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I just left the Laurelhurst theater in Portland after attending this film. I am sorry but it was horrible, the tag line made it sound cool,Angels and cancer and souls trapped in puppies. Sounded cool to me, then I stroll on IMDb to find it got a 9.1 rating, even higher than citizen kane, and wizard of oz, so I thought "this is gonna be heavy,it is not.

I felt sad that I could NOT keep from laughing at the script and acting, I love movies I study them, and this was a movie but it ends there. When you watch ER the medical jargon is always spot on, so I've been told from doctors, and even if I wasn't told that it SOUNDS believable. The medical jargon in this film is SO bad they might as well just be saying "medical. I am hearing examples I could give but i guess you could find out, BUT you don't have to. One example is he's given medicine which will keep him out for over a day then when he goes home he's just given medicine to help him NOT kill himself and they say to come back in a month or 2 for medicine. SPOILER when the angel shows up there is an interpretive dance that makes no sense! I kept asking "whose idea was this and how did it get made. I don't like to write bad reviews, but 9.1, is definitely a TRAP and I don't want others to fall in.

On the up side it's short only an hour and 21 min and it's filmed well. The music HURT it was bad, then in one scene the main character is actually playing the song for NO reason at all. This angel says he has work to do but he just talks softly and buys oranges. He kinda saves a guy from suicide but there's no follow up and he gets pinned as suicidal, he also takes on a self help guru (badly) he calls the guru out slightly then the group likes him and he gets them to buy oranges. It twas a nightmare I'm sorry.

After being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, Don meets "an"angel of death and makes a deal to swap bodies so that his soul hasn't wasted its time here on earth. With vain attempts at humor, similar to the successful portrayal by Brad Pitt in Meet Joe Black, we watch as Robert (the angel of death that took over Don's body) goes around the city being a good samaritan.

Danforth Comins (Don/Robert) does an impressive job for his debut screen performance. His lack of experience shows that he's not ready to carry a full length feature. He does his best to hold our attention and even shows some moments of good potential. With the chops to handle a supporting role, I would like to watch him again and follow his career as it progresses.

Miriam Laube, isn't outright terrible, but she clearly is not ready for any role. Her blank stares that are supposed to translate as confusion or turmoil fall flat and look like she is stoned and doesn't know where her scene partner is. Her character (more like her lack of talent) bounces from sad to weird happiness and has these awkward unmotivated behaviors that are very distracting and just come across and completely awful. I'll give some of this to the lack of experience on Scott Blum's part. She finally shows some stroke of talent and emotion towards the end when she breaks down... even though her eating the note was just weird to say the least.

Scott Blum steps into the realm of writer/director for the adaptation of the book Summer's Path, written by Scott. If this movie teaches us anything, its that if you have a goal and dream of making a movie and getting it into film festivals it is very possible. Props to Scott for his film making debut to have something go as far and acquire the success that it has.

Brenden Whitney (associate producer for Walk-In) www.IMDb.me/brendenwhitney

This movie is just a melting pot of new-age ideas mixed up in a totally incoherent way. If this is supposed to be inspirational, the only thing it does is depress you and like one of the characters in the movie, make you want to throw yourself from the top a high building. I have not read the books on which it is supposedly based, but if the story line is so badly written as the movie I am glad I am gonna put my time to much more useful usage. Where is communication in this ? Where is hope in this ? Where are feelings in this, except from depressing ones ? A total disaster.

If you want to ruin your evening go and watch it.