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Journey Into the Obscure: Episode X Writer and director Michael Clancy proves to not be entirely allergic to moments of genuine wit, and he does get good performances out of his cast, but Eulogy is a mostly boring family dysfunction dramedy with poorly written characters, weak humor, and dull pacing.
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“She has made a business out of persecuting me and I’m supposed to sit here, at my father’s funeral, and watch her fuck-sing at Samantha?”
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FILMS I OWN THAT I’VE NEVER SEEN 45/100 Of all the comedies based around families dealing with grief/funerals, this was by far the least comedic I’ve seen so far, yet it’s far too silly to really class as a drama either. It really does fail to find a decent balance which is a shame as it does have a great cast, they just don’t really have a lot to work with.
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CCal 8 月 23, 2026
👎👎 this entire family should be tried at the hague, aside from ray romano’s twin tween sons, who should both be humanely euthanized as soon as possible
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Bir cenaze ile büyükannenin evinde toplanan aileyi izliyoruz. Filmi izlerken bir yastan çok kaos izliyormus gibi hissettim ama zaten yas en buyuk kaos degil midir? Bir seyi yaparsin acaba suan yapmam dogru mu diye dusunursun ya da yapmazsin yapmali miydim diye dusunursun, aldigin nefesin yasini tuttuğun kisiye bir saygisizlik olup olmadigi konusunu bin kere dusunursun. Cevren kendini cok saldigini dusunmesin diye mutlu olmaya calisirsin bir kosede yalniz kalinca o karanlik yasinla yine basbasa kalirsin. Belki cenazenin ilk gunleri o kadar da zor gelmez sana cunku o gun ev hic olmadigi kadar dolu olur esin dostun akraban komsun kim varsa bas sagligina gelir ama cenazeden en fazla 1 hafta sonra yalnız kalirsin, kocaman ev ve kaybettigin kişinin anilari ile yapayalnizsindir artik.…
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I was asked to stay at work a little longer today, so I did a search on a forgotten comedies of the 00s. halfway through the film, I realised I’d already started watching it long time ago. it’s so unmemorable. like, it’s not the worst funeral comedy, but it’s not the best. It’s got a good cast, but that’s all it has going for it. It’s got the most corny plot, the most over-the-top jokes
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A fun comedy with a great cast and some solid zingers, but its pacing is a bit wonky, and not every joke works. Ray Ramano and Hank Azaria are the best parts of the film, while Rip Torn would’ve been if he’d been in more than five minutes of the movie. At just 80 minutes long, it goes by fast, but with this high quality of a cast, this should’ve been great.
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I put off watching this movie for almost 20 years. Should’ve never watched it at all. Not a comedy. Not a single funny scene. Why is being a lesbian such a joke? I hate this early 2000s garbage. It’s all so repetitive and boring.
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Eulogy is a comedy drama written and directed by Michael Clancy. Funerals can make for very funny movies—just watch Frank Oz’s Death At A Funeral—and this one’s no different. This one focuses on a very dysfunctional family who didn’t really know their grandfather too well and secrets are revealed. When they say this family is dysfunctional, they mean it. They’re played by an ensemble cast lead by Zooey Deschanel. This includes Debra Winger, Ray Romano, Hank Azaria, Kelly Preston, Famke Jansen, and Rip Torn. Romano is so sleazy with a mustache and his kids are great too, Winger is a conservative Karen who never shuts up to the point that her family are all silent and her husband just stammers…
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This reminds me of when I completely forgot that I wrote my grandma’s eulogy on the notes app right under the grocery list… Almost had a breakdown in the middle of Aldi
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I have no idea why I put this on my watchlist but I would never break a promise that my past self made to my future self that being said.. the cast for this was pretty strong but the writing is so y2k it hurts It is baller as fuck to have 3 beautiful wives and 11 beautiful children tho
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Bir cenaze ile büyükannenin evinde toplanan aileyi izliyoruz. Filmi izlerken bir yastan çok kaos izliyormus gibi hissettim ama zaten yas en buyuk kaos degil midir? Bir seyi yaparsin acaba suan yapmam dogru mu diye dusunursun ya da yapmazsin yapmali miydim diye dusunursun, aldigin nefesin yasini tuttuğun kisiye bir saygisizlik olup olmadigi konusunu bin kere dusunursun. Cevren kendini cok saldigini dusunmesin diye mutlu olmaya calisirsin bir kosede yalniz kalinca o karanlik yasinla yine basbasa kalirsin. Belki cenazenin ilk gunleri o kadar…
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Hank Azaria absolutely saved this movie for me
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desperately trying to craft a twin peaks joke here but every single plot point that catherine martell had in that show has slipped through my brain like grains of sand
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famke janssen was the only person keeping my interest after awhile, she’s gorg
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I couldn’t watch it until the end. Unfunny, the story was boring, the characters are all horrible and why are most of them perverts??
