Sordid Lives
The film is based on a play. It is about the eccentric family who must gather for the funeral of their grandmother. They attempt to resolve many problems to attain their goal.
18 September 1949, Gadsden, Alabama, USA
29 April 1955, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
25 March 1948, New York City, New York, USA
9 December 1941, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
August 03, 2003
Runs the risk of alienating its audience by going a little too far over the top and, in its efforts to be different, delivers instead, more of the same.
March 06, 2003
Its stereotypes are insulting, its jokes are unfunny, and its emotions are labored. Sordid Lives is a sordid movie.
January 18, 2002
A movie that, while robustly performed ... has the strange effect of not so much opening up a play for the screen as closing it in.
October 21, 2002
Check this out if you're in the mood to laugh at humanity's looniness.
September 28, 2001
There's a genuine sweetness and familial affection that shines through Sordid Lives, and enough oddball humor to keep it mooo-ving along.
June 28, 2002
While the film at times feels like a clumsily acted play, a surprising turn by Delta Burke carries the cast out of the doldrums of an often-strained plot line.
June 15, 2001
The laughs come in all the wrong places when they come at all.
January 18, 2002
If the film's flaws are large, so are its laughs.
April 02, 2003
Texans are idiots, but they have hearts as big as the great outdoors--I get it already.
October 10, 2002
Things always feel about a half step from spinning wildly out of control, but Sordid Lives remains a guilty pleasure that you enjoy and keep to yourself .
July 20, 2002
A train wreck you can't help but watch.
February 28, 2003
If only the lives in Sordid Lives were sordid. Instead, the movie might better be titled Loud Lives.
