The Loved One

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The Loved One

1965,

1h 56m,

Comedy

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47%

19 Reviews

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76%

500+ Ratings

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76%

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500+ Ratings

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.

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Pauline Kael

LIFE

Apr 19, 2022

So far off its satirical target that it's stupid when trying to be clever.

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Marvin Barrett

The Reporter

Jan 25, 2022

Southern has set himself an insoluble problem, and his response is appropriately neurotic and disconnected, a set of not very funny extraneous gags.

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Matt Brunson

Film Frenzy

Nov 22, 2021

3/4

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.

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Dwight MacDonald

Esquire Magazine

Aug 13, 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.

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Wendy Michener

Maclean's Magazine

Jun 27, 2019

A suicidal comedy embalmed in its own sick jokes...

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Fernando F. Croce

CinePassion

Feb 14, 2010

The corpse's laughter, the mortician's art

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Feb 1, 2019

The best comedy movie ever made!

Jan 23, 2019

The cameos pull you through - it's a very 60's comedy that I had never seen - Winters is by far the best part.

Hagrid W

Aug 30, 2009

Pitch black comedy with good acting and some trenchant observations will be loved by some and hated by many but it is certainly unique.

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Tony Richardson

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Robert Morse

Dennis Barlow

Jonathan Winters

Henry

Anjanette Comer

Aimee Thanatogenous

Rod Steiger

Mr. Joyboy

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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
Producer: John Calley, Haskell Wexler
Screenwriter: Evelyn Waugh, Terry Southern, Christopher Isherwood
Production Co: Filmways Pictures, Metro Goldwyn Mayer
Genre: Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Oct 11, 1965, Original
Release Date (Streaming): Sep 11, 2015
Runtime: 1h 56m
Sound Mix: Mono

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