Just Before I Go

After his wife leaves him, Ted Morgan spirals into depression and decides to commit suicide. First, he wants to tie up some loose ends. He moves in with his brother Lucky and his family, and confronts his elderly seventh grade teacher, who was abusive towards him, even though she is suffering from dementia in a home for the elderly. When Ted meets her granddaughter Greta, he confides his plan to her and she takes an interest. She wants to document his life leading up to his suicide. He then confronts his childhood bully, Rawly, who apologizes for the way he treated Ted and wants to make amends. He finds out that his wife died of an aneurysm, leaving him behind with a mentally disabled child. They become friends. He sleeps with his high school crush Vickie, who is married with five children. She leaves her family for him, but he eventually tells her he doesn't want a relationship, which hurts her deeply. Ted's nephew Zeke comes out to him as gay and confides that he is afraid that his father would disown him if he knew. Ted comforts Greta after her grandmother dies, and she tries to kiss him. He backs away, however, reminding her that he will be dead soon. She gets angry, and accuses him of "running away". He learns her mother committed suicide, which is why she was interested in his story. After a violent argument with his secret boyfriend, Zeke goes to kill himself by jumping off a cliff. Ted and the rest of the family try to talk him down, but he slips and falls off the cliff. Ted and Lucky jump after him, saving the boy's life. Ted is knocked unconscious, and has a dream in which his long-dead father tells him how important living is. With a new lease on life, Ted decides to stay in town, with Greta, and his family and friends, both old and new.

• Seann William Scott as Ted Morgan
• Olivia Thirlby as Greta
• Garret Dillahunt as Lucky Morgan
• Kate Walsh as Kathleen Morgan
• Kyle Gallner as Zeke Morgan
• Rob Riggle as Rawly Stansfield
• Evan Ross as Romeo Semple
• Cleo King as Berta
• Missi Pyle as Officer CT
• Elisha Cuthbert as Penny Morgan
• Mackenzie Marsh as Vickie
• Connie Stevens as Nancy Morgan
• David Arquette as Albert, Vickie's husband
• Clancy Brown as Ted's father
• Jack Quaid as Dylan

The premiere took place at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival.[4] The film was released in select theaters on April 24, 2015, before a video on demand, digital store, DVD and Blu-ray release on May 12, 2015.[5]

Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregator, reports that 9% of 11 surveyed critics gave the film a positive review; the average rating was 1.9/10.[6] Metacritic rated it 24/100 based on six reviews.[7]

Justin Chang of Variety called it "a dismal, tonally disastrous small-town farce".[1] Frank Scheck of The Hollywood Reporter described it as "a serious misfire" whose tonal shifts would be difficult for a veteran director to manage.[8] Ethan Alter of Film Journal International wrote, "Cox must have seen something in this screenplay that encouraged her to film it, but whatever that critical element was, it’s not apparent in the finished product."[9] Stephen Holden of The New York Times wrote that the film "lurches along a wobbly line between salacious comic nastiness and nauseating sentimentality" without properly integrating them into a cohesive whole.[10] Joe Neumaier of the New York Daily News wrote: "Courteney Cox's misbegotten project is a comedy-drama that, to Cox's credit, doesn't feel at all like a TV sitcom. The former "Friends" star clearly wanted something special, but sadly the result is ... this."[11] In one of the few positive reviews the film received, Gary Goldstein of the Los Angeles Times wrote, "Anchored by a nicely understated performance by Seann William Scott, Just Before I Go effectively juggles a wealth of genuine, at times profound, emotion with quite a bit of nutty-raunchy humor."[12]

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