Toni Collette, Anna Faris, David Duchovny, Ron Livingston, and Kathleen Turner star in this somewhat dark, risqué comedy about cousins attempting to suck up to a dying aunt and obtain her lavish estate. The director and actors have a lot on their plate in attempting to balance this daring comedy with the immoral actions and rather overt sexual interplay and even a rather M-rated scene late in the movie. There are plenty of reasons for the many audience members to be turned off by this movie, nevertheless with a finely, crafted delicate script and the adequately balanced diversity of the character roles, the humor, the sexual innuendos, the immoral decisions offer up a fascinating interplay of dilemmas that keep the audience off balance. The climax of the movie has a satisfying but nebulous ending for audience members to choose from. The key to watching this movie is to focus on Ron Livingston's and Toni Collette's characters as the moral backbone of the movie and avoid experiencing just a one-tone aspect of the movie which is in reality quite off-putting, repelling and borders on disgusting. Overall, The Estate is a difficult, different, and in some ways a refreshing and deeper, enlightening look at the material world of today.

I saw The Estate, starring Toni Collette-Knives Out, Connie and Carla; Anna Faris-Mom_tv, The House Bunny; David Duchovny-The X_Files_tv, Connie and Carla; Rosemarie DeWitt-La La Land, Poltergeist_2015 and Kathleen Turner-Dumb and Dumber To, The War of the Roses.

This is a comedy about family. Well, a family that is fighting over money. Toni and Anna are sisters that are down on their luck. They run a diner that is loosing money and is about to be foreclosed on by their bank. That's when they hear about their aunt Kathleen-who is filthy rich with no children of her own-who has a terminal illness and has not long left to live. Dollar signs start swimming in Toni and Anna's eyes and they decide to visit their ailing aunt to get on her good side. Only problem is that their cousins, David and Rosemarie, have the same idea. Everyone is fighting each other while kissing up to Kathleen and none of them-including Kathleen-are what you would call nice people. They are all funny but David is hilarious as a Lothario that wants to have sex with any of his cousins that would be accommodating.

It's rated R for language, drug use and sexual content-including nudity-and has a running time of 1 hour & 36 minutes.

I laughed a lot and I would buy it on DVD.

It was meant to be funny but isn't. Story is something you'd expect in a movie from 2008, all it's missing would be either Sandra bullock, Vince Vaughn or Owen Wilson. Some of the characters aren't really believable, maybe each on their own sure but not all of them altogether. Not really down to the actors playing them, more like how they're written. It isn't a movie that's made for you to believe, it's more just to wring a laugh out of you with an obnoxious plot, but unfortunately it isn't funny which makes the movie seem a bit senseless. Everything was over the top, supposed to be one of those movies you enjoy with your brain shut off, you could tell in the plot which scenes were supposed to be the funny ones with characters put in crazy situations but the dialogue doesn't deliver. The jokes don't land, and it doesn't really have any characters you could root for even though it's a movie were you have to pick sides but I couldn't care less for any of the family. It could have been written so much better, highly forgettable and I wouldn't recommend going to see it especially at the cinema, mine even had an extra sub-charge for this, yet a movie like like Armageddon Time didn't, yet was premiering the same night with a bigger cast. Don't bother.