The Loved One (BD) "Family" Robert Bolt's thoughtful screenplay and

Robert Bolt's thoughtful screenplay and Ennio Morricone's rich score won Golden Globe® Awards

be assured it hurts so good

Before farmboy turned flyboy Ransom (Russell Wade) ships out

freely killing

In a gender-bending performance that won the Oscar®

The Loved One (BD) "Family" Robert Bolt's thoughtful screenplay andThe funeral business gets a giant raspberry in this wickedly wacky, resplendently ridiculous farce based on Evelyn Waugh's macabre comic masterpiece and directed with inspired verve by Tony Richardson (Tom Jones). But the American way of death isn't the film's only target: sex, greed, religion and mother love are also in the crosshairs of its satirical shots. Robert Morse plays a bemused would be poet who gets entangled with an unctuous cemetery