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      The Loved One

      Released Oct 11, 1965 1 hr. 56 min. Comedy List
      47% 19 Reviews Tomatometer 76% 500+ Ratings Audience Score The suicide of his expatriate uncle (John Gielgud) draws Englishman and poet Dennis Barlow (Robert Morse) into California's booming funeral industry. Dennis falls for spiritual funeral home stylist Aimee (Anjanette Comer), whose boss, Mr. Joyboy (Rod Steiger), also has designs on her. Meanwhile, he's drawn into a crooked scheme by the cemetery's owner, Henry Glenworthy (Jonathan Winters), to shoot corpses into space and build a retirement home on the cemetery land. Read More Read Less Watch on Fandango at Home Premiered Nov 21 Buy Now

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      Gerlando Fabio S Brilliant, refreshing British irony at its best, Waugh, Isherwood and Richardson with the whole amazing cast, truly a dream team! Rated 5 out of 5 stars 10/29/22 Full Review susan w Utterly unexpected! The work of the brilliant Evelyn Waugh, a favorite writer who plumbs the sharpest of poignancies. So clever & shocking in its subject: death & its attendant frivolities, absurdities & surprises of & by the bereaved survivors of the deceased. Funny & clever. Perfectly cast. Really does not age & thereby may never croak out of existence. 😉 Rated 5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review david f This movie was all over the place and I couldn't really figure out what it was trying to say. A little mortuary satire, a little poetic-young-man satire, and some Hollywood cult satire thrown in. It did not add up to much. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Matthew D A darkly cynical satire that should be see by anyone and everyone with a love for the sardonic. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 09/25/21 Full Review Audience Member The best comedy movie ever made! Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/26/23 Full Review michelle o The cameos pull you through - it's a very 60's comedy that I had never seen - Winters is by far the best part. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Pauline Kael LIFE So far off its satirical target that it's stupid when trying to be clever. Apr 19, 2022 Full Review Marvin Barrett The Reporter Southern has set himself an insoluble problem, and his response is appropriately neurotic and disconnected, a set of not very funny extraneous gags. Jan 25, 2022 Full Review Matt Brunson Film Frenzy Time has worn much of the edge off the outrageous antics, though the scenes involving Mr. Joyboy's mother still have the power to (pick your poison) amuse/offend/anger/irritate/upset. Rated: 3/4 Nov 22, 2021 Full Review Dwight MacDonald Esquire Magazine 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. Aug 13, 2019 Full Review Wendy Michener Maclean's Magazine A suicidal comedy embalmed in its own sick jokes... Jun 27, 2019 Full Review Fernando F. Croce CinePassion The corpse's laughter, the mortician's art Feb 14, 2010 Full Review Read all reviews

      Movie Info

      Synopsis The suicide of his expatriate uncle (John Gielgud) draws Englishman and poet Dennis Barlow (Robert Morse) into California's booming funeral industry. Dennis falls for spiritual funeral home stylist Aimee (Anjanette Comer), whose boss, Mr. Joyboy (Rod Steiger), also has designs on her. Meanwhile, he's drawn into a crooked scheme by the cemetery's owner, Henry Glenworthy (Jonathan Winters), to shoot corpses into space and build a retirement home on the cemetery land.
      Director
      Tony Richardson
      Screenwriter
      Evelyn Waugh, Terry Southern, Christopher Isherwood
      Production Co
      Metro Goldwyn Mayer, Filmways Pictures
      Genre
      Comedy
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Theaters)
      Oct 11, 1965, Original
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Sep 11, 2015
      Sound Mix
      Mono
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