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Generally favorable reviews- based on 18 Ratings

  • Starring: Hank Azaria, Jesse Bradford, Ray Romano, Rip Torn
  • Summary: A wickedly irreverent comedy, Eulogy is ultimately a heartwarming portrait of a houseful of misfits celebrating the strangest and most enduring bond of all: family. (Lions Gate Films)
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 12
  2. Negative: 6 out of 12
  1. Reviewed by: Clint Morris
    60
    It's more about watching an ensemble cast try to one-up one another's performance than anything else – and for what it is, it works.
  2. Character eccentricities and off-kilter group dynamics play out with a comic vengeance.
  3. In the expanding genre of quirky comedies, first-time writer-director Michael Clancy's messy, fitfully funny Eulogy is among the quirkiest.
  4. 38
    That Eulogy has any laughs is largely a testament to the understated Romano -- he and Deschanel are the only ones in the cast who aren't straining to be funny.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 10
  3. Negative: 1 out of 10
  1. TimG.
    10
    Zooey Rules! You super fun power hour girl of 2005 and beyond! oh ! Almost forgot Elf! That 2004...You rocked the house with that one too! And Famke why you no say hi to me in new york? I bumped into you three times in virgin and soho and nomoho and you ignored me like I was dirty cat in crazy alley. Gotta go.Oh, by the way These critics got stick up patootie! Expand
  2. ChadS.
    6
    In a movie that features a grandmother who pulls an Elliott Smith in a moving vehicle, at least the filmmaker has the common sense to cut short a family-sing-along before the clan's inevitable reconciliation totally drowns in bathos. "Eulogy" is about another dysfunctional family that deep down actually loves each other. It at least has more laughs than "The Family Stone". Lesbians are always a lot of fun. The realness of Zooey Deschanel helps offset the comic broadness that plagues an almost unrecognizable Debra Winger and her unlikely family. At least "Eulogy" has a short running time. Expand
  3. [Anonymous]
    1
    Waste of time... script idea was stolen from an intelligent indie called In Memory of My Father which is not yet released... Eulogy is a weak attempt at an idea that could have been brilliant, resulting in a bunch of talented actors not trying to come together... the coalition of the unwilling. Expand

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