![Requiem for a Dream](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w185/nOd6vjEmzCT0k4VYqsA2hwyi87C.jpg)
David Hyde Pierce, playing an alien (credited as infinity-cubed in the opening credits), narrates a courtship in a late-20th century American city as an extraterrestrial nature documentary. The relationship “footage” is played straight, while the voice-over (with its most often wildly inaccurate theories) and elaborate visual metaphors add comedy.