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01/15/04
Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself (2004)
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Reviews Counted:76
Fresh:66
Rotten:10
Average Rating:7.1/10
Consensus: Despite its morbid subject matter, Wilbur is a charming and often funny film.
Runtime: 1 hr 51 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: The chronically suicidal Wilbur (JAMIE SIVES 'Glasgow Kiss') and his good-hearted big brother Harbour (ADRIAN RAWLINS - Breaking The Waves) are in their thirties, when their father dies, leaving... [More]
Starring: Jamie Sives, Adrian Rawlins, Shirley Henderson, Julia Davis
Director: Lone Scherfig
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01/26/06
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12/30/06
Top CriticThis quirky little movie's more charming than morbid, more funny than sad.
12/05/03
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11/26/03
Don't let the title put you off; this is one of the most wonderfully life-affirming films you'll see all year.
08/10/03
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04/30/04
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10/18/08
More plainly dreary than morosely captivating... a movie that seems rather irresolute about exactly what sort of feelings its hypothetically meant to be conjuring up.
05/31/04
The acting is solid, but the tone is grating.
04/22/04
Feels schematic, contrived and less genuine.
08/06/04
It starts as a black comedy about suicide along the lines of Harold and Maude, then softens into a well-meant but sentimental piece about terminal illness.
04/01/04
Less morbid than an eccentric mixture of the mawkish and primal.
03/09/04
A 'slice of life' from filmmakers who, however earnest their intentions, can't offer anything but cheerless Celtic proletarian whimsy.
05/06/04
The mixture of drizzly Scottish bleakness and Scherfig's meandering Danish moodiness is too chicly depressive -- and, for the most part, too dull -- to bear.
03/10/04
I admire some of it. I liked the performances. I thought the script was slow and I thought it had kind of a dingy slow dull over all feel to it.
03/15/04
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