A LONG WAY DOWN (2014) ¢ ¢ ¢ 1/2
D: Pascal Chaumeil
Pierce Brosnan, Toni Collette, Imogen Poots,
Aaron Paul, Sam Neill, Rosamund Pike
On New Year's Eve, four people meet on the roof of a tall building, all planning to kill themselves by jumping off. Instead, they make a pact - written on the back of a suicide note - agreeing to put off ending it all till at least Valentine's Day. A potentially dark comedy that's neither too despairing nor too sweet, its troubled, imperfect characters sympathetically played by all four leads. A sleeper, and not a bad choice for New Year's Eve. Really. See it before you jump.
