“The Estate” is a deliciously immoral story of ne’er-do-well cousins battling over their rich aunt’s estate after she’s diagnosed with terminal cancer. What better way to forget your own familial woes?
) cancer diagnosis. They run a small New Orleans café that has been losing business since their father died. Without another loan from their bank, they face having to close down the one thing that’s honoring his memory. Macey, more reluctant and rational than her impulsive sister, is hesitant when Savanna suggests they visit Hilda and try to worm their way into her will. But when Macey’s boyfriend has to move or risk losing his job, she’s on board.
But when they arrive at Aunt Hilda’s massive mansion in their beat-up jalopy, they’re greeted by company. Their cousin Beatrice and her husband James have already arrived from New York, ladle-deep in a pot of soup and throwing scones into the oven at warp speed to care for poor, sick, impossible Hilda. And their other cousin, Richard isn’t far behind. No one has shown up on Hilda’s porch with good intentions, and no one is leaving until the old lady croaks.
What ensues is a madcap power grab for a spot in Aunt Hilda’s will, at which Macey and Savanna are already at a disadvantage. Though they’ve remained in close proximity to Hilda their whole lives, their status as Hilda’s least favorite sister’s kids is working against them. “Aunt Hilda thinks that the sun shines out of my ass,” Beatrice tells the sisters, “and she thinks that the two of you are a couple of dipshits.
If this sounds like it could easily devolve into tasteless gross-out humor, you’d be correct. But thankfully—and maybe to some viewers’ disgust—never quite stretches its jokes to the farthest reaches of their odious potential.
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