Cold Souls (2009)
Cold Souls is a surreal comedy in which souls can be extracted and traded as commodities. Starring Paul Giamatti as a neurotic actor named Paul Giamatti. He is rehearsing the title role in Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya, agonizing over his interpretation, paralyzed by anxiety and feeling the burden of the role. Giamatti’s agent shows him an article in The New Yorker about a new service “Soul storage”, where your soul can be extracted and held in storage. Dr. Flintstein gives his patients the opportunity to live less complicated lives. Giamatti goes to Flintstein’s office for the procedure only to discover that his soul is the shape and size of a chickpea. However, he enlists their services, intending to reinstate his soul once he survives the performance. As a result he becomes happier but also a bad actor. But when he wants to reverse the process, his soul can’t be found. It seems that a mysterious, soul-trafficking mule borrows Giamatti’s stored soul for an ambitious, but talentless, soap-opera actress. So Giamatti has a Russian donated soul installed in place of his own.
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