Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself Movie Review 2002

Indeed, Wilbur (Sives) does want to die as the opening sequence shows him eager to swallow some pills in one of his many, varied attempts to join his deceased parents. When he becomes homeless his responsible, easy-going brother, Harbour (Rawlins), who lives above their father's old dingy bookstore, provides refuge even after Harbour's new wife and her nine-year-old daughter move in. With this unconventional family unit, Danish director Scherfig's first English offering exquisitely spans the spectrum of human emotion as it shuffles between humor as dark and dreary as its backdrop (Glasgow) and the morbidity inherent in such a tale.

Distribution

Not Yet Released

Available on DVD
Running time 106 minutes.
Originally from Swedish, British, Danish, French.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Black Comedy, Suicide, Glasgow, Scotland, Single Parents, Books & Bookstores

Screenplay

Lone Scherfig, Anders Thomas Jensen

Cast

Adrian Rawlins, Shirley Henderson, Jamie Sives, Lisa McKinlay, Mads Mikkelsen, Susan Vidler, Julia Davis

Cinematography

Jorgen Johansson

Director

Lone Scherfig

Music

Joachim Holbek

Other

Rune Palving, Gerd Tjur, Mark Leese, Jette Lehmann

Producer

Sisse Graum Olsen, Zentropa Entertainment, Danish Film Institute, Scottish Screen, Glasgow Film Fund