The Living Wake
2007 · 91 MIN · IMDB 6.0 · 987 VOTES · DIR. Sol Tryon
Overview
A dark comedy set in a timeless storybook universe. Self-proclaimed artist and genius, K. Roth Binew, has one day to live. He has enlisted his best and only friend, Mills Joquin, to take him around on a bicycle powered rickshaw. In a final attempt to probe life’s deepest mysteries, Binew endures one ridiculous trial after the next. He concludes his day with a final performance, his living wake. On a makeshift stage in an open field, Binew’s friends and enemies gather to witness his madness one final time.
Dialogue Timeline — 2,126 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:01:02 may 13th. Dates, ladies and gentlemen... dates.
00:03:54 numbers, something that was thought to be stupid only years earlier.
00:09:09 but, being a sporting man, I will give you one more chance to guess what I'll be purchasing.
00:11:45 We were wondering what kind of body-disposal options you carry. >> Let me say first I'm sorry
00:14:19 Well, I'm sure that he was a lovely man. Woman.
00:18:25 Yeah. Go ahead! Come on!
00:22:13 Awkward. Why should it stop now? So, it's been a long time.
00:24:58 It looked like a continuation of the linoleum. Mills, finish the story.
00:28:14 Friend. >> What, mills? >> It's $50 extra if somebody
00:32:00 it is my sincere honor to be here at the... >> shh!
00:34:22 you'd think with all these reference materials everywhere, you wouldn't go through the
00:36:59 Going to request, but I didn't want to impose. >> Well, I suppose better for
00:40:29 Emily Dickinson. >> Your reassurances are not enough.
00:44:15 Are you sure? You'll be dead soon. Biographer, kill yourself in
00:47:12 Please, please, I have not done much cardio lately. I am weak.
00:50:12 stand before your brother, for with God's love, all quarrels may be resolved.
00:53:08 I have worried too long about you, Klaus, and I am tired now. I'm very tired.
00:56:18 Remain in sadness. >> How are you dying, k. Roth? >> Quite well, thank you.
01:02:26 Oh! Look! A butterfly!
01:05:42 It was all so fresh, so full of hope, so untainted.
01:08:54 episodes. >> Please, Klaus, go with your doctor now.
01:11:45 I did not abandon you. >> Maybe they changed the definition of "abandon."
01:16:05 I guess life would be a very long word problem. But you implied that there was a
01:19:52 ¶ and when I no longer dwell inside this well-worn human shell ¶
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed2,126
Dialogue density23.4 lines / min
First line00:01:02
Final line01:19:52
Production Record
DirectorSol Tryon
LanguageEnglish
IMDb votes987