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Dead Funny is a american film of genre Drama released in USA on 21 may 1994 with Elizabeth Peña
Dead Funny (1994)
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Add to a movie listDead Funny is a 1994 independent drama film directed by John Feldman. It stars Elizabeth Peña as Vivian Saunders, a woman who comes home from work and finds her boyfriend Reggie Barker (Andrew McCarthy) pinned to her kitchen table with a long knife.
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Vivian Saunders (Elizabeth Peña) comes home one day to an unusual surprise: her boyfriend Reggie Barker (Andrew McCarthy) is lying on the kitchen table with a large sword sticking out of his body. At first Vivian thinks this must be some sort of joke, but she discovers that Reggie is indeed dead, and as she calls her best friend Louise (Paige Turco) to figure out what might have happened and what to do, it occurs to her that she blacked out after too much wine the night before and isn't sure what she did before she passed out. After a few phone calls, Vivian's women's support group arrives, and what to do about Reggie soon takes second place to what Vivian should do for herself.Actors
Elizabeth Peña
(Viv Saunders)
Andrew McCarthy
(Reggie Barker)
Jorja Fox
(Fate 3)
Paige Turco
(Louise)
Blanche Baker
(Barbara)
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