In the new movie Over Your Dead Body, Jason Segel wants out. His character, Dan, feels trapped in a seemingly loveless marriage to Lisa (Samara Weaving), and in the early scenes it becomes clear that he’s clumsily constructing an escape plan. On a weekend getaway at his family’s upstate cabin, he will chloroform Lisa, murder her, sink her body in the nearby lake, and claim she went on a dangerous hike from which she never returned. The first big twist, revealed in the movie’s trailer, is that Lisa has been plotting something very similar for Dan. They’re both frustrated and highly irritated by the other ruining and disparaging of their respective murder plans; that’s something else they discover they have in common after years of drifting apart.
The movie feels like both a twisted extension of Segel’s creative interests and an expression of frustration at where they’ve sometimes led. Among
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