Fetching Cody

I watched this movie years ago, and it was an immediate favourite of mine. I like Jay Baruchel's acting in this movie. It's amazing. The soundtrack is good, and I liked when there's no music, especially in the apartment scenes. I like the setting and locale of this movie, makes it feel more real. But The time travel aspects of this movie they don't execute well. Where was the paradoxes? How come timelines weren't messed up? Overall, it's the butterfly effect but with druggies in early 2000's Vancouver Canada, and without the usual time travel stuff. There is better movies, but this one just holds a special place in my heart.

Inner city homeless teenage boy in love with inner city almost homeless teenage dropout who also does some prostituting and drug abuse on the side. The boy is a depressing little guy who likes to take drugs, spaces out, has homeless friends, distrusts authority and lies an awful lot! One day while breaking into his girlfriend Cody's apartment, he finds her unconscious.

Ambulance guys suddenly come in, we don't know who called them. They ask him how long has she been out and he lies and says she just let him in (again with the lies).

She ends up in a coma in the hospital and is near death. This low IQ scum just doesn't get it and goes into denial. Somehow he ends up in a homeless place that has a sofa chair. The sofa chair turns out to be a time/space machine. You tell it where you want to go and it does it.

He goes back to before "Cody got messed up" and finds that she was embarrassed with her period during gym class. After two or so failed attempts to get her tampons he finally succeeds in doing so. Why he thinks Cody going through her period made her quit high school and go on drugs is anyone's guess.

The movie is somewhat endearing and heartwarming. He is guessing on what's up with his druggie girlfriend and going back in time to try to "save" her.

The movie is mildly interesting how Art tries to fix her past to fix her present and goes through all kinds of nonsense to handle her. But it's one of those time travel stories that has changes just make things worse. The final "twist" was predictable, but cute.

It's like a director pretending to be a Kevin Smith movie using a sofa chair time machine, with Tenderloin bums as movie stars.

Mildly recommended.

Major movie studios should take some notes here; although this movie looks like it was shot on a minimal budget, the originality of the concept and the continued surprises make it very watchable.

Our protagonist, a drug dealer and male prostitute, tries to make his girlfriend's rotten life better. He repeatedly makes the effort, sometimes not achieving the results he was expecting. The cast of characters, the script and the acting were all well done and believable.

The action all takes place among street people, prostitutes and drug dealers, an unlikely venue for romance. However, it works and kept me interested throughout, wanting to see how it would end up.

I loved this movie great characters and great cinematography i suggest seeing this movie! good job Mr ray. I love Jay in this movie. He was very funny with his comedic takes. Sarah was also very good. I loved the scene at Christmas it was very well down. Kudos to the writer. This movie did pretty well in Vancouver. I saw it twice and every time i liked it more and more. It wasn't what i thought it would be though. I expected it to be just a movie. But its more then that. It shows the dark side of the beautiful Vancouver. There wasn't any over the top stuff it was all very realistic. The part where she is talking with Jay and she then walks away and gets in a car with a guy is very powerful. I love this movie!

Art Frankel (Jay Baruchel) arrives at his girlfriend Cody's apartment to find that she has overdosed on heroin. He tries to fix things by traveling back in time in an attempt to prevent her death.

This is a weird time travel story, that largely avoids the fun paradox issues, and comes across something like "Butterfly Effect" (but less dramatic). I wanted to like it, and did for a while, but it became more stale as the time ticked on.

I appreciate the attempt an found it to be rather clever in a number of ways, but never never enough... there was nothing in this film that made it really stand out and be worth recommending to another viewer.