Wristcutters: A Love Story

2006 romantic comedy

Rating: 12/20

Plot: Oh, snap! Distraught after busting up with his girlfriend, a whiny emo kid kills himself and winds up in some kind of purgatory wasteland with an assortment of other oddball suicides. He befriends a Russian rock 'n' roll singer and tries to adapt to his new surroundings. When he stumbles upon the information that his ex-girlfriend has also "offed" herself, he takes off in search of her. He and his Russian buddy meet up with Mikal, a gal looking for the people in charge because she thinks she's there by mistake.

As expected, the best thing about this movie is Tom Waits. This has a sort of made-up-as-it-goes flow, and the main characters don't interest nearly as much as the background characters. There's stuff to like here, and I especially like the creation of this weird little desolate world, but it didn't completely work for me. It reminds me of a lot of movies and unfortunately never really seems to develop its own personality. Tom Waits, like Crispin Glover, needs to be in more movies. If Glover and Waits were ever in the same movie, I'd have a boner with a capital O.