Death At a Funeral (2010)

"Reveling in mess and homegrown multiracial mayhem, Death at a Funeral finds a new lease on life.  Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly
"Death at a Funeral works and then some.  Matt Zoller Seitz, Salon.com

Editor's Note Frank Oz's 2007 black comedy DEATH AT A FUNERAL is given the remake treatment with an urban spin in this Chris Rock-produced production. When a dysfunctional clan reuintes to mourn the passing of the family patriarch, a respectful funeral quickly turns into an all-out fiasco marked by bitter resentment, blackmail attempts, and scandalous revelations. Dean Craig penned the script for director Neil LaBute (THE WICKER MAN), with Martin Lawrence, Tracy Morgan, and Danny Glover co-starring.

	Keith David
	Loretta Devine
	Ron Glass
	Danny Glover
	Regina Hall
	Peter Dinklage
	Luke Wilson - Co-Star
	James Marsden - Co-Star
	Zoe Saldana - Co-Star
	Tracy Morgan - Co-Star
	Jamison Yang - Co-Star
	Betty K. Bynum - Co-Star
	Bronwyn Hardy - Co-Star
	Columbus Short - Co-Star
	Regine Nehy - Co-Star
	Willi Willis - Co-Star
	Kevin Hart - Co-Star
	Martin Lawrence - Co-Star
	Leslie Rivers - Co-Star
	Chris Rock - Co-Star
	Bob Minor - Co-Star
	Alexander Folk - Co-Star
	John Frazier - Special Effects Supervisor
	Dena Roth - Set Decorator
	Rogier Stoffers - Director of Photography
	Glenn S. Gainor - Production Manager/UPM
	Christophe Beck - Composer
	Albert Cho - Assistant Director
	Lance Gilbert - Stunt Coordinator
	Beverly Jo Pryor - Makeup Designer
	Judy Murdock - Makeup
	Stacey Morris - Hairstylist
	Fernand Bos - Music Editor
	Leonard Drake - Hairstylist
	Todd Bozung - Music Editor
	Zoic Studios - Visual Effects Designer
	Debra Denson - Makeup
	Dean Craig - Screenwriter
	Linda Villalobos - Hairstylist
	Kathleen Mussehl - Costumes
	Lisa Deveaux - Makeup
	Kamani Sawyer - Makeup
	Neil LaBute - Director

Chicago Sun-Times
3.5 stars out of 4 -- "This is the best comedy since THE HANGOVER....It's funnier than the original..." 04/14/2010

Hollywood Reporter
"[Rock] has assembled a stellar cast....LaBute moves his cast and crew well in and around a handsome set designed by Jon Gary Steele." 04/14/2010

Movieline
"[E]ven the movie's more slapstick moments are handled with a dash of elegance..." 04/15/2010

Total Film
3 stars out of 5 -- "It's the sensibility that makes this version superior, its atmosphere of anarchy preferable to the original's gallows humour..." 10/01/2010

Chicago Sun-Times 9 of 10
Oh, I know a lot of Death at a Funeral is in very bad taste. That's when I laughed the most. I don't laugh at movies where the characters are deliberately being vulgar. But when they desperately don't want to be - now that's funny. Consider the scene when Uncle Russell eats too much nut cake and is seized by diarrhea. And Norman wrestles him off his wheelchair and onto the potty, and gets his hand stuck underneath. Reader, I laughed. I'm not saying I'm proud of myself. That's not the way I was raised. But I laughed...I laughed all the way through, in fact. This is the best comedy since The Hangover, and although it's almost a scene-by-scene remake of a 2007 British movie with the same title, it's funnier than the original. For the character of Frank, the mysterious guest who wants to speak privately with the dead man's sons, it even uses the same actor, Peter Dinklage, and he's funnier this time. Maybe that's because when a comedy gets on a roll, everything is funnier...Notice too, the way director Neil LaBute directs traffic. Because the action is screwball doesn't mean it can be confusing. Screwball depends crucially on us knowing where key characters are, and why. LaBute juggles parallel actions in the big family home so we understand who's in the bathroom and who's in the living room and why everybody is out on the lawn. There's a smooth logic to it that works like spatial punchlines...LaBute is a brilliant playwright and director who is usually the director of very dark comedies (In the Company of Men, Your Friends and Neighbors). But a good director is a good director, and LaBute here, like David Gordon Green with Pineapple Express, masters the form. And oooh, that's a mean line about R. Kelly. - Roger Ebert