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SYNOPSIS __________
Plot:
It's the morning of his father's funeral and things aren't
going great for Daniel (Matthew Macfadyen), especially when
he discovers that the corpse in the coffin isn't his father.
Once that's corrected, his big concern is giving the eulogy,
fearing it won't match up to those given by his brother Robert
(Rupert Graves) at past family funerals. Robert's a best-selling
novelist who lives in New York and as if that isn't frustrating
enough for Daniel, who is a struggling writer, Daniel has
also had to fork out for the entire cost of the funeral because
Robert lives beyond his means. This is extremely bad, since
it starts to cut into the deposit money for the flat he's
long been promising his wife, Jane (Keeley Hawes), who can't
take much more living with her mother-in-law, Sandra (Jane
Asher).
But this is only the beginning. Daniel's cousin Martha (Daisy
Donovan) shows up with her fiancé Simon (Alan Tudyk),
who has mistakenly taken a concoction of hallucinogenic substances,
manufactured by Troy (Kris Marshall), Martha's brother, a
chemistry student and part-time drug dealer. Simon is convinced
there's someone alive inside the coffin, and this in turn
causes a huge hiccup in the proceeding funeral service. Things
can't possibly descend any lower? They do. Peter (Peter Dinklage),
apparently an old friend of Daniel's father, turns up at the
funeral and informs Daniel that he holds evidence of a dark
secret about his father, which he'll reveal unless Daniel
agrees to hand over a substantial amount of money.
With the ensuing pressures of trying to keep his mother from
finding out what's going on, his brother seeming to exacerbate
the situation at every turn, his wife pressing him to commit
to buying a flat, and a rogue bottle of hallucinogenic pills
floating around, Daniel goes through hell and back in an effort
to prevent his father's funeral from descending into total
chaos.
Death at a Funeral is a film about life, death, love, family
and a man's struggle to maintain his father's dignity when
all the odds are stacked against him.
DETAILS__________
Studio:
MGM
Production Co:
Sidney Kimmel Entertainment
Parabolic Pictures
Stable Way Entertainment
VIP Medienfonds 1+2 (Co-Production)
Target Media (Co-Production)
Release Date:
August 17, 2007
RELATED LINKS__________
Wikipedia - Movie Info
en.wikipedia.org
Wikipedia - Director Info
en.wikipedia.org
Official Site - Production Site
www.kimmelinternational.com
Official Site - Production Site
www.vip-medienfonds.de
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