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	The Pallbearer (1996) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		A young man's life is thrown into a loop when he is asked to be a pallbearer for the funeral of a classmate he doesn't remember, and his old high school crush temporarily returns to town.
		Whether for the dark humor, spot-on acting, or superb soundtrack, this one is definitely worth a viewing.
		Discuss this title with other users on IMDb message board for The Pallbearer (1996)
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	Pallbearer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A pallbearer is a person who helps carry the casket of a deceased person from a religious service or viewing to their final resting place, or to and from the hearse which does so.
		A pall is the heavy cloth that is draped over a coffin; by metonymy the term pallbearer is used to signify someone who bears the coffin which the pall covers.
		Pallbearers were usually associated in an intimate manner (such as brother, uncle, father, or husband - pallbearers are not always male, but male pallbearers are the most common) with the deceased before their death, though this is not always the case.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pallbearer (195 words)

	'The Pallbearer' (PG-13)
		"Pallbearer" is another youth-generation comic potboiler: a series of farcical episodes featuring five friends (including Gwyneth Paltrow and Michael Rapaport), two nutty adults (Carol Kane and Barbara Hershey) and innumerable complications.
		Tom, too ashamed to admit he doesn't remember Bill, is recruited as to be a pallbearer and the one to deliver his eulogy.
		"Pallbearer," written by Jason Katims and Matt Reeves, is another youth-generation comic potboiler: a series of farcical episodes featuring five friends (including Gwyneth Paltrow and Michael Rapaport), two nutty adults (Carol Kane and Barbara Hershey) and innumerable complications.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/pallbearer.htm (963 words)

	The Pallbearer - Review - Stumped? - Stumped At the Video Store is a Magazine About Movies, DVD releases, actors, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		However, Tom, being the nice guy he is, agrees to be a pallbearer, not wanting to hurt anyone's feelings.
		The first 30 minutes of The Pallbearer possessed the quirky rhythm, and dark humor that I think more films need to have, but this disappeared as quickly as it arrived.
		Reeves' style of direction, with the particularly fascinating use of scenes with only a haunting piano composition playing softly in the background was solid, but his script wasn't as lucky.
	centerstage.net /stumped/Reviews/pallebearer.shtml (542 words)

	ChatTimes Movie Reviews: "The Pallbearer" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		It helps to remember, in considering Matt Reeves' debut film "The Pallbearer," that almost 30 years ago, Mike Nichols' "The Graduate" was dismissed in some influential quarters as a common exploitation picture.
		It will require time and lots of it to tell whether "The Pallbearer" has such staying power, but for now this understated and modest film seems to be concerned more with what it's like to be young and disoriented -- period -- than with what it's like to be a mixed-up twentysomething in the 1990s.
		Tom's life changes for the weirder when a woman he has never met summons him to be a pallbearer at the funeral of her son -- evidently a classmate whom Tom cannot remember.
	www.timesfreepress.com /cityscape/diversions/filmfinder/thepallbearer.html (521 words)

	Review: The Pallbearer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Matt Reeves' The Pallbearer is loaded with none-to-subtle references to Mike Nichols' 1967 classic, The Graduate.
		The problem is that this mediocre toast to the past has lost its fizz, resulting in a bland concoction that's as devoid of originality as it is of warmth and humor.
		This is the most grim comedy since Muriel's Wedding, but The Pallbearer is neither as well-written nor as deftly directed.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/p/pallbearer.html (406 words)

	The Pallbearer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		She has asked him to be a pallbearer and the deliverer of the eulogy for Bill's funeral.
		Tom is the pallbearer and eulogist at the funeral of a high school classmate whom he cannot remember.
		For Tom, being a pallbearer is just the beginning of a series of errors and mistaken identities, and it will send his friendships, love life and outlook on the world spinning back into uncertainty.
	extratv.warnerbros.com /cmp/presentations/96_05_03 (565 words)

	The Pallbearer
		he Pallbearer" finds David Schwimmer in the midst of a group of 20-something cronies as he starts a romance with a young woman to whom he was first attracted years earlier.
		"The Pallbearer" is further hurt by a nagging sense that no one behind the camera much cares about these characters, just as no one in the movie actually seems pained by Bill's death.
		Two minor matters: David Lipsky's novelization of "The Pallbearer" is one of the rare movie tie-in books to have more depth and personality than the movie itself.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/film/the_pallbearer.html (537 words)

	thePsycho_poe
		Pallbearer, hovering near my face in a constant rage, spit the toxic air of his breath up my nostrils, and into my brain, where it's putrid stench invaded my cells like a retrovirus in search of thoughts.
		The stranger gently motioned for Pallbearer to give him his right hand, whereupon the white haired invader guided Pallbearer's fishy metacarpus into the front pocket of his oily colorless slacks.
		Pallbearer's face bent into a crude and lascivious smile, as the stranger's touch reduced him to an obscene convulsion of inaudible giggles.
	www.realpoe.com /updates/ramblings/thepsycho.htm (4000 words)

