The movie stars Wes Bentley (There Be Dragons, American Beauty), Winona Ryder (Heathers, Simone), Ray Romano (Everybody Loves Raymond tv, Eulogy), Gina Hecht (Seven Pounds, A Stranger's Heart), Katherine Boecher and John Bilingsley (The Man from Earth, Eden).
The plot of the movie is Bentley, whos job is writting suicide notes for people, starts dating the sister of one of his recent clients. Durring the movie they show Bentley at his work with his clients.
It has to be one of the starngest jobs out there. Its hard to get referals.
Bentley chaeracter is detached in scenes with Ryder. He comes across as analytical and has trouble dealing with other people. His character deals with people by quoting famous writers a lot. I think that is the only way he can deal with people. Quoting other writers is the only way he has relate to people. His character does not like people knowing where he lives or what his telephone number is. Then that is droped and not mentioned for the second half of the movie with no explanation.
Bentleys character is pretty damaged from growing up in foster care. The wounds run pretty deep. His character is unable to stop lying to Ryders character. Him taking notes at funerals comes across as creepy. The scene with scaring the babies is bizzar and comes across as a weird way to have fun.
I think the clients are people who are just looking for some kind of connection with other people. That seems to be a common aspect with a few of his clients.
Im rating the movie as aC+. That means I think its worth seeing but just barley. This is a movie where there seems to be a lot of problems with the movie but something about the way it was all put together it works on some levels. I think its like when you multiply two negative numbers together you get a positive. With all that seems not to work it came together enough for me to think its worth watching.
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