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Death at a Funeral
Sterben für Anfänger / Funeral Party
UK / Germany / Netherlands / USA 2007
produced by Andreas Grosch, Sidney Kimmel, Laurence Malkin, Diana Phillips, Share Stallings, Philip Elway (executive), William Horberg (executive), Bruce Toll (executive) for Sidney Kimmel Entertainment, Parabolic Pictures, Stable Way Entertainment, VIP 1 Medienfonds, VIP 2 Medienfonds, Film Sales Financing
directed by Frank Oz
starring Matthew Macfadyen, Keeley Hawes, Andy Nyman, Ewen Bremner, Daisy Donovan, Alan Tudyk, Jane Asher, Kris Marshall, Rupert Graves, Peter Vaughan, Thomas Wheatley, Peter Egan, Peter Dinklage, Brendan O'Hea, Jeremy Booth, Angela Curran, Gareth Milne
written by Dean Craig, music by Murray Gold
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Daniel (Matthew Macfadyen) and his wife Jane (Keeley Hawes) have
organized the funeral ceremonies for his father, the family patriarch, at
the family home, and things go wrong pretty much from the start, as first
the funeral home delivers the wrong coffin, then his brother Robert
(Rupert Graves), a famed writer, refuses to do the eulogy or cover half
the funeral costs, as originally agreed. Also, his cousin Martha's (Daisy
Donovan) fiancé Simon (Alan Tudyk) has accidently been drugged by her and
her pharmacist brother Troy (Kris Marshall) and during Daniel's eulogy
topples over the coffin, later climbs onto the roof of the house stark
naked. And then Peter (Peter Dinklage) shows up claiming he had been the
homosexual lover of the deceased, and if they don't pay him his (assumed)
share of the inheritance - he thinks about 15,000 Pounds - he'll show
photos of their affair to everyone. Of course, neither Daniel nor Robert
have the money, and their attempts to get rid of Peter lead to him having
a fatal accident and landing in dad's coffin. And things get even more out
of hand therafter ... Now Death at a Funeral might not
exactly reinvent British comedy, or having all that much new to show,
really - actually it's one of those dark comedies crowded with eccentric
characters and macabre humour the Brits have been so good at churning out
for decades. And that said, Death at a Funeral is quite simply dead
funny, it has everything you'd expect from a film of its ilk, the dialogue
and situation comedy is hilarious throughout, the cast is pretty much top
notch, and the direction is fittingly elegant. Basically, nothing new
maybe - but at a very high level.
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