Average Rating: 5.9/10
Reviews Counted: 15
Fresh: 8 | Rotten: 7
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Release Date: Oct 11, 1965 Wide
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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 artificiality of Tinseltown while eagerly accepting the demeaning and insignificant movie roles they were offered. The film version of The Loved One, anxious to live up to its ad-campaign promise of
Oct 11, 1965 Wide
Jun 20, 2006
MGM Home Entertainment
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The corpse's laughter, the mortician's art
Misfire spoof on LA's funeral industry, American greed and Brits in Hollywood.
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.
As tame as it is lame...The only thing that offended me about this movie is how it wasted two hours of my life.
For me, The Loved One is a small series of lasting visual memories rather than any fond recollections of its wayward humor.
...it tries to cover too much ground with too much material that is simply too obvious and too unfunny.
its humors are unorganized and it can easily seem desperate and dumb
Based on Evelyn Waugh's personal novel about his epxeriences when he came to the U.S. about MGM filming BRIDESHEAD REVISITED. It's his take on the English colony at the time. For more info., see Boo Allen's doctoral dissertation on Waugh.
Provided comedian Jonathan Winters with the only good turn the movies ever afforded him.
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 Brideshead Revisited put together, Legend has
November 28, 2011Super Reviewer
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.
September 5, 2010Super Reviewer
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