Wristcutters - A Love Story
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Actor: Patrick Fugit, Shannyn Sossamon, Tom WaitsBrand: LION'S GATE ENTERTAINMENT
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 88 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-03-25
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Lions Gate
Movie Reviews of Wristcutters - A Love Story
Movie Review: Meh
Summary: 3 Stars
Somehow after seeing all the previews I expected more from this movie. I expected it to be really funny and clever. This idea of an afterlife for people who kill themselves is intriguing. I was greatful that the movie doesn't try to be laugh-out-loud funny, but it ends up dragging a bit. It also tries too hard to be bittersweet and charming.
Summary of Wristcutters - A Love Story
Life is a trip but the afterlife is one hell of a ride. Zia distraught over breaking up with his girlfriend decides to end it al l. Unfortunately he discovers that there is no real ending only a run-down afterlife that is strikingly similar to his old one just a bit worse. Discovering that his ex-girlfriend has also "offed" herself he sets out on a road trip with his Russian rocker friend to find her. Their journey takes them through an absurd purgatory where they discover that being dead doesn't mean you have to stop livin'! System Requirements:Running Time: 88 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY/TEEN Rating: NR UPC: 031398226987 Manufacturer No: 22698The world might have many people unhappy enough to commit suicide. But the quirky and imaginative Wristcutters: A Love Story suggests there's a special place beyond this one for those who take their own lives, and it isn't very pretty. Not that anything particularly bad takes place; it's just that not very much happens at all. Director Goran Dukic, adapting a short story by Etgar Keret, presents an afterlife for those who kill themselves that looks pretty dreary, full of broken-down cars rotting on roadsides, roommates obsessed with cottage cheese, cops who don't inspire a lot of confidence, and messianic losers promising paradise if only the dead, well, commit suicide all over again. Into the mucky mediocrity comes Zia (Patrick Fugit), a nice young man who opens his veins and ends up in this limbo for losers. There, he takes a menial job, finds an unlikely friend in Eugene (Shea Whigham), a laconic Russian rocker, and meets apathetic girls in a lousy bar. The monotony of it all is broken up, finally, when Zia gets word that his girlfriend back on the mortal plane also killed herself, prompting him to take Eugene on the road in search of her. Naturally, the trip becomes a journey in unexpected new directions and new hope (particularly when a comely hitchhiker, played by Shannyn Sossamon, jumps aboard), though a diversion at a camp for miracles run by an eccentric (Tom Waits) adds a lot of color. Full of low-key wit and intentionally low-rent surprises, Wristcutters is a vision of the persistence of the human heart even in the most somber circumstances. --Tom Keogh
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