Low-budget film that won Darren Aronofsky "Best Director" at 1998's Sundance Film Festival. Gritty, inventive black-and-white photography drives this story of genius mathematician Max Cohen who is exploring the possible existence of discernible patterns in the stock market. With the aid of Euclid, his home grown supercomputer, Max stumbles upon a bug that crashes his system and spits out a seemingly meaningless number. A knowledgeable friend gives him insight using the ancient game of Go and warns of the spiritual ramifications of powerful numbers. A Hasidic cabalistic sect and representatives from an extremely powerful Wall Street firm then attempt to extract the number from him, by whatever means necessary, for their own ill-gotten gains.

Excerpt: "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."
- Max Cohen

"The Torah is just a long string of numbers. Some say that it's a code sent to us from God."
- Lenny Meyer

DVD Features:

Region 1
Letterbox - 1.66
Audio:
Dolby Digital 2.0 - English
Additional Release Material:
Music Video
Audio Commentary: Darren Aronofsky - Director
Trailers: Original Theatrical Trailer
Bonus Footage:
1. Behind-the-Scenes
2. Lost Scenes
Interactive Features:
Scene Access
Interactive Menus
Text/Photo Galleries:
Production Notes
Biographies: Cast & Crew

Sean Gullette: Actor, Co-writer "Pi"
Ben Shenkman: Actor - pi
Mark Margolis: British Actor/"1492"
Pamela Hart: Star
Lauren Fox: 
Ajay Naidu: Actor/"Touch And Go"
Clint Mansell: Composer, DOOM (2005)
Samia Shoaib: 
Kristyn Anne-Marie Lao: Actress - pi
Espher Lao Nieves: 
Joanne Gordon: Actress - pi
Stanley Herman: 
Stephen Pearlman: Actor - pi

Darren Aronofsky: Director, REQUIEM FOR A DREAM (2000)

Eric Watson: Producer
Scott Vogel: Producer - pi

Darren Aronofsky: Director, REQUIEM FOR A DREAM (2000)

Clint Mansell: Composer, DOOM (2005)

Oren Sarch: Editor

"A deeply unnerving and compulsively watchable indie thriller shot entirely in black and white..."
"...Ingeniously cerebral, playfully twisted....A tour-de-force of grainy, high-contrast black-and-white photography and inventive editing and sound design..."
"...Truly an original..."
"...[A] mesmerizing mind-bender.....Aronofsky is a visionary with a raw talent..."
"...[Aronofsky] manages to showcase plenty of style..."
"...A hallucinatory rumination on the riddle of existence....PI is a delight for the eye and the mind..." -- 5 out of 5 stars
"...It is a brilliant intellectual adventure that fans of bold independent filmmaking will want to experience..."