"Beautifully woven, complex and subtle, this film captures an essence of NYC after 9/11. A great script, some stunning photography, an excellent score that helps tie it all together, and a great ensemble cast make this small film seem quite large. The emotions that bubble under the surface, only sometimes breaking through, give this film its strength and its power. Different stories of different people all struggling with day to day life sharing the common experience of being New Yorkers post 9/11. The references to what happened are almost all unspoken, evoked through the images displayed or the background sounds, yet there is no doubt that what happened is a force in the lives of all of these people. Intelligent film-making at its best.
伯尼（杰克·布萊克 Jack Black 飾）是德州小鎮(zhèn)迦太基的殯儀師，他專業(yè)術(shù)過硬，為人厚道、慨、熱心公益、在教擔任領(lǐng)唱還參加社區(qū)團演出，贏得小鎮(zhèn)所人的歡心，但他始終身，被人猜測要么奉獨身主義，要么是個佬。鎮(zhèn)上一位富商去后，留下脾氣古怪、所有人討厭的高齡寡瑪佳麗（雪莉·麥克恩 Shirley MacLaine 飾）。伯尼本著“對每家屬賦以最真誠同情善意”的原則，熱心近瑪佳麗，很快贏得的歡心，她負擔起兩所有玩樂開銷，讓伯參與她的財產(chǎn)管理，至為他改動遺囑。兩過去，人人都愛的伯幾乎成了瑪佳麗的私所有物，她辭退所有人，生活中的所有瑣都交予伯尼一手包辦好脾氣的伯尼也有爆的一天，而且是一步位地結(jié)束了瑪佳麗的命，演著一出“瑪佳中風(fēng)了”的戲，伯尼著這個秘密，試圖逃法律制裁…… 本片根據(jù)發(fā)生在德州的阿女起實事件改編?
