The Intervention ( Suicide, the Comedy )

The Intervention (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Suicide, the Comedy
Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital Stereo )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 2.4 )

Running Time:
87 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1998 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Glen Freyer

Written By:
Glen Freyer

Actors:
Jamie Harris ..... Matt Hirsch
Alison Eastwood ..... Amanda
Phil LaMarr ..... Erik
Chad Lowe ..... JJ
Markus Ballin ..... Bouncer
Elizabeth Barondes ..... Dedra (voice)
Jackie Debatin ..... Carl
Joshua Fardon ..... Maggie
Jennifer Fontaine ..... Winnie
Jay Harik
Brian Klugman
Jonathan Mangum
Delaune Michel
Walter Olkewicz
Moira Quirk
Pamela Salem

Synopsis:

Matt Hirsch is a writer who's lost faith in the power of writing. Lately he's had suicidal inklings. They're not quite tendencies yet, but with a little practice he thinks he can get them up there. Nothing's particularly wrong with his life, but then nothing's particularly right, either. He believes if he only had a gun, he'd have used it by now. When Amanda, an old girlfriend now married with kids, spends the night at Matt's apartment, Matt reconsiders his life choices. Fearing he's missed a chance at something better, he starts calling all the women he's slept with in search of a simpler time, daydreaming about encounters with each of them. Isolated by the phone, fax, computer and TV, Matt is desperate to make a connection, fantasizing about his self-destruction all the while. When a botched hold-up outside a strip club unexpectedly puts a gun in Matt's hands, he learns that killing himself is not so easy, especially when one has house guests. Matt's parents are in for the weekend and pose a string of comedic complications that keep Matt from meeting his maker. When his parents uncover Matt's plans to kill himself, they stage an intervention, but accidentally invite all the wrong people?

A failed screenwriter (Jamie Harris) contemplates suicide. When he mentions it to his friends, he dismisses it as a screenplay he is writing to be called 'Suicide With A Vengeance'. Girlfriend Amanda (Alison Eastwood) and his parents do worry about him and get him into a suicide intervention program.

Comedy. A writer, discontented with life, toys with the idea of committing suicide. When friends and former lovers begin to wonder whether he means it, he uses the excuse that he is merely putting together ideas for a script entitled `Suicide with a Vengeance'.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 14 August, 2007.