Sordid Lives

Sordid Lives (2000) is a pitch-black comedy you can watch online on iFILM, written and directed by Del Shores and adapted from his own off-Broadway stage hit. A small Texas town. A woman dies in an embarrassing situation at a roadside motel. Her extended family descends for the funeral — and every single one of them is a disaster.

Three generations of grievances, secrets and denial surface over a long weekend. Bo Bridges, Bonnie Bedelia, Olivia Newton-John, Delta Burke and Leslie Jordan make up the ensemble. Shores treats his characters with unsentimental affection throughout — Southern social codes, homosexuality and family mythology all get the same flat stare. Stream Sordid Lives (2000) online on iFILM.