Flick Chick
- Feb 1, 2023
- 2 min read

Ed and His Dead Mother Review

Not your typical boy meets girl, boy get girl movie. Don't care what anyone says, I love this movie! It is reminiscent of a Rodger Corman film.... It's odd, quirky, and cheesy-on-purpose. If you go into it expecting that... You'll probably like it more. This is an all-time favorite of mine, and a lot of it has to do with the quirkiness of it, I like 'out-of-the-norm' movies. The cast is great, loved Ned Beatty so dry... Flick Chick.

Storyline

Ed misses his mother who has been dead for a year. He has lived almost his whole life with his mother, so when a stranger appears one day from a company called "Happy People Ltd." and claims that they can bring his mother back for 1 000$, he doesn't think long before he agrees.

But everything doesn't go as it should go. For a while everything is fine and Ed's mother bakes cakes and takes care of him, exactly as before.

But then she starts to act more and more strangely. Peeling potatoes in the fridge, repainting the kitchen overnight, chasing dogs for meals, jumping over fences and other things that ordinary old mothers usually don't do. And when Rob (who was sent to jail by Ed's mother) appears, things really start to get out of hand.

Good one-liners and great deadpan performances by Steve Buscemi and Ned Beatty

This dark humor film is not for everyone, but if you have a bit of a twisted intellect this is a very funny film.