I admire some of it. I liked the performances. I thought the script was slow and I thought it had kind of a dingy slow dull over all feel to it.
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03/15/04
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Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself (2004)
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Reviews Counted:76
Fresh:66
Rotten:10
Average Rating:7.1/10
Consensus: Despite its morbid subject matter, Wilbur is a charming and often funny film.
Theatrical Release:Mar 12, 2004 Limited
Synopsis: The chronically suicidal Wilbur (JAMIE SIVES – 'Glasgow Kiss') and his good-hearted big brother Harbour (ADRIAN RAWLINS - Breaking The Waves) are in their thirties, when their father dies, leaving... [More]
Starring: Jamie Sives, Adrian Rawlins, Shirley Henderson, Julia Davis
Director: Lone Scherfig
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Reviews for Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself
Top CriticLone Scherfig directs from her own screenplays; in both of her films, you are left with the vivid sense that the filmmaker loves her creations, even the smaller characters
03/14/04
If there's such a thing as a kitchen-sink comedy, writer-director Lone Scherfig's sad but often very funny film is it.
03/12/04
Underneath the caustic wrapping is a family drama and a wealth of sentimentality.
03/12/04
Wilbur is wonderfully acted and about as original a film as we've seen this year or last.
03/12/04
Top CriticA smart and -- ultimately, surprisingly -- sweet film.
03/12/04
Top CriticDon't be put off by the title. Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself -- director Lone Scherfig's follow-up to Italian for Beginners -- deals with suicide and terminal illness, but she manages to keep the proceedings light and airy.
03/12/04
Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself is a bittersweet Danish film that demonstrates that those who nurture others are the most beautiful souls in the world.
03/11/04
The new film by the Danish director Lone Scherfig, which begins with a suicide attempt and ends in a graveyard, makes you glad to be alive.
03/11/04
Top CriticA quiet, no-frills drama with simple human values at its core.
03/11/04
The mixture of drizzly Scottish bleakness and Scherfig's meandering Danish moodiness is too chicly depressive -- and, for the most part, too dull -- to bear.
03/10/04
Top CriticLess morbid than an eccentric mixture of the mawkish and primal.
03/09/04
Top CriticYou wouldn't think a romantic comedy so permeated with the theme of death could produce the laughs, but they pepper the craftily balanced issues of love and survival.
03/06/04
Dabbles in darkness, but it's a quirkily appealing Danish / Scottish diversion.
02/17/04
A pleasing amalgam of comedy and tragedy by a Danish director in a Scottish setting.
02/11/04
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01/15/04
This quirky little movie's more charming than morbid, more funny than sad.
12/05/03
...solid ensemble film about love, death and family...
12/02/03
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11/26/03
Observational humour veering on the brilliant.
10/12/03
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