Can anyone answer that? Some movie about a dysfunctional sister & brother watching their dad die slowly.
Okay maybe a black comedy. Both John & Wendy were kinds mental.
I would say it's a black comedy. But it's not 'comic.' It's the comedy of life; of death having the last laugh.
The best line in the film, for me, is Hoffman's line about the prettiest nursing homes having within them the horror of death and blood and so on, great line.
What can they do about their father dying? Nothing really.
I took care of my totally disabled elderly mother until she died.
I think there were a lot of good points raised in the film. There comes a point when there is just nothing more you can do. They cared about their father. They wanted him to be comfortable.
The only other thing they could have done was to have him die at home, but that is very difficult.
I don't begin to think anyone thought it was comic to see their father die.
We all will see our parents die really, if you think about it.
And btw, in what way were they dysfunctional?
I mean they're not perfect, who is?
It's a good film but I would not say it's "hysterically funny" as it says on the DVD cover,funny in parts yes,but The Jerk it aint....
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'i don't need to be hearing about your wife's cervix right now!' that's comedic gold! cervix tales are great mood setters too!
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The intro where the older women are dressed up like Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders is amusing.
The father Writing *PRICK* on the bathroom wall with his POO ...
after the caregiver kept picking on him to stop eating his cereal and go unclog the toliet ...
was also pretty FUNNY too!!!
LOVE this movie!!!
Also LOVE the performances of PSH and LL as well !!!
great perfs by them!
and the part with the lady showing around the old people the townhouse: granite counter tops, stainless steel appliances...it's like i stumbled into an episode of house hunters!
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Or how about the part where they ask their father what to do with him and he says they should have put into a hole what are they idiots.
Now they're also fighting in the car and their father just turned off his Hearing Aid.
They're fighting because he's just caught her lie about the kind of a grant she got.
She's also just told him she got a FEMA grant.
psh's tennis backhand= magic!
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Were they playing Tennis or Racket Ball?
That was also pretty funny when she fills up that 18 pound bag of water ...
and he stands there inside of that thing with the strap under his chin ... due to the injury he got from playing the game with her.
The very end of the movie also kinda reminds me of that scene with the chin device ... with the doggie having his HIP in a similar kind of device ... in order to assist him with being able to go jogging with her.
It was also amusing how the cat gets into a fight with the other cat after their father's toes curled up the way the other caregiver said they would.
I don't consider this a comedy by any means but I did laugh when Linney was asked if she was married and she said "No....but my boyfriend is."
shareAnother movie that was marketed as a comedy, but was really depressing as heck was "The Weatherman" with Nick Cage. We watched it expecting to laugh, but came out feeling horrible!
shareI guess it's hard nowadays...there are funny moments but I get it: the drama weights more. I guess it's like "Six Feet Under". Nobody thought of it as a comedy even though it could crack you up so many times (Especially seasons 1 and 2).
sharethere was an attempt on comedy not dark comedy as you would expected after hoffman hurt himself it destroyed the rhythm of the movie and completely ruined it.
shareThe two protagonists end the story better off than they started so by definition it's not a tragedy, but a comedy.
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