Synopsis
Two sisters attempt to win over their terminally ill, difficult-to-please aunt in hopes of becoming the beneficiaries of her wealthy estate, only to find the rest of their greedy family members have the same idea.
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Cast
- Toni ColletteMacey
- Anna FarisSavanna
- David DuchovnyRichard
- Rosemarie DeWittBeatrice
- Kathleen TurnerAunt Hilda
- Ron LivingstonJames
- Keyla Monterroso MejiaEllen
- Danny VinsonBill
- Gichi GambaGeoff
- Patricia FrenchDiane
Recommendations
- 67
Collider
Though it doesn’t have the audacity to close when it should with its characters at their very lowest, The Estate is still proper fun in seeing a deeply improper family tear each other apart. - 60
The New York Times
This is a comedy that takes a vicious, over-the-top look at family greed, and fortunately, the cast members are game to play their characters’ attempts at flattery in the most unflattering manner possible. - 50
Screen Daily
Writer-director Dean Craig gathers a winning ensemble for his dark comedy and, intermittently, the characters’ rank awfulness is a joy to behold. But despite boasting a fair amount of snide one-liners and a general air of gleeful misanthropy, the film ends up becoming strained and predictable, not quite liberating or shocking enough. - 42
The A.V. Club
The execution is where it’s lacking: the wit, the timing, the headlong comic drive, and the ability to make us laugh at actions and dialogue that, in any other context, would be rude or distasteful. - 40
TheWrap
It would be one thing if the film was fully committed to its nastiness — a type of comedy we don’t see much of these days at all — but “The Estate” is too often hampered by its own self-awareness. - 38
RogerEbert.com
Even with an embarrassingly rich cast, The Estate chokes on its own airlessness. - 30
Los Angeles Times
It’s not funny, it’s not satirical, and it’s not worth your time, or Toni Collette’s - 30
Screen Rant
This is a terribly unfunny venture, which fails at the film’s only job.
