Last rites... and wrongs.
Not currently showing on the local cinema circuit.
| Cast |
Matthew Macfadyen, Keeley Hawes, Andy Nyman, Ewen Bremner, Daisy Donovan, Alan Tudyk, Jane Asher, Kris Marshall, Rupert Graves, Peter Vaughan |
| Director |
Frank Oz |
| Screenplay | Dean Craig |
| Music | Murray Gold |
| Cinematography | Oliver Curtis |
| Editing | Beverley Mills |
| Sound formats | Dolby Digital, Sony Dynamic Digital Sound, DTS |
| Made in | 2007 |
| Produced by | Sidney Kimmel Entertainment, Parabolic Pictures Inc., Stable Way Entertainment, VIP 1 Medienfonds, VIP 2 Medienfonds, Target Media Entertainment |
Official Site | IMDB page | ScreenIt Report
Trailer: Medium
| Genre | Comedy |
| Language | Strong, frequent |
| Nudity | Brief |
| Sex | None |
| Violence | None |
| Prejudice | None |
| Blasphemy | None |
| Drug abuse | None |
| Comments | Strong language but in comic context and moderate in effect. Dark but hillarious comedy. |
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Blood / Gore / Gross |
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Alcohol / Drugs |
| Smoking |
Disrespectful / Bad Attitude |
Imitative Behaviour |
Frightening / Tense Scenes |
Jump Scenes |
Tense Family Scenes |
| Music (Scary/Tense) |
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Topics to talk about |
| Scale (Max) | 20 |  |
What the Critics say | ||
| Cape Argus / The Star Zane Henry  A muddied comedy with tiresome results. | 5 |  |
| Die Burger Jeanne Hugo Makabere maar skreeusnaakse klugspel. | 10 |  |
| Cape Times Sid Smith Death is a seriously lethal farce. | 10 | |
| Mail & Guardian Shaun de Waal | 12 |  |
| The Citizen Bruce Dennill It is funny, but it could easily have been better. | 13 | |
| 24.com Eddie Vulani Maluleke Death at a Funeral is undoubtedly the best comedy of the year: it's witty, fast-paced and utterly hilarious, eliciting the kind of laughter that unexpectedly erupts from the deepest bellies of your soul. | 15 |  |
| Box Office Tim Cogshell You'll laugh yourself to Death | 10 | |
| Chicago Sunday Times Roger Ebert The movie is part farce (unplanned entrances and exits), part slapstick (misbehavior of corpses) and part just plain wacky eccentricity. | 15 | |
| ReelViews James Berardinelli Death at a Funeral is flawed, but I'm willing to forgive a lot of flaws when a movie makes me laugh as much as this one. | 15 | |
| ScreenItDeath at a Funeral isn't entirely dead on arrival, but it never manages to get off cinematic life support to deliver the comedy like it should and could have. | 7 | |
| Metacritic.com 28 critics | 13 | |
| Rottentomatoes critics 86 critics | 13 | |
| Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer Has enough slapstick silliness to overcome its faults. | 13 | |
What the People say | ||
| Internet 1989 Netizens Who knew a funeral could be so funny? | 15 | |
Average .. 59% | 12 | |