Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself

(2002)

★ 6.5 IMDb · 110 votes

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Year: 2002

Runtime: 111 мин

Country: Denmark, France

Director: Lone Scherfig

Cast: Джейми Сивес, Эдриан Роулинз, Ширли Хендерсон, Lisa McKinlay, Мадс Миккельсен, Джулия Дэвис, Susan Vidler, Lorraine McIntosh, Gordon Brown, Mhairi Morrison

Plot

The strange comedy film of two close brothers; one, Wilbur, who wants to kill himself, and the other, Harbour, who tries to prevent this. When their father dies leaving them his bookstore they meet a woman who makes their lives a bit better yet with a bit more trouble as well.

The good-hearted Harbour has spent his whole life trying to take care of his motherless and suicidal little brother, Wilbur. The brothers are inseparable. When in their thirties, they lose their father and inherit his second-hand bookshop. One day Alice enters the shop with her little daughter. Alice is a cleaning lady at the nearby hospital and she sells the books that the patients leave behind. The daughter Mary yearns for a home where the books don't always get sold. Harbour falls in love with Alice and soon all four of them are closely intertwined in each other's lives - and perhaps even deaths.