The End
Are there laughs before death?
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Release Date
5/10/1978Runtime
100 minsGenres
Overview
Wendell Lawson has only six months to live. Not wanting to endure his last few months of life waiting for the end, he decides to take matters into his own hands and enlists the help of a delusional mental patient to help him commit suicide.
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ReleasedOriginal Language
EnglishBudget
$3,000,000Revenue
$45,000,000Homepage
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A terminally ill man and a delusional hospital patient embark on a darkly comic odyssey to engineer the former's exit from life, finding unexpected companionship in their macabre quest. It's a film that mines genuine laughs and pathos from the absurdity of confronting mortality head-on.
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Heads up
Burt Reynolds
Wendell Sonny Lawson
Dom DeLuise
Marlon Borunki
Sally Field
Mary Ellen
Strother Martin
Dr. Waldo Kling
David Steinberg
Marty Lieberman
Joanne Woodward
Jessica Lawson
Norman Fell
Dr. Samuel Krugman
Myrna Loy
Maureen Lawson
Kristy McNichol
Julie Lawson
Pat O'Brien
Ben Lawson
Robby Benson
Father Dave Benson
Carl Reiner
Dr. James Maneet
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