R.E.M.: Everybody Hurts

IMDb link: 6696990
IMDb rating: 7.4 (783 votes)
Genres: Drama, Music, Short
Director: Jake Scott, Michael Stipe
Cast: Peter Buck, Mike Mills, R.E.M. and others

Release date: 1 Apr 1993
Release year: 1993
Runtime: 6 minutes
Country: United States
Keywords: traffic jam, singing in a car, standing on the roof of a car, man wears a hat, rock song, rock music, rock ballad, song in title, 20th century, 1990s

Plot:

In the video for the song, directed by Jake Scott and filmed along the double deck portions of I-10 near the I-35 Interchange in Downtown San Antonio, Texas in February 1993, the band is stuck in a traffic jam. It shows the people in other cars and subtitles of their thoughts appear on screen. At the end, all the people leave their cars and walk instead; then they vanish. The video was heavily inspired by the traffic jam in the opening dream sequence of Fellini's 8½.

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