Death at a Funeral
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67 out of 100

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6.8 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 75 Ratings

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  • Starring: Ewen Bremner, Matthew MacFadyen, Peter Dinklage
  • Summary: On the morning of their father's funeral, the family and friends of the deceased each arrive with his or her own roiling anxieties. Son Daniel knows he will have to face his flirty, blow-hard, famous-novelist brother, Robert, who's just flown in from New York, not to mention the promises of a new life he's made to his wife Jane. Meanwhile, Daniel's cousin Martha and her dependable new fiancé Simon are desperate to make a good impression on Martha's uptight father--a plan that literally goes out the window when Simon accidentally ingests a designer drug en rout to the service. Then there's the mysterious guest who threatens to unveil an earth-shattering family secret. As mayhem and unfortunate mishaps ensue on every front, it is up to the two brothers to hide the truth from their family and friends and figure out how to not only bury their dearly beloved, but the secret he's been keeping. (MGM)… Expand

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 23 out of 30
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 30
  3. Negative: 0 out of 30
  1. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Ruthe Stein
    100
    The humor manages to be simultaneously sophisticated, supremely silly and very dark.
  2. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Sid Smith
    75
    Death at a Funeral is lethal farce, combining hints of "The Lavender Hill Mob," doses of Joe Orton and a smidgen of the Farrelly brothers' scatology in its mix.
  3. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    75
    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.
  4. Empire
    Reviewed by: James Dyer
    60
    A sole potty joke is unnecessarily crass, but for the most part this is joyfully funny.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 27 out of 40
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 40
  3. Negative: 11 out of 40
  1. MikeH
    10
    Get's better and better every time you watch it!
  2. TiagoM.
    8
    The most hilarious film ever made!!! Perfect!
  3. LOLgrantCCod
    7
    Grant you give homosexuals a bad name. Hell, you give human beings a bad name. Please develop a sense of humor and try not to set us back any more years. kthnxbi The movie was decent; not meant for british comedy snobs.… Expand
  4. RichardC.
    2
    Did these critics see the same film I saw? Are they so disenchanted with American cinema that they will fool themselves into thinking this crud is "hilarious" and "outrageous"? I was appalled to be sitting in a screening with strangers who were guffawing at this decidedly low-brow humour. I agree with what another user wrote - I am all for Farrelly Bros.-type comedy if it's billed as such - but I can't abide this unquestioning Anglophilia that gives dreck like this a passing grade just because the actors don't sound like us. At times, I thought I was trapped at home on a Saturday night in mid-winter, grazing on those execrable PBS Britcoms that make up-state NY bourgeoisie feel superior to their neighbours.… Expand

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