I hope to have this much fun at my funeral.
Death At A Funeral (2007) is an odd mixture of dry British humor and broad farce. A man has died, and his sons and wife are running the funeral. Expenses are piling up, hormones are running high in some of the guests, and there’s a vial of pills blazing a trail of evil through the guests.
Meantime, the man’s lover has shown up to claim a share of the estate. His short share, actually. Too bad he hit his head on the corner of the table.
Its culmination, as hilarious as I found it, also includes an opportunity for many to mature a bit, and that adds a lovely counterpoint to what could have been simple humor. It serves to deepen the movie a nice bit.
This is an old favorite of mine, and after a long day at work, it was great to sit down and watch, even if it was the TV version, and occasionally the dialog disappears completely under the Puritan’s censorious gaze. If you have the patience for the certain slow pace of a funeral gone awry, then I think this is Recommended, or at least not far short of it.
This has been remade in a 2010 version, which I have not seen.
