Next Exit

After the existence of an afterlife is confirmed, a research scientist launches a study in which volunteers will commit suicide in order to help unravel the mysteries of death. Travelling from New York to San Francisco to participate in the study, two strangers share a rental car on the last road trip of their lives.

If you watch enough films and tv shows, you’ll eventually realize that the biggest cliches, and the most familiar tropes, are basically unavoidable, as they’re used over and over and over again. Sometimes they’re utilized in new and interesting ways, and sometimes they’re not.

Next Exit is an example of the latter.

To rephrase the synopsis… Two distraught strangers, seeing no reason to continue living, and eager to end it all, are on their way to voluntarily commit suicide as part of a scientific study of the afterlife. But, due to a series of mishaps and coincidences, and unwilling to wait, they decide to journey cross-country together, all the way from New York to San Francisco. Along the way, the pair not only end up experiencing love, life, and joy, finding not only each other and themselves… but they maybe even find a new reason to live another day.

Does anyone want to bet me whether or not they choose life at the 11th hour?

Snoozer.