History Film / DeathAtAFuneral

—>'''Simon''': Eight hours of this?!

* NoAntagonist: No villains to thwart, just a lot of hilarious and unrelated things going wrong at every opportunity. Peter is the closest thing the film has to an antagonist, but he's only involved with one subplot and even ''he'' becomes a victim of funeral's general chaos.

* BigScrewedUpFamily: The recently deceased father turns out to have been a closeted homosexual. The sons can't stand each other. The sons have two cousins: one has a boyfriend her father despises, and the other is a drug dealer crafting hallucinogens in his kitchen.

* AllForNothing: [[spoiler:Daniel and Robert fail to keep the secret of their father's illicit affair with Peter dies when the NotQuiteDead dead American pops out of the coffin and the compromising photos spill onto the floor. Also applies to Peter, who in turn won't get the money he was hoping to inherit from his lover now that his plot to blackmail the family has been exposed.]]

%%* CringeComedy

* MushroomSamba: Leads to naked roof climbing. Twice.

''Death at a Funeral'' is a 2007 British BlackComedy film directed by Creator/FrankOz, with an ensemble cast including Creator/PeterDinklage, Creator/RupertGraves, and Creator/AlanTudyk.

%%* BigScrewedUpFamily

%%* BuryYourGays: Played with, then averted.

%%* ChekhovsGun: The "valium"

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Just listen to the father's favorite Bible passage and then take into account TheReveal.

%%* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler:Peter.]]
%%* QueerPeopleAreFunny

* StalkerWithACrush: Justin is this towards Martha, so much so he's a borderline male AbhorrentAdmirer. Justin constantly follows Martha around and hits on her no matter how many times she tells him she's in love with Simon. [[spoiler: Justin immediately loses interest after finding out Martha is pregnant.]]
%%* StraightMan: Daniel, very much so.
* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: "Everything's so [[spoiler:fucking]] green!"

''Death at a Funeral'' is a 2007 British BlackComedy film directed by Creator/FrankOz, with an ensemble cast including Creator/PeterDinklage and Creator/AlanTudyk.

In what must be something of a record for an English language movie, an American [[TheRemake remake]] starring Creator/ChrisRock, [[Series/ThirtyRock Tracy Morgan]], Creator/ZoeSaldana, Creator/JamesMarsden and Creator/DannyGlover was released just three years later in 2010, which kept the overall tone of a black comedy... [[ThatCameOutWrong but not in that way.]]

* BirthDeathJuxtaposition: [[spoiler: It's no coincidence that Martha ends up announcing her pregnancy during the funeral.]]
%%* {{Blackmail}}

%%* DeadMansChest

%%* TheFunInFuneral

%%* NobodyOver50IsGay: Averted.

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* CallingTheOldManOut: Seemingly played straight near the end when Martha/Elaine tells off Victor/Duncan near the end over opposing her upcoming marriage... except he's really spent the entire movie watching his daughter's fiancee act like an unaccountable maniac, nobody's told him he was unwittingly under the influence of hallucinogenic drugs, and at the end of the scene, the man's simply left saddened and shocked while the story moves on.

* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Most of the people in the original are mostly fairly normal looking or somewhat attractive. The American film includes the likes of ZoeSaldana and Creator/JamesMarsden.

In what must be something of a record for an English language movie, an American [[TheRemake remake]] starring Creator/ChrisRock, [[Series/ThirtyRock Tracy Morgan]], ZoeSaldana, Creator/JamesMarsden and Creator/DannyGlover was released just three years later in 2010, which kept the overall tone of a black comedy... [[ThatCameOutWrong but not in that way.]]

%%* ChekovsGun: The "valium"

* RaceLift: The entire cast with the exception of Frank/Peter (Peter Dinklage played the same part in both films), Simon/Oscar and Justin/Derek.

'''''Death at a Funeral''''' is a 2007 British BlackComedy film directed by Creator/FrankOz, with an ensemble cast including Creator/PeterDinklage and Creator/AlanTudyk.

--> '''Aaron''': Our father was having gay sex with a guy who could fit in his pocket... [[SkewedPriorities and you're mad 'cause he's ''white?'']]

* BigScrewedUpFamily

* {{Blackmail}}

* BuryYourGays: Played with, then averted.

* ChekovsGun: The "valium"
* ContemplatingYourHands: during Simon's trip.

* CringeComedy
* DeadMansChest
* FamilyDisunion
* FawltyTowersPlot

* TheFunInFuneral
* HumiliationConga: so, so much.

* [[spoiler:NeverTrustATitle: No one actually dies at the funeral.]]
* NobodyOver50IsGay: Averted.
* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler:Peter]]
* QueerPeopleAreFunny

* StraightMan: Daniel, very much so.

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* DiscriminateAndSwitch

** RemakeCameo: A variation. Peter Dinklage actually played in the same role in both films.
* JitterCam

In what must be something of a record for an English language movie, an American [[TheRemake remake]] starring Creator/ChrisRock, [[Series/ThirtyRock Tracy Morgan]], ZoeSaldana, Creator/JamesMarsden and Creator/DannyGlover was released just three years later in 2010, which kept the overall tone of a black comedy... [[ThatCameOutWrong but not in that way!]]

--> '''Aaron''': Our father was having gay sex with a guy who could fit in his pocket... and you're mad 'cause he's ''white?''

In what must be something of a record for an English language movie, an American [[TheRemake remake]] starring Creator/ChrisRock, [[Series/ThirtyRock Tracy Morgan]], ZoeSaldana, Creator/JamesMarsden and [[Film/LethalWeapon Danny]] [[TwentyTwelve Glover]] was released just three years later in 2010, which kept the overall tone of a black comedy... [[ThatCameOutWrong but not in that way!]]

'''''Death at a Funeral''''' is a 2007 British BlackComedy film directed by FrankOz, with an ensemble cast including PeterDinklage and AlanTudyk.

In what must be something of a record for an English language movie, an American [[TheRemake remake]] starring Creator/ChrisRock, [[ThirtyRock Tracy Morgan]], ZoeSaldana, Creator/JamesMarsden and [[LethalWeapon Danny]] [[TwentyTwelve Glover]] was released just three years later in 2010, which kept the overall tone of a black comedy... [[ThatCameOutWrong but not in that way!]]

* CrammingTheCoffin: the deceased's diminutive gay lover gets knocked out after his attempts to blackmail the two sons goes wrong, and the sons, thinking that they'd accidentally killed him, hide him in their father's coffin. Naturally, he wakes up at the worst possible time.

'''''Death at a Funeral''''' is a 2007 British BlackComedy film directed by FrankOz.