Review of Death at a Funeral (2007) by Deb S — 30 Dec 2010
An upper class British family gathers for the funeral of their father. Naturally everything goes wrong. (A comedy which takes place at a funeral! Now that is really innovative thinking lol.).
Daniel (Matthew Macfadyen) is entrusted with the task of providing the eulogy for the funeral rather than his brother Robert (Rupert Graves), who is the bestselling author. He also has to deal with having his wife constantly remind him about their deposit for their new home and a 4 foot tall stranger who seems to have a very shocking secret to reveal should he not get his way.
With the gathering of family and friends, one can expect the bizarre to happen, and here you have it all including the meeting a prospective father-in-law when you're high on hallucinogens (Alan Tudyk in a scene stealing role here), a perpetually missing bottle of "Valium", a pastor who's in a hurry, an old senile uncle with a foul mouth. The characters were just riotous and guaranteed to have you guffawing at the uproarious hilarity of the outrageous situations which all build up to a gut-splitting climax...
This review of Death at a Funeral (2007) was written by Deb S on 30 Dec 2010.
Death at a Funeral has generally received positive reviews.
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