Cold Souls

After stressed out, neurotic actor Paul Giamatti takes the advice of a self-serving, high-tech doctor (David Strathairn) in New York and puts his chickpea soul in cold storage in an attempt to alleviate his anxiety over his role in Uncle Vanya and then decides that he wants his soul returned when he notices a negative impact on his acting and his worried wife (Emily Watson) becomes concerned due to his personality changes in this tepid, biting, satirical, surreal, metaphysical, black comedy reminiscent of Charlie Kaufman's Being John Malkovich and Eternal Sunshine of the Eternal Mind, he ends up in Russia when he learns that a sexy, blonde soul trafficker (Dina Korzun) has his soul on hold for an untalented Russian actress who stars in a tacky soap opera.
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