The movie is not quite what it says on the tin. Ward's (Donald Fason) friends all agree his wife is a horrible person. She berates him if he doesn't explicitly say her orders requires extra salsa, on the side. When she loses her train of thought on her speech for their son's christening, she blames Ward. When the baby starts crying because Ward's phone rang in another room while he's on the toilet, she tells him he'll be going to get her a foot-long sub with double meat and cheese, because he obviously doesn't care about his family. Then she mocks him for the fact his shits smell bad. She's a complete asshole.
So his buddies idly toss around the idea of killing her during a day on the golf course. The killing happens more spontaneously than that, however. Heat of the moment sort of thing where she's being a jerk towards one of the guys. The movie had done a good enough job I had no qualms about her being killed, though I wonder if they wanted me to.
Most of the movie is all Ward's friends working together to try and dispose of the body. One of the guys (played by Patrick Wilson) got interested in the idea enough to research how to get away with murder. But his character is an actor, so I suppose he could explain away his internet search history with "researching for a role".
It's also about waiting for someone to either make a mistake, or crack under the pressure. Ward, who Fason plays with his shoulders constantly up around his ears and a hunted look from fear of enraging his wife, seems the likely culprit. Also, his neighbor is a cop who really wants to be pals.
It's a dark comedy, and I did laugh at several parts. Especially immediately after the murder, when everyone's freaking out and getting drunk discussing their next move. Wilson's character is really into the whole plan, but a couple of the ladies are making movie references the entire time he's discussing ways to get rid of the body. Ward and Ronnie (James Caprinello) are freaking out, Tom (Scott Foley) is all for the plan, but has some trouble when he's elected to bleed the corpse.
The odd touch is that two of Ward's pals are married, but Wilson's in a trial separation, and Foley (who wrote and directed it) is distracted by his work and no longer interested sexually in his wife (played by Amy Acker and what the hell, I thought she was cute when she was playing Fred on Angel and was hiding in her hotel room because of trauma for entire seasons, what's wrong with this moron). The whole incident ends up impacting both relationships in ways that seem a little odd. More on Wilson's side, but maybe it's just a matter of people reacting to stress in different ways.
Easily the movie I laughed at the most so far this year, although the only real competition has been Used Cars and Lost CIty.
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