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Comedy movies
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Working-class hairdresser Susan White (Julie Walters) who calls herself Rita - that is her favourite writer's name - is intent on changing her life for the better. She is determined to have a proper education and enters Open University. Needing a tutor, she selects Dr. Frank Bryant (Michael Caine), Professor of English literature. Depressed after his divorce and his failed attempt to become a poet, he seeks comfort in a bottle of whisky. Furthermore, Frank is bored with teaching students who are able to speak about literature only in clichés and platitudes. Rita's arrival breaks the monotony of his daily existence – she is literally a breath of fresh air for him. Excited by her impulsive approach to life and by Rita herself, Frank comes to realize that though Rita lacks education, she is more intelligent than anyone else at college. |
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The sparkling comedy focuses upon the life of fictional legendary jazz guitarist Emmet Ray (Sean Penn), who lived during the 1930s. We observe Ray’s unimaginable escapades, creative crisis, love affairs with a mute laundry worker, Hattie (Samantha Morton), and a graceful writer, Blanche (Uma Thurman), and long-awaited success. He was an eccentric, alcohol-abusing, womanizing, arrogant, reckless, prodigal guy who once vanished into thin air. Goodness knows what happened to him. Fortunately, he left his beautiful music records for us to enjoy.
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This touching comedy follows the story of a bashful, chain-smoking, successful playwright having a midlife crisis. Peter McGowan (Kenneth Branagh) runs out of inspiration; his new play is set to open, but he can't find a child to act the part of a 10-year-old character; his neighbors' dog barks all night; he is unnerved by his wife who insists on having a child. Fortunately, things take a turn for the better when a recently separated woman, Trina Walsh (Lucinda Jenney), and her 8-year-old cerebral palsy-afflicted daughter Amy (Suzi Hofrichter) move next door. Peter befriends the girl who helps him to see the world through other eyes... |
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The comedy chronicles the romance that develops between two misfits, Lily (Loren Horsley), a shy, quirky cashier at a fast-food restaurant, and Jarrod (Jemaine Clement), a self-assured, equally weird geek from the video game store across the way. Lily is lovesick for the nerdy Jarrod, who visits the fast-food joint every day at lunchtime, but he doesn't notice her as he is attracted to Jenny, a more beautiful cashier. One day Jarrod invites Jenny to his annual "come as your favorite animal" costume party but she refuses to attend it. So Lily ventures to crash the party. To her great joy, Jarrod, dressed as an eagle, becomes impressed by her shark costume as well as her video-game skills and discovers that they have much in common. |
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Harry Tasker is a secret agent in the Bond style. But his wife Helen and family think he is a computer salesman. When Helen seeks out a life of excitement in the arms of another man, Harry sets out to give her the excitement she craves while simultaneously battling Arab terrorists in possession of an atomic bomb and causing his rival in love to change his trousers. |
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In 1967, after burning most of his henchmen, Dr. Evil sets a trap for Austin Powers, but freezes himself so Austin won't catch him. Austin then volunteers to be frozen in case Dr. Evil shows up again. 30 years later, Dr. Evil wakes up in Nevada and steals a nuclear weapon and holds the world hostage for 1 million dollars. Sorry, 100 billion dollars. Austin is woken up to stop Dr. Evil but gets Vanessa Kensington, his ex-partner's daughter and goes to Vegas to look for Evil, but finds out there is no longer any free love in the 90's, or Swinging. |
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This black comedy stars Michael Douglas as Charlie, a man who is released from a mental institution after a stay of two years and returns home to live with his teenage daughter, Miranda (Evan Rachel Wood). Abandoned by her mother, the girl has had to grow up too quickly. She has been forced to drop out of school to work double shift at McDonald's in order to support herself and keep the old family house. Miranda's mentally dysfunctional father tries to persuade her to set out on a wild quest to find the lost Spanish treasure buried somewhere in California's San Fernando Valley. She reluctantly agrees to join her dad only to give him one last chance to pursue his dream. |
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The hilarious comedy depicts the peripeteias of the fortune of two talented magicians, Harry (David Mitchell) and Karl (Robert Webb), who work together, performing various magic tricks in a variety of shows. The two become deadly enemies and go their separate ways after Harry finds out about the sexual affair between Karl and his wife, who is then accidentally killed during the guillotine trick. This mishap puts the kibosh on their brilliant careers. Four years later, their paths cross again when the penniless and depressed former partners decide to enter the "Magic shield" tournament and compete against one another, expecting to win a prize of £20,000. |
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This is the final chapter of Gore Verbinski's swashbuckling action-adventure trilogy. In the second part the bold Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) was killed during the battle against the formidable Kracken. This time he is hopelessly stuck in the purgatory of Davy Jones' (Bill Nighy) Locker, the evil spirits of the deep. Will Turner (Orlando Bloom) and Elizabeth Swan (Keira Knightley) form an unlikely alliance with the evil Captain Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush) and set sail on a perilous journey to the end of the world, namely to Singapore, where they will have to fight with the insidious Captain Sao Feng (Chow Yun-Fat), enlist support of the mighty Brethren Court, get the Black Pearl from the depths of the ocean and rescue Jack Sparrow from the land of the dead. |
