The Estate

Name: The Estate
Genre: Comedy
Released: November 4, 2022
Duration: 96 min
Rating: 37
Cast: Anna Faris, Billy Slaughter, Danny Vinson, David Duchovny, Kathleen Turner

2022

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Release Date: November 4, 2022 | R

Starring: Anna Faris, Billy Slaughter, Danny Vinson, David Duchovny, Kathleen Turner, Keyla Monterroso Mejia, Patricia French, Ron Livingston, Rosemarie DeWitt, Toni Collette

Summary: Two sisters attempt to win over their terminally ill, difficult-to-please Aunt in hopes of becoming the beneficiaries of her wealthy estate, only to find the rest of their greedy family members have the same idea.

Director: Dean Craig

Genre(s): Comedy

Rating: R

Runtime: 96 min

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Collider Chase Hutchinson

Nov 4, 2022

Though it doesn’t have the audacity to close when it should with its characters at their very lowest, The Estate is still proper fun in seeing a deeply improper family tear each other apart. Read full review

Teo Bugbee

Nov 4, 2022

This is a comedy that takes a vicious, over-the-top look at family greed, and fortunately, the cast members are game to play their characters’ attempts at flattery in the most unflattering manner possible. Read full review

Tim Grierson

Nov 4, 2022

Writer-director Dean Craig gathers a winning ensemble for his dark comedy and, intermittently, the characters’ rank awfulness is a joy to behold. But despite boasting a fair amount of snide one-liners and a general air of gleeful misanthropy, the film ends up becoming strained and predictable, not quite liberating or shocking enough. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Tomris Laffly

Nov 4, 2022

Even with an embarrassingly rich cast, The Estate chokes on its own airlessness. Read full review

Screen Rant Ferdosa Abdi

Nov 11, 2022

This is a terribly unfunny venture, which fails at the film’s only job. Read full review

Katie Walsh

Nov 4, 2022

It’s not funny, it’s not satirical, and it’s not worth your time, or Toni Collette’s Read full review

IndieWire Jude Dry

Nov 3, 2022

It takes truly terrible script to make such charming and accomplished comedic actors seems so wooden and lifeless. Read full review

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Luke08

Feb 26, 2023

What could have been the setup for a classic comedy, turns into a disappointment right with the first scene, then further downhill from there if you could watch on. Unnaturally cast characters are scripted to swear and use twisted, if not gross, and humorless behavior, and when you look atWhat could have been the setup for a classic comedy, turns into a disappointment right with the first scene, then further downhill from there if you could watch on. Unnaturally cast characters are scripted to swear and use twisted, if not gross, and humorless behavior, and when you look at who produced all of this - a NYC certain people, including disguised virtueless SJ Parker - it all makes sense.… Expand

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