Hope Springs (2012)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
After thirty years of marriage, a middle-aged couple attends an intense, week-long counseling session to work on their relationship.
Starring: Meryl Streep, Tommy Lee Jones, Steve Carell, Jean Smart, Elisabeth Shue, Mimi Rogers
Director: David Frankel
Drop Dead Diva (TV Series 2009- )
Comedy | Drama
Drop Dead Diva is a spirited new comedic drama series that puts a uniquely compelling twist on the age-old battle between brains and beauty. The show tells the story of a shallow model-in-training who dies in a sudden accident only to find her soul resurfacing in the body of a brilliant, thoughtful and plus-size attorney.
Starring: Brooke Elliott, Margaret Cho, Jackson Hurst, Kate Levering, April Bowlby, Josh Stamberg, Ben Feldman
Creator: Josh Berman
Big Daddy (1999)
Comedy | Drama
Thirty-two-year-old Sonny Koufax has spent his whole life avoiding responsibility. But when his girlfriend dumps him for an older man, he's got to find a way to prove he's ready to grow up. In a desperate last-ditch effort, Sonny adopts five-year-old Julian to impress her. She's not impressed… and he can't return the kid.
Starring: Adam Sandler, Joey Lauren Adams, Jon Stewart, Cole Sprouse, Dylan Sprouse, Allen Covert
Director: Dennis Dugan
Nitro Circus: The Movie (2012)
Action | Comedy | Documentary
Travis Pastrana and his tight-knit, highly-skilled, adrenaline-addicted friends bring their impossible, ridiculous, insane and hysterical adventures to the big screen for the first time
Starring: Travis Pastrana, Jolene Van Vugt, Jim DeChamp, Gregg Godfrey, Jeremy Rawle, Tommy Passemante, Greg Powell, Erik Roner
Director: Gregg Godfrey, Jeremy Rawle
Danny Deckchair (2003)
Comedy | Romance
Based on a true story, the tale of a cement truck driver named Danny, whose long awaited vacation is cancelled thanks to his scheming girlfriend, Trudy. Danny escapes his grim life in suburban Australia and blasts into the skies in a chair tied with helium balloons. A mighty thunderstorm blows him clean off the map, and spits him out far away over the lush green town of Clarence. In this new town, he rockets into the world of Glenda, the town's only parking cop. While the media back home becomes obsessed with the story of his disappearance, Danny gets to reinvent himself in this new town, and in his great adventure, he discovers a true soulmate in Glenda. Fate catches up with him eventually, as Danny's true identity is revealed and Trudy–now a tabloid celebrity–comes to the idyllic town to claim Danny and drag him back to Sydney. Danny, however, is a changed man; he's discovered what it means to be happy and has found a new self-worth…
Starring: Rhys Ifans, Miranda Otto, Justine Clarke, Rhys Muldoon, John Batchelor
Director: Jeff Balsmeyer
Coffee and Cigarettes / Coffee & Cigarettes (2003)
Comedy | Drama | Music
A series of short vignettes built on one another to create a cumulative effect, as the characters discuss things as diverse as caffeine popsicles, Paris in the '20s, and the use of nicotine as an insecticide–all the while sitting around sipping coffee and smoking cigarettes.
Starring: Bill Murray, Tom Waits, Roberto Benigni
Director: Jim Jarmusch
A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (1982)
Comedy | Fantasy | Romance
Centred around a weekend party at the home of inventor Andrew Hobbs and his wife Adrian, attended by randy doctor Maxwell Jordan, his nurse Dulcy, renowned philosopher Dr.Leopold Sturgis and his fiancée, this is a light comedy concerning their various emotional, intellectual and sexual entanglements, loosely based on Ingmar Bergman's 'Smiles of a Summer Night' .
Starring: Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, José Ferrer, Julie Hagerty, Tony Roberts, Mary Steenburgen
Director: Woody Allen
The Truth About Cats & Dogs (1996)
Comedy | Romance
Janeane Garofalo plays Dr. Abby Barnes, the "Truth About Cats and Dogs" radio question-and-answer show host who unwittingly entices a listener over the radio with her soothing voice and personality. This listener, Brian, tries to meet the Abby from the radio, but Noelle, played by Uma Thurman, is mistaken for the real thing when Brian comes to the studio. Instead of clearing things up right away, the self-conscious Abby allows her best friend, Noelle, a tall, stunning blonde, to take her place for a while. Abby takes on the made-up persona of Donna, while thinking Brian would never go for her, a short, cute, brunette, who thinks she's unattractive. As the real Abby woos Brian over the phone and radio, Noelle, the pseudo-Abby, takes her place in the flesh.
Starring: Uma Thurman, Janeane Garofalo, Ben Chaplin, Jamie Foxx, James McCaffrey
Director: Michael Lehmann
The Santa Clause 2 / The Santa Clause 2: The Mrs. Clause (2002)
Comedy | Family | Fantasy
Scott Calvin has given sterling service as Santa Claus for nearly ten years and enjoyed every minute, but it might come to an end if he doesn't find a Mrs. Claus.
Starring: Tim Allen, Eric Lloyd, Judge Reinhold, David Krumholtz, Elizabeth Mitchell, Wendy Crewson
Director: Michael Lembeck
The Santa Clause (1994)
Comedy | Drama | Family | Fantasy
Scott Calvin accidentally causes Santa Claus to fall to his death from his roof on Christmas Eve. When Scott and his young son, Charlie, finish the late St. Nick's deliveries, they go to the North Pole where Scott learns he must become the new Santa and convince those he loves that he is indeed Father Christmas.
