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
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00:01:02 may 13th. Dates, ladies and gentlemen... dates.
00:04:00 but even a great man is not free from the invisible pathogens that attack the body like a
00:09:16 I don't like the vest. How about that tie? All right.
00:12:01 procrastinated a little. >> Usually the family takes care of that after the death.
00:14:46 For two days I controlled all the postage. It might have gone unnoticed by
00:19:06 Thank you. "A pre-picnic prayer poem" by
00:22:45 Nursing your rickety skin back to even a semblance of health. >> Well, I did have rickets
00:25:42 Absent as your devoted wife tried to revive me. >> At first I thought it was
00:28:58 After you give me the $50. Or I'll call my pimp! >> All right, all right.
00:32:40 only that once a year, somebody visits them with a duster... unless they're being read, of
00:35:11 - Look proud. - >> Yeah, we got it.
00:38:44 by his best and only friend, but as the last stitch came undone, Jack found himself naked in the
00:42:41 I will not listen to this drivel! Tell me now, psychic!
00:45:51 minute we are in free of charge! >> Time is my business, and time being my business, I must charge
00:48:55 Well, then, what was that heavenly voice? Over there, sir.
00:52:05 I won't be around much longer. >> You smell like shit. Is that blood on your neck?
00:54:56 How did I get out of there anyhow? I carried you.
00:59:26 ¶ and it bothers me still that I've never been to Guam ¶ ¶ and now I never will ¶
01:04:50 we would go down to the quarry. There was always such good swimming in the quarry.
01:08:09 Selfish man! You are not my father. You are... An anti-father.
01:11:02 Pants. >> Even the gaberdines?! Yes, Reginald.
01:15:17 Badgers. "Why a cage full of badgers?" I thought.
01:19:15 You who've gathered 'round ¶ I do know it! ¶ three-piece suit ¶
02:00:00 happenings. While the arts controlled and
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed2,126
Dialogue density23.4 lines / min
First line00:01:02
Final line02:00:00
Production Record
DirectorSol Tryon
LanguageEnglish
IMDb votes987