Fugit ably keeps this superficially controversial, and yet actually rather conventional, film from devolving into obnoxious oddness.
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11/01/07
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
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
This delightful piece of whimsy uses its simple premise effectively to gain and keep our attention and to remind us simply that, while this world appears ordinary, it is still unbounded by reality.
11/01/07
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
Wristcutters 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
Teenage suicide isn't that funny, and nothing in this movie changed my mind.
11/01/07
Top CriticGoran Dukic, working from a short story by Etgar Kiret, has fashioned a life-after-death that is both somber and silly.
11/01/07
The witless Wristcutters holds all the fascination of a train wreck. You’ll stay in your seat just to see if it’ll get any worse, and you won’t be disappointed.
11/01/07
Enjoyably oddball without falling into molar-decaying twee ... favorably recalls the all-too-brief post-Repo Man era, when the possibilities of indie film seemed head-bustingly limitless.
10/31/07
It focuses on its own unique voice, and trusts that those who want to hear it will follow.
10/30/07
It's uneven story pulls it back to earth, but many of its ideas are transcendent.
10/27/07
A life-affirming movie about suicide could go wrong in a million ways, but the understated Wristcutters straddles the line between sentiment and bleakness. It should enjoy a healthy afterlife.
10/26/07
It is neither as clever nor as funny nor as inventive as the daring title might lead one to expect.
10/23/07
kept trying to shake the film's subtle charm and unvarnished romantic strokes, but I was steadily, gently pulled in over and over and over again.
10/22/07
Sossamon and Fugit are so perfectly cast you can't help but sigh every time they glance at each other and their final scene is guaranteed to send you home with a smile a mile wide.
10/22/07
Definitely worth a look.
10/22/07
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
A comedy that starts with suicide and then goes for the love story isn't for everyone, but there is an audience for this little independent film and you know who you are.
10/20/07
Croatian-born director-writer Goran Dukic instills Wristcutters with the absurdist humor you find in films from the Balkans.
10/19/07
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