One would think that if you're going to make a movie about 3 widowed friends, you'd either want to make it serious and somber or hysterically funny. Unfortunately, The Cemetery Club is neither and it exists in some weird in between place where you keep waiting to move or laugh.
Obviously inspired by female centered tear jerkers like Terms of Endearment or Steel Magnolias, The Cemetery Club never quite achieves take off and is never funny or moving enough to be memorable like those other films.
You can't say the cast isn't great though. With Ellen Burstyn, Diane Ladd, and Olympia Dukakis, The Cemetery Club should be a lot better than it is and it lets down these fine women at every turn. Burstyn probably fares the best as she's given the most to do and it least gets one good scene where she talks about her dead husband on a date with a potential suitor (Danny Aiello).
Obviously inspired by female centered tear jerkers like Terms of Endearment or Steel Magnolias, The Cemetery Club never quite achieves take off and is never funny or moving enough to be memorable like those other films.
You can't say the cast isn't great though. With Ellen Burstyn, Diane Ladd, and Olympia Dukakis, The Cemetery Club should be a lot better than it is and it lets down these fine women at every turn. Burstyn probably fares the best as she's given the most to do and it least gets one good scene where she talks about her dead husband on a date with a potential suitor (Danny Aiello).