Death At A Funeral Page #3

Synopsis: Aaron's father's funeral is today at the family home, and everything goes wrong: the funeral home delivers the wrong body; a cousin gives her fiancé a Valium from her brother's apartment, not knowing her brother is dealing drugs - it's LSD and the fiancé arrives at the funeral wildly stoned; Aaron's younger brother, Ryan, a successful writer, flies in from New York broke but arrogant; one uncle is angry over his daughter's choice of boyfriends, and the other is cranky and coarse. Add an ovulating wife, a jealous ex-boyfriend, and a short stranger who wants a word with Aaron - what could he want? Would another death solve Aaron's problems? And what about the eulogy?
Genre: Comedy
Director(s): Neil LaBute
Production: Sony Pictures
  6 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.7
Metacritic:
51
Rotten Tomatoes:
42%
R
Year:
2010
92 min
$16,000,000
Website
1,287 Views


You'll love it. All right, got to go. Bye.

Do you always open the door half naked?

Come on, Jeff, we're gonna be late.

All I got to do is just put some pants on.

And this is my house, so...

You all right, man?

- He's fine. He's just freaking out.

- Is he okay?

- A car almost ran into us, and I was yelling.

- And this guy just jumped right in our lane.

- I didn't see him.

- He did, he totally did.

- I'm sorry, baby, I...

- No, baby, it's fine. It's fine, okay?

You guys are funny.

Hey, what do you think?

- Yes, no?

- No.

- Go put on your pants, please.

- All right.

And make sure they're black, Jeffrey!

Okay, Mom.

- I'm so hungry.

- God, my heart is racing.

I don't know what's wrong with me.

Oh, here. Take this one.

It'll calm you down. Jeff won't mind.

What do you mean, take one of those?

What is that?

It's Valium. I used to take it all the time.

It's gonna make you feel better, I promise.

- Valium, are you sure?

- Yeah.

- Yes.

- You know, I shouldn't be taking

someone else's pills, right?

- No, it's okay.

- I got to drive and...

Babe, I'll drive. All right?

Just open wide. There we go. Take...

Let's do this.

- Oh, my keys.

- Jeff, you're wearing sneakers?

- They're black, Elaine.

- But they're sneakers, Jeff.

Is he gonna be any less dead

if I'm not wearing sneakers?

- Forget it. Let's just go. Can I just...

- No, I got it.

Okay.

- Come on, Jeff.

- I'm coming. I'm coming.

- We're waiting.

- Oh, shoot!

I still can't believe he's gone.

You can't understand death

until you've given life.

- Hey, Mama.

- Ryan, my baby!

Hey.

Mama, I know this is hard,

but it's gonna be okay,

and we're gonna get through it.

Oh, Ryan, you always know

exactly what to say, always!

I guess if people died every week,

we'd see you all the time.

- Hey, big bro. How you doing?

- Holding up.

- How was your flight, Ryan?

- It was okay.

But I had to buy the seat next to me.

I just can't do the small talk any more.

And while I'm sitting there, up in first class,

they march all the broke people through.

And a couple of them eyeballing me,

mad because I'm snacking on warm nuts.

So I'm like, "Take your broke,

no-nuts ass to the back of the plane."

Plus, there was tons of turbulence,

but I guess that's the thing

about flying first class.

No matter how much you pay,

if the plane crashes, you still end up dead.

- End up dead!

- I'll make sure she's okay.

- Please.

- End up dead!

You always know just what to say.

My bad.

Hey. I love it when you come

to family functions, man.

Because Dad takes his pure hate out on you.

- Jeff.

- I'm joking. Oscar.

You okay?

Was there a dog in here just now?

- What?

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Dean Craig

Dean Craig (born October 25, 1974) is an English screenwriter and film director. In addition to his film work, Craig wrote the BBC television series Off The Hook. more…

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