Over Your Dead Body
Time; 1 hour 45 Minutes
Watched: Amazon
Rated: R for strong bloody violence, gore, sexual assault, pervasive language and sexual content
IMDB Rating; 6.3/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
Tomato Meter 70%
Popcorn Meter 77%
Caution; Spoiler Alert
Staring;
Jason Segel as Dan
Samara Weaving as Lisa
Paul Guifoyle as Michael
Keith Jardine as Todd
Timothy Olyphant as Pete
Juliette Lewis as Allegra
Story Line;
A dysfunctional married couple retreats to a secluded cabin to repair their relationship, but each secretly plots to murder the other
Thoughts:
I only knew what I saw in the preview. It appears it's a couple trying to kill each other. This actually is so much better than that!
I found this to be a fun little movie with quite a bit of gore.
I very much like Samara Weaving so that was a bonus
CAUTION; Spoiler Alert
Years
after making his only feature film, struggling director Dan Burton is
reduced to shooting pop-up ads. He is unhappily married to Lisa, an
aspiring actress. After visiting his father Michael at a nursing
home, Dan sets off with Lisa for a weekend at their lakeside cabin,
where he plans to murder her with the help of Henry, an ex-convict
acquaintance.
At the cabin, Dan prepares to chloroform Lisa,
only for her to taser and tie him up. Awakening, Dan admits to
planning to strangle Lisa, dismember her body and dump it in the
lake. Lisa reveals her own plan to murder Dan in a staged hunting
accident with one of his father's guns. As they confront the rift in
their marriage, including Dan's money troubles and Lisa's infidelity,
Henry arrives and knocks Lisa unconscious.
Upon waking up,
Lisa realizes Henry was promised half of her $100,000 life insurance
policy. She reveals to Henry that they each have a $1 million policy.
The three turn on each other, and Henry is accidentally shot dead
when Dan and Lisa struggle for the gun. Chasing each other through
the house, the couple is knocked out when fugitives Pete, Todd, and
Allegra fall through the attic.
Tying up the couple in the
basement and taking Michael's guns, Pete explains that he and Todd
are convicted killers who recently escaped prison with Allegra, an
unstable corrections officer in love with Pete. On the run, they
broke into the cabin and hid when Dan and Lisa arrived. They demand
money and prepare to rape and kill Dan, but Lisa offers to take them
to the bank in the morning.
Dan tricks Todd into untying him
to use the bathroom, but knocks him out and flees. Lisa soon follows,
and retrieves the boat key as the fugitives hunt for the couple
outside. Dan intervenes when Lisa is held at gunpoint by Todd, and
they brutally subdue him, hiding in a closet when Pete and Allegra
return. Determined to save Lisa, Dan overpowers Pete and the couple
attempts to escape, but is recaptured.
Pete prepares to kill
Dan with a lawnmower, severing two of his fingers in the process.
They are interrupted by Michael, who was alerted by a neighbor and
stole a nurse's car to reach the cabin. Disarming Pete and blowing
Todd's head off, Michael is stabbed by Allegra but shoots her in the
foot, urging Dan to run. As Pete fatally pushes Michael onto the
mower, the couple flees in the car but soon crash, and Dan convinces
Lisa to take the boat.
Abandoned by Pete, the wounded Allegra
is confronted by Dan, who breaks her leg and shoots her in the face.
Pete commandeers the boat with a captive Lisa, but Dan climbs aboard,
leading to a vicious struggle. Using a bag of rocks and anchor to
drown Pete, Lisa saves Dan and recovers his severed fingers and
wedding ring.
The couple reconciles, apologizing for planning
to kill each other and agreeing to repair their marriage. Publicizing
the story of their survival, they capitalize on their newfound fame
as Dan directs Lisa in a straight-to-streaming film adaptation.
Sources
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