The Living Wake (2007)
Comedy
Overview
A dark comedy set in a timeless storybook universe. Self-proclaimed artist and genius, K. Roth Binew, has one day to live. He has enlisted his best and only friend, Mills Joquin, to take him around on a bicycle powered rickshaw. In a final attempt to probe life’s deepest mysteries, Binew endures one ridiculous trial after the next. He concludes his day with a final performance, his living wake. On a makeshift stage in an open field, Binew’s friends and enemies gather to witness his madness one final time.
Cast
- Jesse Eisenberg as Mills
- Mike O'Connell as K. Roth Binew
- Jim Gaffigan as Lampert Binew
- Ann Dowd as Librarian
- Colombe Jacobsen-Derstine as Prostitute
- Eddie Pepitone as Reginald
- Jill Larson as Alma Binew
- Diane Kagan as Marla
- Caleb Wentworth as Young K. Roth
- Sam Goldfarb as K. Roth's Doctor