Imagine if Office Space had a baby with Final Destination, and that baby was VERY unwell.
A disillusioned grocery store employee's quest for life's meaning unravels into increasingly tragicomic situations as he stumbles through a violent and macabre, absurdist odyssey.
Acting
Brian Patrick Butler's deadpan descent into chaos
Direction
Rocca's tonal whiplash between banality and brutality
Director
Matthew Rocca
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Matthew Rocca reportedly wrote the script during his own stint in grocery retail, filming guerrilla-style in actual stores after hours.
The title's double meaning—'morte' as death in Italian and the protagonist's name—suggests the film views identity itself as a fatal condition. Morte cannot separate himself from his own ending.
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