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use your aim, guys!
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Movie loves being homophobic
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Exhibit #2 in the case for my young adult crush on Jesse Bradford. Honestly I’m pretty sure it also left me sexually confused over Rip Torn. I don’t care that he’s old, he’s still hilarious, and as one character remarks, he always had that twinkle in his eye. But anyway. I digress. I think this movie is about something really relatable – who we are versus how we want other people to see us. My beloved Rip plays Edmund, the…
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Eulogy is a funeral comedy that cannot keep a straight face, a crooked face, or any face long enough to become memorable. It gathers a cast so overqualified that one expects a wake of wickedness, then serves a lukewarm buffet of squabbles, gay-panic jokes, suicidal whimsy, and family rancor without the discipline to make nastiness signify anything beyond itself. The Collins clan reunites after the death of its patriarch, a man nobody can praise without spraining imagination. Granddaughter Kate, played…
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Though I do love a dysfunctional family movie, this kind of missed every mark that makes other family chaos films work. Usually there are at least some redeeming qualities of each character, but each person felt half-lived and more like an idea of a character, which shows more the fault of the writer / director because this film is stacked with great actors.
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Wow I’ll give half a star for Catherine Martell from Twin Peaks being the suicidal matriarch but then lowkey I should take it away for them putting her in a facial cast removing any future possibility for me to laugh halfway through the movie. And her acting wasn’t even good (fine I’ll reinstate the half star for Camp) so that’s a preview for how the rest of this was. Listen I love a funeral movie, so I was excited for…
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Is Zooey Dechanel giving Rory Gilmore or is that just what early 2000s brunette daughters were like. Ari and Uzi Tenenbaum > those repugnant, vulgar twins Ray Romano is raising in this movie
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stupid funny
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its like when freshmen boys keep making gay jokes
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This is one of those magnificent failures at every possible turn that still remains exceptionally watchable. Piper Laurie is hilarious.
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Don’t know what I was expecting but it definitely wasn’t this. Unfortunately I do just love films about dis functional families.
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oh this movie was terrible but that eulogy was so goddamn beautiful
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Terrible twin representation
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JJess_vanhaeften 5 月 12, 2026
One dead patriarch, one deliciously dysfunctional family, and one wickedly funny irreverent comedy! When three generations of a deliciously dysfunctional family gather to bury the family patriarch, the beloved granddaughter of the deceased is given the task of delivering the eulogy. In the days leading up to the funeral, family secrets are revealed, old grudges resurface and the household erupts with renewed vigor. Eulogy is ultimately a heartwarming portrait of a houseful of misfits celebrating the strangest and most enduring bond of all.
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Семьи очень разных взрослых детей собирается на похоронах отца. Чудовищная народная комедия с кривляниями и уже 20 лет назад устаревшими шутками про лесбиянок. Пацанов-близнецов хотелось пристукнуть. Единственная удачная сцена — когда Пайпер Лори в роли матери говорит “не забывайте чистить зубы перед сном”, выпрыгивает из машины и летит над полем как в третьем сезоне “Твин Пикс”.
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I assumed all the bad reviews had to be exaggerating with such a strong cast. They weren’t. It is terrible.
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Very refreshing family. You won’t see a rendering of this type of dynamic in this day and age. Loved all of it.
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an exactly fine movie. neither good nor bad. chuckled a few times though!!
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“everyone knows that the only gay relationships that work are between people of the same height” i hated it and then i loved it and then i hated it and then i loved it. and then i hated it. 2 🌟 but + 1 for zds 🫶
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completely dull and unpleasant in almost every way! quite possibly set gay rights back by a decade. flying grandma got me though
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Big mess. But there’s a scene where Hank Azaria is trying not to get caught smoking pot that i rewatched 12 times. that was great but mostly Boooo-ulogy.
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A familiar setup, never finding its rhythm. The humor is there, but lighter than it should be, rarely carrying the scene. The acting doesn’t lift it— moments drift, feel recycled. Boring at times, a little corny, and easily replaced.
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Somehow I had never heard of this movie even though it had a fairly recognizable cast and I was working at a theater when it released, so it must have been really limited. It was okay, I guess. It reminded me a bit of Home For the Holidays in that it was an awkward dark family comedy. I don’t think much of the humor in it would fly these days, and that is probably part of why it is so obscure.
