Things I Never Told You

Things I Never Told You (also known as Cosas que nunca te dije) is a 1996 Spanish-American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Isabel Coixet and starring Lili Taylor and Andrew McCarthy. Plot The film opens with a voice-over by Don, who states that in life and relationships, "anything can happen." Ann works at a camera shop in a small town in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. One day, she gets dumped by her boyfriend who is in Prague by phone. She makes a halfhearted suicide attempt by drinking a bottle of nail polish remover. After leaving the hospital, her psychiatrist gives her the number of a crisis help line. One evening, still distraught over being abandoned by her boyfriend, Ann calls the number and speaks with Don, who volunteers there because he finds it less depressing to talk with other depressed people about their problems than to stay at home and feel sorry for himself. They make an emotional connection, but she hangs up on him when Don admits that he doesn't really know what love is. Ann begins making a series of emotional videos addressing her ex-boyfriend about how desolate and lonely she is. She gives the tapes to a neighbor who works at a package delivery service to send to Prague, but he secretly opens the packages and watches the tapes, becoming infatuated with Ann.