the audience applauded

For all the hype it got I was expecting a lot more!

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

I won't say that this is an excellent movie...there are things that would have certainly made it better. I thought that some of the actual movie footage was distracting. There was so much footage of the documentary (and the documentary of the documentary) that I found the cuts back to actual movie distracting at times (yes, this was really a movie about a documentary and a documentary about that documentary).That having been said, I thought there was a lot to like about the movie as well. The acting was very very good (Paul Rudd was especially good). It was also (I thought) a rather novel approach to the subject matter. Definitely worth watching.

One of the hardest things to pull off is a comedy mixed with serious drama. This film does it well. The acting is superb and the story is engaging. Most of the craziness revolves around the main character, who remains steadfast in his resolve to kill himself even as others plot to change his mind or refuse to take him seriously. The actress who plays his girl friend, Rachel, could be the next Halle Berry. Beautiful and talented. Some of the other actors are also deserving of bigger and better roles in the future. This film just came out on DVD-- check it out.In regard to the scene on the beach-- I think his intent is made clear by his statement about the credit cards.

I saw hundreds of movies in my life, only a few of them had affect on me like this movie. People may like it or not, it still influence your thoughts and emotions, and the superb acting of the main character only adds to the authenticity of the story. Besides that, the movie is very original (even though it's influenced from some reality shows). Although the movie talks about very serious matter, it does it in very "friendly" way, you feel comfortable with the character. Still, it seems that even if everything is seems to be Okay, It's NOT. And that's, I believe, the real story of the movie.Besides that, It's a great shame that the movie didn't hit the cinemas, in my country anyway, I believe that people must see this movie, even just for the thoughts that come up from that movie.

I am a third-year film student. I recently saw this film at the end of its world premiere run at Rotterdam Film Festival. I was fortunate enough to meet director Sean McGinly, who told me that he cannot expect more than a very limited release for the film. This is unfortunate, but even more of a shock was finding that the current IMDb user rating is a mere 5.7!!I completely fail to understand what is going through the minds of the vast majority of the people who saw the film at Rotterdam. I urge anyone with a taste for intelligent, original filmmaking - that has the power to make you laugh, cry, and feel glad to be alive within the space of half an hour - to watch this film. A film whose satirical nightmare scenario, created by the competitive nature of Hollywood and the desperation that results, is ESSENTIAL viewing for wannabe directors and actors - more compelling than Robert Altman's THE PLAYER, might I suggest - and with twists and turns that recall Frank Capra's IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE. I also implore a distributor searching for high-quality, innovative American independent films to contact McGinly immediately!