The Last Time I Committed Suicide

The Last Time I Committed Suicide

1997 · 94 min · EN · R · 5.3 (30 votes)
Dir. Stephen Kay · Starring Thomas Jane, Keanu Reeves, Adrien Brody, John Doe, Claire Forlani, Jim Haynie · Music Tyler Bates

Life is what happens when you're busy making plans

Drama

Neal Cassady is living the beat life during the 1940s, working at The Tire Yard and and philandering around town. However, he has visions of a happy life with kids and a white picket fence. When his girlfried, Joan, tries to kill herself he gets scared and runs away. But when Joan reappears will he take the chance at that happiness, or will he turn his back on it?

VIBE

A raw, unflinching look at a soul adrift in the post-war era. It's a quiet, introspective journey through regret and the haunting specter of what might have been, steeped in a palpable sense of existential dread.

melancholicintrospectivebleakconflictedslow-burnbeat generationperiod dramacharacter studyarthouseregretlost loveexistentialismdespair
▶ Stream on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
suicidesuicide attempt1940s
MORE LIKE THIS — multi-vector + why, diversified