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Synopsis

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 fiance 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.

Film Information

• Genre: Comedy | Drama
• Director: Frank Oz
• Written By: Dean Craig
• Starring: Matthew Macfadyen, Andy Nyman, Keeley Hawes, Ewen Bremner, Daisy Donovan, Alan Tudyk, Jane Asher, and Peter Dinklage
• Running Time: 90 minutes, approx.
• MPAA Rating: R
• Language: English
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Reviews

"The humor manages to be simultaneously sophisticated, supremely silly and very dark."

   - Ruthe Stein, San Francisco Chronicle

"Insanely funny, if occasionally out-of-control, black farce."

   - Richard Schickel, Time

"The lack of propriety and solemnity is precisely what makes this comic farce so uproariously funny."

   - Claudia Puig, USA Today

"The movie is part farce (unplanned entrances and exits), part slapstick (misbehavior of corpses) and part just plain wacky eccentricity. I think the ideal way to see it would be to gather your most dour and disapproving relatives and treat them to a night at the cinema."

   - Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

"It takes a while for Frank Oz's ensemble black comedy Death at a Funeral to hit its deliriously nutty stride. But when it does, the laughs don't stop until the movie, like the subject of its family get-together, has taken its last breath."

   - Jack Mathews, New York Daily News

Showtimes

• Wednesday, September 26th
  7:00 pm
• Thursday, September 27th
  7:00 pm
• Friday, September 28th
  4:30 pm, 7:00 pm
• Saturday, September 29th
  2:15 pm, 7:00 pm
• Sunday, September 30th
  2:15 pm, 7:00 pm
• Monday, October 1st
  4:30 pm, 7:00 pm
• Tuesday, October 2nd
  6:30 pm
• Wednesday, October 3rd
  9:30 pm
• Thursday, October 4th
  9:30 pm
• Friday, October 5th
  4:45 pm
• Saturday, October 6th
  4:30 pm, 9:15 pm
• Sunday, October 7th
  7:00 pm
• Monday, October 8th
  4:30 pm