Terminal illness, depression, suicide and one very angry young man: If there's such a thing as a kitchen-sink comedy, writer-director Lone Scherfig's sad but often very funny film is it. Wilbur (Jamie Sives) really does want to kill himself; before the opening credits are over he has swallowed a bottle of pills and sticks his head in the oven of his shabby Glasgow bedsit. So far, the only things that have kept him from succeeding are his own ineptitude and the vigilance of his loving older brother, Harbour (Adrian Rawlins). Wilbur is a tough one to love: He's rude to the members of his suicide-support group, unconscionably cruel to the women who express the slightest...
Released:
2002
Rated:
R
Length:
109 mins