The Living Wake
“The Living Wake” is 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.
Comedy
Jesse Eisenberg as Mills, Mike O'Connell as K. Roth Binew, Jim Gaffigan as Lampert Binew, Ann Dowd as Librarian, Colombe Jacobsen-Derstine as Prostitute, Eddie Pepitone as Reginald