What Maisie Knew (2012)
Drama
In New York City, a young girl is caught in the middle of her parents' bitter custody battle.
Starring: Julianne Moore, Steve Coogan, Alexander Skarsgård, Diana García, Joanna Vanderham, Onata Aprile
Director: David Siegel
24 Hour Party People (2002)
Biography | Comedy | Drama | Music
Manchester 1976: Cambridge educated Tony Wilson, Granada TV presenter, is at a Sex Pistols gig. Totally inspired by this pivotal moment in music history, he and his friends set up a record label, Factory Records, signing first Joy Division (who go on to become New Order) then James and the Happy Mondays, who all become seminal artists of their time. What ensues is a tale of music, sex, drugs, larger-than-life characters, and the birth of one of the most famous dance clubs in the world, The Hacienda – a mecca for clubbers as famous as the likes of Studio 54. Graphically depicting the music and dance heritage of Manchester from the late 70's to the early 90's, this comedy documents the vibrancy that made Mad-chester the place in the world that you would most like to be.
Starring: Steve Coogan, John Thomson, Paul Popplewell, Lennie James, Shirley Henderson, Mark Windows, Paddy Considine
Director: Michael Winterbottom
Happy Endings (2005)
Comedy | Drama | Music | Thriller
An ensemble cast telling 10 stories with intertwining characters. One story is about a father and son who are dating the same woman . Another features a woman who long ago gave her baby up for adoption but is now being blackmailed by a documentary filmmaker who claims to know the now-grown child's whereabouts.
Starring: Lisa Kudrow, Steve Coogan, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jesse Bradford, Bobby Cannavale, Jason Ritter, Tom Arnold, Laura Dern
Director: Don Roos
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Marie Antoinette (2006)
Biography | Drama | History
Biopic of the beautiful Queen of France who became a symbol for the wanton extravagance of the 18th century monarchy, and was stripped of her riches and finery, imprisoned and beheaded by her own subjects during the French Revolution that began in 1789.
Starring: Kirsten Dunst, Steve Coogan, Judy Davis, Jason Schwartzman, Rip Torn, Molly Shannon
Director: Sofia Coppola
The Alibi / Lies & Alibis (2006)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
A man who runs an alibi service for adulterous husbands gets into a jam with a new client.
Starring: Steve Coogan, Rebecca Romijn, Selma Blair, James Brolin, Sam Elliott, Jaime King, James Marsden
Director: Matt Checkowski, Kurt Mattila
Ruby Sparks (2012)
Comedy | Fantasy | Romance
Calvin is a young novelist who achieved phenomenal success early in his career but is now struggling with his writing – as well as his romantic life. Finally, he makes a breakthrough and creates a character named Ruby who inspires him. When Calvin finds Ruby, in the flesh, sitting on his couch about a week later, he is completely flabbergasted that his words have turned into a living, breathing person.
Starring: Zoe Kazan, Paul Dano, Annette Bening, Antonio Banderas, Chris Messina, Aasif Mandvi, Steve Coogan, Elliott Gould
Director: Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris
Our Idiot Brother (2011)
Comedy | Drama
Every family has one: the sibling who is always just a little bit behind the curve when it comes to getting his life together. For sisters Liz, Miranda and Natalie, that person is their perennially upbeat brother Ned, an erstwhile organic farmer whose willingness to rely on the honesty of mankind is a less-than-optimum strategy for a tidy, trouble-free existence. Ned may be utterly lacking in common sense, but he is their brother and so, after his girlfriend dumps him and boots him off the farm, his sisters once again come to his rescue.
Starring: Paul Rudd, Elizabeth Banks, Zooey Deschanel, T.J. Miller, Rashida Jones, Steve Coogan, Emily Mortimer
Director: Jesse Peretz
Around the World in 80 Days (2004)
Action | Adventure | Comedy | Family
An eccentric London inventor, Phileas Fogg, has come up with the secrets to flight, electricity, and even in-line skates, but the establishment has dismissed him as a crackpot. Desperate to be taken seriously, Fogg makes an outlandish bet with Lord Kelvin, the head of the Royal Academy of Science: to circumnavigate the globe in no more than 80 days! With his two sidekicks–Passepartout and femme fatale Monique–Fogg is headed on a frantic, heart-pounding round-the-world race that takes our heroes to the world's most exotic places by land, sea, and air.
Starring: Jackie Chan, Steve Coogan, Jim Broadbent, Cécile De France, Robert Fyfe, Ian McNeice
Director: Frank Coraci
