Cold Souls (2009)

Directed by

Sophie Barthes

Genre

drama film, comedy drama

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 41m

Rated

12

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 180 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Paul Giamatti plays a fictionalized version of himself, an actor feeling overwhelmed by anxiety. He decides to have his soul removed and stored by a company, but his soul gets lost in a trafficking scheme. The film follows his efforts to recover his soul.

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What happens

Cold Souls is a 2009 American science fiction comedy-drama film written and directed by Sophie Barthes. The film features Paul Giamatti, Dina Korzun, Emily Watson, and David Strathairn. Giamatti stars as a fictionalised version of himself, an anxious, overwhelmed actor who decides to enlist the service of a company to deep freeze his soul. Complications ensue when his soul gets lost in a soul trafficking scheme which has taken his soul to St. Petersburg. The film then follows Giamatti desperately trying to recover his soul. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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