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Title: WILBUR WANTS TO KILL HIMSELF

Reference number: 6819

Date: 2002

Director: d. Lone Scherfig

Sponsor: Zentropa Entertainments6 & Wilbur Ltd. present in association with Scottish Screen, Sigma Films, Danish Film Institute, Nordic Film & TV Fund, TV 2/Danmark, Glasgow Film Officem Sveriges Television AB - SVT Fiktion, Trust Film Sales 2, Nordisk Film B

Producer: [ Sisse Graum Olsen, Gillian Berrie]

Production company: [ Sigma Films, Zentropa]

Sound: sound

Original format: 35mm

Certificate: 15

Colour: col

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 111.00 mins

Description: The chronically suicidal Wilbur and his brother Harbour inherit a second-hand book shop in Glasgow when their father dies. Wilbur survives yet another suicide attempt and goes to hospital, where he meets Horst, a cynical psychologist and empathic head nurse, Moira. Like Harbour, they believe that Wilbur needs a girlfriend, but even though women fall for Wilbur all the time, they cannot get close to him. In fact, it is Harbour who falls in love with a shy and beautiful single mother, Alice. Soon Alice and her younger daughter move into the bookshop and little by little the four of them become inseparable. Wilbur starts regaining his lust for life and Alice starts to come out of her shell. Harbour has never been happier but he carries a deep secret that threatens to surface. [synopsis from Scottish Screen Feature Films 2005 brochure]

Foreign language title is WILBUR BEGAR SELVMORD.

Credits: script w. Lone Scherfig, Anders Thomas Jensen
d. ph. Jorgen Johansson DFF
p. designer Jette Lehmann
ed. Gerd Tjur
sd. designer Rune Palving
composer Joachim Holbek
line p. Karen Bentzon
co-producer Gillian Berrie
exec. p. Peter Aalbæk Jensen

Wilbur Jamie Sives
Harbour Adrian Rawlins
Alice Shirley Henderson
Mary Lisa McKinlay
Horst Mads Mikkelsen
Moira Julia Davis
Sophie Susan Vidler
Taylor Robert McIntosh
Ruby Lorraine McIntosh
Wayne Gordon Brown
Claire Mhairi Steenbock
Doctor Andrew Townsley
Jenny Coral Preston
Male Supervisor Colin McAllister
Porter Owen Gorman
Alan's Father John Yule
Night Nurse Anne Marie Timoney
Suicide Patient 1 Martin O'Connor
Suicide Patient 2 Elaine MacKenzie Ellis
Chinese Waiter Chun-Wah Tsang
Butcher Des Hamilton
Fatima Jazmin Fraser
Angus Rory Elrick
Thomas Lloyd Butler
Child 1 Scott Turner
Child 2 Connall Henderson
Child 3 Amber Randall McLean
Shona Olivia Calder
Morgana Samantha McNiven

[to be completed from Digibeta or paper sources - cannot read type on VHS!]