Raymond & Ray (2022)

Two brothers take a roadtrip to attend the funeral of their estranged father. Neither of the sons is thriving in life and it seems their father's failures have affected their lives as adults. Once they arrive, they find out that he had some pretty odd last requests, e.g. his sons should dig his grave and he is to be buried naked.

There's nothing terribly wrong with this film: it's watchable and mildly interesting. But the thing it put me most in mind of was high school creative writing. "What if there were more sons? What if two of the sons were acrobats? What if the dad had slept with one of his sons' wives? Ooh ooh! What if that son then slept with his dead dad's former mistress??" It felt like a farce, but with the pacing of a period drama.

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