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Roderick and Gillian meet in a diner, where they share a meal and conversation. Gillian reveals that she was a Poetry/Chemistry student who married young and was forced to perform degrading sexual favors with her husband, who also physically abused her. After his death, which was inadvertently caused
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The epilogue reveals that Roderick and Gillian survived the pills, and that Gillian's name was not the last on the list because of impending death but rather because Roderick decides to remain monogamous with her. They are happily married and have a son. Death Nell's comatose victims are revived and
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This is confirmed by a group of three mysterious named Alpha, Beta and Fred from a group called the Agency, who tell him the list was mistakenly emailed to him. It originates, they say, from a machine that the Agency has which predicts the future. Alpha, the leader, urges Roderick not to tell anyone
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Gillian reveals that she is exhausted from the whole ordeal and unsure if she has the conviction to continue. Roderick and Gillian connect, and agree to each take the sedative together. They take the pills simultaneously, and spend the night together, with "The End" spray painted on the wall behind
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He falls for Miranda, Lester's charming and quirky veterinarian, after believing she is the next name on the list and finding they have much in common, only to discover that she does not return his feelings, and wants to be "just friends". He digs up the list and discovers she was not listed, after
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Roderick Blank is a successful young businessman with a great job as an executive for "Swallows", a high end fast food restaurant chain, and a beautiful fiancée, Fiona Wormwood. On the day of his bachelor party, he is emailed a list of all the women he has slept with. Strangely, while the list has
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Roderick cancels his upcoming wedding and begins to sequentially bed all the people on the list. Although he makes a connection with some of the women, he is unable to settle down and is compelled to continue until he has crossed all names off the list. His friends become concerned for his mental
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He assumes the list is a prank, courtesy of his best friends Zack and Lester – until he meets number 30, Carlotta Valdez, who is the stripper at his bachelor party. After sleeping with Carlotta, he realizes the list does, in fact, comprise all of his sexual partners, both past and
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With twenty more names left on the list, he decides to abandon it altogether and takes up various hobbies to keep him from giving in to temptation. After an accident during a bike ride, he is found by a group of female students (all virgins) from a Catholic college who believe that he has been
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But after her most recent conquest, she accidentally leaves behind her drivers license, exposing her real identity, Gillian De Raisx, to the world. Roderick's precarious mental state is compromised when he realizes the last name on his list is Gillian's.
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Knowing that Death Nell is the last person on his list (and that he may not survive a night with her) Roderick tries to change his destiny, first by becoming a shut in, and then by tracking down another Gillian de Raisx in
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Throughout all this, a female vigilante, nicknamed by the media "Death Nell", has been taking revenge on men who she feels have taken sexual advantage of women. She seduces these men and then drugs them to induce a
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well-being and convince him to bury the list. Before he does that, he sees only part of the next name, including "Dr." and the first few letters.
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since it could cause unrest. He also warns him to destroy the list since it could ruin his life, but Roderick ignores this at first.
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by Gillian, she realized that she could dish out similar punishments to other men who treated women badly.
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a brief scene at the Agency suggests that Roderick and Gillian's union was fated.
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grossed under $ 24,000 domestically (United States and Canada), and $ 1.2
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which she has an untimely accidental death. He continues on his mission.
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Films with screenplays by Daniel Waters (screenwriter)
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2007 dark comedy science fiction film by Daniel Waters
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Leslie Bibb
Tanc Sade
Patton Oswalt
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Dash Mihok

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