Long synopsis : An intimate journey through loss and renewal, a story of life devastated then reawakened by a shocking death. Philip Seymour Hoffman is Wilson Joel, a man forced to confront terrible isolation, his own and that of those around him, by the suicide of his young wife, Liza. There were no obvious reasons for Liza's death: she and Wilson were happy, successful and very much in love. She left a letter, but Wilson cannot bear to open it. No one can help him: uncomprehending colleagues; well-meaning friends; Liza's distraught mother. Inconsolable, increasingly adrift, dazed by the petrol he has taken to sniffing, as his life begins to fall apart, Wilson searches desperately for some sort of meaning, Liza's final letter and the explanation it holds still unread in his pocket.

Cast

• Philip Seymour Hoffman, J.D. Walsh, Jimmy Raskin, Kathy Bates, Erika Alexander, Sarah Koskoff, Mark Hannibal

Crew

• Producer(s): Ruth Charny, Chris Hanley, Jeffrey Roda, Fernando SULICHIN
• Director(s): Todd Louiso
• Screenplay: Gordy Hoffman
• DP: Lisa Rinzler
• Editing: Anne Stein
• Original Music: Jim O'Rourke
• Set Design: Stephen Beatrice

• Genre(s): Drama


• Production company: KINOWELT FILMPRODUKTION, MUSE, STUDIOCANAL, WILD BUNCH, MONGREL MEDIA, SONY PICTURES CLASSICS INC.
• Production date: 2002
• Language: English
• Duration: 91 min
• Image Ratio: 1.85
• Sound Info: Dolby SR