Sorry for Your Loss (2018)

Original title

Sorry For Your Loss

Directed by

Collin Friesen

Genre

comedy, drama

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 40m

Rated

18A

Rating

5.0 of 10 from 27 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A marketing executive named Ken flies to Winnipeg for his father's funeral, hoping to inherit money to quit his job and start a gastropub. But the will requires him to scatter the ashes in a football stadium, which forces him into a strained family reunion and an uncomfortable quest.

darkly comicdrytensemelancholicfrustratedawkwardcynicalbittersweet

What happens

Sorry for Your Loss is a 2018 Canadian black comedy film, directed by Collin Friesen. The film stars Justin Bartha as Ken Wall, a frustrated marketing executive who is ambivalent about the fact that his wife Lori (Inbar Lavi) has just given birth to their first child. When he receives news that his father has died, he travels home to Winnipeg for the funeral with hopes of inheriting money he can use to quit his job and pursue his dream of opening his own gastropub, only to learn upon arrival that his father's will stipulates that he will only inherit the money if he successfully scatters his father's ashes in the middle of IG Field. The cast also includes Bruce Greenwood as Jeff Steadman, the executor of Ken's father's will; Kevin McDonald as Ken's father's lawyer Vince Kendall; and Lolita Davidovich as Ken's mother Eve. Sandrine Holt and Darrin Rose also appear in supporting roles. The film was shot in Winnipeg in 2017, and premiered at the Calgary International Film Festival in 2018. It opened commercially in May 2019. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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