Synopsis
Former college friends meet up for a reunion that leads them to face the apparent disillusionment that defines their lives. After a week of excessive drug and alcohol abuse, events lead them to contemplate fulfilling a self destructive pact they made when they were young.
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Cast
- Thomas JaneRichard
- Jeremy PivenRon
- Rob LoweJonathan
- Christian McKayTim
- Carla GuginoLaura
- Arielle KebbelRandi
- Sasha GreyRaven
- Tom BowerCaptain Bob
- Zander EckhouseJonah
- Abhi SinhaRyan
Recommendations
- 70
The Hollywood Reporter
A compelling and disturbing drama about some elemental male issues. - 35
Movieline
In another light the group's - and the film's - portentous resolution looks a lot like quitting, in true slacker style. - 30
Variety
A weekend romp for four middle-aged buddies devolves into a drug-fueled, suicidal hell in Mark Pellington's ill-conceived and executed I Melt With You, a work of extreme self-indulgence. - 30
Village Voice
Stylish cinematography and an awesome punk-and-new-wave soundtrack make the early, music-video-like montages of debauchery at least trashy entertainment, but the film's second half couldn't be more contemptible. - 20
Time Out
An excruciatingly awkward stab at generational sympathy, I Melt with You presents a quartet of thickening college buddies gathering at a Big Sur rental house to mourn their lost ambition. - 20
New York Daily News
It almost seems unfair to mention that Carla Gugino shows up as a cop 80 minutes into these overlong proceedings; by then, viewers who walk out would never even have known that she was involved. - 16
The A.V. Club
A movie about self-absorbed douchebags that wallows in their douchebaggery. - 12
Slant Magazine
The only thing more narcissistically indulgent than the film's repugnant protagonists is Mark Pellington's iPod-scored, visually flashy, thoroughly hollow directorial celebration of them.
