Julian Po

A man brings new life to a small town by announcing that he's killing himself in this low-key comedy-drama that marked a significant change of pace for star Christian Slater. Julian Po (Slater) is a quiet, unassuming bookkeeper -- so quiet and unassuming, in fact, that most people hardly notice that ...more

A strange little parable seen by almost no one, Julian Po has an accomplished enough cast to have gotten noticed, except that it doesn't have anything to say nor style to say it with. In fact, it's such a quiet little comment on the human condition that it seems to exist outside of time or place. The strange behavior of the meddling townspeople is supposed to add enough comedy to leaven the suicidal subtext, but it plays as patently false, a spectrum of self-consciously provincial attitudes for ...more