Grave whispers - love moves coffins

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Movie
German title Grave whispers - love moves coffins
Original title Plots with a View (Undertaking Betty)
Country of production USA , UK , Germany
original language English
Publishing year 2002
length 94 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 6
Rod
Director Nick Hurran
script Frederick Ponzlov
production Michael Cowan
Suzanne Lyons
Jason Piette
Kate Robbins
music Rupert Gregson-Williams
camera Kevin Rudge
James Welland
cut John Richards
occupation

Grave whispers - Love displaced coffins is a comedy by Nick Hurran from the year 2002 .

action

The good-natured, naive Betty Rhys-Jones, who lives in the small town of Wrottin-Powys in Wales, takes care of her vicious bedridden mother-in-law until she suffocates on cornflakes. Her selfish husband Hugh is a councilor and has an affair with his secretary Meredith. Undertaker Boris Plots has been in love with Betty for decades.

The American Frank Featherbed is trying to stir up the market for funeral services in the region with discount prices and high-profile promotions. He also organizes unusual funeral services.

When asked, Betty confesses to Boris that she is unhappy in her marriage and begins an affair with him. He develops a plan for Betty to break free from their marriage so that they can both leave the country. He wants to fake her death. At a dance event, with the help of the local doctor, he staged Betty's “fatal” fall and secured the order for the burial. When she is openly laid out, Meredith confesses to her trying to poison her at the dance event and Hugh tells the alleged corpse about his adulteries and his joy at being able to consume her life insurance. Then Betty takes the plan to take revenge on her unfaithful husband and his lover as a ghost. With the help of Boris, Frank and his assistants this succeeds.

Soundtrack

NO title Interpreter
1 Woodchopper's ball Ted Heath
2 Let's fall in love Shirley Bassey
3 In the mood Ted Heath
4th Blue skies Maxine Sullivan
5 Begin the beguine Ted Heath
6th Largo from Xerxes Georg Friedrich Handel : composer
7th Organ sonata no.1 Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy : composer

Reviews

  • Lisa Nesselson praised the actors and the script in Variety .
  • Kevin Crust praised the "first-class" actors in the Los Angeles Times .
  • The lexicon of international films said: “Turbulent black comedy about the sympathetic theme of late love, which admittedly builds too much on the basic idea and neglects situational humor. So, despite the interesting topic, the film ultimately remains too gaudy and harmless. "

Awards

backgrounds

The comedy was shot in Wales .

The dance scenes were developed by Peter Darling and the costumes were designed by Ffion Elinor.

Stage processing

The author Wolfgang Adenberg and the composer Marc Schubring worked on the material as a musical Zum Die schön , which premiered on February 23, 2013 in the Hildesheim City Theater .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for grave whispers - love moves coffins . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , April 2003 (PDF; test number: 93 766 K).
  2. ↑ Age rating for grave whispers - love moves coffins . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ Critique in the Variety ( Memento from February 5, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  4. ↑ Review in the Los Angeles Times ( Memento from February 23, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  5. ↑ Grave whispers - love moves coffins. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  6. ↑ Filming locations in the IMDb