Big Shot's Funeral

Starring You Ge, Rosamund Kwan, Donald Sutherland, Da Ying, Paul Mazursky, and Christopher Barden

MPAA RATING: PG for thematic elements, language and brief partial nudity

Sony Pictures Classics
Foreign
100 minutes | Color
China / Hong Kong
Released In Theaters January 17, 2003

A raucous Chinese comedy about the funeral of an American director who dies in China while filming an historical epic.

WRITTEN BY
Xiaogang Feng
Xiaoming Li
Kang Shi

DIRECTED BY
Xiaogang Feng

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

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60	Variety Pic is an obvious but highly accessible entertainment that manages to josh its subjects without being condescending to either Eastern or Western auds.
50	San Francisco Chronicle Of mild interest as a curiosity, but not as entertainment.
40	Film Threat Everything here is broad and very silly, but the offbeat foreign vibe keeps us intrigued, mostly because the film's sense of humor is so unusual and unexpected.