THE AIR I BREATHE - starring Sarah Michelle Gellar

• VICTOR RIVERS (Eddie)
• EMILE HIRSCH (Tony)
• BRENDAN FRASER (Pleasure)
• KELLY HU (Jiyoung)
• SARAH MICHELLE GELLAR
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A drama based on an ancient Chinese proverb that breaks life down into four emotional cornerstones: happiness, pleasure, sorrow and love. In a series of interrelated vignettes, a businessman bets his life on a horse race; a gangster sees the future; a pop star (Gellar) falls prey to a crime boss; and a doctor must save the love of his life. Clark Gregg (Henry) was Ken O'Donnell in A WOMAN NAMED JACKIE. and is Richard Campbell in "The Old Adventures of New Christine".

The first thing we see on screen is a quote from Henry Ward Beecher, an abolitionist preacher from the mid to late 19th century. Beecher was a Bill Clinton-like progressive, and the quote reads: "No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form." Sorrow, Love, Happiness, and Pleasure are the four main characters in this film based on a Japanese proverb. Trysta (Sorrow) is Gellar's role and somehow this film, which could have been written by Vonnegut, did not get Oscar consideration. It is thought-provoking and cinematically striking.

Trysta apparently saw her father struck and killed by a car when she was a child.

One of the flashbacks with Julie Delpy is from VOYAGER, a film Delpy did with Sam Shepard, who played Gellar's father in THE RETURN.

Sarah Michelle Gellar does not sing in this film. "Sweet Spot" sung by her character (popstar TRYSTA) is voiced by Kim Wayman.

On the soundtrack, which has not been issued on CD, The Concretes perform a song called "Tomorrow" written by their ex-lead-singer Victoria Bergsman who is now with Taken By Trees.

The film played in only 7 theaters in the US before being released on DVD. It grossed $25,775.

Here is a mistake:

The monitor by Julie's bed in the hospital clearly shows her to be a male adult (Look at the top of the screen where I have circled).

• VICTOR RIVERS (Eddie)
• EMILE HIRSCH (Tony)
• BRENDAN FRASER (Pleasure)
• KELLY HU (Jiyoung)
• SARAH MICHELLE GELLAR
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