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opens with what proves to be its best scene, one that could stand alone as a brilliant short subject. As the titles roll, Zia (Patrick Fugit), a young man, slowly and methodically cleans his messy apartment. He appears to be ready to make a new start of things. Once that last item is put away and the final bit of dust swept up, Zia heads to the bathroom to neatly slit his wrists and carefully bleed directly into the sink. As he falls to the floor, he's annoyed to find one last dust bunny in the corner of the bathroom that he missed. Not even in death can things go right for Zia. He dies only to wake up in an afterlife way station reserved for those who commit suicide. This world is much like the one he left, which prompts him to conclude who could think of a worse punishment, everything's the same, only worse. After hanging out in this drab, monotonous limbo for a while, Zia considers killing himself again, but hesitates when he decides he could end up in an even worse place.

From the opening credits (which flip through pages of a book on paganism intercut with scenes from later in the film),

Davis confessed to being obsessed with James Bond, even going so far as to write his own Bond novels as a kid. Davis, who looks more like Paul Giamatti than Clive Owen, created the script for

One of the reform candidates in the Iranian election is saying that the vote was rigged. Liane Hansen speaks with Ivan Watson in Tehran.

Two men in Boston pleaded not guilty to charges Thursday that they planted devices around that city that prompted a day-long security scare. The devices turned out to be part of a publicity campaign for a TV show. Younger adults say the police overreacted.

The fantasy novel

Perlman is used to emoting under layers of heavy make-up having played a primitive man in

Peter OToole, along with poor Martin Scorsese, has the distinction of receiving eight Oscar nominations but never taking home the gold. This year O'Toole delivers the kind of career-capping performance that the Academy loves. He plays an aging actor in the new film

The Genesis space capsule crashed in the Utah desert on Wednesday after its parachutes failed to deploy. The probe held billions of solar particles -- potential clues to the origins of the solar system. Hear NPR's Howard Berkes and NPR's Robert Siegel.

The U.N. Security Council unanimously approves a resolution demanding Syrian cooperation in the ongoing probe into the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. The United Nations is investigating Syria's alleged role in the killing.