A tontine is established for a dozen children, a tontine being a kind of bet/insurance, money is put in for each to grow with interest and the last survivor is to get the lot. We watch the group dwindle until only two brothers are left. One brother is watched by his nephews who will keep him alive at all costs, the other lives in ill health and poverty as the only support of his fairly stupid grandson. Statues and bodies are switched, in the wrong boxes until everyone is sure someone has died. Now if they can only make it seem as if the other brother died first, hundreds of thousands of pounds (in Victorian England when a pound was a pound) will be theirs.
Eminent Victorians电影版
笑岔氣。。
闷骚类喜剧又一力作，但真的比较拖拉。单人说话语速不算慢，但对话之间那些停顿太累人了。P.S.出片尾名单后镜头没停止，可以观察到纷争之下唯有男女主淡然携手离开，简单直接令人满意的结局。80
剧情古典幽默，细节无厘头，偶尔还开开小车，可惜前半段精彩绝伦，收尾却不够有力干脆，无奈滑落以闹剧路数草草收场。PS.好兆头里Aziraphale收藏的邪恶圣经，这里也有提及，有意思的观影/阅读巧合。
(3.5) Oh its nothing serious—hes been dying for years.
