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3 | ''Living 'til the End'' is a 2005 romantic drama film written and directed by Amanda Goodwin, starring Creator/SeanMaher and Creator/JaimeRayNewman. |
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5 | Jack Whilton (Maher), an estate planner, learns from a psychic that he is to die on his next birthday, so he becomes an agoraphobic shut-in, determined to prevent his death. Then he meets Audrey (Newman), a young woman in his building who is dying and asks him to help plan her estate. Through his relationship with her, he begins to learn how to live again. |
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10 | !!''Living 'til the End'' contains examples of: |
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12 | * AllPartOfTheShow: At the beginning, [[spoiler: Cynthia wants to leave Jack for another man, so she pays off a psychic to reveal her "affair" so he will break up with her. When the psychic also predicts that Jack will [[DiedOnTheirBirthday die on his next birthday]], Cynthia assumes that it's part of the psychic's schtick.]] |
13 | * BigDamnHeroes: Averted with [[spoiler:Jack]] |
14 | * ChekhovsGun: An almost perfect example. |
15 | * CloudCuckooLander: Jack appears this way to everyone, due to his crippling phobias. |
16 | * DiedOnTheirBirthday: [[spoiler: After a psychic tells Jack that he will die on his next birthday, that is, indeed, what ultimately happens to him.]] |
17 | * DoubleMeaningTitle: At first blush, the title seems to be an exhortation to not give up on life, even in the face of inevitable death. [[spoiler:After the film has ended, however, one realizes that the title also refers to Jack's state of existence...]] |
18 | * DownerEnding: Jack breaks into Audrey's apartment from the ledge just as [[spoiler:she's about to shoot herself. Startled, she shoots him, this fulfilling the prophecy.]] |
19 | * EatingTheEyeCandy: Melanie does this to Jack when he walks by and says hello to Audrey. |
20 | * EiffelTowerEffect: In the montage when they are walking around Paris |
21 | * KickTheDog: What Jack's girlfriend Cynthia does at the beginning of the film. It is later revealed that [[spoiler:she set up the fortune teller to tell Jack that she was having an affair, so he would break up with her.]] She tells him this, casually. |
22 | * MeaningfulName: Or rather, initials, as Audrey Gerson's initials are the same as Amanda Goodwin's. |
23 | * OnceMoreWithClarity: When Jack and Audrey are on the plane, Jack is passed out and we see Audrey writing something. We assume it is a letter, or maybe even a start on her next book. At the very end of the film, we see the scene again and hear from a voiceover that Audrey is writing [[spoiler:her suicide note.]] |
24 | * PropheciesAreAlwaysRight: [[spoiler:[[DiedOnTheirBirthday Jack dies on his birthday]]]] |
25 | * ShownTheirWork: Executive producer Coco Ginsburg and lead actress Jaime Ray Newman spent months going to [[spoiler:suicide survivor]] support groups to make sure they had Audrey's portrayal spot on. |
26 | * TheReveal: Right before the end, we learn that Audrey [[spoiler: does not have a terminal condition. She is severely depressed, and all of the talk about dying and hiring an estate planner to put her affairs in order is part of a complex ideation of suicide. And apparently she has done this before.]] |
27 | * TheShrink: Dr. Shaw |
28 | * UncomfortableElevatorMoment: How the romance plot is kicked off |
29 | * WhamLine: When Jack meets Melanie in the hallway, he offers consolation for Audrey's "condition." Melanie is uncertain what he means, so he clarifies, "She's dying." Melanie's response: [[spoiler:"Not again!"]] |
30 | ** Jack: [[spoiler:"I killed my father".]] |
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