Sharp Corner (2024)

Plot of Sharp Corner: Josh, Rachel and their son Max move into a house in the country which is sited at the apex of a bend in the road, but they are initially enthusiastic about the relocation. However, almost as soon as they have moved in, a car crashes onto their front lawn, one of the wheels launching itself through their front window. At the same time Josh is passed over for the role of Vice-President of sales in the company for which he works. But there are further crashes on their front lawn with injuries and deaths, causing Rachel to want to sell up and move back into the city. Josh however becomes fixated on the possibility of saving the crash victims to the point where he loses his job, and in one case steals the phone of a dead man, and goes to his funeral, pretending to be an old friend. How bad can it get?

Content: The husband and wife are having non-revelatory sex on her yoga mat when a car’s wheel smashes the front window.  There is a celebratory dinner apparently with their former neighbours in the new house which involves social drinking. Their son seems to be living in fear after a couple of the car crashes, which is why the wife want to move, but the husband becomes involved in the crash situation. He attends therapy sessions which do not seem to do any good. The crashes become more spectacular and Josh becomes weirder, resulting in the failure of his marriage and loss of his job.

A View: This film is generally well thought of for being a portrait of the failure of a marriage. It is a bit of a one note presentation and we might wonder how a company would just sack a long term employee because he is suffering from some sort of a mental breakdown. However, I do like a story which has a beginning, a middle and an end, and this film fails in this regard making it, in my view, extremely disappointing.

Fun Fact: I usually have a look at the trivia in IMDb for something to add at this point. This is the first film I have reviewed, of the almost 2000 on this site, which has No trivia items.