Road Trips for the Dead: Discovering Life in the Afterlife

Posted by Mike Richard on October 23, 2007
Filed under: Film, Sidelines

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Lately, original movie ideas seem as common as the passing of Haley’s Comet. Wristcutters: A Love Story explores the meaning of life in the afterlife:

Zia (Patrick Fugit), distraught over breaking up with his girlfriend, decides to end it all. Unfortunately, he discovers there is no real ending, only a run-down afterlife that is strikingly similar to his old one, just a bit worse. Discovering that his ex-girlfriend has also “offed” herself , he sets out on a road trip, with his Russian rocker friend, to find her. Their journey takes them through an absurd purgatory where they discover that being dead doesn’t mean you have to stop livin’.

It looks a lot funnier than this rather morbid synopsis makes it sound. Check out the trailer on Apple’s website.

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Vagabondish editor Mike Richard lives in Rhode Island - a small patch of land in the northeastern U.S. He is a professional web designer and travel junkie with an unhealthy addiction to backpacking, camping, hiking and seeing the world. He enjoys knit hats and speaking in the third person.



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