Not since Leaving Las Vegas has a film about death-by-consumption hit so hard. Mark Pellington’s I Melt With You mimics the debauchery of Fear And Loathing in Las Vegas and The Hangover so it’s not for the faint of heart. There is vomiting. There are massive amounts of pills and booze, foul sexual jokes and enough cocaine to make Charlie Sheen blush. But behind the suitcases of numbing agents, I Melt With You is a poignant study of what it means to be a man in his forties, looking at his life through the naive eyes of his college self. Each of the main players give brilliant performances in this vivid avalanche of despair, loyalty, friendship, and hopelessness.

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