The Most Fun You Can Have Dying is a 2012 New Zealand romantic drama film directed by Kirstin Marcon and starring Matt Whelan, Roxane Mesquida and Pana Hema Taylor.
[1][2] The film follows Michael, a university student who on being told he has only a few months to live decides to take his life into his own hands and enjoy every minute he has left.
[6][7] The story begins in Hamilton, New Zealands fourth largest city where Michael (Matt Whelan) lives in a run down student flat with his best friend David (Pana Hema Taylor).
The community of Cambridge, a small town where Michael grew up raise $200,000 in an attempt to save his life through a revolutionary medical programme in the United States.
Michael and Sylvie then begin to travel a snow swept Europe taking in the sights in Paris, Munich, and Berlin.
Michael persuades David to risk all their money on the roulette table and they end up winning hundreds of thousands of Euros.
Lydia Jenkin in the New Zealand Herald wrote that "..this is one of the most memorable local films to emerge in a long time, with beautiful icy cold cinematography and characters of gravity and realism, but it's not one for the faint-hearted".
[9] Graeme Tuckett wrote that "..the film is a road trip, of sorts, a fantasy of youth and waste, and at times a thoughtful and quite incisive existential sketch of what it's like to hate yourself, when everyone around you thinks you're actually just fine".