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Wristcutters: A Love Story

  • 20062006
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  • 1h 28m
IMDb RATING
7.2/10
57K
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Wristcutters: A Love Story (2006)
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A film set in a strange afterlife way station that has been reserved for people who have committed suicide.A film set in a strange afterlife way station that has been reserved for people who have committed suicide.A film set in a strange afterlife way station that has been reserved for people who have committed suicide.
IMDb RATING
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57K
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    • Goran Dukic
    • Goran Dukic
    • Etgar Keret(novella: "Kneller's Happy Campers")
  • Stars
    • Patrick Fugit
    • Shea Whigham
    • Tom Waits
    • Goran Dukic
    • Goran Dukic
    • Etgar Keret(novella: "Kneller's Happy Campers")
  • Stars
    • Patrick Fugit
    • Shea Whigham
    • Tom Waits
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 111User reviews
    • 118Critic reviews
    • 62Metascore
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    Trailer 2:33
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    Patrick Fugit, Shannyn Sossamon, and Shea Whigham in Wristcutters: A Love Story (2006)
    Shannyn Sossamon in Wristcutters: A Love Story (2006)
    Patrick Fugit and Shannyn Sossamon in Wristcutters: A Love Story (2006)
    Leslie Bibb and Patrick Fugit in Wristcutters: A Love Story (2006)
    Tom Waits in Wristcutters: A Love Story (2006)
    Patrick Fugit in Wristcutters: A Love Story (2006)
    Patrick Fugit in Wristcutters: A Love Story (2006)
    Shannyn Sossamon in Wristcutters: A Love Story (2006)
    Shannyn Sossamon in Wristcutters: A Love Story (2006)
    Shannyn Sossamon in Wristcutters: A Love Story (2006)
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    Patrick Fugit and Shea Whigham in Wristcutters: A Love Story (2006)

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    Patrick Fugit
    Patrick Fugit
    • Zia
    Shea Whigham
    Shea Whigham
    • Eugene
    Tom Waits
    Tom Waits
    • Kneller
    Will Arnett
    Will Arnett
    • Messiah
    Abraham Benrubi
    Abraham Benrubi
    • Erik
    Leslie Bibb
    Leslie Bibb
    • Desiree
    Mark Boone Junior
    Mark Boone Junior
    • Mike
    • (as Mark Boone Jr.)
    Cameron Bowen
    Cameron Bowen
    • Kostya
    Clayne Crawford
    Clayne Crawford
    • Jim
    Chase Ellison
    Chase Ellison
    • Kid Kostya
    Adam Gifford
    Adam Gifford
    • Gas Station Attendant
    • (as Adam G.)
    Mary Pat Gleason
    Mary Pat Gleason
    • Eugene's Mother
    John Hawkes
    John Hawkes
    • Yan
    Mikal P. Lazarev
    Mikal P. Lazarev
    • Nanuk
    Aaron Parker Mouser
    Aaron Parker Mouser
    • Max
    • (as Aaron Mouser)
    Nick Offerman
    Nick Offerman
    • Cop
    Anatol Rezmeritza
    • Eugene's Father
    Sarah Roemer
    Sarah Roemer
    • Rachel
      • Goran Dukic
      • Goran Dukic
      • Etgar Keret(novella: "Kneller's Happy Campers")
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    • Trivia
      Shea Whigham's character (Eugene) is partly based on Gur Bentwich, Israeli writer/director and friend of Etgar Keret who wrote "Kneller's Happy Campers". He is also partly based on Eugene Hutz, front-man of Gogol Bordello and friend of director Goran Dukic.
    • Goofs
      Pouring a beer on electric guitar strings, even with the amp turned on, would be very unlikely to cause electrocution. There is no high voltage current on the guitar itself; about the only way to get electrocuted on stage is through faulty grounding in the sound system and stage set-up, and that would kill you, beer or no beer!
    • Quotes

      Kneller: Once upon a time there was a crooked tree and a straight tree. And they grew next to each other. And every day the straight tree would look at the crooked tree and he would say, "You're crooked. You've always been crooked and you'll continue to be crooked. But look at me! Look at me!" said the straight tree. He said, "I'm tall and I'm straight." And then one day the lumberjacks came into the forest and looked around, and the manager in charge said, "Cut all the straight trees." And that crooked tree is still there to this day, growing strong and growing strange.

    • Connections
      Featured in At the Movies: Bee Movie/Wristcutters: A Love Story/No Country for Old Men/Martian Child/Jimmy Carter: Man from Plains (2007)
    • Soundtracks
      Dead and Lovely
      Written by Kathleen Brennan and Tom Waits

      Performed by Tom Waits

      Courtesy of Anti

    User reviews111

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    9/10
    An excellent film
    An excellent film and well worth seeing: It defies pigeonholing into a genre; it's a romantic comedy, but not *at all* like the stereotypical romantic comedy, even if it does use some of the same conventions. It's a road movie, but not in the traditional sense. The dynamics and even the plot work and are believable, requiring less suspension of disbelief than I would've imagined. The music and cinematography work well into a story that is darkly/morbidly funny but also a bit sweet, without being saccharine. The acting is well done and the characters believable and quite well developed. This is definitely an art-house film, but one that it really decently pedestrian and accessible, rather than esoteric or exclusionary (that is, appealing to only art-house film lovers). The sound works well, and visual effects are only ever momentarily cheesy.
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    • zaphodchak
    • Sep 9, 2007

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    • Release date
      • November 2, 2007 (United States)
      • United States
      • United Kingdom
      • English
      • Russian
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    • Filming locations
      • Paris, California, USA
    • Production companies
      • No Matter Pictures
      • Crispy Films
      • Adam Sherman
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    Technical specs

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    • 1 hour 28 minutes
      • Color
      • Dolby Digital

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