as to lend freedom to a fourth in four vignettes titled: Happiness, Pleasure, Sorrow and Love. These characters, respectively played by Forest Whitaker, the disgruntled Wall Street clerk ... Read More
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