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The Living Wake is a film of genre Comedy released in USA on 1 january 2007 with Jesse Eisenberg

The Living Wake (2007)

The Living Wake
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Released in USA 1 january 2007
Genres Comedy
Rating59% 2.9984952.9984952.9984952.9984952.998495

The Living Wake (2007) is a dark comedic film written by Mike O'Connell and Peter Kline and produced by Ami Ankin. A directorial debut by Sol Tryon, the film stars Mike O'Connell, Jesse Eisenberg, and Jim Gaffigan.

Synopsis

The film follows the journey of K. Roth Binew, a self-proclaimed genius. After discovering that he has encountered a rare and unnamed terminal disease, he enlists his eccentric rickshaw-riding best and only friend Mills Joaquin (Jesse Eisenberg) to accompany him on his last day to live. Throughout the film, he attempts to find the meaning of life in "a brief, but powerful monologue" that his eccentric father had promised to tell him, but abandoned K. Roth before he could.

Actors

Jesse Eisenberg

(Mills)Jim Gaffigan

(Lampert Binew)Ann Dowd

(Librarian)Jill Larson

(Alma Binew)Colombe Jacobsen-Derstine

(Prostitute)
And :
Bryan Brown
Matthew Cowles
Eddie Pepitone
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