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All Too Human
USA 2018
produced by Travis D. Brown, John W. Fitzpatrick, Diego Giovanni Sanchez, Nathan Coltrane, Glen Baggerly, Patrick Kwan (executive), David Brecha (executive), Aubrey Ayash (executive) for The Signal Productions
directed by Travis D. Brown, Mandy Stockholm
starring Jeffrey Arrington, Juliet Prosser, Glen Baggerly, Brady James, Shannon Mastel, William Poole, John Branch, Betsie Weil, Tamara Elizabeth Marshall, Patrick Kwan, P.K. Glazer, Kelsey Norene, Alysse Fozmark, Anna White, Evan Gandy (voice), West Ramsey, Ron Rouse, Damon Simmons, Donna Soto, Mandy Stockholm, Sophie O'Brien, Asha Sawyer, Sally Thrall, Joseph Lopez, Gaelle Strusinski, Nick Bremer, Patrick Blevins, Dennis Fitzpatrick, Eric Brazeal, Daniel Rhovan (as Daniel Wagner), Kate Shepherd Wyatt, Bryan Hiltner, Gabriel Mendoza, Sara Copeland, David Brecha, Julia Surtshin, Karen Frost, Steve Vanderzee, Jill Sughrue, Steven Burton, Glenn McCumber, Austin Leo, Brian Sutherland, Katie Watkins, Jonathan Wexler, Anne Ruttencutter, Tarisa Ann
written by Travis D. Brown, music by Ryan Ricks
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Mark's (Jeffrey Arrington) life has never been the happiest, starting
with his abusive father (Glen Baggerly) he eventually had to find after he
had hanged himself, his over-religious mother (Juliet Prosser) who drove
him from God, his girlfriend Alyssa (Shannon Mastel) who has eventually
left him for his best friend Andrew (William Poole), and so on. Being
quite versed in philosophy, he goes looking for a reason to go on living -
and finds none. But soon Mark has to notice suicide isn't as easy as it
looks: His gun jams when he tries to blow his brains out, when he takes
pills and sets his house on fire, he's saved by a jogger (Anna White)
passing by, two muggers (Eric Brazeal, Daniel Wagner) who hold him at
knifepoint lose their nerves when he shows no fear of being killed - and
so on and so forth. And while he tries to just exit his life, too many
people actually care, much to Mark's dismay ...Mark's (Jeffrey Arrington)
life has never been the happiest, starting with his abusive father (Glen
Baggerly) he eventually had to find after he had hanged himself, his
over-religious mother (Juliet Prosser) who drove him from God, his
girlfriend Alyssa (Shannon Mastel) who has eventually left him for his
best friend Andrew (William Poole), and so on. Being quite versed in
philosophy, he goes looking for a reason to go on living - and finds none.
But soon Mark has to notice suicide isn't as easy as it looks: His gun
jams when he tries to blow his brains out, when he takes pills and sets
his house on fire, he's saved by a jogger (Anna White) passing by, two
muggers (Eric Brazeal, Daniel Wagner) who hold him at knifepoint lose
their nerves when he shows no fear of being killed - and so on and so
forth. And while he tries to just exit his life, too many people actually
care, much to Mark's dismay ...
In many ways, All Too Human is darkly funny, as Mark's
continuous failures to end his life do have a humourous side to them - but
that said, it's definitely not a laugh-out-loud comedy, as the film has a
depressed tone to it, and fittingly so, after all it's about a guy trying
to kill himself, and the film's basic atmosphere makes this somewhat
relatable even. And this is what makes this unusual mix of comedy and
existential tragedy work, actually, as it successfully treads the line
between its polar opposites, and with the actors keeping it grounded and a
direction banking on realism and avoiding hyperboles, the audience is
properly sucked into the story - and without being exactly uplifting (and
intentionally so), this movie actually manages to entertain.
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