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
20 September 1935, Borger, Texas, USA
1 February 1941, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
15 April 1949, Queens, New York, USA
7 November 1931, Bucyrus, Ohio, USA
3 December 1912, USA
18 December 1964, Bradenton, Florida, USA
26 September 1948, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
4 February 1922, Vincennes, Indiana, USA
15 December 1957, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
9 December 1941, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
29 September 1961, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
9 February 1933, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 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.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.January 18, 2002
If the film's flaws are large, so are its laughs.July 20, 2002
A train wreck you can't help but watch.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.February 28, 2003
If only the lives in Sordid Lives were sordid. Instead, the movie might better be titled Loud Lives.October 21, 2002
Check this out if you're in the mood to laugh at humanity's looniness.March 06, 2003
Its stereotypes are insulting, its jokes are unfunny, and its emotions are labored. Sordid Lives is a sordid movie.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 .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.