Death at a Funeral

Death at a Funeral. 2007 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Starring: Matthew Macfadyen, Rupert Graves, Peter Dinklage, Alan Tudyk, Daisy Donovan, Peter Vaughan, Kris Marshall, Andy Nyman, Jane Asher
Director: Frank Oz
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Dysfunctional family members get together at the funeral for the family patriarch, where just about everything that can go wrong does.

After a coffin is brought to the family home in the English countryside, Daniel (Macfadyen) opens it for a last look, but finds a different person inside instead of his father. He and his wife Jane (Keeley Hawes) had been planning to get an apartment to start life away from his mother, but Dad's death changed things. Daniel has to pay for the entire funeral himself when his novelist brother Robert (Graves) prefers to fly in first class from America than actually help chip in. Meanwhile, Daniel struggles to write the perfect eulogy.

Daniel's cousin Martha (Donovan) and her fiancé Simon (Tudyk) desperately want to make an impression on her uptight father, but Simon accidentally ingests a designer hallucinogenic drug, mistaking it for Valium. The drug was supplied by Martha's brother Troy (Marshall). Meanwhile, a dwarf named Peter (Dinklage) has showed up, asking to speak to Daniel, but he is rebuffed.

The funeral is disrupted after a very high Simon, swearing he can hear someone inside the coffin, knocks it over. He later locks himself in a bedroom before climbing onto the roof naked. Peter corners Daniel and Robert to confess that he was their father's lover, and he has photographic evidence proving it, intending to blackmail the family to secure a portion of the money from the will. Peter ends up tied up and dosed with the same drug that Simon accidentally took. Getting free, he falls through a glass table, appearing to be dead. Daniel and Robert decide to simply put Peter in the coffin with their father, and hope nothing goes wrong.

Peter comes to, and after Daniel's awkward eulogy, he emerges from hiding, and the compromising pictures fall out of his pocket. Before more chaos can happen, Daniel asks that everyone keep calm, pointing out that his father was a good man, but not perfect. Then, he is finally able to deliver the eulogy that eluded him earlier.

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