The Pallbearer
by Matt Reeves
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Actor: Carol Kane, David Schwimmer, Gwyneth Paltrow, Michael Rapaport, Toni ColletteDirector: Matt Reeves
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Letterbox, 1.85:1
Running Time: 98 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-07-27
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Miramax
Movie Reviews of The Pallbearer
Movie Review: It's actually not to bad, different story line, all around mistaken Identity
Summary: 4 Stars
A little far fetched, and based around some dishonesty, but not bad. I guess I have more of a concience and would have said something up front than drag it out as Tom thompsen (David Schimmer) did, but at first I can understand him being polite in a time of grief. The main storyline of this film is Tom is asked to be a pallbearer at a high school classmates funeral. Unfortunately, Tom nor any of his friends can remember this guy. Along the way, another high school aquaintence (gwenith paltrow) come into the film as Tom's dream girl. As tom persues his dream woman, he soon finds himself entangled in wierd situation with the mother of the poor departed. The movie takes off there. I don't think this movie was ever ment to be a laugh out loud comedy, but it has some funny moments and serious ones as well. I actually enjoyed it, and I don't really care for David schwimmer, and I hate the show friends. So check it out, not to shabby.
Summary of The Pallbearer
Hot star David Schwimmer (TV's FRIENDS) makes a hilarious big-screen debut in this outrageous comedy hit! As Tom Thompson, the popular star plays a befuddled college grad whose social life is practically D.O.A. ... that is, until he's asked to be a pallbearer at the funeral of a classmate he can't remember! Comic chaos follows as Tom fends off the seductive advances of the grieving mother (Barbara Hershey -- BEACHES), and tries desperately to find the nerve to ask out the beautiful girl of his dreams (Academy Award(R) winner Gwyneth Paltrow, Best Actress, 1998, SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE) -- who can't remember him!David Schwimmer plays a drifting twentysomething who receives a telephone call out of the blue to be a pallbearer at the funeral of someone he supposedly knew in school. Trouble is, the caller has mistaken Schwimmer's character for someone else, but our hapless hero--who still lives with his mother at home--doesn't know how to say no. An encounter with the dead man's mother (Barbara Hershey) leads to a sexual relationship, while an old flame (Gwyneth Paltrow) from high school is suddenly on the horizon if only Schwimmer's loser character can quickly get his act together. This umpteenth variation on the Oedipal conflicts in Mike Nichols's The Graduate doesn't have the imagination, vitality, or authority to take classic themes about growing up all the way to the finish line. But in its brooding, comic way, it is honest about the difficulties of crossing the line into adulthood when one doesn't know how. --Tom Keogh
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