Well, friends it appears that the mind-meltingly irritating cinematic archetype that is the Manic Pixie Dream Girl isn’t going anywhere. Just yesterday I got in a DVD called The Last Word. I couldn’t find a trailer for it on Youtube. The only link I could find for it was to a clip called Winona Ryder-The Last Word-Bouncing Boobs. I will not degrade the integrity of The A.V Club nor appeal shamelessly to the prurient interests of readers by linking to said clip so instead I’m going to give you a taste of what this masterpiece of the cinematic arts is all about via the summary on its back cover:
An odd but gifted poet, Evan Merck (Wes Bentley, American Beauty), makes his living writing suicide notes for the soon-to-be-departed. So when he meets Charlotte (Winona Ryder, Girl Interrupted) the free-spirited sister of his latest client, Evan has no choice but to lie about his relationship to her late, lamented brother. Curiously attracted by his evasive charms, a smitten Charlotte begins her pursuit, forcing Evan to juggle an amorous new girlfriend, a sarcastic new client (Ray Romano, Everybody Loves Raymond), and an ever-increasing mountain of lies.