Product Description

Eva Longoria Parker (TV’s Desperate Housewives) stars in this devilishly funny romantic comedy about holding onto the ones you love...even after you’re gone. When Kate (Longoria Parker) is killed by an ice sculpture on her wedding day, her fiancé Henry (Paul Rudd, Knocked Up) gives up on romance until he falls for the beautiful psychic (Lake Bell, TV’s Boston Legal) who’s supposed to be helping him move on. But Kate’s not having it, and she’s going to do whatever it takes to send their budding relationship six-feet-under.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #8260 in DVD
• Brand: Warner Brothers
• Released on: 2008-05-06
• Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: 1.00 pounds
• Running time: 95 minutes

Features

• Eva Longoria Parker (TV?s Desperate Housewives) stars in this devilishly funny romantic comedy about holding onto the ones you love.even after you?re gone. When Kate (Longoria Parker) is killed by an ice sculpture on her wedding day, her fianc? Henry (Paul Rudd, Knocked Up) gives up on romance until he falls for the beautiful psychic (Lake Bell, TV?s Boston Legal) who?s supposed to be helping him

Amazon.com
Eva Longoria Parker (Desperate Housewives) plays a woman named Kate who gets crushed by an ice sculpture on her wedding day and comes back from the dead to make sure her fiance, Henry (Paul Rudd) never finds love with anyone else. Unfortunately for Kate, Henry's sister has dragged him to see Ashley (Lake Bell, Surface), a psychic who revives Henry's will to romance. Ashley is the only person who can see Kate--a fact that Kate uses to her advantage and makes Ashley's life miserable. Over Her Dead Body wants to be a classic screwball comedy in the vein of Topper. It's packed with clever touches and comic setups--and if the plot never quite reaches the lunatic pitch Over Her Dead Body is reaching for, the movie's basic goodheartedness may leave you in a forgiving mood. Longoria Parker, whose charms may be better suited to television, doesn't quite have the crackle her roles demands (the movie was originally subtitled Ghost Bitch), but Rudd and Bell have a nice combative rapport that recalls the verbal sparring of movie couples in the 1930s. Jason Biggs and Lindsay Sloane (Sabrina, the Teenage Witch) provide nifty supporting performances. All in all, Over Her Dead Body never fully gels, but there's some definite fun to be had as it bounces along. --Bret Fetzer

Customer Reviews

Engaging, somewhat cliched romantic comedy
This film has a good premise to generate comedic material - as Kate (Eva Longoria is about to marry her fiance (Paul Rudd) she is crushed to death by a falling ice angel sculpture... and she returns to haunt/harrass the psychic who begins to fall into a romance with him. Add to that the gay? catering business partner of the psychic medium (played by Jason Biggs) and there's a number of pretty funny scenes and plot twists. Although the plot seemed clever, Eva Longoria's character seemed to weaken the film - she seemed rather one-dimensional and stuck on auto-pilot in that role. The remainder of the cast seemed to get into their characters pretty well and the film was well-paced and fun... I personally like supernatural elements in films and this one has that as key to its premise... there's a particularly funny scene where the medium goes to a Catholic priest to ask for help in "getting rid of" the ghost and another scene where the ghost puts on a threatening, demonic pose a la The Exorcist to attempt to scare the medium away from the surviving fiance. If you like a somewhat cliched but still clever romantic ghost comedy you'll likely want to see this film.

Very good and funny!
I loved this movie! Very nice entertaining romantic comedy complimented by an outstanding cast! Most of us know Eva Longoria Parker from DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES and what she is capable of as far as an uplifting actrice. She is exactly what this movie needs and plays her part so well! Paul Rudd is very amusing as always and Lake Bell does an amazing job as well. Not a big fan of Jason Biggs, but he does surprisingly good also. Overall, a great cast!

Watch it with an open mind with family and/or friends and you will more than likely have a good time!

Life-Changing!!
Over Her Dead Body is the kind of movie that is both a romantic and a comedy, and people who are lonely and miserable should see this film because it will make them see what they are missing out on. It is good-natured fun like the old-time screwball comedies that Jimmy Stewart used to be in, and even better than those.

The movie Over Her Dead Body is about a man-child played by Paul Rudd who is getting married to a terrible woman played by Eva Longoria. She is immediately killed (spoiler alert!) and he goes into a prolonged state of mourning and depression, which is where this movie takes a tragic turn. But will he stay like this forever? Not if his sister can help it! So she introduces him to her psychic friend played by Lake Bell, who is always good at slapstick comedy and much better at it than the late John Ritter, even though he was also great. Where the comedy hijinks resume is when Eva Longoria begins haunting Lake Bell to keep her away from her ex-fiancee, which is hilarious because she's completely dead.

This movie is similar to Hello Again! with Shelly Long or Beetlejuice with Dick Cavett, but it is much fresher and newer because Eva Longoria is in it, and there is a lot you can learn about the afterlife, even though this is a work of fiction. On the other hand, the comedy antics and stirring story share more in common with a movie like Antonioni's The Passenger or some of the lesser known works of a young Roman Polanski.

Over Her Dead Body will charm you from beginning to middle, and then also at the end. It reaches into your body, grabs your charm bones and heart, and gives them a good tug. Also it will tickle your funny bone, when you're not looking.

I'm not saying it's Oscar material, but it's a perfect movie to see when what you want to do is celebrate life, death, romance, movies, and angels, ice sculptures, weddings, Jason Biggs, as well as belief in psychics and a higher power, plus the joy of being alive and the hope in an afterlife, and jealousy that women can have for other women taking their man (even when they're dead!) and personal diaries, candles, and love.