Over Her Dead Body (2008)

Rolling Stone
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Rating: PG-13
Release Date: Feb 1, 2008
Running Time: 95 mins.
Country Of Origin: United States
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Devastated when his fiancée Kate is killed on their wedding day, Henry reluctantly agrees to consult a psychic named Ashley at the urging of his sister Chloe. Despite his skepticism over her psychic abilities, Henry finds himself falling hard for Ashley, and vice versa. But there is a big snag. Ashley is being haunted by Kate’s ghost, who considers it her heavenly duty to break up Henry and Ashley's fledgling romance, if it is the last thing she does on this earthly plane.
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rating  PETER TRAVERS - March 6, 2008

I asked the photo department not to include a picture of Eva Longoria Parker with this review. My reason? I like her on Desperate Housewives and truly believe she could have a career on the big screen if she promises to never again work with writer-director Jeff Lowell, who perpetrated this offense of a ghost comedy on her and on her otherwise gifted co-stars Paul Rudd and Lake Bell.

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As far as romantic comedies go, the hackneyed Over Her Dead Body falls more towards the bottom of the heap--save for one bright spot: ingenue Lake Bell.

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Over Her Dead Body seems to be loosely based on an old Noel Coward standard, Blithe Spirit, about a couple haunted by the man's first wife after a medium unleashes her spirit in a botched seance. In Dead Body's case, the guy's name is Henry (Paul Rudd), a kindly veterinarian still devastated after his fiancee, Kate (Eva Longoria), was… Continued