![]() ![]() ![]() Well, it's been twenty-five years since their literal blood-oath, so, one by one they have their Final Exit.Ī bar fight brings the attention of Officer Boyde (Carla Gugino), who stares at the surviving men blankly as one by one they tell her unconvincing things in an unconvincing way. It appears that twenty-five years ago, at age 19, these four made some sort of suicide pact where if their lives were horrible twenty-five years from then, they would kill themselves. That, I imagine, would ruin this drug-fueled indulgence in adolescent behavior.Īt this point, I Melt With You becomes totally unmanageable. It's only after Day Four of this Week in Hell, where the still-hot Richard managed to get some girls and boys for a drug-enhanced party, that we have a particularly nasty turn of events: Timmy, the most emotionally unstable of the four (which is saying quite a lot given how all of them are so screwed up), hangs himself in the shower. Tim has yet to recover from the loss of his sister and boyfriend in a car accident he was responsible for.ĭuring this week, our gruesome foursome do nothing but indulge in heavy amounts of drinking and drugs both prescription and illegal while waxing philosophical thoughts about how miserable their lives are. Ron is relatively-happily married but as a trader has gotten into shifty business dealings. Jonathan is a doctor who has become a pill-pusher for bored Real Housewives-types and whose son looks to the stepfather as "Dad". Richard is a writer who has been reduced to teaching English (shades of Miles from Sideways). If one keeps count, that means the four of them became friends at 19 all this is important to the story, so be patient.Įach of them comes heavy with emotional burden. Well, that would mean that it's not only these four entering middle-age, but it marks 25 years since they all met at college. However, this birthday is a milestone: Tim turns 44. Richard (Thomas Jane), Jonathan (Rob Lowe), Ron (Jeremy Piven) are all reuniting in a beach house, ostensibly to celebrate the birthday of Tim (Christian McCay), which from what they say is an annual reunion. It can be said that few films aspire to so much and fail so spectacularly as I Melt With You, a movie that shifts in tone from inner desperation to psychotic. What makes it all even worse is that the only way to get them to shut up about their failed lives is for them to actually die one by one. That in itself would be irritating if not intolerable. These guys can't apparently shut up about their empty lives. Not so Richard, Jonathan, Ron, and Tim/Timmy, the four main characters in I Melt With You. It was Henry David Thoreau who wrote about how most men lead lives of quiet desperation. I've Seen The Difference And It Only Gets Worse. ![]()
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