Shed Your Tears and Walk Away (2009)
• October 1st, 2009 • 1h 28min
Documentary, Drama
Overview
Real-life drama about why, in a beautiful and quirky rural town, film- maker Jez Lewis' childhood friends are killing themselves. Beginning with a personal quest for understanding, the film moves into a year-long drama of human tragedy and redemption as principal character Cass comes to terms with his own mortality and attempts to lift himself out of his cycle of self-destruction. This core narrative carves an upward arc through an intimate study of a place often described as paradise, but which harbours an undertow of lethal hedonism and disillusionment. As people continue to kill themselves during the making of the film, a maelstrom of conflicting values throws up unexpected truths about the human condition.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
A Christmas Tale
Released on: 2008-05-16
Comedy, Drama
When their regal matriarch falls ill, the troubled Vuillard family come together for a hesitant Chri...
Bringing Out the Dead
Released on: 1999-10-22
Drama
Once called "Father Frank" for his efforts to rescue lives, Frank Pierce sees the ghosts of those he...
The Police Tapes
Released on: 1977-01-02
TV Movie, Crime, Documentary
The Police Tapes is a 1977 documentary about a New York City police precinct in the South Bronx. The...
The Fatal Legacy
Released on: 1913-09-10
Drama
On his wedding eve Henry Halleck opens a sealed envelope which has been handed down to each generati...
The Void Inside
Released on: 2020-10-21
Documentary
After getting caught in a fight, Vahid needs to sell one of his kidneys to avoid a prison sentence o...
Stolen Kisses: Homosexual Love in Fascist Italy
Released on: 2021-02-14
Documentary, History
Through letters, diaries and personal testimonies, an account of the complexity and variety of exper...
Havana, From On High
Released on: 2019-05-03
Documentary
The chronic shortage of housing in Central Havana has pushed the city upwards, where life spills out...
Being the Queen
Released on: 2020-08-31
Documentary
The story of Queen Elizabeth II from those who know her best.
Land Without Bread
Released on: 1933-12-01
Documentary
An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extrem...
Megacities
Released on: 1998-08-12
Documentary
Megacities is a documentary about the slums of five different metropolitan cities.
Tongpan
Released on: 1977-01-01
Drama, Documentary
Tongpan is a 1977 Thai 16 mm black-and-white docudrama that re-creates a seminar that took place in ...
Leaving Las Vegas
Released on: 1995-10-27
Drama, Romance
Ben Sanderson, an alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his drinking, arri...
My Own Private Idaho
Released on: 1991-02-01
Drama
In this loose adaptation of Shakespeare's "Henry IV," Mike Waters is a hustler afflicted with narcol...
Monster
Released on: 2003-12-24
Crime, Drama
An emotionally scarred highway drifter shoots a sadistic trick who rapes her, and ultimately becomes...
Huff
Released on: 2020-07-15
Drama
Non-judgmental vignette following a day in the life of one young man living inside a poor, small-tow...
I Want to Be
Released on: 2000-06-24
Drama
The short drama film follows the daily life of the Juan and Jorge, two brothers living on the street...
How a Kite Flies
Released on: 2017-04-28
Drama, Comedy
Sir Ian McKellen voices an alcoholic kite. A down-and-out who prefers to hang around his dingy local...
Street Kings
Released on: 2008-04-10
Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Tom Ludlow is a disillusioned L.A. Police Officer, rarely playing by the rules and haunted by the de...
The Mighty Angel
Released on: 2014-01-17
Drama
Jerzy is a writer and a heavy drinker. We meet him at the point when he believes that he can beat hi...