Typically, when you see horror films that are “based on a true story” or “inspired by true events,” it’s a very loose interpretation of what that means. That said, there is one event that happened in the U.K.
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“This fella tried to bully me out of business,” Jeremiah O’Keefe says. “I don’t think I should be expected to stand for it.” His wife reminds him, “You’ve never sued anybody before in your whole life.”
That’s about to change. Enter Willie E. Gary, a lawyer who “hasn’t lost a case in over 12 years.”
Here is the first trailer for Amazon Studios’ The Burial, in which Jones stars alongside fellow Oscar winner Jamie Foxx. Have a look above.
When a handshake deal goes sour, funeral homeowner O’Keefe (Jones) enlists charismatic, smooth-talking attorney Gary (Foxx) to save his family business from a half-billion-dollar corporation whose brass are none too worried. “Who is this clown he’s hired as a lawyer?” one asks. The businessmen counter with a hotshot attorney of their own — one Mame Downes (Jurnee Smollett), who graduated at the top of her Harvard Law School class and earned has a nickname: The Python.
“I wouldn’t get too used to me being kind to you, Mr. Gary,” she says during the attorneys’ first meeting. “Once we begin that trial, I’m gonna destroy you.”
Tempers flare between O’Keefe and Gary and doubts arise, but bonding ensues as the unlikely pair expose corporate corruption and racial injustice — while seeking a cool $100 million.
Mamoudou Athie, Pamela Reed with Bill Camp and Alan Ruck also star in the R-rated film from director Maggie Betts, who also co-wrote it with Doug Wright based on the latter’s story and The New Yorker article by Jonathan Harr. The producers are Foxx, Celine Rattray, Trudie Styler, Datari Turner, Jenette Kahn, Adam Richman and Bobby Shriver.
The Burial hits theaters for a one-week run starting October 6 and begins streaming October 13 on Prime Video.
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Typically, when you see horror films that are “based on a true story” or “inspired by true events,” it’s a very loose interpretation of what that means. That said, there is one event that happened in the U.K.
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TORONTO – Considering the explicit gravity of her previous films, “The Burial” is an unexpected detour for filmmaker Maggie Betts. Likely considered a dramatic comedy by most, the MGM release centers on a 1995 lawsuit where a Mississippi small businessman, Jeremiah Joseph O’Keefe (Tommy Lee Jones), took the Loewen Group, a Canadian funerals services company, to court.
Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic While it’s easy to imagine lawyers screaming “objection, your honor!” to the exaggerated courtroom theatrics of “The Burial,” good luck convincing audiences that this David v. Goliath legal showdown between a small-time Southern funeral home operator and an unethical Canadian billionaire should have played out any other way.
The Burial is a not-so-great title; it sounds like a horror film. I hope it doesn’t keep people away from this highly entertaining, crowd-pleasing movie that otherwise is an example of what good old fashioned Hollywood filmmaking can still be all about in the right hands. It feels bigger than life, but it is based on some pretty big lives indeed.
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The trailer for Amazon’s Prime Video movie The Burial has arrived.
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How can one small business stand up to corporations? It might seem an unlikely question for a funeral home, but even that industry faces these issues. Maggie Betts’ “The Burial” looks at what happens when a small funeral home encounters corporate entities determined to corner the market on death care. The film, premiering at the 2023 Toronto Film Festival, finds a skilled acting duo in leads, Tommy Lee Jones and Jamie Foxx.
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