The Burial

Name: The Burial
Genre: Drama
Released: October 6, 2023
Duration: 126 min
Rating: 74
Cast: Alan Ruck, Amanda Mason Warren, Bill Camp, Dorian Missick, Jamie Foxx

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Amazon Prime Video | Release Date: October 6, 2023 | R

Starring: Alan Ruck, Amanda Mason Warren, Bill Camp, Dorian Missick, Jamie Foxx, Jurnee Smollett, Mamoudou Athie, Pamela Reed, Tommy Lee Jones, Tywayne Wheatt

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Streams on Prime Video beginning October 13.

Summary: When a handshake deal goes sour, funeral home owner Jeremiah O’Keefe (Tommy Lee Jones) enlists charismatic, smooth-talking attorney Willie E. Gary (Jamie Foxx) to save his family business. Tempers flare and laughter ensues as the unlikely pair bond while exposing corporate corruption and racial injustice. Inspired by true events.

Director: Margaret Betts

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: R

Runtime: 126 min

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Wendy Ide

Sep 14, 2023

The brisk rhythms and energy of the storytelling ensure that the pace rarely flags, and that every frame of this film about the business of death is bursting with life. Read full review

Timothy Cogshell

Oct 12, 2023

The Burial is dramatic yet also funny. It works because it isn’t afraid to be “inspired by” the story’s actual people and isn’t just content to retell the events of this little-known but highly consequential civil court case. Read full review

John Anderson

Oct 13, 2023

The film is better couch fare than most of what we will see at any time of year. Read full review

Lindsey Bahr

Oct 4, 2023

This story is about two older white men fighting about a contract, sure, but Betts and Wright expand its scope with sensitivity and nuance. Like many good courtroom dramas before it, this case is bigger than just these two guys. Read full review

Mick LaSalle

Oct 12, 2023

In The Burial, every character gets a chance to shine, but not like in a “Star Trek” movie, where Sulu gets his moment and then Chekov. Rather, it all feels natural and organic. There’s something almost philosophical in a directorial point of view that understands that supporting and featured players are just as human as the main characters. Read full review

David Fear

Oct 13, 2023

The movie may ping between social drama and IRL courtroom saga. Whenever Foxx struts and frets — and bellows, coos, rages, and waltzes — his two hours upon this stage, you realize that it may simply work best as a star vehicle. Read full review

Chris Barsanti

Oct 5, 2023

This flashy legal melodrama is fitfully stirring but too flabby to deliver the walloping blow that it needs. Read full review

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