A family funeral unravels into a brisk, darkly comic farce filled with absurd revelations and campy mishaps.
Absurdist, with dark satire. A party watch at a brisk pace. Emotionally it carries some weight.
Streaming on The Roku Channel (free), YouTube (free) and Tubi (free).
It stays inside its R, with moderate sex and nudity, and no real violence.
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A myriad of outrageous calamities befalls an eccentric English clan with more than a few skeletons in its closets when the family's patriarch dies an unexpected death.
Yes. It lands on a happy note.
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