Paddleton (2019) on Netflix
Michael learns his cancer is terminal. He asks Andy, his upstairs neighbor and closest friend, to help him end his life, and Andy agrees to the drive for the prescription.
- Netflix4.0/5
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- Rotten Tomatoes89%
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Plot summary
Michael and Andy live in the same building, Andy one floor above, and are each other's closest company. Off work they make pizza, watch a kung fu movie they know by heart, work through jigsaw puzzles, and play a game of their own invention at an abandoned drive-in, hitting a ball toward a barrel. Michael comes back from two oncologists with the news that his cancer is terminal. He has no wish to grow very ill and die in a hospital bed, and through a support group he found a way to end his life by prescription. He asks Andy to be there with him. Andy tells him he should not give up; Michael says he only wants their days together to stay as they are. Andy agrees, and looks for the nearest pharmacy that can fill it.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Paddleton (2019)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- The film was based on the lives of Rob Mermin and Bill Morancy, whose story first appeared as a 2016 podcast episode, "Last Chapter," by Rumblestrip Vermont.
