Kill Me Later

Kill Me Later (2001)

Not every hostage wants to be saved!

Her goldfish dead, her lover exposed as a rat, Shawn Holloway leaves her bank post and goes to the roof intent on suicide. Before she can leap, she's taken hostage by Charlie Anders, a fleeing bank robber. He and his partners have stolen a million in cash and plan to escape to Venezuela. Shawn agrees to cooperate if Charlie promises to kill her once he's in the clear. Parts of the plan go awry, so Charlie has time to try to pierce her bleak manner and self pity, and she has time for reflection. As night falls, their interlude ends: they're each alone, Charlie facing prison as the police close in, and Shawn staring down at a river from atop a high bridge.

Date of release
2001-09-14
TMDB
5.5 / 10 (33)
Runtime
1h 29m
Genres
Drama, Thriller, Crime, Romance
Director
Dana Lustig

Casting

Interesting facts

Kill Me Later is a 2001 film directed by Dana Lustig and starring Selma Blair, Max Beesley, Brendan Fehr, Keegan Connor Tracy and Lochlyn Munro.

Production

A large number of filter effects, shutter effects, and jump cuts are used to make long dialogue scenes (particularly between the two cops and between the two lovers) more visually interesting. The audio itself on both is done as a single long take.

Dana Lustig, the director, makes an on screen appearance as Shawn's stepmother.

Kill Me Later's opening theme was the dream pop song "The Old Fashioned Way" by the New York-based band Luna.

In 2005 the German Industrial metal band Rammstein released Spring. Although the song did not have a promotional music video, an unofficial version which features scenes from the film Kill Me Later, became one of the most watched videos of the band on the Internet.

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