Expiration Date

Name: Expiration Date
Genre: Comedy
Released: 2006-09-18T07:27:34-07:00
Rating: 63

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Average Rating: 3.8/5

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Death lurks in the form of dairy delivery in this independent black comedy. Charlie Silvercloud III (Robert A. Guthrie) is a young man of Native American ancestry who has the sneaking suspicion a certain family tradition will soon catch up with him. It seems Charlie's father and grandfather both died on their 25th birthdays, and both died from the same circumstances, after being struck by runaway milk trucks. Charlie's 25th birthday is only a few weeks away, and he's starting to feel his certain fate is lurking around the corner. Charlie's mother, Lucille (Dee Wallace Stone), has been tracing the routes of the local milk delivery men and discover they all converge in their neighborhood, so Charlie starts putting his affairs in order -- picking out a cemetery plot, planning his funeral, and ending his relationship with his girlfriend. However, with his birthday not long away, Charlie meets Bessie Anderson (Sascha Knopf), an eccentric but beautiful girl who isn't about to let him die. Expiration Date also stars David Keith, Richard Sanders, and Ned Romero.

Rating:

NR
Genre:

Comedy
Directed By:

Rick Stevenson
Written By:

Hamish Gunn, Rick Stevenson
In Theaters:

Apr 21, 2006 wide
On Disc/Streaming:

Jan 27, 2009
Runtime:

94 minutes
Studio:

Roadkill Productions

Cast

Robert A. Guthrie
as Charlie

Sascha Knopf
as Bessie

Dee Wallace
as Lucille

Ned Romero
as Old Native Man

Nakotah Larance
as Native Teen

Curt Becker
as Chunk

Ben Ratner
as Lazar

Jill Bennett II
as Alicia

Clayton Corzatte
as Senior

Jan D'Arcy
as Mrs. Fingerbaum

Meaghan Foy
as Schoolgirl

Cynthia Geary
as Funeral Home Representative

Michele Gray
as Young Lucille

Eric Johnson
as Animal Control Officer No. 2

David Keith
as Wild William

Emma Kelley
as Schoolgirl

Terry Edward Moore
as Male Clerk

Benjamin Ratner
as Lazar

Richard Sanders
as Municipal Cemetery Administrator

Jessica Skerritt
as Young Woman

Olivia Spokoiny
as Schoolgirl

Jeff Steitzer
as Cemetary Plot Salesman

Rick Stevenson
as Laundry Truck Driver

Jessica Teel
as College Girl

Misty Upham
as Charlie's Mother

David Frederick White
as Animal Control Officer No. 1

Brandon Whitehead
as Arnold

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Critic Reviews for Expiration Date

All Critics (8) | Top Critics (3) | Fresh (5) | Rotten (3)

Too stringy and disjointed for its sporadic charms to amount to much.

Sep 14, 2006

Justin Chang
Variety
Top Critic
A screenplay as vibrant with original comedy as it is with local color.

Sep 14, 2006 | Full Review…

Gavin Williamson
L.A. Weekly
Top Critic
While Stevenson's film unwinds along familiar lines, it delivers unexpected charm.

Jun 24, 2006 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…

Moira MacDonald
Seattle Times
Top Critic
It's almost funny whenever a Smith Brothers milk truck is mowing Charlie down, but it's almost never funny when he's wooing the most annoying girl in the world.

Feb 28, 2018 | Full Review…

Annie Wagner
The Stranger (Seattle, WA)
The film loses its way in a long, slapsticky climax.

Oct 15, 2006 | Full Review…

Ken Eisner
Georgia Straight
...mildly engaging low-budget indie...

Sep 15, 2006

Andy Klein
Los Angeles CityBeat
[Director Rick] Stevenson brings a romantic heart to the slyly underplayed offbeat humor and inspired sight gags.

Jun 24, 2006 | Rating: B | Full Review…

Sean Axmaker
Seattle Post-Intelligencer