From the writer/director of the acclaimed film pi, the screen-adaptation of hubert selby jr.'s classic cult novel. Requiem for a dream is a modern-day fable set on the rusted mean streets Of Brooklyn's coney island that ...From the writer/director of the acclaimed film pi, the screen-adaptation of hubert selby jr.'s classic cult novel. Requiem for a dream is a modern-day fable set on the rusted mean streets Of Brooklyn's coney island that follows the stories of four people desperately in pursuit of a better life.