The Estate Review: Despite A Stellar Cast, This Dark Comedy Flops Hard

 The Estate had the perfect setup for a great comedy featuring an all-star ensemble of actors adept at humor, but it fails to meet the bare minimum.

The Estate is a dark comedy featuring Toni Collette and Anna Faris as down-on-their-luckies sisters trying to profit from a well off auntie's will. This premise is enough to garner some attention, even more with Death at a Funeral screenwriter Dean Craig, who also serves as The Estate's director, attached. However, this is a terribly unfunny venture, which fails ast the film’s only job.

The Estate follows Macey (Collette) and Savanna (Faris), two sisters struggling with financial issues, among other things. They intend to fight for their family restaurant, but money is hard to come by — until their Aunt Hilda (Kathleen Turner) becomes the cash cow they desperately need to drain dry. As their scheme unfolds, the sisters encounter more opportunistic family members.Macey and Savanna attempt to charm themselves with Hilda and discover that their difficulties could be tackled assuming Hilda experienced a long-held dream. With that being the premise of the film, comicalness will undoubtedly result, yet it tragically doesn't, dear peruser.