A strange man owns a self-storage facility and lives in a reality of his own, until reality comes crashing down.
Writer/Director: Percy Adlon
Stars: Donald Sutherland, Lolita Davidovich, Brendan Fraser, Sally Kellerman, Linda Hunt.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108636/
Watched online part1 (search for 2 other parts); mediocre copy, and frequent commercials.
No songs listed in the Soundtracks; the only reason this is tagged Music is because a self-playing Wurlitzer is part of the plot.
LD is the dumpy wife with a heart condition, married to DS. Her family owned the business, and she runs it, but he's there every day to charm the folks. They have a son BF in business school in England.
DS has a dalliance with a woman on the Wurlitzer, which is directly above LD's office, so she hears it and has a heart attack and dies. She's buried before BF comes home, having graduated from college. He tries to make sense of the business records, and discovers they're broke.
DS sees his dead wife in daytime mirages, and talks with her. Each time he sees her she's younger (and that's also his last name, and the name of the business is Younger Self Storage), until finally she's her ideal age. Then he can touch her, because he's died (don't remember how, but he's had various physical mishaps along the way.)
HH plays an author who uses her SS unit to write (she has them lock her in). She helps BF understand that he can't get business answers from DS because mom ran things.
There's a running gag with rabbits on the loose and growing in population. Perhaps showing the rabbits humping was linked to DS behavior. I didn't get it.
SK plays a (former?) star who's around with her daughter; daughter & BF get married and all 3 run the business at the end.
I can't imagine why such big-name actors were attracted to this project. Rated 5.4 by 400 IMDb users. AVOID.
indie, dir. Adlon; 5
