ON THE COUNT OF THREE

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By Jerrod CARMICHAEL

Black comedy - Completed 2020

Festivals
& Awards

Sundance Film Festival (online) 2021

U.S. Dramatic Competition Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: U.S. Dramatic

- Year of production
- 2020
- Genres
- Black comedy, Drama
- Countries
- USA
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Duration
- 84 mn
- Director(s)
- Jerrod CARMICHAEL
- Cast
- Christopher ABBOTT, Henry WINKLER
- Synopsis
- Val (Jerrod Carmichael) has reached a place where he feels the only way out is to end things. But he considers himself a bit of a failure—his effectiveness lacking—so he figures he could use some help. As luck would have it, Val’s best friend, Kevin (Christopher Abbott), is recovering from a failed suicide attempt, so he seems like the perfect partner for executing this double suicide plan. But before they go, they have some unfinished business to attend to.
  
  Jerrod Carmichael confidently directs and stars in On the Count of Three, a darkly comic debut feature about hopelessness, true friendship, and not always feeling in control. The script, penned by Ari Katcher and Ryan Welch, is clever and nuanced but also deeply compassionate in its depiction of two humans on the verge of giving up. This unusual existential bromance, propelled by Carmichael’s and Abbott’s committed performances and genuine chemistry, is bound to stay with you for a long time.