The Estate

Good movie!

Good movie!

Good movie!

source: The Estate

source: The Estate

A disappointment in spite all the great actors. All the time they had to make faces to emphasize a comical or hilarious situation but still it wasn't really funny. The topic could have made it into a great movie but it was flat and dead and predictable no matter with what they came up to get to the old ladies money. A high school play no more than that. At times they tried to "shock" the audience but even that was played out poorly. Why did the actors agreed to play with such poor script. Not really worthwhile watching. Looking at my watch and my phone now and than and actually being bored with the movie.

Thanks to the cast, The Estate is not a total fail, but the writing storywise and especially the dialogues are not only a few times cringe worthy and plain bad, stupid, generic. Lots of the "humorous" scenes are also, lets be tender here, not too funny. What's left to say? The production is okay and The Estate got also a few good moments here and there. Anyway, like many, too many movies these days, the writer was not up to the task to provide something good, interesting and entertaining. Recommended only if you are heavy in some of the actors, everyone else search some other place to kill some spare time.

I saw The Estate, starring Toni Collette-Knives Out, Connie and Carla; Anna Faris-Mom_tv, The House Bunny; David Duchovny-The X_Files_tv, Connie and Carla; Rosemarie DeWitt-La La Land, Poltergeist_2015 and Kathleen Turner-Dumb and Dumber To, The War of the Roses. This is a comedy about family. Well, a family that is fighting over money. Toni and Anna are sisters that are down on their luck. They run a diner that is loosing money and is about to be foreclosed on by their bank. That's when they hear about their aunt Kathleen-who is filthy rich with no children of her own-who has a terminal illness and has not long left to live. Dollar signs start swimming in Toni and Anna's eyes and they decide to visit their ailing aunt to get on her good side. Only problem is that their cousins, David and Rosemarie, have the same idea. Everyone is fighting each other while kissing up to Kathleen and none of them-including Kathleen-are what you would call nice people. They are all funny but David is hilarious as a Lothario that wants to have sex with any of his cousins that would be accommodating. It's rated R for language, drug use and sexual content-including nudity-and has a running time of 1 hour & 36 minutes. I laughed a lot and I would buy it on DVD.

In lame so-called comedy "The Estate" struggling sisters Toni Collette & Anna Faris believe dying aunt Kathleen Turner's inheritance will resolve their financial woes, so they move in with the grumpy old bag to butter her up for it... as do rival cousins Rosemarie DeWitt (with hubbie Ron Livingston) & David Duchovny. What ensues is a crass & unfunny parade of knob & poo gags that goes nowhere but the toilet. Writer / director Dean Craig did well on his debut with "Love Wedding Repeat" but totally craps the bed this time, wasting what's actually a terrific cast on fine form (including Turner - great to see her in a rare appearance)... just in a dreadfully awful movie.

Great cast, but overall the movie was a disappointment. Usually you can find one of the characters is relatable, or at least likeable. Not so much in this movie. I just never found myself rooting for one character over another. The sisters, played by Toni Collette & Anna Faris were the most likeable, but I didn't really care if they inherited the estate or not. Kathleen Turner with her gravelly, deep voice was believable as the cranky, dying aunt. She added the fun to this very dysfunctional family. I so rarely go to an actual movie theater to see a movie and to be honest I would recommend skipping this one.