Pallbearer, The (1996)

reviewed by
Tim Voon


THE PALLBEARER
 A film review by Timothy Voon
Copyright 1997 Timothy Voon

Cast: David Schwimmer, Gwyneth Paltrow, Michael Rapaport, Barbara Hershey, Toni Collette, Michael Vartan, Bitty Schram, Carol Kane Director: Matt Reeves Producers: Jeffrey Abrams and Paul Webster Screenplay: Jason Katims and Matt Reeves

The phone rings. You pick it up. There's someone crying on the other end. Someone has died. Who is this person? It's the dead man's mother. She wants you to make a eulogy at his funeral. The truth of the matter is that you can't remember him.

At this point I would have replied: ‘Ma'am, it's a real honour to be asked to say some loving words in memory of your son, but I would think it inappropriate because I don't remember him.'

Being truthful, yet remaining sensitive, would have been the most tactful approach to this situation. But being alone (Schwimmer). Twenty-five years of age. Unemployed, and still living with mother, can do strange things to a man. Namely, agreeing to make a eulogy for someone that you don't remember from chess club at high school, then sleeping with the dead man's mother.

Comment: Ho, Hum!
Timothy Voon
e-mail: stirling@netlink.com.au

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