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After a U.S. doctor in Morgue (Scott Wilson) orders a South Korean soldier to discharge toxic chemicals into the drain near the Han River in Seoul, a small tadpole grows into a monstrous creature. One day the horrifying mutant (voiced by Dal-su Oh) emerges from the depths of the river onto its bank for a feast of flesh. Among the monster's victims is a teenage girl named Hyun-seo (Ah-sung Ko) whose father Gang-du (Kang-ho Song) fails to rescue her from the clutches of the beast. Fearing that the mutant spreads a deadly virus, the government decides to seal off the river and quarantine people who have come in contact with the monster. Meanwhile, the grief-stricken father receives a late-night phone call from Hyun-seo telling that she is still alive in a sewer nearby the river. |
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The film follows the fortunes of Charles and his friends as they wonder if they will every find true love and marry. Charles thinks he's found "Miss Right" in Carrie, an American. This British subtle comedy revolves around Charlie, his friends and the four weddings and one funeral which they attend. |
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The Chumscrubber is a dark comedy about the lives of people who live in upper-class suburbia. It all begins when Dean Stiffle finds the body of his friend, Troy. He doesn't bother telling any of the adults because he knows they won't care. Everyone in town is too self consumed to worry about anything else than themselves. And everybody is on some form of drug just to get themselves through the day. After Troy's death, local drug dealers at the school run out of their stash. They convince Dean to get Troy's stash or they are going to kill his brother that they kidnapped, but they grabbed the wrong kid. |
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Follows a group of high school students growing up in southern California, based on the real-life adventures chronicled by Cameron Crowe. Stacy Hamilton and Mark Ratner are looking for a love interest, and are helped along by their older classmates, Linda Barrett and Mike Damone, respectively. The center of the film is held by Jeff Spicoli, a perpetually stoned surfer dude who faces off with the resolute Mr. Hand, who is convinced that everyone is on dope. |
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Roddy St. James (Hugh Jackman) is a pet mouse who lives a privileged life in the most prestigious and elegant penthouse apartment in London. He feels he has achieved a lot in his life. He is, to all appearances, absolutely on plush: he eats well, sleeps well and has no trouble. Roddy enjoys his blissful life, until one day vulgar sewer rat Sid (Shane Richie) comes spewing out of the clogged sink. Inclined to get rid of his uninvited guest, Roddy schemes to lure him into the "jacuzzi", which is actually the toilet bowl, and flush him away. However, his plan comes unstuck, for Sid so loses his heart to the luxurious place that he decides to replace Roddy at any cost. As a result, Roddy ends up in the bustling sewer world where he meets an eye-catching scavenger rat named Rita (Kate Winslet). To return home, Roddy and Rita must escape the crafty designs of the spiteful Toad (McKellen) who hates all rodents.
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A young Hawaiian girl Lilo (voice of Daveigh Chase) makes friends with an amazing alien creature who is a dangerous, but rather cute being. The creature's name is Stitch (voice of Chris Sanders) as she called him, the tricky little monster is a product of an illegal "Genetic Experiment 626" escaped to Earth. But Lilo thinks he's a kind of dog, and this "dog" gradually proves to be a rowdy and mischievous being. Mad professor, who had created Stitch, is jailed and his fluffy blue nursling is being searched by intergalactic police and considered to be the most dangerous creature in the Universe. But Lilo can unwittingly reclaim the crafty extraterrestrial... |
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This romantic comedy revolves around Henry Roth (Billy Crudup), one of the most successful New York authors. He writes books for kids but oddly enough he dislikes them and mankind in general and bonds only with his longtime friend Rudy Holt (Tom Wilkinson), a collaborator and illustrator. When Rudy suddenly becomes ill and passes away, Henry is forced by his publisher Arthur Planck (Bob Balaban) to team up with an attractive young female artist named Lucy Reilly (Mandy Moore). He reluctantly begins to work with Lucy on a sequel to his successful book "Marty the Beaver" and soon finds himself romantically involved with her. |
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The charming and smart criminal Danny Ocean (George Clooney) reassembles his crew. This time they are scheming to take vengeance on the ruthless and low-down casino owner Willie Bank (Al Pacino) who betrayed Reuben Tishkoff (Elliott Gould), one of Ocean's team players, in their business arrangement. Danny is bent on bankrupting Willie by winning huge amounts of money on slot machines, at Black Jack and roulette simultaneously. |
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Lorelei and Dorothy are just "Two Little Girls from Little Rock", lounge singers on a transatlantic cruise, working their way to Paris, and enjoying the company of any eligible men they might meet along the way, even though "Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend." Based on the Broadway musical based on the novel. |
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Jessy (Parminder Nagra), a young girl loves football very much. Despite her orthodox Indian parents want their daughter to be a lawyer, she desires to play professional football and accepts no half-ways. Along with her friend Jules (Keira Knightley) who share her football passion Jessy became obsessed by training in order to join the semi-pro team. Perspectives seem to be rosy when your team coach is handsome and when the first goals scored, but one should work really hard to succeed. To bend it like Beckham. |
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Terry (Joan Allen), a sharp-witted woman and a mother of four, had lost her husband and trying to drown her sorrows in alcohol. Once she gets acquainted with Denny (Kevin Costner), an ex-basketball player living in her neighborhood who now works at a radio-station as a DJ. With both Terry and Denny feeling down in the dumps about recent events in their lives, the two find themselves drawn to one another. Soon Denny becomes a good drinking buddy for Terry and slowly evolves into her source of strength, and, in fact, becomes like father to her daughters. But things get complicated as Danny, Terry and her daughters attempting to juggle their romantic dilemmas. |
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