Wake (2018)

A widowed mortician receives a birthday gag gift from her mother and daughter. The gift, a life-size doll, soon comes to life as her dead husband complicating life with her family and her budding relationship with a documentary filmmaker.

It's an intriguing premise, with good emotion, good actors/actresses, good a lot of things but... not that good a movie overall.

There's drama. The atmosphere's light and easy, despite the grief. Some people probably appreciate this kind of film but it just comes across like a soap opera to me. Artificial somehow. I like the idea but...

This just was not my cup of tea, though it may be a decent movie.

I appreciate the title wordplay too. The literal wake. The doll.

Good name. Okay movie.

 rated 2/5: decent