LOGLINE
After a former infantryman dies by suicide, the men who served with him reunite at his rural cabin to clean out his life — only to discover that the brotherhood they mythologized may be the thing keeping another one of them alive.
A cabin cleanout becomes a live intervention. The film uses the practical intimacy and brutal humor of old soldiers to turn postmortem inventory into present-tense suspense.
THE MOVIE
Six veterans gather to clean out the cabin of the friend who killed himself. At first it is inventory: guns, tools, paperwork, a freezer full of meat, a half-built motorcycle.
Brick’s videos, notes and obsessive systems disrupt the simple story everybody brought about why he died. When another member of the old squad disappears into the woods with a rifle, the weekend stops being about Brick’s suicide and becomes about preventing the next one. The men are funny because they are funny with each other, never because suicide or veterans are punchlines.
WHO IT FOLLOWS
A veteran discovering that the stories holding the group together may also hide danger.
Old squadmates fluent in jokes and evasions.
Men carrying different versions of what brotherhood requires now.
The dead friend whose archive refuses their clean explanation.
A perspective outside the squad’s self-protective mythology.
Leave an email. the script and the pitch packet open immediately.
I keep a record of who opens the files so I know who has read what. Your address is never sold, listed, or shared.
Grief among men who would rather insult each other than say the sentence out loud.
The same uniform twenty years earlier, when refusing was still an option.
A punk Army Reservist ordered to deploy to Iraq seeks guidance from his active-duty younger brother; when the brother is killed in action, he prepares to disappear under a fake identity but must decide whether refusing the war means abandoning everyone who still loves him.
OPEN ITThe other reunion built around a death and a job nobody wants.
A young widow gathers her late husband’s closest friends in Joshua Tree to scatter his ashes and record memories for their infant daughter, but the camera exposes how every one of them — including her — mistook digital connection for actually showing up.
OPEN ITSuicide played as comedy, and not kidding about either half of that.
A suicidal man’s carefully planned final night is ruined when his ex-wife drops off a tiny dog — and the little bastard refuses to let him die.
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