3 Stars

Written and Directed
By Goran Dukic 

According to the Catholic Church, if you kill yourself you wind up in Hell. So when Zia (Patrick Fugit) offs himself, he goes to someplace less bad. A place much like Earth but grayer and without any stars.

So with no Heaven in sight, our hero is stuck in a dead-end job and spends his spare time getting drunk in the local bar, where he meets a Russian rock musician Eurgene (Shea Whigharn) who electrocuted himself with a guitar on stage. He still lives with his parents, who are also suicides. They're hanging out when Zia's old friend Brian (Jake Busey) informs our hero that his long lost love (Mary P. Gleeson) has also put herself to death. So, now Zia has a mission, taking Eugene's car and it's owner on a quest to find her.

On the way, he and Eugene pick up a pretty young hitchhiker named Mikal (Shannon Sossamon), who died of a drug overdose and wants to find the People In Charge, and appeal her eternal sentence as the death wasn't intentional. 

So we have a longish road trip into the world of magical realism, where we meet all sorts of eccentric characters, including a guy named Kneller (Tom Waits) who runs a holiday camp where minor miracles are performed, and a cult leader (John Hawkes) tries to off himself again and find the next level…and yes, there is the expected romance.

This is actually a fun film and worth at least a matinee.

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