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Over Her Dead Body (2008)
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Reviews Counted:99
Fresh:15
Rotten:84
Average Rating:3.7/10
Consensus: With few laughs and little romantic chemistry, Over Her Dead Body lacks the ingredients of a successful romantic comedy.
Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] for sexual content and language.
Runtime: 1 hr 35 mins
Genre: Comedies
Theatrical Release:Feb 1, 2008 Wide
Box Office: $7,485,689
Synopsis: Screenwriter Jeff Lowell makes his directorial debut with the slightly unconventional romantic comedy OVER HER DEAD BODY. Overbearing bridezilla Kate (Eva Longoria Parker) is reviewing final... Screenwriter Jeff Lowell makes his directorial debut with the slightly unconventional romantic comedy OVER HER DEAD BODY. Overbearing bridezilla Kate (Eva Longoria Parker) is reviewing final details at the reception venue on her wedding day when the unthinkable happens: she's crushed by an ice sculpture of an angel before she makes it to the altar. A year later, her fiancé, Henry (Paul Rudd), is still devastated. To appease his concerned sister, Chloe (Lindsay Sloan), he visits Ashley (Lake Bell), a caterer and sometime psychic, in an attempt to contact Kate in the afterlife and gain some closure. Henry and Ashley hit it off, but misguided spirit Kate hasn't quite made it to heaven yet, and takes to haunting Ashley to protect her ex-fiancé from his potential new love interest. Will this otherworldly interference keep Henry from moving on with Ashley? Or will Kate realize that the best gift she can give Henry is happiness with someone new? Jason Biggs stars as Dan, Ashley's best friend and catering partner, who is a hiding a big secret from her. Rudd is his usual likable self as Henry, a veterinarian who manages to find humor in every situation despite his lingering sadness. Watch for a very amusing scene with his pet parrot. Longoria looks great as a very fashionable ghost, sporting a new hairdo and a new white outfit almost every time she appears on screen. Bell exudes an air of earnestness and optimism as Ashley, who decides that love is worth being haunted by a ghost. Character actor Stephen Root appears as the ice sculptor. [More]
Starring: Eva Longoria Parker, Paul Rudd, Lake Bell, Lindsay Sloane
Starring: Eva Longoria Parker, Paul Rudd, Lake Bell, Lindsay Sloane, Stephen Root, Jason Biggs
Director: Jeff Lowell
Director: Jeff Lowell
Screenwriter: Jeff Lowell
Producer: Paul Brooks, Peter Safran
Composer: David Kitay
Studio: New Line Cinema
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Reviews for Over Her Dead Body
An unsurprising entry in that hoary micro-genre of romantic comedies to feature a fresh-from-the-corpse disembodied spirit who just can't seem to get a move-on.
This stale comedy about a vengeful ghost would be depressing if it weren't so disposable.
Well, this could have been a lot worse, instead it's just a piece of forgettable, mediocre fluff.
Move over, 'One Missed Call.' You now face stiff competition for worst movie of the year from 'Over Her Dead Body.'
This January has been surprisingly pain-free, a rarity for sure, but this heap brings matters back to a stark reality.
There was some nasty potential to be mined from Over Her Dead Body's premise, but the movie simply isn't wicked enough to go anywhere that could really be funny. It's the Casper of supernatural sex farces.
Have romantic comedies so run out of ideas that they have to cherrypick other genres for new material? Hauntings and exorcisms aren't usually the stuff of romantic comedies, but that is exactly what you get in the ridiculously flawed yet funny, Over H
A languid, thinly sketched and habitually unfunny supernatural comedy.
Rudd and Bell can only goes as far as the director allows, and their efforts are further neutered by an odious supporting performance from Jason Biggs and Longoria's grating turn as a vengeful, horrible actress. I mean spirit.
Over Her Dead Body is the kind of date movie that could bring a relationship to a screeching halt. If your date likes it, go back to Match.com.
Writer/director Jeff Lowell settles for a story that takes a little too long to tell, concocted situations a little too implausible to buy and repartee that occasionally hits the dartboard but never gets close to the bull's-eye.
Blithe Spirit seems an obvious inspiration for this film, which contains touches of Ghost as well. But Over Her Dead Body ultimately belongs in a different category, one usually occupied by straight-to-DVD releases.
It's not the dead body you have to worry about in Over Her Dead Body. It's the dead brain cells: yours.
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