Invitation to a Suicide (2004)

David Margulies, Alex Scott, Joseph Urla, Ben Wang, Ari Gold ... see more  , Patty O'Brien , Katherine Moennig , Ray Seiden , Stan Carp , Pablo Schreiber , Matthew Rauch , Marika Dominczyk , Marcin Gajowczyk , Tobi Kanter , Stephen Aronson , Edward Band , Michael Orsino , Brandon Reilly , Matthew Sliwinska , Herbert Rogers , Zenon Kruszelnicki , Robert Elmes , Nick Raio , Edward Szala , Sebastian Siedlecki , Joe Urla

Writer-director Loren Marsh's black comedy Invitation to a Suicide - an official selection at the AFI Fest and HBO Comedy Festival - concerns the plight of Kaz Malek, a witless young man raised in a P... read more olish enclave of Brooklyn. In a (very) misguided attempt to escape from his dead-end life as a baker's son, Kaz slyly lifts $10,000 from a Russian mobster, but is promptly caught. The mobster threatens to kill Kaz's father if he can't come up with the payola. To escape from this plight, Kaz devises a wild yet workable scheme: he'll publicly hang himself and sell tickets for the show, thus raising the money to pay off his creditor but dying in honor instead of living in shame over his father's death. To his utter shock, everyone - his father and the Mafioso included - wholeheartedly applauds the idea. But it remains unclear whether Kaz will follow through and off himself. Marsh pulled influence for the film from such classic films as Harold and Maude and King of Hearts. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi