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up his secret boyfriend Romeo after succumbing to peer pressure from his homophobic friends, Zeke goes to kill himself by jumping off a cliff next to a large lake. Ted and the rest of the family try to talk him down, but he slips and falls off the cliff. Ted and Lucky jump after him, saving the boy's life. Ted is knocked unconscious and has a dream in which his long-dead father tells him how important living is. Ted is pulled out of the lake and recovers. With a new lease on life, he decides to stay in town and start a new relationship with Greta.
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if he knew. Ted comforts Greta after her grandmother dies, and she tries to kiss him. He backs away, however, reminding her that he will be dead soon. She gets angry, and accuses him of "running away". He learns her mother committed suicide, which is why she is interested in his story. After beating
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child, and the two become friends. He sleeps with his high school crush Vickie, who is married with five children. She leaves her family for him, but he eventually tells her he doesn't want a relationship, which hurts her deeply. Ted's nephew Zeke
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wrote that the film "lurches along a wobbly line between salacious comic nastiness and nauseating sentimentality" without properly integrating them into a cohesive whole. Joe Neumaier of the
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wrote, "Cox must have seen something in this screenplay that encouraged her to film it, but whatever that critical element was, it’s not apparent in the finished product."
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described it as "a serious misfire" whose tonal shifts would be difficult for a veteran director to manage. Ethan Alter of
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effectively juggles a wealth of genuine, at times profound, emotion with quite a bit of nutty-raunchy humor."
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Pet store manager Ted Morgan spirals into depression after his wife Penny leaves him and decides to commit
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wrote, "Anchored by a nicely understated performance by Seann William Scott,
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on April 24, 2014, and it was released in select theaters on April 24, 2015.
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called it "a dismal, tonally disastrous small-town farce". Frank Scheck of
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and confides that he is afraid that his father would
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Index


Courteney Cox
Gabriel Cowan
Seann William Scott
Olivia Thirlby
Garret Dillahunt
Kate Walsh
Kyle Gallner
Evan Ross
Rob Riggle
Missi Pyle
Connie Stevens
David Arquette
Elisha Cuthbert
Cleo King
Erran Baron Cohen
New Artists Alliance
Coquette Productions
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Tribeca
black comedy
drama
Courteney Cox
Seann William Scott
Elisha Cuthbert
Olivia Thirlby
Garret Dillahunt
Kate Walsh
Tribeca Film Festival
suicide

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