Over Her Dead Body

2008 Comedy

Eva Longoria Parker, Paul Rudd, and Lake Bell star in first-time feature filmmaker Jeff Lowell's heavenly romantic comedy concerning a female psychic and a doubtful skeptic who find their fledgling love affair thwarted by the latter's recently deceased fiancée. Henry (Rudd) and Kate (Longoria Parker) were all prepared to live out their "happily ever after" when tragedy struck from out of nowhere and Kate was killed on their wedding day. In the aftermath of the accident, a devastated Paul reluctantly takes his sister's advice and pays a visit to local psychic Ashley (Bell). Now, despite the fact that he openly questions her ability to communicate with the dearly departed, Paul can't help but fall head over heels in love with Ashley. Despite the fact that the feelings are most certainly mutual, however, their growing relationship is threatened when Kate makes it her supernatural mission to sabotage the happy couple's fledgling relationship before it starts to get serious. more..

Director: Jeff Lowell

Starring: Eva Longoria Parker, Paul Rudd,Lake Bell, Jason Biggs, Lindsay Sloane

Reviews

  • This madcap paranormal love triangle is charming on its own terms.

    Ken Fox - TV Guide

    26 April 2013

  • Though the tale may fall short on imagination, the principal actors make Over Her Dead Body livelier than one would expect.

    Claudia Puig - USA Today

    26 April 2013

  • Rudd's talents as a thinking woman's charmer are wasted -- as are those of amiable Jason Biggs in a weak variation on the pop theme of being a gal's gay best friend.

    Lisa Schwarzbaum - Entertainment Weekly

    26 April 2013

  • Rudd is an underappreciated comic actor, and his line readings are the best thing in the film, but the bland role barely taps his talent. Amid the rest of the cast's one-note posing, his scenes with a parrot have a spontaneity and wit otherwise in short supply.

    Sheri Linden - The Hollywood Reporter

    26 April 2013

  • I like Longoria Parker on "Desperate Housewives" and truly believe she could have a career on the big screen if she promises to never again work with writer-director Jeff Lowell, who perpetrated this offense of a ghost comedy on her and on her otherwise gifted co-stars Paul Rudd and Lake Bell.

    Peter Travers - Rolling Stone

    26 April 2013

Awards

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