Arsenic & Old Lace (2005)

Everything seems to be going fine in the life of Mortimer Brewster. He's got a good job as a theatre critic for a New York Newspaper, he loves his family, his brother Teddy, his Aunts Abby and Martha, and he's in love with beautiful Elaine. But then one day he makes a horrible discovery: he finds a dead body in the house of his aunts! "Oh, don't worry about it," say his aunts, "we killed him out of pity!" It turns out the two nice old ladies have a secret hobby: murdering lonely old gentlemen with poisoned elderberry wine. Their score stands at eleven corpses and they have no intention of stopping. "It is one of our charities," Aunt Martha proudly explains.

Thus begins Mortimer's mad chase to prevent more murders and to save his aunts from the police. His first plan is to blame his mad brother Teddy for the murders. For Teddy thinks he is Theodore Roosevelt, the American President who built the Panama Canal. Indeed, Teddy is even digging his own Panama Canal in the cellar, whicht the aunties use as graves for their "charity victim". It shouldn't be too difficult to get Teddy turned into a sanatorium for insane people and explain the eleven graves in the cellar to the police, Mortimer thinks. But then things get even worse as Jonathan, another brother of Mortimer's and a mass murderer wanted by the police, turns up unexpectedly after many years abroad. jonathan has brought his drinking friend and partner in crime Dr. Einstein with him - and yet another dead body...