Made in America (1993)
Comedy
A young black woman discovers that her father was a sperm donor, and if that weren't bad enough, he's white.
Starring: Whoopi Goldberg, Ted Danson, Will Smith, Nia Long, Paul Rodríguez, Jennifer Tilly
Director: Richard Benjamin
Shakes the Clown (1991)
Comedy | Drama
Shakes plods about his duties as party clown, and uses all of his free time getting seriously drunk. Binky, another clown, wins the spot on a local kiddie show, which depresses Shakes even more, and his boss threatens him with unemployment if he can't get his act under control. When someone murders Shakes' boss and makes it look like Shakes did it, he goes undercover, posing as a hated mime, and tries to find information that will clear his name.
Starring: Bobcat Goldthwait, Julie Brown, Blake Clark, Paul Dooley, Kathy Griffin, Tom Kenny
Director: Bobcat Goldthwait
Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey / Bill & Ted Go to Hell / Bill & Ted 2 (1991)
Adventure | Comedy | Fantasy | Music | Sci-Fi
A tyrant from the future creates evil android doubles of Bill and Ted and sends them back to eliminate the originals.
Starring: Alex Winter, Keanu Reeves, William Sadler, Joss Ackland, George Carlin, Pam Grier
Director: Peter Hewitt
Are We There Yet? (2005)
Adventure | Comedy | Drama | Family | Romance
The fledgling romance between Nick, a playboy bachelor, and Suzanne, a divorced mother of two, is threatened by a particularly harrowing New Year's Eve. When Suzanne's work keeps her in Vancouver for the holiday, Nick offers to bring her kids to the city from Portland, Oregon. The kids, who have never liked any of the men their mom has dated, are determined to turn the trip into a nightmare for Nick.
Starring: Ice Cube, Nia Long, Aleisha Allen, Philip Bolden, Jay Mohr, M.C. Gainey
Director: Brian Levant
Amos & Andrew (1993)
Comedy | Crime
When Andrew Sterling, a successful black urbanite writer buys a vacation home on a resort in New England the police mistake him for a burglar. After surrounding his home with armed men, Chief Tolliver realizes his mistake and to avoid the bad publicity offers a thief in his jail, Amos Odell a deal. Amos is to pretend to take Andrew prisoner and hold him for ransom but let him go and escape. Amos and Andrew suddenly realize that the Chief's problems are all gone if the two of them both die in a gun battle. The worst partnership in film history then tries to get away from the local police.
Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Nicolas Cage, Dabney Coleman, Brad Dourif, Michael Lerner, Margaret Colin
Director: E. Max Frye
Deliver Us from Eva (2003)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Her sisters think she's a gift from heaven. Their husbands call her the sister-in-law from hell. But Eva is too busy being a smart, sassy, overprotective overachiever to really care what anyone thinks. That is until the guys decide the only way they will ever score any quality time with their women is to find single Eva a man. Pronto. Enter Ray an ultra-suave player's player, who is hired to make Eva fall madly in love with him. All goes according to plan until this ladies' man finds himself unexpectedly falling for this beautiful lady in this hip, fresh and funny comic romp.
Starring: Gabrielle Union, LL Cool J, Duane Martin, Essence Atkins, Meagan Good, Kym Whitley
Director: Gary Hardwick
Welcome to Me (2014)
Comedy | Drama
A year in the life of Alice Klieg, a woman with Borderline Personality Disorder who wins Mega-millions, quits her meds and buys her own talk show.
Starring: Kristen Wiig, James Marsden, Linda Cardellini, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Alan Tudyk, Wes Bentley
Director: Shira Piven
Welcome to Collinwood (2002)
Comedy | Crime
A group of sad sacks living in a rundown neighborhood in Cleveland all have one thing in common — they need money, and aren't especially fussy about how they get it. Riley is a guy whose wife has been sent to jail, leaving him to look after their baby, when she's unable to pay a fine. Pero is in love with a beautiful girl who has a roving eye, and he's convinced that a bigger bankroll would help him win her heart. Leon is a hipster who wants to keep his sister, Michelle, out of trouble. Basil is a guy with bad luck, and eyes for Michelle. And Toto is a small-time crook looking for something to do — if it's profitable, all the better. Someone gets the bright idea that a robbery might be the answer to everyone's problems, and with the help of Jerzy, a safe-cracker confined to a wheelchair, they set out to find the right target.
Starring: George Clooney, Sam Rockwell, Isaiah Washington, William H. Macy, Michael Jeter, Patricia Clarkson
Director: Anthony Russo, Joe Russo
Léolo (1992)
Comedy | Drama
Young Leo Lauzon is torn between two worlds – the squalid Montreal tenement that he inhabits with his severely dysfunctional (and largely insane) family, and the imaginative world that he constructs for himself through his writings.
Starring: Maxime Collin, Ginette Reno, Julien Guiomar, Pierre Bourgault, Giuditta Del Vecchio, Gilbert Sicotte
Director: Jean-Claude Lauzon
Oscar (1991)
Comedy | Crime
Angelo "Snaps" Provolone made his dying father a promise on his deathbed: he would leave the world of crime and become an honest businessman. Despite having no experience in making money in a legal fashion, Snaps sets about to keep his promise. He is faced with numerous problems: henchmen who know nothing but crime, the police who are convinced he is hatching a master plan, and Oscar, who has just got his daughter pregnant.
Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Ornella Muti, Don Ameche, Peter Riegert, Tim Curry, Vincent Spano
Director: John Landis
The DUFF (2015)
Comedy
Bianca is a content high school senior whose world is shattered when she learns the student body knows her as 'The DUFF' (Designated Ugly Fat Friend) to her prettier, more popular friends. Now, despite the words of caution from her favorite teacher, she puts aside the potential distraction of her crush, Toby, and enlists Wesley, a slick but charming jock, to help reinvent herself. To save her senior year from turning into a total disaster, Bianca must find the confidence to overthrow the school's ruthless label maker Madison and remind everyone that no matter what people look or act like, we are all someone's DUFF.
Starring: Mae Whitman, Robbie Amell, Bella Thorne, Bianca A. Santos, Skyler Samuels, Romany Malco
Director: Ari Sandel
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Tooken (2015)
Comedy
Tooken – The spoof on the popular Taken franchise.
Starring: Ethan Suplee, Donnie Wahlberg, Jenny McCarthy, Lukas Haas, Lauren Stamile, Lee Tergesen, Reno Wilson
Director: John Asher
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The Man (2005)
Action | Comedy | Crime
Special Agent Derrick Vann is a man out to get the man who killed his partner but a case of mistaken identity leads him to Andy Fidler, a salesman with too many questions and a knack of getting in Vanns way.
Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Eugene Levy, Miguel Ferrer, Luke Goss, Susie Essman, Anthony Mackie
Director: Les Mayfield
The Country Bears (2002)
Comedy | Family | Music | Musical
The story of how eager young fan Beary Barrington can convince the bitter ex-members of the rock band "The Country Bears" to put aside their differences and perform a benefit concert to save Country Bear Hall, the legendary venue where the band got its start.
Starring: Haley Joel Osment, Christopher Walken, Daryl Mitchell, Diedrich Bader, Alex Rocco
Director: Peter Hastings
The Patsy (1964)
Comedy
When a star comedian dies, his comedy team, decides to train a nobody to fill the shoes of the Star in a big TV show (a Patsy). But the man they choose, bellboy Stanley Belt, cant do anything right. The big TV show is getting closer, and Stanley gets worse all the time.
Starring: Jerry Lewis, Ina Balin, Everett Sloane, Phil Harris, Keenan Wynn, Peter Lorre, John Carradine, Hans Conried, Richard Deacon, Scatman Crothers
Director: Jerry Lewis
The Bellboy (1960)
Comedy
Stanley is a bellboy at the Fountainbleau Hotel in Miami Beach. It is there that he performs his duties quietly and without a word to anyone. All that he displays are facial expressions and a comedic slapstick style. And anything that can go wrong – does go wrong when Stanley is involved. Then one day, Jerry Lewis, big star, arrives at the hotel and some of the staff notice the striking resemblance. Stanley continues to do what he was hired to do while star Lewis has more trouble with his entourage than the hotel accommodations.
Starring: Dudley Moore, Bryan Brown, Patsy Kensit, Richard Griffiths, Andreas Katsulas, Bronson Pinchot
Director: Jerry Lewis
The Delicate Delinquent (1957)
Comedy
Sidney Pythias is a bumbling janitor picked up by cop Mike Damon as a teenage gang member worth saving from delinquency. With Damon's help, Sidney works his way through the Police Academy to become a cop too.
Starring: Jerry Lewis, Martha Hyer, Darren McGavin
Director: Don McGuire
The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water / The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie 2 (2015)
Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family
SpongeBob and his friends need to go on a quest to discover a stolen recipe that takes them to the real world, where they tangle with a pirate who possesses the recipe, along with a book that could change things when written in it.
Starring: Tom Kenny, Bill Fagerbakke, Rodger Bumpass, Mr. Lawrence, Clancy Brown, Carolyn Lawrence
Director: Paul Tibbitt
ABCs of Death 2 / The ABCs of Death 2 (2014)
Comedy | Horror
The follow-up to the 2013 anthology of horror, the film is comprised of twenty-six individual chapters, each helmed by a different contemporary genre director assigned a letter of the alphabet. With locations ranging from Nigeria to Brazil, the directors were given free rein to choose a word beginning with their assigned letter and create a story involving death.
Starring: Béatrice Dalle, Laurence R. Harvey
Director: Alexandre Bustillo, Julien Maury, Rodney Ascher, Julian Barratt, Alejandro Brugués, Kristina Buozyte
Racing Stripes (2005)
Adventure | Comedy | Drama | Family | Sport
A zebra raised on a farm in Kentucky dreams of becoming a racehorse in this heartwarming tale that combines live action and computer animation.
Starring: Bruce Greenwood, Hayden Panettiere, Caspar Poyck, Gary Bullock, Wendie Malick, M. Emmet Walsh
Director: Frederik Du Chau
