wilbur want to kill himself begin with a light touch and end with a hammer blow . ah and i think and at last a film with the courage to laugh at death while look it straight in the eye and to derive it humor from a wellspring of suffering and which and after all and be the best and true form of humor . but the dead pan gallows humor and elegantly understated and flat and utterly unadorned and subtle and evanescent and evaporate somewhere in the middle and a breezy absurdity succumbs to a grind hallmark greet card and art house sermon on the meaning of life and to what it be all about . the film too neatly summarize itself when one of the character say and it good when people who have no one find someone . wilbur indeed want to kill himself and try and try again and so that you immediately understand from the onset that the point of the film will be his find a reason not to . fine and it a conceit . the character be fetch enough and and and lo and behold and intelligent thing come out of their mouth . wilbur ( jamie sif ) and with a certain curl of his lip and convey a hint of the insouciant rakish charm of robert downey jr. the love interest ( shirley henderson ) combine a waif like vulnerability with a gnomish sexuality . her daughter ( lisa mckinlay ) be adorable yet completely natural . absurdist touch be provide by a chain smoking psychiatrist ( mads mikkelsen ) and whose utterly world weary expression and flat tone of voice never change and and a casually addled nurse ( julia davis ) and à la lillie tomlin . there be even a couple of memorable image and such a a gaggle of giggly birthday party girl in frilly white see from above amid the dusty earth tone of a used book store . the trouble be with harbour and wilbur brother ( adrian rawlins ) and who so self efface a to serve a a sunday school sermon . such concocted altruism will put a crimp into any free flight of imagination only the unself conscious be funny . although the movie momentarily lose momentum here and there and particularly when the psychiatrist and harbour on separate occasion take time out to discuss the grim pathology of their family history and it breathe it last somewhere in the middle when the focus shift from wilbur to harbour . without give away the story and i can only say the symmetry be too neat and the plot too didactic and plan and the brother too diametrically oppose and one rising and the other sinking and a if on a seesaw .