The High Cost of Living

The High Cost of Living (2010)

 

Oh. My. God. What a terribly depressing movie. What a horribly tragic, sad movie. I like Zach Braff, I really do. This was just sad. I was crying my beanball eyes out.

Zach Braff is a drug dealer (that's important info.). He's all drugged up and driving down a one way street, but the opposite way. Meanwhile, Nathalie is having Braxton Hicks contractions (contractions that happen when you're pregnant. They are not actual labor contractions, they are like prank contractions) and her husband is not home to take her to the hospital. It is night and she looks down the street and crosses but Zach Braff is all drugged up and doesn't see her. Boom. He hits her straight on.

He gets out of the car and calls the ambulance, but he drives away.

Nathalie wakes up in the hospital to doctors telling her that she has lost her baby. The baby is dead but her body is not strong enough to undergo surgery so she will have to wait and deliver her now stillborn child. She ends up meeting Zach Braff (Henry) and they become friends. Henry knows she was the woman he hit because he sent a kid from his friends' restaurant to check on her.

Knowing he was the one to blame, he still takes Nathalie in after she leaves her husband. Nathalie doesn't change her shirt because she doesn't want to have to look at her belly. She finds out Henry is a drug dealer but still accepts him.

Nathalie asks Henry to be there when she has to give birth to her baby (sadness you guys.) and he agrees.

Okay so after this I can't tell you what happens. This is as far as I can go without spoiling any info.

So like I said, a terribly depressing. If you like crying, this is the film for you. If you don't like crying, this is the film for you. This is just a great film. It both equally beautiful and depressing. It's exciting and shocking. It is, like I said, a great film. I love sad films.

5 out of 5 y'all. 5 out of 5.

 

I'm getting choked up watching the trailer...