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I have never seen as much lesbian representation in films from the 2020s as I did in this film.
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Homophobic? Kinda. Funny? Barely. Zooey Deschanel? Phenomenal.
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Glenne Headly is so good, I put it together immediately. Stacked cast all over. Comedy silver out of comedy participation trophy script. This came out after Elf?? How old is Zooey Deschanel supposed to be??
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The crazy wild twins reminded me of my little brothers at their peak antagonistic
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Every non creepy bit was funny to me
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This was rough in the beginning, it did pull itself together in the end.
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The family dynamics are so realistic.
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Zooey Deschanel before New Girl. Hank Azaria & Ray Romano are really darn good too.
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Ggrouchysopinion 2 月 16, 2026
idek what to say like it’s not good but yeah clancy clearly needed to vent creepy movie basically just homophobia + incest themes and ray is a creep the whole movie so yeah doesn’t age well this + secondhand lions double feature of shitty white people
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even tho the casket blowing up was predictable it still made me laugh out loud
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Trippy
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Fun amount of dysfunction
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Ray Romano has so many good instincts in this.
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I kind of hated this movie and every single character. the only thing to save it is when grandma jumped out of the car and dove 100 feet in the air. 2 popcorns / 5
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put it on cause paget brewster’s in it and she’s only in one scene but there were so many lesbians. worth it!
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Didn’t anticipate the jumpscare. Otherwise: stacked cast, crap movie.
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Dumb movie about a family that has to bury its father. Pretty stereotypical characters but some funny scenes throw in.
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absolute cinema
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So many fine actors are in this movie. It is a movie of the times, VERY dated and such a dark comedy.
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everyone knows that the only gay relationships that last are between people of the same height
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A dysfunctional family gathers for the funeral of their patriarch and all sorts of crap drops.
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película MUY de la época, es difícil reírse de los chistes o la trama cuando es algo que te afecta directamente o tenes otros ideales. aún así, la trama es bastante entretenida y cumple. también entretiene la trama de familia compleja y es entendible, eso te hace seguir viéndola hasta el final. para verla una noche en la que no tenes nada más para ver y queres algo corto está bueno pero si no queres pasar un mal rato con chistes boludos mejor pasa de largo.
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sat through the whole movie solely bc i had an inkling annie will have a lesbian arc
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Genuinely found this to be funnier than I expected. I enjoy small unknown comedy-dramas and if you do too I highly suggest watching this. There are some outdated jokes, but overall a fun watch that will pull a few laughs out of you. 3.5 🌟 (specifically 3.7)
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Random and stupid movie. Zooey Deschanel is the only good thing about it
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its like if succession was trying to be positive towards Logan Roy
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Half star for zooey desk chanel
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I would only watch this while grieving so I could forget about it. But dang that was a great surprise at the end. It’s so terrible when you think about the current funeral you’re planning it’ll seem like a breeze.
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Glad we left kids perving on lesbians back in the early 2000s
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i love a movie about a family of freaks
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endearing and funny and lovely
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Could be good if the jokes were actually funny and the lesbians weren’t so fetishized.
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The star studded cast couldn’t save the bad script from its inevitable death.
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Eulogy is a comedy drama written and directed by Michael Clancy. Funerals can make for very funny movies—just watch Frank Oz’s Death At A Funeral—and this one’s no different. This one focuses on a very dysfunctional family who didn’t really know their grandfather too well and secrets are revealed. When they say this family is dysfunctional, they mean it. They’re played by an ensemble cast lead by Zooey Deschanel. This includes Debra Winger, Ray Romano, Hank Azaria, Kelly Preston, Famke…
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I love that there is a universe where Hank Azaria is Zooey Deschanel’s dad
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It’s certainly a movie about a dysfunctional family getting together for a funeral
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BBrandon Hall 12 月 20, 2025
A comedy that puts the fun back in funeral; ; When three generations of a deliciously dysfunctional family gather to bury the family patriarch, the beloved granddaughter of the deceased is given the task of delivering the eulogy. In the days leading up to the funeral, family secrets are revealed, old grudges resurface, and the household erupts with renewed vigor.
