Whoa! This one threw me. First of all the notes on the back cover mention two of three best friends are not on speaking terms and the third one tries to get them back together. Then on the front cover, the caption reads "Three buddies on the road trip of their lives run into a once-in-a-lifetime woman".

The back cover's description is a very weak description that was somewhat misleading while the caption on the front cover was totally off!

This movie is about death! The one buddy is terminally ill, this is the "shocking secret" that brings the two angry friends together and they go on a roadtrip not only physically but emotionally and mentally as they bond together and come to terms with mortality. As for the once-in-a-lifetime woman, well she is a waitress they meet up with and take with them because she wants to go to California and one of the guys has the hots for her.

This movie is like a guy-version of Terms Of Enderment that touches your heart and at the same time, makes you laugh. Now that is the crazy part about this movie. It IS a comedy to an extent especially with it's cute antics (Tom Howell's, rappin' really took the cake here.) but there are many along the way... But then there is the serious side as the three come to terms with death. The death aspect takes center-stage here, not our once-in-a-lifetime woman nor do the two angry friends who seem to come to some sort of truce for obvious reasons. While dealing with death is the overtone here, somehow the comical aspect harmonizes with the story rather than coming off as morbid.

In the end the movie leaves you touched and sobered. It makes you ponder the fraility of life and the certainty of death and the meaninglessness of quarrels over girls and such. It is sad because death claimed so young a person but even if that were not the case, it makes you realize that nothing is forever.

Very well done.