Starring: Tim Allen, Judge Reinhold, Eric Lloyd, David Krumholtz, Wendy Crewson, Peter Boyle
Director: John Pasquin
Family Plot (1976)
Comedy | Thriller
When a wealthy woman unwittingly hires a con man and a phoney psychic to find her missing heir, the results are diabolically funny in Alfred Hitchcock's tongue-in-cheek mystery thriller.
Starring: Karen Black, Bruce Dern, William Devane, Barbara Harris, Cathleen Nesbitt, Ed Lauter
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Seinfeld (TV Series 1990-1998)
Comedy
Jerry Seinfeld is a very successful stand-up comedian, mainly because the people around him offer an endless supply of great material. His best friend is George Costanza, a bald, whiny loser who craves the kind of success Jerry has but is never willing to do what it takes to get it. Jerry's neighbor Kramer often barges into his apartment and imposes onto his life. In the second episode Jerry's former girlfriend Elaine Benes comes back into his life, and the four of them are able to form a friendship together. The episodes were rarely very plot-heavy, focusing more on mundane conversations and situations that could be found during everyday life in New York.
Starring: Jerry Seinfeld, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Michael Richards, Jason Alexander
Creator: Jerry Seinfeld, Larry David
Mighty Aphrodite (1995)
Comedy | Fantasy | Romance
When he discovers his adopted son is a genius, a New York sportswriter seeks out the boy's birth mother: a prostitute.
Starring: Mira Sorvino, Woody Allen, Helena Bonham Carter, F. Murray Abraham, Claire Bloom, Michael Rapaport, Olympia Dukakis
Director: Woody Allen
Everyone Says I Love You (1996)
Comedy | Musical | Romance
A New York girl sets her father up with a beautiful woman in a shaky marriage while her half sister gets engaged.
Starring: Woody Allen, Goldie Hawn, Edward Norton, Drew Barrymore, Julia Roberts, Alan Alda, Lukas Haas, Gaby Hoffmann, Natasha Lyonne, Natalie Portman, Tim Roth, David Ogden Stiers
Director: Woody Allen
Come As You Are / Hasta la Vista! (2011)
Comedy | Drama
Three boys – one blind, one in a wheelchair and the other fully paralyzed – prefer wine and women. The first they have tasted but the second they want to happen… They go on a holiday to Spain, under the guise of a 'wine'-tour, to loose their virginity in Spanish brothels. And nothing will stop them… Rated '12' for violence, rough talk and discrimination.
Starring: Charlotte Timmers, Roos Van Vlaenderen, Robrecht Vanden Thoren
Director: Geoffrey Enthoven
Clue (1985)
Comedy | Crime | Mystery | Thriller
A group of oddball characters assemble at an old Victorian mansion to play a game of "whodunit."
Starring: Tim Curry, Christopher Lloyd, Eileen Brennan, Michael McKean, Colleen Camp, Lesley Ann Warren, Madeline Kahn, Martin Mull, Lee Ving
Director: Jonathan Lynn
Cousin cousine (1975)
Comedy | Romance
Two distant cousins meet at a wedding banquet for an elderly couple. Over time, a close friendship develops between them, but their spouses begin to think that they are more than just friends.
Starring: Marie-France Pisier, Marie-Christine Barrault, Victor Lanoux, Guy Marchand, Ginette Garcin
Director: Jean-Charles Tacchella
Sideways (2004)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
A wine tasting road trip to salute Jack's final days as a bachelor careens woefully sideways as he and Miles hit the gas en route to mid-life crises. The comically mismatched pair, who share little more than their history and a heady blend of failed potential and fading youth, soon find themselves drowning in wine and women. Emerging from a haze of pinot noir, wistful yearnings and trepidation about the future, the two inevitably collide with reality.
Starring: Paul Giamatti, Thomas Haden Church, Virginia Madsen, Sandra Oh, Marylouise Burke, Jessica Hecht
Director: Alexander Payne
Mardi Gras: Spring Break / Spring Break (2011)
Comedy
For three college guys, it's senior year and the co-ed experience has left them high and dry. Their solution: A road trip to Mardi Gras, where beautiful babes are happy to lift their shirts and open containers are always welcome. But after dressing in drag, breaking into Carmen Electra's hotel room, starring in a scandalous sex show and accidentally exploding a feces bomb in a swank hotel lobby, will the Mardi Gras magic kick in and their wildest fantasies come true?
Starring: Nicholas D'Agosto, Josh Gad, Bret Harrison, Arielle Kebbel, Danneel Ackles, Charles Shaughnessy, Carmen Electra
Director: Phil Dornfeld
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The Wedding Planner (2001)
Comedy | Romance
Mary Fiore is the wedding planner. She's ambitious, hard-working, extremely organized, and she knows exactly what to do and say to make any wedding a spectacular event. Bt when Mary falls (literally) for a handsome doctor her busy yet uncomplicated life is turned upside down – he's the groom in the biggest wedding of her career! Will she help him walk down the aisle with his internet tycoon girlfriend, or will Mary finally get to be the bride herself? When it comes to love, you can never plan what's going to happen.
Starring: Jennifer Lopez, Matthew McConaughey, Bridgette Wilson, Justin Chambers, Judy Greer, Alex Rocco
Director: Adam Shankman
