Wristcutters: A Love Story

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Wristcutters: A Love Story

R

2007

1h 32m

Romance

Comedy

Drama

Fantasy

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Despondent after breaking up with his girlfriend, Zia kills himself and wakes up in a bland purgatory populated by other suicides. He takes a job at Kamikaze Pizza and befriends a Russian rocker named Eugene while trying to make the best of a very dull afterlife. Learning that his ex-girlfriend has also killed herself, Zia embarks on a road trip with Eugene to find her, picking up a feisty hitchhiker along the way.

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Critics Consensus

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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Amy Nicholson

I.E. Weekly

02/22/2008

B-

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.

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Derek Malcolm

London Evening Standard

11/23/2007

1/5

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

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Cath Clarke

Guardian

11/23/2007

3/5

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

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Kathi Maio

The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction

03/04/2020

Realistic other-worldness is a challenge, especially in a live action film...Wristcutters: A Love Story couldn't quite pull it off...

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Jeff Otto

ReelzChannel.com

02/09/2011

6/10

Ian Berriman

SFX Magazine

10/11/2010

This road movie romcom wont leave you reaching for the razor blades.

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Roger B

@RT02824023 Aug 8

Not great, but good. Amusing. Thoughtful. Whimsical. Good ending.

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Arlo D

@Maoez Feb 8

No idea what film most of the critics were watching, but this one is funny and interesting to me throughout.

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Tracy U

@Tracyule Oct 22

Dark but Goran Dukic's film is whimsical and optimistic about life.

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Landon J

@Minxsykitty 08/24/2025

A pretty cool premise, and a very decent ending. Interesting take on afterlife antics, and pretty thoughtful. Not left feeling bored despite it's theme of, well, boredom. Worth watching.

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no o

@RT76850400 07/16/2025

love this movie so much tuff topic but managed to be comfort movie

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john h

@RT11274104 06/04/2025

A culturally renewed vision of the afterlife of those who have committed suicide and the average elements of an independent romance flick with dark humor. Wristcutters is a profound road trip film that is charming and different where the predicaments of the typical romance film are caused by desire and regret - both played out comedically and sometimes in an attempt to do so emotionally.

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Synopsis

Despondent after breaking up with his girlfriend, Zia kills himself and wakes up in a bland purgatory populated by other suicides. He takes a job at Kamikaze Pizza and befriends a Russian rocker named Eugene while trying to make the best of a very dull afterlife. Learning that his ex-girlfriend has also killed herself, Zia embarks on a road trip with Eugene to find her, picking up a feisty hitchhiker along the way.

Director: Goran Dukic
Producer: Adam Sherman, Chris Coen, Tatiana Kelly, Mikal P. Lazarev
Screenwriter: Goran Dukic
Distributor: Freestyle Releasing
Production Co: No Matter Pictures
Rating: R (Content Involving Suicide|Language)
Genre: Romance, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Oct 19, 2007, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 1, 2009
Box Office (Gross USA): $231.5K
Runtime: 1h 32m

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