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Death at a funeral / Metro Goldwyn Mayer ; Sidney Kimmel Entertainment ; Parabolic Pictures ; Stable Way Entertainment ; a VIP Medienfonds 1 + 2, Target Media co-production ; director of photography, Oliver Curtis ; executive producers, William Horberg, Bruce Toll, Andreas Grosch, Philip Elway ; produced by Diana Phillips, Share Stallings, Laurence Malkin, Sidney Kimmel ; written by Dean Craig ; directed by Frank Oz.
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- Format:
- Video
- Standardized Title:
- Death at a funeral (Motion picture : 2007)
- Language:
- Chinese
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Funeral rites and ceremonies--England--Drama.
- Funeral rites and ceremonies.
- Fathers and sons--England--Drama.
- Fathers and sons.
- Mourning customs--England--Drama.
- Mourning customs.
- Families--England--Drama.
- Families.
- England--Drama.
- England.
- Genre:
- Motion pictures, United Kingdom.
- Fiction films.
- Feature films.
- Comedy films.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Dark comedy films.
- Films for the hearing impaired
- Comedy films
- Dark comedy films
- Drama
- Feature films
- Fiction films
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Motion pictures English.
- Foreign films England.
- Films for hard of hearing people.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- Other Title:
- Funeral de muerte
- Place of Publication:
- Beverly Hills, CA : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, 2008.
- Language Note:
- In English (5.1 Dolby surround) or dubbed Spanish (Dolby surround) with optional English or Spanish subtitles; Closed-captioned.
- System Details:
- DVD; region 1, NTSC; full screen (1.33:1) and widescreen (1.85:1) presentations ; Dolby 5.1 surround, Dolby surround.
- Summary:
- Daniel is a decent young man who is married to Jane. They live at his father's home. When his father dies, it is up to him to organize his funeral. On the morning of the funeral, with a suitably grave expression on his face, Daniel is ready to welcome his father's friends and relatives. But preserving the dignity inherent in such a circumstance will be a hard task. Particularly with an undertaker who botches his work; his famous, but selfish brother has returned from the USA; his cousin's fiancé has accidentally ingested drugs; a man takes advantage of the sad event to win back the heart, or rather the body, of a woman who is about to marry another; a handicapped old uncle who is also the most unbearable pain in the neck. To cap it all, Daniel notices the presence among the mourners of a mysterious dwarf nobody else seems to know.
- Mourners and guests at a British country manor struggle valiantly to 'keep a stiff upper lip' as a dignified ceremony devolves into a hilarious, no-holds-barred debacle of misplaced cadavers and shocking family secrets.
- Contents:
- Side A: full screen version
- side B: widescreen version.
- Participant:
- Jane Asher, Ewen Bremner, Peter Dinklage, Daisy Donovan, Peter Egan, Rupert Graves, Keeley Hawes, Matthew Macfadyen, Kris Marshall, Andy Nyman, Alan Tudyk, Peter Vaughan, Thomas Wheatley.
- Credits:
- Music by Murray Gold ; costume designer, Natalie Ward ; editor, Beverly Mills ; production designer, Michael Howells ; co-producers, Josh Kesselman, Alex Lewis.
- Notes:
- Originally released as a motion picture in 2007.
- Special features: commentary with director Frank Oz; commentary with writer Dean Craig and actors Alan Tudyk and Andy Nyman; Gag reel.
- U.S. Comedy Arts Festival 2007 - Cinemax Audience Award ; Locarno International Film Festival 2007 - Audience Award.
- OCLC:
- 184908491
- Publisher Number:
- 883904100287
- 88390410028750
- 00883904100287
- 110028 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
- Online:
- Credits from Internet Movie Database
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