The Loved One (Blu-ray)

Robert Morse stars in this comedy about the wacky Hollywood funeral business.
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  • ORIGINAL ASPECT RATIO - 1.85:1
  • Run Time: 2 hours, 1 minutes
  • Video: Black & White
  • Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
  • Released: May 9, 2017
  • Originally Released: 1965
  • Label: Warner Archive Collection (MOD)

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Rotten47%

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Total Count: 17

Upright76%

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User Ratings: 714
Rating: C+ -- Misfire spoof on LA's funeral industry, American greed and Brits in Hollywood. Full Review
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Jun 25, 2009
A suicidal comedy embalmed in its own sick jokes... Full Review
Maclean's Magazine
Jun 26, 2019
It is hard to understand how a witty, tightly organized extravaganza like the Waugh novel... could have resulted in such a queasy, humorless, formless botch. Full Review
Esquire Magazine
Aug 13, 2019
Rating: 4.5/5 -- Provided comedian Jonathan Winters with the only good turn the movies ever afforded him. Full Review
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Oct 2, 2003
Rating: 1/5 -- its humors are unorganized and it can easily seem desperate and dumb
DVDLaser
Nov 6, 2004
Rating: 5/10 -- ...it tries to cover too much ground with too much material that is simply too obvious and too unfunny. Full Review
Movie Metropolis
Jun 16, 2006
Rating: 3/5 -- A wonderfully, witty satire, with Steiger's performance a riot.
Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
Dec 17, 2002

Description by OLDIES.com:

The funeral business gets a giant raspberry in this wickedly wacky, resplendently ridiculous farce based on Evelyn Waugh's macabre comic masterpiece. But the American way of death isn't the film's only target: sex, greed, religion and mother love are also in the crosshairs of its satirical shots. Robert Morse plays a bemused would-be poet who gets entangled with an unctuous cemetery entrepreneur (Jonathan Winters), a mom-obsessed mortician (Rod Steiger) and other bizarre characters.

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  • Sales Rank: 40,759
  • UPC: 888574489182
  • Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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