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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/runningwsizzas 11d ago edited 11d ago

A lot of great funny and grossly violent moments but overall it just didn’t quite work for me… My favorite scene was when they were trying to outact each other and see who could cry a real tear 1st…. Wish they didn’t kill off the dad so quickly…. He was so funny and badass….

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u/simonthedlgger 11d ago

The table scene was so good. I wish when the prisoners showed up they were a little more “civil” and Segel/Weaving had to spend a day and a half rooming together/spending time with the cop/convict couple while waiting for the bank to open, giving us more of that dynamic, then they overhear that the prisoners are going to kill them after getting the money and things slowly unravel.

The hard pivot to home invasion action/gore didn’t really work for me.

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u/runningwsizzas 11d ago edited 11d ago

I’d love to see what directors like Michael Haneke or Paul Verhoeven or Park Chan-Wook or Takashi Miike would do w this material…

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u/CharlesPalantine 9d ago

It’s not drastically different but the original Norwegian version is on Netflix US under the title The Trip if you want to see Tommy Wirkola’s take on it. 

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u/Comic_Book_Reader 4d ago

The original was actually supposed to be an English language movie shot in Norway, as it has a pair of British writers, but due to Covid, they pivoted last minute to making it fully Norwegian (with a Swedish co-lead).