Hank Azaria, Jesse Bradford, Zooey Deschanel

A spirited ensemble cast keeps things cooking in Eulogy, a black comedy about a gathering of the dysfunctional Collins family following the death of its prickly patriarch (Rip Torn). Zooey Desc...( read more  read more... )hanel plays granddaughter Kate, struggling to fulfill the old man's last wish that she write his eulogy. Meanwhile, her dad (Hank Azaria), a has-been actor, smokes pot in the dark and referees battles between his seamy brother Skip (Ray Romano), lesbian sister Lucy (Kelly Preston) and her lover Judy (Famke Janssen), caustic sibling Alice (Debra Winger), and suicidal mother Charlotte (Piper Laurie). Confused about her loyalties, poor Kate alternately runs to and from best friend Ryan (Jesse Bradford), who wants to become her lover, while Alice--super-critical of Lucy's sexuality--fails to keep secret her own fling with a nurse (Glenne Headly). Eulogy never quite reaches full boil, but there are many funny moments, and Deschanel, Romano, and Preston are particularly watchable. --Tom Keogh

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R, 91 min.

Directed by: Michael Clancy

Release Date: October 15, 2004

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DVD Release Date: February 8, 2005

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  • November 23, 2008
    Had high expectations. weren't met. my own fault?
  • November 25, 2007
    About 3 ok laughs but overall a complete miss.
  • November 12, 2007
    Funny, if not excessively mean, Eulogy is a good way to spend 85 minutes. It's a solid black comedy romp with possibly the most lesbians I've ever seen in a feature-length film.

    I'm probably going to hell for actually liking Ray Romano in something, but c'est la vie.
  • November 6, 2007
    Nothing special about it, but nothing bad either. It was funny at times. The people who wrote it however have obviously never smoked pot, unless they were smoking it mixed with meth/coke/and draino.
  • September 8, 2007
    A comedy centred around dysfunctional family and the funeral of the patriarch. I found it pretty funny. The granddaughter Kate (Zooey Deschanel) is perhaps the only sane person in the family.
  • September 11, 2009
    A great comedy that too many people missed. Come on, even Ray Ramono is funny.
  • September 3, 2009
    cute and very funny.
  • August 22, 2009
    Black comedy at its finest with a minor surprise twist at the end. The family in here makes other dysfunctional families like the Simpsons (Homer, Marge & etc, not Jessica & Ashlee) look normal. well the only other thing worth mentioning is Famke Janssen & Kelly Preston playing a...( read more)s lesbian couple Lucy and Judy!! too bad they had limited scenes. i love them both, they really make great lesbians.
  • June 20, 2009
    Even Zooey Deschanel wasn't enough to prop up this flat farce of a movie.
  • June 15, 2009
    saw it but dont remember it

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