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Wristcutters - A Love Story (2006)

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Average Rating: 6.2/10
Reviews Counted: 89
Fresh: 59 | Rotten: 30

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.

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Average Rating: 6.3/10
Critic Reviews: 20
Fresh: 13 | Rotten: 7

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.

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Average Rating: 3.9/5
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Movie Info

Relegated to a forlorn afterlife of unsmiling lost souls and melancholy drifters as a result of committing suicide in the mortal realm, a heartbroken young man sets out to find the girl who inspired his final act of self-destruction after learning that she too has taken her own life in director Goran Dukic's adaptation of Etgar Keret's darkly comic novella Kneller's Happy Campers. A likeable young man despite his depressive disposition, Zia (Patrick Fugit) puts blade to wrist only to find that

R, 1 hr. 31 min.

Drama, Art House & International, Comedy

Goran Dukic

Mar 25, 2008

$0.2M

Lionsgate Films/After Dark Films

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All Critics (91) | Top Critics (20) | Fresh (62) | Rotten (30) | DVD (7)

Wristcutters is a small film of ambitions nicely scaled to the performances and story. Who knew that affectless characters could be so oddly affecting?

November 8, 2007 Full Review Source: Philadelphia Inquirer | Comment
Philadelphia Inquirer
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It's such an original piece of work and I love the deliberately bleak cinematography.

November 6, 2007 Comment
Ebert & Roeper
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Wristcutters is a cut above most low-budget American indies, with something original to say about the human condition and an artful way of saying it.

November 2, 2007 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | Comment
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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.

November 2, 2007 Full Review Source: Detroit Free Press | Comment (1)
Detroit Free Press
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We witness the birth of a new genre, the Post-Slasher Movie.

November 2, 2007 Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times | Comment (1)
Chicago Sun-Times
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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.

November 2, 2007 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | Comment
Chicago Reader
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This road movie romcom won?t leave you reaching for the razor blades.

October 11, 2010 Full Review Source: SFX Magazine | Comment
SFX Magazine

Having some laughs over suicide.

June 10, 2008 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | Comment
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

A postmortem suicide heaven filled with slit personalities, not quite born again dime store messiahs, and a grimy downscale pizza dive.

March 29, 2008 Full Review Source: NewsBlaze | Comment
NewsBlaze

Goran Dukic adapts Etgar Keret's story with surreal whimsy and directs his "Route 666" tour through a wasteland of nothingness with deadpan understatement.

March 28, 2008 Full Review Source: MSN.com | Comment
MSN.com

Wristcutters: A Love Story is like a suicidal Wizard of Oz.

March 25, 2008 Full Review Source: Bronsonfive | Comment

It's certainly melancholic, occasionally funny, and ultimately life-affirming. But overall, it feels as if writer-director Goran Dukic dropped a rather promising ball.

March 6, 2008 Full Review Source: Washington City Paper | Comment
Washington City Paper

It misses the opportunity to examine why a community of people - each of whom has already given up on life - would band together to form a new society of desperate misfits.

February 22, 2008 Full Review Source: I.E. Weekly | Comment
I.E. Weekly

It is a staggeringly awful road movie, not much enlivened by the presence of Tom Waits as a wizened participant.

November 23, 2007 Full Review Source: This is London | Comment
This is London

The purgatorial premise is pleasingly eccentric but, in the end, Wristcutters falls victim to its washed-out mood, and limps bloodlessly to a close.

November 23, 2007 Full Review Source: Guardian [UK] | Comment
Guardian [UK]

A dreary, self-consciously quirky indie flick that seems to go on forever, despite an economical running time.

November 23, 2007 Full Review Source: Daily Mirror [UK] | Comment
Daily Mirror [UK]

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.

November 23, 2007 Full Review Source: Film4 | Comment

A little self-consciously kooky but with an ace soundtrack that combines gypsy punksters Gogol Bordello with real-life plug-pullers this sure beats putting your head in the oven.

November 23, 2007 Full Review Source: Total Film | Comment
Total Film

Dark subject matter, but Goran Dukic's film is whimsical and determinedly optimistic about life.

November 23, 2007 Full Review Source: BBC | Comment

For the better part of the journey this a bizarrely uplifting yarn - razor sharp, you might say.

November 23, 2007 Full Review Source: Sky Movies | Comment
Sky Movies

Opportunities to comment on the ethical grey areas of suicide are mostly squandered and, as the pointless digressions begin to pile up, your mind begins to drift from the action on screen.

November 22, 2007 Full Review Source: Time Out | Comment
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Audience Reviews for Wristcutters - A Love Story

This is the most original love story i have ever seen. Well worth picking up. One of the most creative films ive seen in years.

May 11, 2008
jmanard52

Super Reviewer

Nazdrovyeh! A triumphant love story to limbo and back again. The world to where suicides are relegated is almost Sartre-esque: mundane activities and conversations, day in, day out. "Hell is other people." However, people can still make friends here, and there are miraculous oases to be found. The bond between

January 1, 2012
aliceinpunderland

Super Reviewer

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