In the Baptist backwoods of the Bible Belt, the beleaguered Turpin
family proves that living and dying in the South are seldom tidy and
always hilarious. Despite their earnest efforts to pull themselves
together for their father’s funeral, the Turpins' other problems
keep overshadowing the solemn occasion: Firstborn Ray-Bud drinks
himself silly as the funeral bills mount; Junior, the younger son, is
juggling financial ruin, a pack of no-neck monster kids, and a wife
who suspects him of infidelity in the family car; their spinster
sister, Delightful, copes with death as she does life, by devouring
junk food; and all the neighbors add more than two cents. As the
situation becomes fraught with mishap, Ray-Bud says to his
long-suffering wife, “When I die, don’t tell nobody. Just bury me
in the backyard and tell everybody I left you.” Amidst the chaos,
the Turpins turn for comfort to their friends and neighbors, an
eccentric community of misfits who just manage to pull together and
help each other through their hours of need, and finally, the funeral.
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