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- 2010
- PG-13
- Dignity Distribution
- 1 h 40 m
- 2010
- PG-13
- Dignity Distribution
- 1 h 40 m
Summary The comedy is about an Indian mother who takes her obsession with marriage into frighteningly funny territory. (Hoyts Distribution)
Directed By: Gurinder Chadha
Written By: Paul Mayeda Berges, Gurinder Chadha
- 2010
- PG-13
- Dignity Distribution
- 1 h 40 m
- 2010
- PG-13
- Dignity Distribution
- 1 h 40 m
It's a Wonderful Afterlife
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Summary The comedy is about an Indian mother who takes her obsession with marriage into frighteningly funny territory. (Hoyts Distribution)
Directed By: Gurinder Chadha
Written By: Paul Mayeda Berges, Gurinder Chadha
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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71% Mixed
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29% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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0% Positive
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
71% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
29% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
A kind of Ealing Comedy throwback that is arguably her best film since Beckham.
May be a busy trifle, but it has its good-natured charms and agreeable gross-outs.
A feel-good flick about a serial killer who just wants what's best for her daughter. Broad and not too spicy, the London-set Indian rom-com is a crowd-pleaser.
With jokes that routinely miss the mark and cringeworthy slapstick, this black comedy farce shouldn't work. Somehow, though, it does.
While her latest, It's a Wonderful Afterlife, is affectionate and energetic, its comic premise seems too silly, and at times, too tedious, to hope for much cross-cultural appeal, despite a fine, committed cast.
Every gag is smothered by the prevailing tone of labored zaniness and generic, plucky "mischief music" alerting discerning viewers to abandon all hope of laughter.
It's a Wonderful Afterlife is a movie to make Frank Capra roll over in his grave from indigestion.
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Production Company
Bend It Films,
Indian Film Company,
Studio 18
Release Date Oct 8, 2010
Duration 1 h 40 m
Rating PG-13
Tagline A romantic comedy of karmic proportions.
Awards
Irina Palm d'Or
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film (BIFFF)
• 1 Nomination
