Death at a Funeral

Name: Death at a Funeral
Genre: Comedy
Released: August 17, 2007
Duration: 87 min
Rating: 67
Cast: Ewen Bremner, Matthew Macfadyen, Peter Dinklage

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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | Release Date: August 17, 2007 | R

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.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

Director: Frank Oz

Genre(s): Comedy

Rating: R

Runtime: 87 min

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Ruthe Stein

The humor manages to be simultaneously sophisticated, supremely silly and very dark. Read full review

Bill White

Although set in England with a predominantly British cast, Death at a Funeral is no stiff-upper-lipped comedy, but a lean, mean, and often crude, farce. Read full review

James Berardinelli

The film's climax is nothing short of hilarious. And Death at a Funeral doesn't discriminate when it comes to the type of humor it embraces it. Everything is in there, from physical hijinks to verbal repartee to naked man jokes to drugs and gross-out stuff. Read full review

Matt Zoller Seitz

There’s no dearth of rude humor on screens right now, but Death at a Funeral stands apart because its characters -- mostly reserved upper-middle-class British folk who have gathered to bury a patriarch -- are determined to keep a stiff upper lip no matter what. Read full review

John Anderson

With a circus parade of mourning Brits and enough appalling circumstances to set proper Englishness back to the Dark Ages, Death at a Funeral pits decorum against sex, drugs and dysfunction. Read full review

Ty Burr

Death" builds slowly and inexorably to a comic explosion that's just too good -- too insanely, impossibly mortifying -- to spoil here. Let's just say it dwarfs everything that has come before it. Read full review

M. E. Russell

Modest in every sense but one: Its cast is huge. Read full review

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MikeH

Oct 3, 2009

Get's better and better every time you watch it!

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Michelle

Aug 19, 2007

Soooooooo funny! It starts out a little slow but then you don't stop laughing until the very end! Incredible!

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Joey

Oct 22, 2007

This was hilarious. Not a typical British comedy, in that it had some definite American influences, but that did not make it any less humorous. My only objection was that on a couple of occasions I could see what was coming next, which spoil it a bit. The humour is fairly low brow, but, This was hilarious. Not a typical British comedy, in that it had some definite American influences, but that did not make it any less humorous. My only objection was that on a couple of occasions I could see what was coming next, which spoil it a bit. The humour is fairly low brow, but, atypically, this does not make it any less funny. A must-see.… Expand

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MinS.

Nov 9, 2007

Wow. British black comedy at its best. We loved it. From us its a definitely must see.

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JustinH.

Apr 8, 2008

Funny, crass at times, but definitely worth a rent.

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sharedsorrows

Jan 17, 2013

If the film is so close to the original as to also be pretty much disposable once its over for sharedsorrows.com, at least it as well serves up a healthy amount of laughs during its very brief and brisk run time.

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StevenG.

Oct 9, 2007

I would have walked out, but my wife who chose this dog would have had hurt feelings so her pride kept us in the theater. A total waste of time (ours) and talent (a good cast).

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