A comedy where love finds new life and death is something to laugh about. <BR>&nbsp;

A comedy where love finds new life and death is something to laugh about.

Boris Plots, Alfred Molina, and Frank Featherbed, Christopher Walken, are rival funeral directors in a small Welsh town. Boris believes in tradition, while Frank, who comes from Milwaukee, thinks funerals should be fun. Boris has adored Betty Rhys-Jones, Brenda Blethyn, since they were children; he imagines himself as Fred Astaire to her Ginger Rogers, but Betty is married to philandering town councillor Hugh Rhys-Jones, Robert Pugh, unaware that he\'s having a bit on the side with his secretary, Naomi Watts. This self-described \'fable\', directed by Nick Hurran, starts off promisingly, but eventually degenerates into abject silliness. It was made a couple of years ago, before Naomi Watts, who has a most thankless role, had achieved the status she has today, and it\'s chief interest is in seeing the often eccentric Christopher Walken camping it up as Featherbed, the most outrageous funeral director in the business.