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Four short fables in which characters collide with fate and each other comprise THE AIR I BREATHE, an ambitious and absorbing drama from debuting director/writer Jieho Lee. Boasting a brilliant ensemble cast, the film is inspired by a Chinese proverb that breaks life down into four key emotions Happiness, Sorrow, Pleasure, and Love and each vignette is built around a character who embodies one of these key emotions. In Happiness, 2006 Best Actor Oscar Winner Forest Whitaker stars as a timid banker who impulsively bets every cent he has, and then some, on a supposedly sure thing. In Sorrow, Sarah Michelle Gellar is a rising pop star whose contract falls under the control of a ruthless crime boss (Oscar-nominee Andy Garcia), and his corrupt nephew (Emile Hirsch). In Pleasure, Brendan Fraser stars as a man who can see into the future of everyone he meets, but is totally blind when it comes to his own; and in Love, Kevin Bacon plays a doctor who pines for a woman he can never possess (Julie Delp

Posted: 1/22/2008 Price: Free Video Type: Clip