OVER HER DEAD BODY

HEADLINE: ** Ghostly Prankster **
TITLE: OVER HER DEAD BODY
Quality: * * * Acceptability: -4
SUBTITLES: None
WARNING CODES:
Language: LL
Violence: None
Sex: S
Nudity: N

RATING: PG-13
RELEASE: February 1, 2008
TIME: 95 minutes
STARRING: Eva Longoria Parker, Paul Rudd, Lake Bell, Jason Biggs, Lindsay Sloane, and Stephen Root
DIRECTOR: Jeff Lowell
PRODUCERS: Paul Brooks, Scott Niemeyer, Peter Safran, and Norm Waitt
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: None
WRITER: Jeff Lowell
DISTRIBUTOR: New Line Cinema

CONTENT: (RoRo, OO, Ho, C, Ab, LL, S, N, A, M) Strong Romantic worldview with strong occult and light homosexual elements includes incompetent psychic attempts to hear from the dead, psychic uses a diary to fake hearing from the dead, ghost appears to psychic, ghost plays jokes on psychic, including pretending to disintegrate when psychic brings in a priest to exorcize the ghost; five light obscenities and seven profanities; no violence; unmarried couple begins a sexual encounter with ghost watching and man pretends to be homosexual to be the "non-threatening friend" of a woman; ghost tricks psychic while she is in the shower, she runs for safety dressed only in bubbles and a towel that covers her waste, arm covers her breasts and upper male nudity; modest alcohol use; no smoking or drugs; and, dishonesty, trickery.

GENRE: Romantic Comedy
INTENDED AUDIENCE: Teenagers and adults

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SUMMARY: In OVER HER DEAD BODY, a woman's ghost returns to earth to haunt the female psychic for whom her former fiancé has fallen. OVER HER DEAD BODY is a cute romantic comedy marred by some foul language, implied sex and strong occult content, including the appearance of a ghost, attempts to communicate with the dead and an occult theory of the afterlife.

IN BRIEF:

OVER HER DEAD BODY is a cute romantic comedy marred by some foul language, implied sexual immorality and occult content. The movie opens with a details-fanatic bride named Kate being crushed to death by a huge angel ice sculpture. A year later, Henry, the bridegroom, is still mourning Kate's death. Henry's sister urges him to see a psychic named Ashley. She tries to help Ashley by giving Ashley Kate's diary. When Henry starts to fall for Ashley, Kate returns as a ghost to harass Ashley and break up the relationship.

OVER HER DEAD BODY is entertaining and not intended to be taken seriously, but even light-hearted comedy can mislead people into adopting wrong beliefs. The movie implies a pre-marital sexual encounter, discusses how women relate to a homosexual man, and uses the rite of exorcism as a joke. The movie is critical of psychics but gives a false impression of the afterlife by saying that dead people wander around as ghosts tying to complete assignments. The good news is that we do not earn salvation through good deeds but are saved by a loving God through faith in Jesus Christ.