A wicked black comedy with a stellar cast, Halifax writer/director Chaz Thorne's Just Buried—formerly known as Pushing Up Daisies—is a fish out of water tale with a twist. Ottawa-born actor Jay Baruchel (Knocked Up) plays Oliver, a winsome loner who unexpectedly inherits his estranged father's laggard funeral home somewhere in a quirky part of rural northeastern North America. Graham Greene (Transamerica, Dances With Wolves) is the parlour's quizzical handyman; Rose Byrne (28 Weeks Later, Troy) plays the scheming mortician Roberta who has plans for Oliver and the funeral home, which was once owned by her own family. With local actors Thomas Gibson, Martha Irving, Brian Downey and Nigel Bennett all putting in broad but crucial supporting turns,Just Buried feels like Nova Scotia's first gothic feature-length comedy. Expect plenty of blood and laughs in equal measure, along with a prodigious body count that would keep any funeral home in business for weeks.