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Nicholas Racz (writer)
Release Date:
28 May 2004 (USA)
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In The Burial Society, Sheldon Kasner, an unlikely criminal who works as a bank loan manager, infiltrates...
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Chevrah Kadisha Alert!
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Cast
(Credited cast) | Rob LaBelle | ... | Sheldon Kasner |
 | Jan Rubes | ... | Marvin Telekunsky |
 | Allan Rich | ... | Hy Leibowicz |
| Bill Meilen | ... | Harry Epstein |
 | David Paymer | ... | Morry Zimmer |
 | Seymour Cassel | ... | Sam Goldberg |
 | Jeff Seymour | ... | Jake Lightman |
 | Bill Mondy | ... | Stuart Lightman |
 | Linden Banks | ... | Rabbi Fernstein |
| Nathaniel DeVeaux | ... | Lyle Devine |
 | Betty Linde | ... | Mrs. Graunbaum |
| Nick Misura | ... | Real building manager |
| Dagmar Midcap | ... | News Reporter #1 |
| Mitra Loraz | ... | News Reporter #2 (as Mitra Lohrasb) |
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 | Sashi Bommakanty | ... | Arab |
| Elaine Kliner | ... | Extra |
| Werner Thomas | ... | The Husband |
| Arthur Wolak | ... | Extra |
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Mis en boîte (Canada: French title)
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Rated R for language.
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94 min
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The real interesting part of 'The Burial Society" happens at the beginning, where the main character tries to get into the Chevrah Kadisha, (essentially a Jewish Burial group) because his former occupation, as an office flunky wasn't going to well. Now, right there! THAT would be a great movie! But noooooooo… It starts unraveling that our friendly businessman has a few skeletons in his closet, about why he joined the society in the first place, what really happened at his former job, etc etc.
I really did like the Barton Finkesque qualities that the main character, played by Rob Labelle brought to this role. I agree with a number with of reviewers that this movie tries to emulate the best Coen brothers work, (most notably, coincidentally enough, Barton Fink), but the movie tries WAY to hard and provides too many plot twists for viewers to fully understand what is going on, the ending doesn't help either, providing a cheat that leaves everything up in the air, leaving us trying, vainly, as I am sure repeat viewings wouldn't help, to piece everything together.