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this movie isn’t all that good but it has a fed up lesbian famke janssen who smokes and drinks so that’s cool
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horrible crying laughing loving lying cover got me tweaking
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Not good! Has aged into being wildly homophobic! I fear this was progressive when it came out
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after my fever dropped, i just couldn’t go back to sleep, so i saw this one as well, wanted to beat the shit out of alice
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Insane… in the best of ways…
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i hold a lot of nostalgia for this cause i watched the DVD to hell & back when i was younger. it’s not the best but it’s a look into how families are & i appreciate that
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It’s overly quirky, cliché, has a self-hating, Homophobic lesbian who decided to be a trad wife because reasons, and for some reason Zooey Deschanel is the most restrained performance in the bunch. That said, I laughed, enjoyed my time, and I’d probably watch it again.
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Hilariously iconic, don’t know how I haven’t seen or heard of this before
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2.84 I didn’t expect my dad and I to actually enjoy this film. I was shook that we watched it all! I thought that he would tell me to stop it in like five minutes since it was so fudged. He was laughing a lot at the dysfunctional family and how terrible everyone was. They treated each other so poorly… I guess Zooey was the most normal of them all? I think that Zooey looked too old to play a…
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loved this one so damn much. this was fucking weird and i enjoyed it a lot… apart from the damn ryan and katie romance i couldn’t have cared any less for that. also enjoyed the yuri twist with the aunt who was projecting homophobia towards the openly lesbian aunt. off topic, ray romano’s pornstache oddly suited him in this movie too?? wtf??? had a crush on him growing up so i’m biased, what the hell. also the eulogy katie delivered was really fuckin clever idc. i lowkey needed this sort of non sensical dramady mainly comedy to lighten up. this is my comfort movie now
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Long live the lesbians Watched this with my mom and we laughed so hard. Cozy 2000s comedy with so much heart. Idc what anyone else says.
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All the right parts are there but it never coheres into something great. A month from now I won’t remember much of it, but a year from now I’ll chuckle about something reminding me of it and give it another shot.
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Love this movie, always have, always will. Best movie ever.
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Really great cast. Got to appreciate a classic dysfunctional family film. Well acted and had a great pace to it. Never dragged on or was flat. Kept me invested and interested. Had a good range of emotions and I really Enjoyed it but not ever see a rewatch happening
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I remember picking this one up back when Hollywood Video would offer 3 for $15 used DVDs. The only thing I remember is the scene of everyone in the basement reminiscing while they smoked a joint.
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ah yes, the early 2000s… when homophobia and mild incest were the peak of comedy. all this needed was a little racism to complete the trifecta.
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El casting es peak, pero todo se siente como una gran oportunidad perdida. He asistido a velorios infinitamente más graciosos que esta película. Vista en DVD.
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what in the homophobic😭 i laughed a few times though i can’t lie
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dramatic family is mean & toxic to each other. grandma tries to k*ll herself multiple times. zooey d tries to write a eulogy. I didn’t do any laughs.
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meh
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why is everyone in these reviews such a hater???? i laugh at the jokes every time i watch this and ive seen it like 6 times. this is my favorite movie of all time. am i retarded? should i get tested for autumn
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Not a single likeable character there is no consistent tone nothing is funny I left here with nothing.
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Absolutely nothing happens nothing funny happens Zooey Deschanel looks good in this that’s pretty much it one of the worst ways to kill 90 minutes
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homophobic as fuck and deeply sexualizes lesbians. and the bitch homophobe sister should’ve gotten her clock cleaned by famke janssen imo
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So bad, great case (for me) but bad movie.
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I actually really didn’t like
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Horrible movie i loved it a lot
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If The Royal Tenenbaums had a rough night, slept through therapy, and woke up with a hangover at a family funeral, you’d get Eulogy. This is one of those early-2000s ensemble dark comedies that feels like everyone showed up to a different movie but somehow made it work. Zooey Deschanel is the awkward, eye-rolling narrator trying to hold the chaos together, while the rest of the cast — including Hank Azaria, Ray Romano, and Famke Janssen — take turns being…
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Bbadvibezgirl 3 月 1, 2025
i just feel sometimes like i’ve spent my whole life in this waiting room at an audition you know, and they finally called my fucking name, and i just… and then somebody else stood up, you know? and they got my role and they’ve been living my life, and i’m just groping. i’ve just been stumbling around in the dark ever since then.
- Synopsis
- A black comedy that follows three generations of a family, who come together for the funeral of the patriarch - unveiling a litany of family secrets and covert relationships.
- Director
- Michael Clancy
- Writer
- Michael Clancy
- Studio
- Myriad Pictures, Eulogy Productions LLC, Ovation Entertainment, Artisan Entertainment
- Country
- Germany, UK, USA
- Language
- English
- Year
- 2004
- Runtime
- 91 mins
- Greece24 Aug 2004
- USA15 Oct 2004
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