Seven years after Almost Famous, Patrick Fugit still sports that winning, dorky haircut, bangs flopping over his eyes. He is impossible not to like.
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10/19/07
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
If you’re going to make a comedy about suicide, you’d better make sure the jokes land. There are people out there who could use a laugh.
11/17/07
It's a surprisingly playful romantic drama, one less about death than about the quiet, necessary grind of living.
10/18/07
This director plies a sweetly humanistic art in potentially ghoulish circumstances. He achieves a minimalism that's equally touching and rib-tickling.
11/09/07
Dark subject matter, but Goran Dukic's film is whimsical and determinedly optimistic about life.
11/23/07
Croatian filmmaker Goran Dukic's debut feature turns out to be a sweetly grim lark: a road film through Limbo.
11/02/07
This existential tale about an afterworld exclusively for suicide victims and a handful of newcomers attempting to navigate the landscape pulsates originality through its uncanny way of incorporating the familiar into the offbeat.
05/20/06
Wristcutters: A Love Story is like a suicidal Wizard of Oz.
03/25/08
Veering from witty to occasionally trite, Wristcutters: A Love Story has plenty of originality on its side, but never manages to be more than the sum of its self-consciously quirky parts.
11/23/07
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
We witness the birth of a new genre, the Post-Slasher Movie.
11/02/07
Top CriticWristcutters is quite a bit darker than most mainstream romantic comedies. As you might not expect, it's also quite a bit more inventive and far wittier than most mainstream romantic comedies.
11/01/07
It's a bold first effort, with a distinct, swaggering sense of style and humor that's hard -- even for a cynical blogger sick to death of indie 'quirk' -- to resist.
10/22/07
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
Director Goran Dukic keeps things simple and funny. The same tone pervades throughout.
11/01/07
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
A dreary, self-consciously quirky indie flick that seems to go on forever, despite an economical running time.
11/23/07
Top CriticScreenwriter/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
It’s such an original piece of work and I love the deliberately bleak cinematography.
11/06/07
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