Plots with a View

aka: Undertaking Betty
UK 2002, 88 minutes
Dir. Nick Hurran
English
Rating: [M]
Genres: Comedy / Black Comedy

Feat. Brenda Blethyn, Alfred Molina, Naomi Watts, Lee Evans, Christopher Walken

Aroview: Lunatic Welsh farce in which an unhappy Brenda Blethyn contrives with a besotted funeral director (Molina) to fake her own death so as to escape a lifeless marriage.

Complications snowball when a rival director, played in hair-raising style by Christopher Walken, tries to get in on the funeral action. Packed with slapstick, song-and-dance numbers and sundry shenanigans, this is totally overcooked, but enjoyably so.

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