Just Before I Go

Synopsis

Ted Morgan decides to commit suicide; but before he goes, he returns to his hometown to settle some scores. Things don't go as planned.

Cast

Production

As of July 10, 2013, filming was under way in Los Angeles.

Release

The premiere took place at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival. The film was released in select theaters on April 24, 2015 before a video on demand, digital store, DVD and Blu-ray release on May 12, 2015.

Reception

Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregator, reports that 10% of 10 surveyed critics gave the film a positive review; the average rating was 1.9/10. Metacritic rated it 24/100 based on six reviews.

Justin Chang of Variety called it "a dismal, tonally disastrous small-town farce". Frank Scheck of The Hollywood Reporter described it as "a serious misfire" whose tonal shifts would be difficult for a veteran director to manage. Ethan Alter of Film Journal International wrote, "Cox must have seen something in this screenplay that encouraged her to film it, but whatever that critical element was, it’s not apparent in the finished product." Stephen Holden of The New York Times wrote that the film "lurches along a wobbly line between salacious comic nastiness and nauseating sentimentality" without properly integrating them into a cohesive whole. Joe Neumaier of the New York Daily News wrote: "Courteney Cox's misbegotten project is a comedy-drama that, to Cox's credit, doesn't feel at all like a TV sitcom. The former "Friends" star clearly wanted something special, but sadly the result is ... this." Gary Goldstein of the Los Angeles Times wrote, "Anchored by a nicely understated performance by Seann William Scott, Just Before I Go effectively juggles a wealth of genuine, at times profound, emotion with quite a bit of nutty-raunchy humor."