	Amazon.com: The Pallbearer: DVD: David Schwimmer,Gwyneth Paltrow,Michael Rapaport,Toni Collette,Carol Kane,Michael ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The Pallbearer is quite derivative of the Graduate; it's a play on the young man, older woman, younger woman triangle, and it certainly doesn't have the Graduate's silkiness--or it's wise intelligence.
		There's nothing in the Pallbearer that matches the uneasy end where Dustin Hoffman and Katherine Ross nervously sit at the back of the bus with this quietly panicky, "What now?" look on their faces.
		The Pallbearer is an interesting story of a man (David Schwimmer) who is called out of the blue by the mother (Barbara Hershey) of a 'friend' from high school.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6305428433?v=glance (1516 words)

	The Twilight Zone: One More Pallbearer - TV.com
		Paul Radin, a dealer in fantasy, who sits in the rubble of his own making and imagines that he's the last man on Earth, doomed to a perdition of unutterable loneliness because a practical joke has turned into a nightmare.
		Paul Radin, pallbearer at a funeral that he manufactured himself in the Twilight Zone." (edit)
		A man goes to great lengths to exact revenge on three people in his past life that he feels has wronged him by exposing him for who he really was.
	www.tv.com /twilight-zone/one-more-pallbearer/episode/12667/summary.html (366 words)

	The Pallbearer Movie Review by Jo Hannah Leyda
		But being a pallbearer (one of the persons carrying or attending a coffin at a funeral) would involve about as much actual humor as the movie "The Pallbearer".
		Throughout the portion of the movie that I was able to endure, I was dumbfounded as to why Loser #1 had an undying attraction to Loser #2, when neither had anything to offer the other.
		I was enraged that "The Pallbearer" brought all these elements into my home.
	members.fortunecity.com /nanofarad/Pallbearer.html (737 words)

	The Pallbearer - Movie Review
		Schwimmer's first outing, The Pallbearer, doesn't venture too far from the Friends tree, as we are presented with a big romantic comedy that borders on television kitschiness, full of screwball humor and plenty of misunderstandings to fuel the plot.
		In fact, the entire premise of The Pallbearer is driven by one big misunderstanding itself: Tom Thompson (Schwimmer) is asked to give the eulogy at the funeral of Bill Abernathy, a guy from high school who he doesn't even remember.
		While this isn't too bad with The Pallbearer, it does happen on occasion, mainly because of director Matt Reeves letting the film wallow in Tom's self-pity far too often.
	www.contactmusic.com /new/film.nsf/reviews/thepallbearer (411 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Robinson=85 =20 Matt Reeves' THE PALLBEARER is loaded with none-to-subtle=20 references to Mike Nichols' 1967 classic, THE GRADUATE.
		The problem is=20 that this mediocre toast to the past has lost its fizz, resulting in a=20 bland concoction that's as devoid of originality as it is of warmth and=20 humor.
		One day, Tom gets a phone call from a distressed woman,=20 Ruth Abernathy (Hershey), who wants Tom to be a pallbearer at her son's=20 funeral.
	www-static.cc.gatech.edu /classes/AY2005/cs6300_fall/projects/project5/movies/51/5193 (439 words)

	Charity's Place.com > The Pallbearer
		His life is therefore severely shaken when he receives a hysterical phone call from someone named Ruth Abernathy (Barbara Hershey) whose son (whom he presumably knew in high school) has just committed suicide.
		She wants him to be one of the pallbearers at the funeral.
		In a nutshell, The Pallbearer tries to be both comical and meaningful but fails due to the immoral nature of the storyline.
	www.charitysplace.com /review/pallbearer.htm (851 words)

	VH1.com : Movies : The Pallbearer : Review
		Clearly intended to be a Generation X version of The Graduate (1967), this dark comedy is a notable debut for writer/director Matt Reeves.
		While thankfully avoiding the annoying blitzkrieg of pop culture references that often punctuate slacker cinema, The Pallbearer (1996) is no less obsessed with the iconography of mass media, employing its fixations with more subtlety.
		David Schwimmer is engagingly funny in his debut as a neurotic leading boy/man even as he overly channels his Ross character from the TV hit Friends, while Gwyneth Paltrow is a nice romantic foil, although her character remains slightly underdeveloped despite some hinted-at complexities.
	www.vh1.com /movies/movie/93942/review.jhtml (240 words)

	CBC News: Mulroney, Clarkson to attend Reagan funeral (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Playing up their mutual Irish roots, they famously sang "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling" on stage together at the so-called Shamrock Summit in Quebec City in 1985.
		Several honorary pallbearers for the funeral have also been chosen.
		Names on that list included Frederick J. Ryan Jr., board chairman of the Ronald Reagan Foundation; entertainer Merv Griffin, a family friend; Charles Wick, who ran the U.S. Information Agency during Reagan's presidency; White House adviser Michael Deaver; and the former president's longtime physician, Dr. John Hutton.
	www.cbc.ca /stories/2004/06/07/canada/mulroney_reagan040607 (263 words)

