Bob Hoskins shepherds his zany family through the funeral of his father in PASSED AWAY, a Disney farce that replaces Dean Jones and hammy animals with peppery verbal humor and select "adult situations" before settling into an orgy of sitcom cliches.
Undergoing a midlife crisis, Johnny Scanlan (Hoskins) is thinking of trading in his tree-trimming business for a fishing boat and a life on the seas when his father Jack (Jack Warden) suddenly drops dead after "recovering" from open-heart surgery. Planning the funeral and burial, Johnny quickly
finds himself overwhelmed, not only with organizing the old-fashioned Irish wake insisted upon by his mother, Mary (Maureen ...
Released:
1992
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
96 mins