About Alex
Synopsis: When seven twenty-somethings reunite to support a friend who has suffered an emotional breakdown, a tinderbox of old jealousies and unrequited love, leads to an explosion that, coupled with the flammable combination of drugs, wine, and risotto, cannot be contained.
Rating: Rated R for language and drug use
Run Time: 96 Minutes
Director: Jesse Zwick
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Of Note: Alex’s tweet before his attempted suicide, “Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man”, is a line spoken by Mercutio before his death in William Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet”.
Recommendations: 10 Years
Rating: 
If you don’t realize it by now the film is really focused around a suicide attempt and how the friends of the person respond to that. Some of the friends truly want to help, some of them want to make themself feel better, and some are even angry. Alex is the friend that attempted suicide but realized that he didn’t really want to die. For the most part Alex comes across happy. He is almost always smiling and does not apologize for what he did. He seems happy that everyone has come in his time of need. At its core this is a buddy movie where all the friends come to support a friend that needs the support. Along the way all the baggage of them being friends for so long starts to come out. From past romance, to current romance, to opportunities, and to new flings. It all comes front and center. The story is relaying on the interactions of the friends to drive the movie forward with the suicide attempt being the catalyst. The problem is that the interactions are not all that exciting. Some of the interactions are just painful to make it through and then they give you more painful interactions. It even goes beyond the interactions but also the decisions the characters make. These are also painful. Then to bring it all together the writer decided to not give closure to the interactions. This means the movie is interaction driven that gives interactions that don’t have a redeeming feature at the end.
Overall, I just didn’t enjoy the interactions the characters had, the way the suicide attempt was portrayed, and how at the end we really don’t get closure on all the interactions.