Genre			Romantic drama
Parents			Offensive language, nudity, sexual content
Length			1:35
Director			Amy Redford
Writer			Gillian Horvat Amos Poe
Company			Lightning Media
Starring			Saffron Burrows Isaach De Bankolé Paz de la Huerta Ashlie Atkinson Lawrence Ballard Chris Bauer Show more... Saffron Burrows Isaach De Bankolé Paz de la Huerta Ashlie Atkinson Lawrence Ballard Chris Bauer Bill Camp Joel Cannon Lori Tan Chinn Janeane Garofalo Mark A. Keeton Mia Kucan William Leroy Amitesh Manchanda Sonia Manzano Elizabeth Marvel Owen McCarthy John Melville Reg Rogers Richard Short Ben Toro Adam Trese David Wain Virginia Wing
Links			Official Web Site

How would you behave if you had to confront your own mortality? Especially if you were young, in your twenties or early thirties, how would you react if you learned you had less than two months to live? These questions create the point of departure for Amy Redford's whimsical fairytale The Guitar, a thoroughly engaging almost mythological allegory that is fueled by the exceptional performance of Saffron Burrows and executed with style by its director.

One morning Mel, a mousy, harried New Yorker with a thankless job and an even-less-appealing boyfriend learns that the tumor in her throat is cancerous; the diagnosis is terminal, so it seems that both her job and her relationship are kaput. Rather than lying down and dying then and there, she embarks on an endless spree, the kind of self-indulgent wish fulfillment that we have all fantasized about.