The Living Wake

Kevin Thomas

Sol Tryon's "The Living Wake" seems but a protracted act of stultifying self-indulgence — but then maybe that's the point. It stars stand-up comic Mike O'Connell, who looks like a shorter, stockier Conan O'Brien, as an incessantly eccentric would-be literary lion who, convinced by his doctor he is soon to die from a grave but unidentified disease, gathers his neighbors to put on a show that is to end with him dropping dead. [...]

di Kevin Thomas, articolo completo (1654 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 21 maggio 2010