Dead Edna

Edna knows she's dead, but just can't let it go. She welcomes the new residents of her ghostly home with glee, especially Maggie Pall, who wants to impress her friends by moving into a trendy Chicago neighborhood. But Edna's childish antics clash with Maggie's self-proclaimed social status. Tensions arise as Maggie's husband finds the house creepy. And her surly baseball-obsessed son would rather live in a tent. To make matters worse, Edna begins to fill Maggie's head with longings for a handsome podiatrist. Their Thanksgiving housewarming weekend goes awry when (oops!) someone ends up dead. Now a fumbling police force, a charming ex-husband ad writer and a brash novice lawyer pivot the story into a legal drama. Going home for Thanksgiving reaches a whole new level in this darkly humorous satire of American upper-middle-class greed and lust in pre-social-media 1996. Read more