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Audiences rate it 23 points higher than critics do.
Synopsis
A dark comedy set in a timeless storybook universe. Self-proclaimed artist and genius, K. Roth Binew, has one day to live. He has enlisted his best and only friend, Mills Joquin, to take him around on a bicycle powered rickshaw. In a final attempt to probe life’s deepest mysteries, Binew endures one ridiculous trial after the next. He concludes his day with a final performance, his living wake. On a makeshift stage in an open field, Binew’s friends and enemies gather to witness his madness one final time.
Ratings
IMDb6/10
Rotten Tomatoes47%
Metacritic37/100
Audiences rate it 23 points higher than critics do.
11 audience votes
Key crew
- Sol TryonDirector
- Peter KlineWriter
- Mike O'ConnellWriter
- Carter LittleOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Jesse EisenbergMills
- Mike O'ConnellK. Roth Binew
- Jim GaffiganLampert Binew
- Ann DowdLibrarian
- Colombe Jacobsen-DerstineProstitute
- Eddie PepitoneReginald
- Jill LarsonAlma Binew
- Diane KaganMarla
- Caleb WentworthYoung K. Roth
- Sam GoldfarbK. Roth's Doctor
- Matthew CowlesMossman
- Rebecca ComerfordPsychic