JUST BURIED
JUST BURIED stars Montrealer Jay Baruchel as Oliver Zinc, a reluctant mortician after he surprised to inherit a small town funeral home from his estranged father. He soon finds out from the morgue’s handyman Henry (Graham Greene) that the only thing dying in town is Oliver’s newly acquired business venture. Dad also left behind a young widow whose overactive libido also transfers from father to son but Oliver is more interested in Roberta (Rose Byrne) the company embalmer. On their first besotted date they accidentally kill a pedestrian but rather than face vehicular homicide, Roberta’s quick thinking manufactures Oliver’s first paying customer. These lovebirds realize that this make work project can save the company and proceed to conjure up more business but now by quite deliberate means. This gets tricky as Roberta’s father is the Police Chief and his deputy is her boyfriend (predictably this doesn’t sit well with Oliver). Baruchel returned to his home and native land to carry this movie after playing sidemen in some Hollywood biggies like Knocked Up and Billion Dollar Baby but this one looks really low budget and very Canadian. Just Buried his its moments but in the summer blockbuster run stands a good chance of being just buried by the competition.