Wristcutters: A Love Story
Zia, distraught over breaking up with his girlfriend, decides to end it all. 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 to find her.
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Synopsis Relegated to a forlorn afterlife of unsmiling lost souls and melancholy drifters as a result of committing suicide in the mortal realm, a heartbroken young man sets out to find the girl who inspired his final act of self-destruction after learning that she too has taken her own life in director Goran Dukicâs adaptation of Etgar Keretâs darkly comic novella âKnellerâs Happy Campersâ. A likeable young man despite his depressive disposition, Zia (Patrick Fugit) puts blade to wrist only to find that the pain of life doesnât end with the coming of death. Now trapped in a bleak metaphysical landscape populated entirely by suicide victims blearily searching for the joys that eluded them in the physical realm, Zia soon learns that the love is one of the latest arrivals in the dreary land of the dead. As Zia sets out to locate his ill-fated former companion and experience the joys that eluded the couple in life, he is joined in his quest by a lovelorn Russian rocker named Eugene (Shea Whigham) and an accidental tourist named Mikal (Shannyn Sossamon), whoâs looking for a way out of the sorrowful stir. -- allmovie guide Cast: Patrick Fugit, Abraham Benrubi, Shannyn Sossamon, Shea Whigham, Leslie Bibb, John Hawkes, Tom Waits, Will Arnett, Sarah Roemer, Azura Skye Sundance (In competition), !F Istanbul (Retrospective) About this movie Title: Wristcutters: A Love Story (2006) Directed by: Goran Dukic Date of birth: Zagreb, SR Croatia, Yugoslavia Writing credits: Goran Dukic, Etgar Keret Music: Bobby Johnston, Gogol Bordello Year: 2006 Country: United State Language: English Color: Color Runtime: 88 min.
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- Director
- Goran Dukić
- Starring
- Patrick Fugit, Shannyn Sossamon, Shea Whigham, Leslie Bibb, Mikal P. Lazarev, Mark Boone Junior, Abraham Benrubi, Mary Pat Gleason
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