This is such a cute fucked up little movie. I showed it to Christy when we were taking a break from moving boxes and, once she got over the whole "everyone's dead" thing, she really enjoyed it.Despondent over breaking up with his girlfriend, Zia (Patrick Fugit) slits his wrists. He wakes up in the Afterlife, a joyless wasteland populated by other suicides. He meets Russian rocker Eugene (Shea Whigam) who offed himself by pouring beer into his electric guitar onstage and the two become friends. When Zia hears that the girl he killed himself over, Desiree (Leslie Bibb), has also killed herself, he decides to go on a road trip to find her. Eugene's car is a piece of shit with no working headlights and a black hole under the passenger seat (no, really) but it drives so off they go. Along the way, they pick up hitchhiker Mikal (Shannyn Sossamon) who is convinced there has been some sort of mistake about her arrival in the Afterlife. She is looking for the People In Charge but no one seems to know if they're even real. They stop for a while at Kneller's Campground, a home of tiny miracles, run by Kneller (Tom Waits) himself.
It also has cameos by John Hawkes (Winter's Bone), Will Arnett (Arrested Development) and Azura Skye (bunch of TV show guest-spots). I'm sure there are other people that I just didn't recognize.
Anyway, this is one of my favorite indie films and one of the few love stories that doesn't make me want to puke.
Adding to wish list.
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