Life After Beth (2014)

A young man's recently deceased girlfriend mysteriously returns from the dead, but he slowly realizes she is not the way he remembered her.

Director:

Jeff Baena

Writer:

Jeff Baena

Stars:

Aubrey Plaza, Dane DeHaan, John C. Reilly

6 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Aubrey Plaza	...	Beth Slocum
Dane DeHaan	...	Zach Orfman
John C. Reilly	...	Maury Slocum
Molly Shannon	...	Geenie Slocum
Cheryl Hines	...	Judy Orfman
Paul Reiser	...	Noah Orfman
Matthew Gray Gubler	...	Kyle Orfman
Anna Kendrick	...	Erica Wexler
Eva La Dare	...	Pearline
Thomas McDonell	...	Dan (scenes deleted)
Alia Shawkat	...	Roz (scenes deleted)
Allan McLeod	...	Supermarket Stocker
Paul Weitz	...	Mr. Levin
Michelle Azar	...	Mrs. Levin
Jim O'Heir	...	Chip the Mailman

Storyline

A hike alone in the woods ends tragically for Beth Slocum with a fatal snake bite. Her death leaves her parents and boyfriend Zach reeling. After the funeral, Zach tries to make friends with Mr. and Mrs. Slocum, but even they reject him, and he's determined to figure out why. Then he sees Beth. Her parents are trying to keep her resurrection a secret, but zombie Beth provides Zach with the opportunity to do everything with her that he didn't get to do while she was still alive. But with Beth's increasingly erratic behavior and even more strange occurrences around town, life with the undead Beth proves to be particularly complicated for her still-living loved ones.

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Plot Keywords:

reunion | death of girlfriend | loss of girlfriend | male male hug | name in title | 

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Taglines:

Some girls just want to watch the world burn.

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Genres:

Comedy | Fantasy | Horror | Romance

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for pervasive language, some horror violence, sexual content, nudity and brief drug use

Details

Official Sites:

Official Facebook Official site [Japan]

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

15 July 2014 (USA)

Also Known As:

Amor zombie (Life after Beth)

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$2,400,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$15,843, 15 August 2014, Limited Release

Gross USA:

$80,315, 5 September 2014

Company Credits

Production Co:

Abbolita Productions,American Zoetrope,Destro Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

89 min

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Aubrey Plaza and Alia Shawcat starred together before in The To Do List (2013).

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Goofs

(at around 5 mins) When Zach and Maury are playing a game of chess, the black square is in the bottom right corner when it should be the white square.

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Quotes

[first lines]
Supermarket Stocker: Can I help you find something, sir?
Zach Orfman: Yeah, do you have any black napkins. I've been looking all over.
Supermarket Stocker: Black napkins... I don't think so. If you don't like white, this is a beige one
Zach Orfman: They have to be black.
Supermarket Stocker: That's more of a Halloween item. You might want to try a party store.
Zach Orfman: [gives a slow, incredulous look]

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Connections

Referenced in Late Night with Seth Meyers: Aubrey Plaza/Samira Wiley/Neil Gaiman/Ray Luzier (2016)

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Soundtracks

The Devil May Care (Mom and Dad Don't)
Written and performed by Anton Newcombe / The Brian Jonestown Massacre
Under license from Eagle-I Music Ltd. & A Recordings Ltd.

User Reviews

Rather dead, than alive

I'm a huge fan of Aubrey Plaza. For first it seemed like, she was the best choose for this ironic and ambivalent dead and alive character. But her act was rather dead, than alive. I think this is her poorest performance on screen as well as Dane Deehan's, who always plays the same 'i'm so deep and baggy eyes' one. This movie in my opinion wanted to be a satire, but it failed massively. Through the entire almost one and half hour I was thinking about 'The signal' which is although made by 3 directors, but it has the perfect balance between dark humour and horror elements. It had so many opportunities and should have had much more funnier conversations. I remembered some lines from 'In the flesh', which had those lines that made the series made fun the seriousness of the situation and suited perfectly the atmosphere. I'm sad, because I sat down, to watch the movie with great expectations and didn't even wanted to watch the trailer before. Too bad I didn't.