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Death at a Funeral

You'll laugh yourself to Death

Distributor: MGM

Cast: Matthew Macfadyen, Rupert Graves, Alan Tudyk, Daisy Donovan, Kris Marshall,

Andy Nyman, Jane Asher, Ewen Bremner and Peter Dinklage

Director: Frank Oz

Screenwriter: Dean Craig

Producers: Sidney Kimmel, Laurence Malkin, Diana Phillips and Share Stallings

Genre: Comedy drama

Rating: R for language and drug content

Running time: 95 min.Release Date: August 17, 2007

In the first scene of Death at a Funeral, the wrong coffin arrives at the pastoral home of a widower where the funeral of her now-dead husband will be held amidst a large eccentric family wherein there is a secret that will come out before the box goes in the ground. And things only spin out of control from there.
After the Stepford Wives debacle, director Frank Oz comes back strong with this absolutely uproarious British comedy of no manners. Funny in all the right ways and for all the right reasons, Death at a Funeral is technically constructed from all the same material of like-minded big American comedies (read: Wedding Crashers), including everything from slapstick to pratfalls, but there is a wit in the language that is undeniably English. Still, the British are in fact well-versed in the more rude modes of humor as any watcher of BBC America will know, but somehow (perhaps it's the accent) it all seems more sophisticated and less embarrassing when they do it.
Particular note should be made of the hilarious work by Alan Tudyk (Dodgeball), who is hell-bent on outing the family secret.