Tuesday, February 4, 2014

If you like The Money Pit, you will love...

Death at a Funeral – England (2007)


Now, let me start off by saying that I mean the British version of this movie with Game of Throne's Peter Dinklage and most definitely not the American version with Chris Rock (it may have been okay, but I have not seen it).

This movie couldn't be set at a more somber event... a funeral. Daniel is put in charge of organizing his father's wake and things couldn't go any, er, worse. A family secret is on the brink of exposure and just when you think one tiny thing goes wrong, the next domino falls, setting off a whole chain of events. Can Daniel keep the funeral seemingly together for all of its guests or will it go down in flames?

This movie is outrageously funny, and just when you think you have a chance to stop laughing, you've gotten ahead of yourself. Roger Ebert said, "The movie is part farce, part slapstick and part just plain wacky eccentricity." If you've ever seen a British comedy and liked it, I think this is definitely a film to put on your lists.

No comments:

Post a Comment