Eulogy (film)

Eulogy is a 2004 comedy film directed by Michael Clancy.

The story begins with the death of her grandfather, Edmund Collins. 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 mothergrandmother, Charlotte Collins Piper Laurie, the familys dysfunctions and idiosyncrasies come to light. Kates father, Daniel Collins Hank Azaria, is an obscure foreign film actor whose career peaked at agewhen he appeared in a peanut butter commercial. Kates uncle, Skip Collins Ray Romano, is an overly hormonal father of overly hormonal twin sons Fred and Ted who managed to run their mother out of their family. Kates aunt, Lucy Collins Kelly Preston, and her girlfriend Judy Arnolds Famke Janssen are both criticised throughout the movie because of their relationship. Most of this criticism comes from Kates other aunt, Alice Collins Debra Winger. 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 at the only family home Kate is told by Charlotte that her grandfather wished for her to give the eulogy at the funeral.After a family dinner that goes south when Lucy and Judy announce that they are getting married, tired of the family feuding, Charlotte tries to commit suicide by overdosing on a medication. While the family sits in the waiting room they run into Samantha Glenne Headly a nurse at the hospital who is also an old friend of Alices. After having her stomach pumped and after rejoining the family, she tries again by jumping out of a moving van on a bridge and although she does not die, she is seriously injured and spends the remainder of the movie in a wheelchair. ........

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