The Loved One

The Loved One (1965)

  • 53% of critics liked it
    (15 reviews)

  • 82% of users liked it
    (631 ratings)

The satire in Evelyn Waugh's darkly comic novel The Loved One was originally double-edged. The book was not only an attack on the Southern California funeral industry but also a lampoon of Hollywood's "British colony," those clannish, cricket-playing English actors of years gone by who bemoaned the… More

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Unrated, 1 hr. 56 min.
Directed By
Tony Richardson
Written By
Terry Southern
Genres
Classics, Comedy
In Theaters
Oct 11, 1965 Wide
On DVD
Jun 20, 2006
MGM Home Entertainment

Critic Reviews

  • Fernando F. Croce, CinePassion

    The corpse's laughter, the mortician's art

  • Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews

    Misfire spoof on LA's funeral industry, American greed and Brits in Hollywood.

  • Alan Dale, Blogcritics.org

    Perhaps the only way to enjoy it is to accept that saying something offensive is better than saying nothing at all. The Evelyn Waugh who wrote The Loved One might have agreed with that, at any rate.

  • Chuck O'Leary, FulvueDrive-in.com

    As tame as it is lame...The only thing that offended me about this movie is how it wasted two hours of my life.

  • John J. Puccio, Movie Metropolis

    For me, The Loved One is a small series of lasting visual memories rather than any fond recollections of its wayward humor.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Robert C


    Evelyn Waugh's clever and at times scathing look at both the film and funeral industries. I find the idea ammusing that the whole concept for the novel on which this film is based, sprung from Waugh's brief experience in Los Angeles while trying to get a film version of… More

  • AJ V


    This black comedy is really hilarious for the most part, but it has a couple of boring scenes, so I didn't rate it higher. Overall, I really enjoyed it, though.

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