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Just Buried (2007)

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The young heir to a family funeral home discovers that death can be quite a tricky business in first-time feature filmmaker Chaz Thorne's blackly comic tale of fate and formaldehyde. Oliver (Jay Baruchel) has just been called home to attend the funeral of his father, Rollie (Jeremy Akerman). Having not seen his recently deceased dad for some years now, Oliver is somewhat taken aback to view the old man's videotaped will and learn that he has been chosen as the one to inherit the family funeral

PG, 1 hr. 34 min.

Drama, Comedy

Directed By: Chaz Thorne

In Theaters: Sep 9, 2007 Wide

On DVD: Jan 27, 2009

Liberation Entertainment

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Critic Reviews for Just Buried

All Critics (9) | Top Critics (3) | Fresh (3) | Rotten (6)

Bloody and irredeemably misanthropic.

November 4, 2008 Full Review Source: Variety

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Andrew Barker

Variety

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Its ability to maintain such a pleasant facade in the midst of so much gruesomeness may be the creepiest thing about it.

July 25, 2008 Full Review Source: Globe and Mail

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Jason Anderson

Globe and Mail

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Has its wonky charms, but suffers from trying too hard to be quirky.

July 25, 2008 Full Review Source: Toronto Star

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Linda Barnard

Toronto Star

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More twee than any movie about serial murder has a right to be.

October 30, 2008 Full Review Source: L.A. Weekly

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Jim Ridley

L.A. Weekly

Too competent as a Fargo-esque indie murder comedy to dismiss (yet too dull to fully embrace), the Canadian Just Buried yields serviceable results from material that's got rigor mortis.

October 1, 2008 Full Review Source: Time Out New York

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Joshua Rothkopf

Time Out New York

Any episode of Six Feet Under had more sharp, mordant wit and freewheeling derangement than you'll find in Just Buried.

July 25, 2008 Full Review Source: Jam! Movies

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Jim Slotek

Jam! Movies

...sporadically amusing yet entirely uneven...

March 5, 2008 Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews

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David Nusair

Reel Film Reviews

Blame the Brits for making this kind of morbid farce look easy...

September 22, 2007 Full Review Source: Film Freak Central

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Bill Chambers

Film Freak Central

Sometimes a big batch of small chuckles, a few strong performances and a quietly amusing concept are enough to keep a comedy afloat.

September 13, 2007 Full Review Source: Cinematical

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Scott Weinberg

Cinematical

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One of the better Canadian farce movies around. Certainly not a textbook plot. The characters are pretty twisted and its a funny movie.

June 17, 2010

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Kind of weak, but picks up at the end just enough to make it worth a watch... just...Main problems with this are that Rose and Jay are just not at all a convincing couple, for some reason he seems way too young for her, the story is pretty hard to swallow as well, even for a black comedy, and it's kind of ugly to look

July 18, 2009