"Timid" Sandra (Mary Sheridan) and rawboned Dean (Judson Mills) are a couple in a redneck town trying to make ends meet by selling drugs. Their lives are ruined when they're busted by the local sheriff and their arrest is broadcast on a Cops-like TV show. Dean's mother kills herself under the strain, and the lovers are hard-pressed just to come up with Dean's bail, never mind the funeral money. Their struggles are wearisome and noisy. Injecting tension and comedy is Sandra's flaky sister Amanda (Mary Lynn Rajskub), and at times the two siblings do create some of the loopiness of the sisters in the brilliant Australian comedy Love Serenade. Nitzberg's humor is of the grave kind, however -- in keeping with the title, two attempted burials are at issue, but Kern County never digs deep enough to uncover anything new or worthwhile.