“A Wreck Without You” (** out of four) was an earnest but slight melodrama about a young man (Alexander Roberts) whose lover (Rya Meyers) disappears without a trace and without any reason; years later he moves on with a new girlfriend (Camille Hendricks) but still finds himself psychologically stuck and this worsens once he receives a box which soon solves the mystery of what happened with his former lover. Interesting themes of guilt and lost love but story fails to ignite emotionally; shot in grainy black-and-white photography but that also becomes mundane after a while, much like the film itself. Similar story covered in much more horrific terrain in “The Vanishing.”

Leave a comment