[Eva Longoria] brings a Jennifer Lopez level of suck to the screen.
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
The Ghosts of Romantic Comedies Past must have visited writer/director Jeff Lowell as he pounded out the screenplay.
There are some flat-out great moments in a largely mediocre film, which is enough to shoot it to the very top of its class - it is midwinter, after all.
It's one of those movies you want to dismiss but can't bring yourself to turn away from.
Everything about the movie is as clunky and unimaginative as the title.
There’s just no end to America’s love affair with blandness, is there?
Writer-director Jeff Lowell could have gone many different ways with this idea -- the screwball comedy of Heaven Can Wait, say, or even the wistful, unabashed romanticism of Ghost -- but he takes the low road more often than not.
Parker, who must have phoned in her performance during a weekend break from Desperate Housewives, is simply awful.
A desperately unfunny farce that doesn't need an audience so much as an exorcist.
starts out badly, gets much worse, and then after it is just dull for a while, it veers off into a whole new category of awful.
Over Her Dead Body is to romantic comedy what Spam is to meat. But at least with Spam, you get cool packaging.
This insipid, staggeringly dumb entry from New Line stoops to unprecedented new lows likely to stun even the most jaded cynic.
This stale comedy about a vengeful ghost would be depressing if it weren't so disposable.
Consider for a moment how this movie might play if it took itself seriously. Would it be better than as a comedy? I suspect so.
A viciously boring retread of every movie you've ever seen in which dead people come back to watch over their loved ones.
Fitfully amusing, but disappoints when you fork out money in a theater to enjoy the delights of the lead actors.
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