Midlife crisis? This guy's having a midlife *catastrophe* with receipts.
A stalled novelist struggles through a painful divorce and with other vicissitudes of middle age while searching for sexual fulfillment, emotional consolation, and the elusive possibility of renewal.
Acting
Chernick's committed unraveling of a deeply unlikable man.
Writing
Dialogue so raw it feels like reading someone's therapy notes.
Direction
Zigelstein lets scenes linger past comfort into revelation.
Director
Jesse Zigelstein
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Chernick also wrote the screenplay, drawing from his own experiences in the Canadian literary scene. The Toronto locations are deliberately unglamorous—this is not the city you've seen in 'Scott Pilgrim'.
The title references Keats' concept of embracing uncertainty without rushing to judgment—a cruel irony given Joel's compulsive need to narrate and control every moment of his collapsing life.
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