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IMDb rating 6.8
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Critic rating 6.5

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Critic William Thomas
rated 8

...a gentle, wistful romance, full of marvellously off-key humour.

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Critic Jesper Vestergaard
rated 5

På overfladen ser det fint ud: Karaktererne er velspillede, billederne smukke og rolige.

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Cast & Crew

Lone Scherfig
Director
Julia Davis
As Moira
Jamie Sives
As Wilbur
Mads Mikkelsen
As Horst
Nick Smith
As Dr. Robert McElung (uncredited)

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Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself is a heartwarming comedy-drama about two brothers, Wilbur and Harbour, who inherit a second-hand bookshop in Glasgow after their father's death. Wilbur, a melancholic soul, has tried to kill himself multiple times, but his latest attempt leads him to meet Horst, a cynical psychologist, and Moira, a head nurse, who believe he needs a girlfriend. Despite his reluctance, Wilbur starts dating Moira, but his feelings for her are complicated by his growing attraction to Alice, a woman he meets at the bookshop. Meanwhile, Harbour, Wilbur's older brother, discovers he has pancreatic cancer and struggles to come to terms with his own mortality. The film follows the brothers' journey as they navigate their way through life, love, and death, in a series of both tragic and comedic events.

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