	MetroActive Movies \| 'The Pallbearer'
		AN ALTERNATE TITLE for The Pallbearer could be The Postgraduate.
		If this wispy, exceedingly minor movie makes its mark, it will be because, like its predecessor The Graduate, it sounds out the frustrations of a generation of young people leaving school, fearful--as well they might be--of abandoning the nest.
		As the hopeless Tom Thompson in The Pallbearer, he's frustrated and imprisoned in the New York boroughs somewhere, as the Bruce Jay Friedman title has it, Far from the City of Class.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/sonoma/05.02.96/pallbearer-9618.html (440 words)

	The Saga of Bobo, the Wandering Pallbearer
		As anyone reading this probably knows, I end up coat-tailing Doc Nagel's blog a lot, ususally when he has posed some sort of ethical dillemma or philosophical point of order.
		Some of you may have noticed that I changed the picture in my profile to the one of me with the Wall Street Bull eating stick food.
		I figure to be doing this kind of bizzaro crap all the way to my grave.
	sagablagga.blogspot.com (3444 words)

	This `Pallbearer' Is Seductive / A `Graduate' twist in Schwimmer comedy
		`The Pallbearer'' is a charming romantic comedy, aimed at the 20s crowd, that takes a situation from ``The Graduate'' and plays it weird.
		Though the movie drags a little and never hits a laugh-aloud stride, stars David Schwimmer and Gwyneth Paltrow are the most appealing screen couple this year.
		Because Tom and the son were high school pals, she says, Tom has been designated a pallbearer for the funeral.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/1996/05/03/DD3421.DTL&type=printable (527 words)

	The Pallbearer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		But Tom is exceedingly nice, and agrees to be a pallbearer and give the eulogy at the man's funeral.
		Well, the one joke ends there, but The Pallbearer stretches on for another hour and twenty minutes by concentrating on Tom's pathetic attempts to attract Julie, the girl of his dreams from high school (Gwyneth Paltrow), and on Tom's pathetic affair with the grieving mother of the friend can't recall.
		The weight of this film rests solely on Schwimmer's shoulders, but he doesn't have much of a character to back him up, and thus resorts to twitching mannerisms and whining neuroses.
	www.cinematter.com /movie.php3?pallbearer (223 words)

	Tips from eHow users on How to Be a Pallbearer - eHow.com
		Remember that you are a representative of the family of the deceased, so act accordingly.
		When the burial was a mile or two away from the country church, without a hearse, the pallbearers had a very hard task.
		Now, though, the task is essentially six (usually men) whose jobs it is to lift the cart over thresholds and carry the pall just a few feet.
	www.ehow.com /tips_12530.html (238 words)

	Inkpot Movie Reviews: THE PALLBEARER (Jack Choo)
		THE PALLBEARER may not be box-office hit material, but it is a great film intro for David Schwimmer (Ross in `FRIENDS').
		Offbeat and often lightly "dark" at times, THE PALLBEARER is a charming piece revolving around a short time span in the lives of a few normal people.
		The problem is, Tom does not recall any friend called Abernathy and being the kind person that he is, he accepts, thinking that it may be one of his old friends which he has forgotten.
	inkpot.com /film/pallbearer.html (461 words)

	THE PALLBEARER
		Tom, helping carry the casket to the hearse, diverts the other pallbearers away so that he can ask Julie out.
		A woman friend is fed up with Tom's complaining and she goes after him and has to be restrained.
		Tom is forcibly removed from carrying the casket and is pushed to the ground (after he's led the pallbearers away from the hearse in order to ask Julie out).
	www.screenit.com /movies/1996/the_pallbearer.html (820 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The set up for THE PALLBEARER is that Ruth Abernathy (Barbara Hershey), referred to in the film, of course, as Mrs.
		Robinson, calls Tom and asks him to be a Pallbearer at her son Bill's funeral.
		There is a small problem in that, although Tom went to high school with Bill, he does not remember him at all.
	www.cc.gatech.edu /classes/AY2005/cs6300_fall/projects/project5/movies/51/5163 (634 words)

	BMN Review: Pallbearer, The (1996)
		I forgot David Schwimmer and “The Pallbearer.” Make that a resounding, “NO!” While LeBlanc’s cinematic excursions have easily been the bottom scum of the “Friends” motion picture slop trough, Schwimmer’s “Pallbearer” does not rise much higher.
		The first thing anyone who watches “The Pallbearer” will notice is that David Schwimmer is a one-dimensional actor.
		If Reeves and his co-writer Jason Katims had made Julie the central character, “The Pallbearer” may have been a very good movie, but then they probably wouldn’t have been able to draw a Friend to the cast and that would’ve undermined the studio’s whole marketing strategy.
	www.hit-n-run.com /cgi/read_review.cgi?review=34809_sleestak (853 words)

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	Amazon.co.uk: The Pallbearer [1997]: DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The Pallbearer is the umpteenth variation on the Oedipal conflicts made famous in Mike Nichols's The Graduate, but it doesn't have the imagination, vitality, or authority to take classic themes about growing up all the way to the finish line.
		But in its brooding, comic way, The Pallbearer is honest about the difficulties of crossing the line into adulthood when one doesn't know how.
		In The Pallbearer David Schwimmer plays a drifting 20-something who receives a telephone call out of the blue asking him to be a pallbearer at the funeral of someone he supposedly knew in school.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00006AFH2 (470 words)

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