The mathematician Maximillian Cohen is tormented by a severe migraine since he was a kid, and he uses many pills to reduce his painful headaches. He is a lonely man, and his only friend is his former professor Sol Robeson. Max has the following assumptions, which rules his life: (1) Mathematics is the language of nature; (2) Everything around us can be represented and understood from numbers; (3) If you graph the numbers in any systems, patterns emerge. Therefore there are patterns everywhere in nature. Based on these principles, Max is trying to figure out a system to predict the behavior of the stock market. Due to his research, Max is chased by a Wall Street company with obvious interest in the results of his studies, and by an orthodox Jew follower of the Torah, who believes that this long string of numbers is a code sent from God.

Pi (1998)
  • Rating: (77,642 votes)
  • Taglines:There will be no order, only chaos » faith in chaos »
  • Runtime:84 minutes
  • Director: Darren Aronofsky
  • Country:USA
  • Actors:
    Maximillian Cohen
    Sean Gullette
    Sol Robeson
    Mark Margolis
    Lenny Meyer
    Ben Shenkman
    Marcy Dawson
    Pamela Hart
    Rabbi Cohen
    Stephen Pearlman
    Devi
    Samia Shoaib
    Farrouhk
    Ajay Naidu
    Jenna
    Kristyn Mae-Anne Lao
    Jenna's Mom
    Espher Lao Nieves
    Mrs. Ovadia
    Joanne Gordon
  • Genres:Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
  • Producers:
    Tyler Brodie
    co-executive producer  
    Scott Franklin
    associate producer  
    David Godbout
    co-executive producer  
    Katie King
    assistant producer  
    Richard Lifschutz
    consulting producer  
    Randy Simon
    executive producer  
    Jonah Smith
    co-executive producer (as Jonah S. Smith) 
    Scott Vogel
    co-producer  
    Eric Watson
    producer  
  • Plots: Max is a genius mathematician who's built a supercomputer at home that provides something that can be understood as a key for understanding all existence. Representatives both from a Hasidic cabalistic sect and high-powered Wall Street firm hear of that secret and attempt to seduce him. Written by Anonymous
Pi
  • User's comment:Indie film at its best by soren-18

    'Pi' is independent filmmaking at its best. Without the constraints of the studio/corporate system, Aronofsky and Gullette created a film that is bizarre, intelligent, and unlike anything that came out of Hollywood in the 1990's. Who would have thought to blend Wall Street, the Kabbalah, computer science, Go, number theory, and the most fascinating number in the universe in a solute of obsessive-compulsive, paranoid genius and then strain through gritty B&W cinematography and hyperkinetic editing? The mixture is definitely not for everybody, but I certainly loved it.

    Plus the soundtrack (featuring Orbital, Clint Mansell, Aphex Twin. Gus Gus, Spacetime Continuum, and other techno talents) just flat-out rocks.


  • Quotes: Maximillian Cohen: Something's going on. It has to do with that number. There's an answer in that number. Maximillian Cohen: 11:15, restate my assumptions: 1. Mathematics is the language of nature. 2. Everything around us can be represented and understood through numbers. 3. If you graph these numbers, patterns emerge. Therefore: There are patterns everywhere in nature. Maximillian Cohen: Restate my assumptions: One, Mathematics is the language of nature. Two, Everything around us can be represented and understood through numbers. Three: If you graph the numbers of any system, patterns emerge. Therefore, there are patterns everywhere in nature. Evidence: The cycling of disease epidemics;the wax and wane of caribou populations; sun spot cycles; the rise and fall of the Nile. So, what about the stock market? The universe of numbers that represents the global economy. Millions of hands at work, billions of minds. A vast network, screaming with life. An organism. A natural organism. My hypothesis: Within the stock market, there is a pattern as well... Right in front of me... hiding behind the numbers. Always has been.
  • Also known as: Pi (Argentina), Pi (Finland - imdb display title), Pi (France), Pi (International - imdb display title, English title), Pi (Poland), Pi (Turkey - Turkish title), π (International - English title), 3.14159265358 (USA - working title), P (Greece - festival title), Pi - Der Film (Germany), Pi Greco - Il teorema del delirio (Italy - imdb display title), Pi, El Orden del Caos (Mexico - imdb display title), Pi, fe en el caos (Spain),

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