I Heart Huckabees

I Heart Huckabees
Theatrical release poster
Directed byDavid O. Russell
Written by
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyPeter Deming
Edited byRobert K. Lambert
Music byJon Brion
Production
companies
Distributed byFox Searchlight Pictures
Release dates
  • September 10, 2004 (2004-09-10) (TIFF)
  • October 1, 2004 (2004-10-01)
Running time
106 minutes
Countries
  • United States
  • United Kingdom
Language
  • English
Budget$20 million
Box office$20.1 million

I Heart Huckabees (stylized as i ♥ huckabees; also I Love Huckabees) is a 2004 philosophical comedy-drama film directed and produced by David O. Russell, who cowrote the screenplay with Jeff Baena.

A self-described "existential comedy", I Heart Huckabees follows a pair of detectives (Dustin Hoffman and Lily Tomlin) hired to investigate the meaning of the life of their clients (Jude Law, Jason Schwartzman, Mark Wahlberg and Naomi Watts). As the different investigations cross paths, their rival and nemesis (Isabelle Huppert) tries to drag their clients into her own views on the meaning of their lives.