Wristcutters: A Love Story fingerprintBig heart, funny, low-key.
Calm and low-key
Builds slowly, so the intensity comes in waves.
Deeply romantic and melancholic
Much of it is about growing up.
Plenty of dark humor and absurdist humor
Fantasy, the mind, and growing up
Lived-in and easy to get lost in.
Standout characters
Standout score
Calm and low-key
Builds slowly, so the intensity comes in waves.
Wristcutters: A Love Story is calm and low-intensity. The story builds slowly, so the intensity comes in waves.
Deeply romantic and melancholic
Much of it is about growing up.
Emotionally, it's deeply romantic, melancholic, and moving. Much of it is about growing up.
Plenty of dark humor and absurdist humor
Expect plenty of dark humor and absurdist humor.
Fantasy, the mind, and growing up
Lived-in and easy to get lost in.
Its world is built around fantasy, the mind, and growing up. The setting feels lived-in and easy to get lost in.
Standout characters
The characters stand out.
Standout score
Look and sound: the score stand out.
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Wristcutters: A Love Story is included with a subscription to Amazon Prime Video, fuboTV, Philo, and Amazon Prime Video with Ads in the United States. You can watch it free with ads on Kanopy, Hoopla, and Fandango at Home Free. You can also rent or buy it from Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, and YouTube. All links in Where to Watch go to these licensed services.
Mostly. It's well received, with a GoodWatch score of 69/100 (IMDb 7.2, Rotten Tomatoes 66%, and Metacritic 62). The GoodWatch score combines critic and audience ratings.
It's rated R in the United States. Content advisories: suicide themes.
1 h 28 min
Wristcutters: A Love Story runs 1 h 28 min.
Not quite. Audiences rate Wristcutters: A Love Story higher (76) than critics (64). It's more of a crowd-pleaser than a critics' pick.
No. It cost about $1 million to make and earned $454,026 worldwide, 45% of its budget.
It was made in English. Produced in United Kingdom, United States.
GoodWatch finds legal streaming, rental, or purchase options for Wristcutters: A Love Story in 9 countries. Pick any of them in Where to Watch to see the local services.
TV Tropes lists 52 storytelling tropes for Wristcutters: A Love Story, including Electrified Bathtub, Road Trip Plot, The Afterafterlife.
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