Wristcutters: A Love Story

    Wristcutters: A Love Story
    2007

    Synopsis

    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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    Cast

    • Patrick FugitZia
    • Shannyn SossamonMikal
    • Shea WhighamEugene
    • Leslie BibbDesiree
    • Mikal P. LazarevNanuk
    • Mark Boone JuniorMike
    • Abraham BenrubiErik
    • Mary Pat GleasonEugene's Mother
    • Clayne CrawfordJim
    • Anthony AziziHassan

    Recommendations

    • 83

      Entertainment Weekly

      The whole film is cracked, but in a stylish, downtown way.
    • 83

      The A.V. Club

      For a film about suicide, Wristcutters is agreeably loopy and game. Dukic is bitterly funny rather than maudlin, and his carefully plotted grunge chic, in addition to being cheap, lends the film a great deal of Jim Jarmusch grime to go with its unmistakable Jim Jarmusch quirk.
    • 80

      The New York Times

      Has an offbeat, absurdist charm that turns a potentially creepy conceit into an odd, touching adventure.
    • 75

      New York Post

      The result is wholly original, sort of like "The Wizard of Oz" as filtered through the sensibilities of Emir Kusturica, the cult filmmaker and musician.
    • 70

      Salon

      Simultaneously dark and sweet, always a difficult combination to pull off. It views its characters with both archness and affection, and even as it lovingly recalls films of another era it insists that the painful awkwardness of youth is perennial.
    • 60

      Film Threat

      Imagine a blend of "The Wizard of Oz," "Beetlejuice" and "Roadside Prophets" and you'll know exactly what Wristcutters is like.
    • 60

      Variety

      Though its absurdist inventions occasionally border on twee, this affectionate slow-blooming romance mines an understated vein of comic melancholy that the actors' wistful performances perfectly capture.
    • 60

      Village Voice

      A well-wrought indie written and directed by Goran Dukic, has to be the kewpie doll of current zombie flicks: Its walking dead are a bunch of attractive slackers whose wounds are largely internal. They've got attitude.

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