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10/12/07
Death at a Funeral (2007)
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Reviews Counted:119
Fresh:75
Rotten:44
Average Rating:5.9/10
Consensus: Death At A Funeral is a rousing British farce, with enough slapstick silliness to overcome its faults.
Runtime: 1 hr 31 mins
Genre: Comedies
US Box Office: $8,440,710
Synopsis: A dignified send-off for a loved one erupts into uproarious chaos when romance, jealousy, in-laws, hallucinogens, dark secrets, life-long yearnings and a spot of bold blackmail all collide in the... [More]
Starring: Matthew MacFadyen, Rupert Graves, Peter Dinklage, Alan Tudyk
Director: Frank Oz
Reviews for Death at a Funeral
Top CriticA total misfire from director Frank Oz, whose endeavours to deliver black humour wobbles fatally. With its excellent British cast, it's not all bad, but the plot is hackneyed, the tone is wrong, and what aspires to be funny leaves us embarrassed
10/06/07
Top CriticDeath be not proud, but it sure be funny in this deliciously dark comedy.
10/09/09
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10/18/08
Who knew the man behind Miss Piggy (literally) did English humor so well?
08/23/08
Oz goes back to the well and taps into British humor, which has been so influential over the years for him, going back to The Muppet Show" in the 70s
08/17/08
It's no classic, but it did prompt me to watch those great old Ealing Alec Guinness comedies again.
03/04/08
This Funeral won't leave audiences in a mournful state.
02/26/08
A fine British cast is wasted on feeble material.
11/17/07
Death at a Funeral has a great cast and a suitably chaotic plot but it's never quite as funny as it thinks it is.
11/02/07
In the end the knockabout humour totally destroys the glimmers of spiteful sophistication which would have made it much funnier.
11/02/07
Take away the Four Weddings and you get this dismal Brit-com.
11/02/07
You'll wince and fidget and groan, and finally wonder at the nerve of the film-makers who thought they could get away with this.
11/02/07
I hear the script was funny, which is hard to believe: this is grim, misjudged and seems to go on for ever.
11/02/07
A staggeringly inept farce.
11/02/07
Scientists believe that black holes can slow down the progress of time. A similar effect can be felt by viewers of this damp squib of a farce as it grinds on from one lame set-up to the next.
11/02/07
Top CriticAs funny as losing a finger.
11/02/07
A pleasantly unpleasant comedy that belatedly delivers. You won't die laughing but you shouldn't expire from boredom either.
11/02/07
A farce - but not in the way its makers intended.
11/02/07
Latest News for Death at a Funeral
March 08, 2009:
Morgan and Lawrence Attend Rock's Death at a Funeral 
Tracy Morgan and Martin Lawrence have signed up for Neil LaBute's "Death at a Funeral" remake, joining Chris Rock in the cast. More...
November 10, 2008:
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