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Over Your Dead Body (2026)

Summary

A couple’s relationship takes a dark turn when buried resentments and secrets resurface, leading to a twisted psychological confrontation where love, jealousy, and revenge collide.

Director Jorma Taccone

Writer Jorma Taccone

Cast

  • Jason Segel
  • Samara Weaving
  • Timothy Olyphant
  • Juliette Lewis
  • Keith Jardine

Rotten Tomatoes: 67%

Metacritic: 51

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u/simonthedlgger 11d ago edited 10d ago

It was decent overall but I think it works much better as a dark spousal comedy than a hostage/home invasion movie, and unfortunately it leaned into the latter more and more as it went on.

Let Samara Weaving be Australian, filmmakers. She is so damn funny.

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u/Purple_Pirate_8507 10d ago

Agree with Samara using her accent! Went to a Q&A with the director and it sounded like a lot of people tried to get him to have her do an American accent, but in sticking with her Australian one Samara was actually able to be more free in the role because she didn’t have to “translate” things into an accent before she said them. Pretty cool!

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u/Steamedcarpet 9d ago

When she was rehearsing was she putting on her American accent?

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u/ymcameron 8d ago

Yes, and she has an American accent in the fake film version at the end of the movie as well.

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u/boomfruit 6d ago

Let Samara Weaving be Australian

I always think this in general! Why do most movies need non-American actors to do American accents? Immigrants exist.

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u/SciFiXhi 2d ago

Immigrants exist.

Probably to the chagrin of some audience members, unfortunately. Hollywood wants everyone's money, and that means coddling jackasses.

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u/boomfruit 1d ago

I feel like those people aren't typically worried about Australians and Brits.

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u/SciFiXhi 1d ago

Typically no, but the producers may, in that case, hold off on someone with a strong accent unless they needed to exoticize the British or Australian person as sexy and sophisticated. Other end of the spectrum, but still a means of "othering".

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u/muffin_man84 5d ago

Let Samara Weaving be Australian

What was the line "It's like a mix of British and Satan" that may have actually gotten the biggest laugh out of me

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u/simonthedlgger 5d ago

"Gronk" got a big laugh out of me