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11/03/07
Wristcutters: A Love Story (2007)
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Reviews Counted:85
Fresh:55
Rotten:30
Average Rating:6.1/10
Consensus: Wristcutters: A Love Story sounds like a normal enough indie flick. Boy meets girl. Boy gets separated from girl. Boy goes on a road trip with friends to find girl and gains a new perspective on life. Except everybody's dead.
Runtime: 1 hr 31 mins
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
US Box Office: $231,512
Synopsis: If a film begins with a suicide, chances are, it won't be the feel-good movie of the year. But WRISTCUTTERS: A LOVE STORY is surprisingly sweet and funny even as it proudly features a dark streak... [More]
Starring: Patrick Fugit, Shea Whigham, Shannyn Sossamon, Tom Waits
Director: Goran Dukic
Reviews for Wristcutters: A Love Story
Top CriticA dreary, self-consciously quirky indie flick that seems to go on forever, despite an economical running time.
11/23/07
Top CriticIt misses the opportunity to examine why a community of people - each of whom has already given up on life - would band together to form a new society of desperate misfits.
02/22/08
The strain is obvious in the story's last third, as the filmmaker struggles toward a resolution that fits the logic of the hero's netherworld.
11/02/07
It's a shapeless, flavorless Sundance blob that rolls around for 85 of the longer minutes you'll find in a theater this year.
11/08/07
Boring, morose and uneventful, "Wristcutters: A Love Story" is a stinky little picture that mocks the afflicted while giving them a pat on the back.
10/20/07
Another indie director more interested in style than substance.
11/21/07
Opportunities to comment on the ethical grey areas of suicide are mostly squandered and, as the pointless digressions begin to pile up, your mind begins to drift from the action on screen.
11/22/07
Having some laughs over suicide.
06/10/08
It is a staggeringly awful road movie, not much enlivened by the presence of Tom Waits as a wizened participant.
11/23/07
The story's dialogue may be wry, but what should have been a jumping-off point for a lively discussion about the meaning of life is really just a philosophically shallow wasteland.
10/14/07
To say that this low-fi indie movie is strange would be doing a disservice to quirky movies that thrive on their strangeness, rather than just being strange for the sake of spicing things up.
10/17/07
The biggest letdown in Wristcutters is that it can’t compensate for its compact arrangement with the kind of absurdist aesthetics that its summary proposes.
10/17/07
Strands a fantastic premise and interesting characters on its increasingly annoying road trip to nowhere in particular.
10/19/07
Writer-director Goran Dukic, adapting an Etgar Keret novel, may be too successful in establishing suicideland as a fate worse than death. It really is an empty, dreadful place.
11/17/07
Almost 40 years ago Easy Rider established that road trips can make great independent films. Or at least cheap ones. But when booking a room inside the pearly gates, cheap may not be exactly what you're looking for.
11/01/07
It's described as a black comedy, but you can forget the comedy part.
10/19/07
It is neither as clever nor as funny nor as inventive as the daring title might lead one to expect.
10/23/07
Screenwriter/director Goran Dukic can't quite decide on a tone. The film is at times lighthearted, almost effervescent, and then it's so dark that it becomes depressingly bleak.
11/01/07
The future of Wristcutters as a cult favorite is less assured. Rather than benefiting from repeated viewings, the movie's charm is pretty much spent after the first half hour.
11/02/07
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