The Pallbearer

The Pallbearer is a comedy with David Schwimmer from the TV series "Friends" in the leading male role. Schwimmer's character, the nerd Tom Thompson, has unfortunately become too one-note - and tiresome.

Events begin the day Tom receives a phone call from a weeping woman, Ruth Abernathy, who asks Tom to be a pallbearer for her son, Tom's late friend. Being the kind soul he is, Tom naturally says yes, which he repeats when Ruth Abernathy later asks him to give the eulogy at her son's funeral. The only problem is that Tom cannot remember the guy. When he later discovers that he actually did not know him at all, it is too late to come clean. There is nothing for it but to put a brave face on things.

Tom's life, which until now has been fairly straightforward because he is unemployed and still lives at home with his mother, is complicated by the fact that he has an affair going with Ruth Abernathy at the same time as he runs into Julie DeMarco again. She is the girl Tom was in love with all through high school. The film's plot is a little contrived, too contrived, for what is actually the point?