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Wristcutters: A Love Story

Year:

2007

Duration:

88 min

Genres:

Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Romance

IMDB rate:

7.4

Director:

Goran Dukic

Awards:

8 wins & 6 nominations

Details

Country: USA

Release Date: 2007-11-02

Filming Locations: Los Angeles, California, USA

Earnings

Budget: $1,000,000

Opening Weekend: $42,808 (USA) (21 October 2007)

Gross: $316,996 (USA) (14 December 2008)

Cast

Actor

Character

Leslie Bibb

Wristcutters: A Love Story

Patrick Fugit

Zia

Shannyn Sossamon

Mikal

Shea Whigham

Eugene

Mark Boone Junior

Mike (as Mark Boone Jr.)

Abraham Benrubi

Erik

Cameron Bowen

Kostya

Mikal P. Lazarev

Nanuk

Clayne Crawford

Jim

Tom Waits

Kneller

Chase Ellison

Kid Kostya

John Hawkes

Yan

Will Arnett

Messiah

Adam Gifford

Gas Station Attendant (as Adam G.)

Mary Pat Gleason

Eugene's Mother

Aaron Parker Mouser

Max (as Aaron Mouser)

Nick Offerman

Cop

Anatol Rezmeritza

Eugene's Father

Sarah Roemer

Rachel

Amy Seimetz

Nina

Azura Skye

Tania

Sharone Meir

Doctor (as Sharon Meir)

Jonathan Alberts

Funeral Attendant

Michael Brodersen

Funeral Attendant (as Mike Brodersen)

John Brookbank

Funeral Attendant

Chris Coen

Funeral Attendant

Erica Nicotra

Funeral Attendant

Alexis Spraic

Funeral Attendant

Anthony Azizi

Hassan

Azazel Jacobs

Kamakaze Pizza Patron

David Baum

Eugene's Band

Nicki Nevlin

Eugene's Band

Emily Yanez

Eugene's Band

Alicia Warrington

Eugene's Band

Rob Hall

Eugene's Band

James Fraijo

Man in White (as James Fraigo)

Reedy Gibbs

Max's Teacher

Nils Allen Stewart

Messiah Bodyguard (as Nils Stewart)

Brian David

Messiah Double

Jakub Dolezal

Messiah Double (as Jacob Dolezal)

Bonnie Aarons

Messiah Worshipper

Goran Dukic

People in Charge (P.I.C.)

Ernst Gossner

People in Charge (P.I.C.)

Chris Hanley

People in Charge (P.I.C.)

Ava Metz

People in Charge (P.I.C.)

Wilbur Schwartz

People in Charge (P.I.C.) (as Dr. Wilbur Schwartz)

Greg Harris

Pizza Delivery Guy

Marlon Mark

Soldier

Peter Wulff

Soldier

Irwin Keyes

Stiff Drinks Bartender

Bridget Powers

Stripper (as Bridget Powerz)

Rachel Stolte

Stripper

Jonathan Schwartz

Train Conductor

Shay Morgan Brook

Train Passenger

Jazzmun

Transvestite

George Weiss Vando

Tranvestite

Vicky Reineger

Vicky

Mark Fredrichs

Zia's Father

Julia Sanford

Zia's Mother (as Julie Sanford)

Foxie

Freddy the Dog

Lonnie Beard

Bartender (uncredited)

Jake Busey

Brian (uncredited)

Troy DeWalt

People in Charge (P.I.C.) (uncredited)

Mark Edward Smith

Policeman (uncredited)

Eddie Steeples

Josh (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

Eugene (Shea Whigham) isn't smoking pot throughout the film, he's actually smoking tobacco cigarettes. Actor Whigham noticed director Goran Dukic smoked loose tobacco and rolled his own cigarettes and carried it in a plastic bag, and said that's what he wanted Eugene to smoke.

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The soundtrack features songs from a number of famous suicides: Del Shannon, Ian Curtis, Nick Drake, and David Sutch. Gram Parsons, whose drug overdose is paralleled by Mikal's OD, is also featured.

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Shea Whigham's character (Eugene) is partly based on Gur Bentwich, Israeli writer/director and friend of Etgar Keret who wrote "Kneller's Happy Campers". He is also partly based on Eugene Hutz, front-man of Gogol Bordello and friend of director Goran Dukic.

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Goofs

Around the 25:35 mark in the movie, the car pulls over to the right shoulder to stop for the hitchhiker. Yet in the next scene, when the driver puts it into reverse, it is back on the right lane of the road, not in the shoulder. After the car stops and picks up the hitchhiker, it again changes position about a minute later, and its tires are shown over the shoulder line, although it had stopped earlier in the middle of the lane.

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When Kneller finds Mikal and Zia sleeping on the beach, we see a needle poking through Zia's shirt. In the next shot, the needle is gone. (A short scene of dialogue where Zia takes the needle out of his shirt was edited out.)

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Approximately 44 minutes into the movie, when Zia first encounters the note written by Desiree, she writes the letter "I" in cursive, when he goes outside to show it to his two friends, the letter "I" in the note is shown again in print.

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Quotes

Zia: Listen, you know what? Forget Desiree. I got another reason for you to go.

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Yan: They feed him t-bone steak and he refuses to come back.

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Messiah: [dog growls] The dog has spoken.

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