Things to Do in Denver When You’re Dead 1995 123movies

Watch: Things to Do in Denver When You’re Dead 1995 123movies, Full Movie Online – Jimmy the Saint’s business is videotaping the terminally-ill, so that they will be around to give ‘Afterlife Advice’ to their survivors. He hasn’t been doing too well lately and has had to turn to loan-sharks to accomodate his failing business, as well as his expensive personal tastes. When an evil gangster-overlord buys up his note and demands a favor of Jimmy, in exchange for the interest that he can’t afford, Jimmy capitulates. Jimmy is to scare someone for the gangster-overlord–really rough them up. Without giving too much away (spoiler), the scene goes down badly and Jimmy and his crew all end up with contracts on their heads for their trouble..
Plot: Five different criminals face imminent death after botching a job quite badly.
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Ratings:

	6.7/10 Votes: 28,109
	34% | RottenTomatoes
	46/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 308 Popularity: 11.727 | TMDB

Reviews:

subtle and brilliant writing
It would be hard to dislike a film that opens with a Tom Waits tune and gives hitherto typecast actors a chance to, oh, I don’t know: Act. First, Andy Garcia. What can I say about Andy? He’s an attractive guy who all too often gets slated to play “the attractive guy.” (His shamefully undeveloped character from Ocean’s Eleven comes to mind). In this little indy film he gets a chance to actually embody a character and not simply be Andy Garcia (with capital letters). Then there’s his love interest, Gabrielle Anwar (who elevated the already immortal tango in Scent of a Woman). Poor Anwar has been plagued with a lot of stock roles in lame movies since then, but here, like Garcia, she gets to explore her role and show the audience she can do more than make “hey I’m famous. Where’s my check?” Al Pacino look good on the dance floor. Also fantastic are Treat Williams, Steve Buscemi, and Christopher Walken (who bests his Annie Hall AND Pulp Fiction cameos). The story is simple: Andy’s character is an ex-mob guy who’s gone legit then pulled back in for one last job, things go wrong, and he’s got 2 days before he’s going to be killed. In many hands this would be a B movie, but the writing is so clever and unique that this excessively played mob-movie thing seems like it’s done for the first time. There are as many quotable lines in this film as any cult classic; my favorites include: “I knew the kid was lunchy, but not that lunchy.” and meeting Anwar’s character for the first time: “What’s your name?” “Dagney.” “Dagney? Wonderful name. Everyone should know a Dagney.”

If you like films like Usual Suspects that combine the action genre with actual thought and character development rent this film and see if you can watch it only once. In the same ballpark try Way Of The Gun with Benicio Del Toro and Ryan Phillippe, another film where “pretty boys” are actually allowed to explore their craft of acting.

Dark drama with a touch of poetry
“Things to do in Denver When You’re Dead” is a 1995 film starring Andy Garcia, Christopher Walken, Christopher Lloyd, Steve Buscemi, Bill Nunn, Treat Williams, Jack Warden, Gabrielle Anwar and Fairuza Balk. Garcia is Jimmy the Saint, an ex-mobster who now runs a company called Afterlife Advice, where he tapes the words of dying people so that their relatives can come in after they’re gone and listen to them. He’s called in by a paralyzed mobster (Walken) who wants a favor. Jimmy has no choice but to do it, because he owes money and the mobster owns his notes.

On the surface and by mob standards, the favor is pretty benign. The Walken character has a child molester in the making son who is in love with a woman he dated for years. She left him and is now engaged to someone else. Her fiancé is due in town, and the Walken character wants him frightened out of seeing her anymore.

Jimmy gets a crew together, two men to pose as cops and some guys to sit nearby and do the scaring once the cops bring him over. Unfortunately, due to a ridiculous decision by Jimmy (and THE major plot hole), a loose canon known as Critical Bill (Williams) is allowed to be one of the police. Unbeknownst to the men, the young woman is asleep in the back seat, her fiancé realizes the guys aren’t cops, Critical Bill becomes critical, and both she and her fiancé wind up dead. The Walken character puts out buckwheat hits on everyone, meaning that they don’t die instantly. He gives Jimmy 48 hours to get out of town. Jimmy spends it trying to help the others disappear, helping a young hooker (Balk) and dealing with his love for a woman (Anwar). In his own way, Jimmy the Saint brings things full circle in a way that makes sense for his own life.

Violent, sad and depressing, “Things to do in Denver When You’re Dead” has some brilliant performances and some very likable characters. Everyone is a standout, most especially Garcia, Lloyd and Williams. The film is punctuated with the advice from the elderly on tape, which gives the film a bittersweet flavor. Very well directed by Gary Fleder, with a somewhat derivative but good script by Scott Rosenberg.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 55 min (115 min)
Budget 8000000
Revenue 529766
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Crime, Drama, Thriller
Director Gary Fleder
Writer Scott Rosenberg
Actors Andy Garcia, Christopher Walken, Christopher Lloyd
Country United States
Awards 2 wins
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Panavision Cameras and Lenses
Laboratory Consolidated Film Industries (CFI), Hollywood (CA), USA
Film Length 3,229 m
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm