
Daniel is a decent young man, married to Jane, still living at his father's home. When his father dies, it is up to him to organize his funeral. On this painful morning, the suitable grave expression on his face, Daniel is ready to welcome his father's friends and relatives. But preserving the dignity inherent in such circumstances will be a hard task. Particularly with an undertaker who botches his work, the return from the USA of his famous but selfish brother, his cousin's... (Full plot summary below)
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Daniel is a decent young man, married to Jane, still living at his father's home. When his father dies, it is up to him to organize his funeral. On this painful morning, the suitable grave expression on his face, Daniel is ready to welcome his father's friends and relatives. But preserving the dignity inherent in such circumstances will be a hard task. Particularly with an undertaker who botches his work, the return from the USA of his famous but selfish brother, his cousin's fiancé who has accidentally ingested drugs, the presence a moron who takes advantage of the sad event to win back the heart (or rather the body) of a woman who is about to marry another, of a handicapped old uncle who is also the most unbearable pain in the neck. To cap it all, Daniel notices the presence among the mourners of a mysterious dwarf nobody else seems to know...
Leave your thoughts about Death at a Funeral.
| San Francisco ChronicleRuthe SteinThe humor manages to be simultaneously sophisticated, supremely silly and very dark. |
| USA TodayClaudia PuigThe lack of propriety and solemnity is precisely what makes this comic farce so uproariously funny. |
| eFilmCritic.comBrian OrndorfI'm just thrilled Oz is recharging his directorial mojo, making a funny movie that contains some actual funny |
| The Film YapNick RogersWhen turned loose on accessible, not altogether-insincere dark-comedy scenarios, Frank Oz understands humor at a molecular level of structure, volume and timing. An impossible last-shot stinger aside, "Death at a Funeral" is farce at its most flawless. |
| CinerinaKarina MontgomeryA slow burn that snowballs into a rip-roaring and veddy British climax. Very enjoyable! Please read review. |
| TimeRichard SchickelInsanely funny, if occasionally out-of-control, black farce. |
| Mark Reviews MoviesMark DujsikA fine example of how much tone and execution affect low humor. |
| Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaThe mostly British ensemble can do this stuff in their sleep, but Macfadyen and Donovan and Graves, especially, work up the necessary antic angst and silliness. |
| Charlotte ObserverLawrence ToppmanThis combination of tightly controlled farce and gross-out comedy works unexpectedly well, until the filmmakers lose their nerve at last and settle for cozy homilies. Still, four-fifths of a rarity is about twice as much as studios deliver nowadays. |
| Baltimore SunMichael SragowThe movie maintains its comical, rocky equilibrium as long as the screenwriter, Dean Craig, sticks to domestic disasters and a Monty Python parody of "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof." |