The movie is short. The pace is very slow. The plot is all over the place. The characters don't say much. The mood is dark. And I quite liked the movie. It is billed as a dark comedy, though it has more dark than comedy.Story is about this guy Gary Kelp whose Dad passed away. He and his sister go to the morgue only to find that their Dad is not "whole" anymore, as their Mom has agreed to donate his vital organs. He's all dazed and confused. Back at the InfoDigest office, his boss Bob asks him to condense "The Illustrated Family Doctor," a graphically-illustrated medical textbook chock full of gross graphic bloody pictures. The more he edits the book, it seems like the more he starts to get the symptoms mentioned in the book.
Ultimately, he ends up in the hospital, where he was diagnosed with renal failure.By the time he got back to work, he's looking and feeling much better. Unfortunately, his mentor-friend Ray disappeared - most probably killed off by this gangster, whose exploits Ray's supposed to document in a true crime series. Anyway, Kelp gets a kidney from a donor, and realizes that life's too short to slave away in the office.
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