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Aka: Pushing Up Daisies
Oliver is destined for an uneventful life until the day he and his brother Jackie breeze into town to attend the funeral of their estranged father. To everyone's bewilderment, Oliver inherits his father's estate-a funeral home. Oliver learns from the handyman Henry that the home is on the verge of bankruptcy. That night, his life gets increasingly complicated when he takes a drunken drive with the bewitching mortician Roberta and collides with a hiker. Roberta cleverly disguises the fatality as an accident, providing Oliver with his first paying customer and launching the duo on a merciless killing spre...
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e that evolves from accidental to intentional. As they scramble to stay out of jail and keep the funeral home in business, the body count rises steeply and their victims expire in increasingly bizarre and brutal "accidents". Trying to remain one step ahead of the local law (Roberta's father, Chief of Police Knickle, and her boyfriend, Constable Richmond), Oliver is torn between the affections of Roberta and his young, alluring stepmother, Luanne. With his business and love life blossoming, Oliver gains confidence-until he finds he has dug a grave for himself too deep to escape.
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While some inherit fortunes, Oliver inherits a funeral home--a failing funeral home at that. No one in town in dying. So in order to drum up business, the young business owner embarks on a second career as a serial killer. The laughs come dark in this indie comedy starring Jay Baruchel and Rose Byrne.
Na het overlijden van zijn vader, erft Oliver (Jay Baruchel) een begrafenisonderneming in een klein stadje, maar komt er achter dat deze nagenoeg failliet is. De zaken veranderen echter wanneer hij een dodelijk ongeluk veroorzaakt en zo zijn eerste klant krijgt. Samen met zijn balsemer Roberta (Rosa Byrne) probeert hij het bedrijf van de ondergang te redden door mensen van het stadje om zeep te helpen.