Plot
Kate Collins walks up to a house. She knocks and a woman answers the door. Kate explains that although she doesn't know her she has a long story to explain. The story begins with the death of Kate's grandfather, Edmund. The movie then goes on to show how all the family members found out about the death, and how they came together for the funeral. As the Collins family joins their widowed mother/grandmother, Charlotte, the family's dysfunctions and idiosyncrasies come to light. Kate's father, Daniel Collins, is an " obscure foreign film" actor whose career peaked at age 8 when he appeared in a peanut butter commercial. Kate's uncle, Skip, is an overly hormonal father of overly hormonal twins Fred and Ted. Kate's aunt, Lucy, and her girlfriend Judy Arnolds, are criticized by the family because of their relationship. Most of this criticism comes from Kate's other aunt, Alice. The bossy, intimidating Alice has managed to both raise her three children and drive her husband into submissive silence, because of her persistent talking and badgering. Once they all arrive for the funeral, Kate is told by Charlotte that Edmund wished for her to give his eulogy. After a family dinner that goes south when Lucy and Judy announce that they are getting married, Charlotte tries to commit suicide by overdosing on a medication. While the family sits in the waiting room they run into Samantha, a nurse at the hospital who is also an old friend of Alice's. After having her stomach pumped, Charlotte tries again by jumping out of a moving van on a bridge and although she does not die, she is seriously injured and is confined to a wheelchair. Kate continually tries to come up with a eulogy while dealing with a previous romance with Ryan, from whom she ran away after being caught by Ryan's mother while they were having sex. Kate gets reacquainted with Ryan and their relationship reignites. Alice and Samantha have sex in Samantha’s car, with the whole family watching in awe, before Ryan falls from Kate's treehouse while the two were spending time together. The next day, Alice’s husband and her children are planning to leave, with the former finally saying something by answering Kate's question about their departure. Kate had also decided to distance herself from Ryan once again. At Edmund's will reading, it is revealed that Edmund has three families that don't know about each other. This explains Edmund's inability to keep names and number of children straight over the years before also dropping the bomb that he was up to his "prostate in debt". Kate is tasked with finding and telling the other two families of Edmund's demise. Per Edmund's will, he is placed in a casket and floated out on a local lake in a boat. Ted and Fred, having previously filled the casket withCast
Production
Reception
Box office
The film was released in 22 venues on October 15, 2004, and earned $41,788 in its first weekend, ranking #51 in the North American box office and seventh among the week's new releases. At the end of its run, two weeks later on October 28, the film grossed $75,076 domestically and $14,705 overseas for a worldwide total of $89,781.Critical response
''Eulogy'' received generally negative reviews from critics. OnReferences
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