How to Kill Your Family
Imagine the 1949 film Kind Hearts and Coronets transported to the 21st century. In the former a well-spoken Dennis Price sets about murdering the members of an upper-class family that disowned his mother for marrying beneath her station, and then refused to help her give her son a step up on the career ladder. When she dies, they deny her permission to be buried in the family vault. In How to Kill Your Family, Grace is born after her mother’s fling with a cheap, flashy millionaire who possesses a conscience the size of a pin head. He cuts her dead, and then compounds his cruelty by refusing to help even when she is dying and Grace needs help. So Grace sets out to murder his family and make him feel what it’s like to lose those dear to him. KH&C is urbane and witty, with some of the most elegant, beautifully written dialogue ever composed for a film. Every line is a gem, and Dennis Price speaks each one superbly. HtKYF takes place in a modern London full of rapacious billionai...
