Death at a Funeral (2007)
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- Synopsis
- This nutty British comedy observes with jet-black humor the myriad outrageous calamities that befall an eccentric English clan with more than a few skeletons in its closets when its patriarch dies an unexpected death....
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- Starring
- Matthew MacFadyen, Keeley Hawes, Andy Nyman, Ewen Bremner, Daisy Donovan
- Director(s)
- Frank Oz
- Distributor(s)
- MGM
- MPAA Rating
- R
- Runtime
- 90 min.
Critic Reviews
San Francisco Chronicle | Ruthe SteinAdd Critic to Favorites
The humor manages to be simultaneously sophisticated, supremely silly and very dark.Read the full review
USA Today | Claudia PuigAdd Critic to Favorites
The lack of propriety and solemnity is precisely what makes this comic farce so uproariously funny.Read the full review
Chicago Sun-Times | Roger EbertAdd Critic to Favorites
The movie is part farce (unplanned entrances and exits), part slapstick (misbehavior of corpses) and part just plain wacky eccentricity. I think the ideal way to see it would be to gather your most dour and disapproving relatives and treat them to a night at the cinema.Read the full review
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