Over Your Dead Body, the new film by director Jorma Taccone (MacGruber, Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping) begins with its central couple already deep in crisis. Dan (Jason Segel), a once-promising indie director, and Lisa (Samara Weaving), a middling actress, can barely make it through a car ride without insulting each other’s careers, or sit down for a home-cooked meal without flinging accusations of infidelity or controlling behavior.
Divorce would be the obvious option, but divorce would do nothing to wipe out the crushing debt they’ve accumulated over their seven years of marriage. (Who’s to blame for that is yet another sore spot.) Instead, each decides separately and secretly, it’ll have to be murder. But when a trio of dangerous outsiders interrupt the deadly weekend getaway Dan and Lisa had planned, what should have been a game of marital cat and mouse turns into a deliciously gory, if overly protracted,
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