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Cries in the Night, more popularly released as Funeral Home, [3] is a 1980 Canadian slasher film directed by William Fruet and starring Lesleh Donaldson, Kay Hawtrey, Jack Van Evera, Alf Humphreys, and Harvey Atkin. The plot follows a teenager spending the summer at her grandmother's inn—formerly a funeral home —where guests begin to disappear.
The Burial is a 2023 American legal drama film directed by Maggie Betts and written by Betts and Doug Wright.It is loosely based on the true story of lawyer Willie E. Gary and his client Jeremiah Joseph O'Keefe's lawsuit against the Loewen funeral company, as documented in the 1999 New Yorker article of the same name by Jonathan Harr. [4]
Departures ( Japanese: おくりびと, Hepburn: Okuribito, "one who sends off") is a 2008 Japanese drama film directed by Yōjirō Takita and starring Masahiro Motoki, Ryōko Hirosue, and Tsutomu Yamazaki. The film follows a young man who returns to his hometown after a failed career as a cellist and stumbles across work as a nōkanshi —a ...
Raymond L. "Ray" Loewen (born June 27, 1940 [1]) is a Canadian businessman, best known as the former owner of Loewen Funeral Group, as depicted in the 2023 film The Burial. [2] Loewen also had a brief political career, serving as an MLA in British Columbia in the late 1970s.
After.Life premiered at the AFI Film Festival in Los Angeles on November 7, 2009. [7] Anchor Bay Entertainment, a division of Overture Films, has acquired theatrical rights for the U.S. and the U.K. [8] The film received an R-rating for the multiple nude scenes with Christina Ricci and was released on 9 April 2010 in a limited release. [9]
Box office. $245.7 million [ 2] Four Weddings and a Funeral is a 1994 British romantic comedy film directed by Mike Newell. It is the first of several films by screenwriter Richard Curtis to star Hugh Grant, and follows the adventures of Charles (Grant) and his circle of friends through a number of social occasions as they each encounter romance.
Box office. $49.1 million [ 5] Death at a Funeral is a 2010 American black comedy film directed by Neil LaBute and written by Dean Craig. It is a remake of the 2007 film of the same name, also written by Craig. The film features an ensemble cast including Chris Rock, Martin Lawrence, Danny Glover, Regina Hall, Peter Dinklage, James Marsden ...
Budget. $26 million [ 1] Box office. $181 million [ 1] The First Wives Club is a 1996 American comedy film directed by Hugh Wilson, based on the 1992 novel of the same name by Olivia Goldsmith. The film stars Bette Midler, Goldie Hawn, and Diane Keaton as three divorcées who seek retribution on their ex-husbands for having left them for ...