Four Los Angelenos, a mortician, an ex-con, a suicidal ex-priest, and a stripper, are brought together on Christmas Eve by a mixture of circumstances.Four Los Angelenos, a mortician, an ex-con, a suicidal ex-priest, and a stripper, are brought together on Christmas Eve by a mixture of circumstances.Four Los Angelenos, a mortician, an ex-con, a suicidal ex-priest, and a stripper, are brought together on Christmas Eve by a mixture of circumstances.
Jeffery A. Baker
- Slim
- (as Jeffrey Adam Baker)
Ben Hernandez Bray
- Security
- (as Ben Bray)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaFilmed in August 2007, five months before Patrick Swayze was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.
- GoofsAt the movie's beginning, Jack is standing nude facing the ocean. A moment later, after entering the water, bathing trunks can be seen below the water line.
- Quotes
Qwerty Doolittle: In my profession, I see death every day. Some by accident, some by sickness, but some through despair. These are the ones I wish I could have helped.
- Alternate versionsTwo versions are available. Runtimes are "1h 46m (106 min)" and "1h 55m (115 min) (European Film Market) (Germany)".
- ConnectionsFeatured in Shooting Blue (2009)
- SoundtracksHeartbreak Hotel
Written by Mae Boren Axton (as Boren Axton), Tommy Durden, Elvis Presley
Performed by Studio Musicians
Courtesy of Priddis Music
Under license from Sony/ATV Tree Publishing (BMI)
Featured review
It's the Christmas season in L.A. Rose Johnny (Jessica Biel) is a drug-addicted stripper at Velvet Larry (Patrick Swayze)'s sleazy strip club with a coma kid in the hospital. Her dog escapes from her motel room and gets run over by shy mortician Qwerty Doolittle (Eddie Redmayne). Jack Doheny (Ray Liotta) is just released after 25 years in prison. His former boss Randall (Kris Kristofferson) gives him a suitcase full of money and directions to Rose Johnny. Charlie (Forest Whitaker) is a suicidally depressed ex-priest. He picks up transsexual prostitute Lexus (Alejandro Romero) and offers her his life savings of $50k to kill him with his gun. Doolittle is struggling for money and Charlie shows up offering the same deal. Waitress Sally (Lisa Kudrow) tries to show Charlie some kindness.
These characters are all lost. There is an emptiness in these characters and quite frankly in this movie. The actors try their best but filmmaker Timothy Linh Bui can't really pull it all together. The scattered nature of the narrative diffuses any tension. It just fails to maintain my interest in these people. Somewhere in the first half, it needs to reveal the connections and the backstories.
These characters are all lost. There is an emptiness in these characters and quite frankly in this movie. The actors try their best but filmmaker Timothy Linh Bui can't really pull it all together. The scattered nature of the narrative diffuses any tension. It just fails to maintain my interest in these people. Somewhere in the first half, it needs to reveal the connections and the backstories.
- SnoopyStyle
- Dec 16, 2014
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Box office
- Gross worldwide
- $17,835
- Runtime1 hour 46 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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