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Comedy movies
| She's the Man
[2006,
USA]
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| Everybody has a secret... Duke wants Olivia who likes Sebastian who is really Viola whose brother is dating Monique so she hates Olivia who's with Duke to make Sebastian jealous who is really Viola who's crushing on Duke who thinks she's a guy... |
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This movie is a modern recital of the Shakespearian "Twelfth Night, or What You Will". Viola's soccer team at Cornwall got cut so she wanted to join the boys' team, but she did not get any permission. She gets disguised as her twin brother Sebastian to play, where she meets Duke. The problem is, the real Sebastian has decided to shorten his London trip, and upon arriving on campus two days earlier than expected, Viola's perfect plan hits an unexpected hitch that sends the entire situation spiraling into chaos. |
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This movie is an interpretation of Garrison Keillor's radio show of the same name. After 32 years, Garrison Keillor's radio variety show is coming to an end. Some establishment had bought the radio station this program stapled, so this very broadcast will be the last... Keillor and Altman worked hard at creating a distinct element of authenticity. The entire film (except opening and closing scenes) was shot in St. Paul's Fitzgerald Theater, home to the show since 1978. "Prairie Home Companion" band members and regular guests also appear in the film. |
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What would you do if you found a bag of money? Would you pick it up and run? Or would you try to find its owner? The screwball comedy tells the story of an ordinary factory worker, Henry Perkins (Chevy Chase), who falls into an extraordinary situation when he accidentally switches briefcases with another man on his subway ride home. When he discovers five million dollars inside the briefcase, Henry swoons with joy, daydreaming that he can now retire from his wax fruit factory years earlier and live with his wife Carol (Penelope Ann Miller) happily and peacefully. However, windfall money turns out to be a plague for Perkins |
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Gray Wheeler (Jennifer Garner) has the rug jerked out from under her when her fiancé, Brady Douglas, unexpectedly dies just a few days before their wedding. She feels emotionally devastated and seeks consolation in the company of his buddies, Dennis (Sam Jaeger), Fritz (Timothy Olyphant), and Sam (Kevin Smith). As time passes, Gray discovers that her seemingly perfect fiancé had a few skeletons in the closet. |
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A sequel to the 1998 blockbuster tells about the young woman who discovered she is inherited father's talent of an animal language understanding. Unlike her veterinarian dad, Maya (Kyla Pratt) didn't yet find an appropriate use for her talent. Her mother sends Maya to a dude ranch "Durango" to go to find herself. There she uses her talent talking to the animals what eventually helps to save "Durango" from being taken over by a neighboring ranch. Also starring are John Amos, Kristen Wilson, and Walker Howard. |
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Buddy Hall (Danny DeVito), an average car salesman who lives in a small New England town, dreams to do something notable in his life. He makes up his mind to decorate his house for the Christmas season with so many lights that it will be seen from space. The town dwellers, particularly his neighbor Steve Finch (Matthew Broderick), don't completely fancy this idea. Their fierce conflicts are about to thwart the holiday celebration. However, the warring families eventually discover the true spirit of Christmas. |
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Young charming socialite, Ashley Albright (Lindsay Lohan) is said to be the luckiest woman in the world. But it appears that fortune may be transferred via a kiss. After kissing a handsome stranger, Jack Hardin (Chris Pine) at a masquerade ball, Ashley realizes that her fortune "turns its back upon her." Meanwhile, perpetually unlucky guy Jack becomes highly successful. However, Ashley doesn’t give up. She goes all out to find Jack and get her luck back by all means.
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When a weapons multi-national Palisade Defence reward their European sales division with a team-building weekend in the mountains of Eastern Europe, comedy blends with horror as the team fight first amongst themselves, and later for survival against a group of war-crazed killers intent on revenge. |
| Slippery Slope
[2006,
USA]
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| a sexy comedy about an uptight young feminist filmmaker that secretly takes a job directing adult films to raise funds for her documentary. |
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A sexy comedy about an uptight young feminist filmmaker that secretly takes a job directing adult films to raise funds for her documentary. |
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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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Beer, broads and baseball combine with hilarious results in ARTIE LANGE'S BEER LEAGUE...an over-the-top comedy about a group of misfits whose weekly softball games seem to have a lot more to do with getting into fights for macho dominance than hitting home runs. Artie is an unemployed and unmotivated drunk that is predictably still living with his mother. He is on a losing softball team, and he and his teammates are facing the end of softball as they know it if they can't pull it together. When love enters his life, it unexpectedly alters Artie's low self-esteem, and the odds for winning, not only the league trophy, but a new life, are certainly looking up. He and his teammates will have to go for the win, and survive all the comedy and chaos along the way. |
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The offbeat comedy focuses on two average persons, Army soldier Joe Bauers (Luke Wilson) and prostitute Rita (Maya Rudolph), who are selected as guinea pigs for a government-run hibernation program. The cryo-freezing experiment which was supposed to last only a year goes afoul, and Joe and Rita wake up in the year 2505. They find themselves living in a society where people have become degraded and the world is now ruled by the stupid. As a result, Joe and Rita prove to be the smartest people on the planet.
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The animated movie revolves around a successful but arrogant race car, Lightning McQueen (Owen Wilson), who is used to fame, floodlights, crowds of groupies and a high-speed life. En route to California for the tie-break of the Piston Cup against two skilled opponents, Chick Hicks (Michael Keaton) and The King (Richard Petty), the indomitable McQueen unexpectedly runs astray in the small remote town of Radiator Springs on Route 66. After destroying the town’s main road, Lightning is sentenced to community service by the local judge Doc Hudson (Paul Newman). Stuck in the godforsaken town, he eventually makes friends with its nice inhabitants, an attractive Porsche attorney, Sally Carerra (Bonnie Hunt); a rusty wrecker tow truck, Mater (Larry the Cable Guy); a tire shop owner, Luigi (Tony Shalhoub), and many others. They open his eyes to a whole new world and help him understand the true meaning of life that there are more important and worthier things than fame and fortune.
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A laid-back restaurant health inspector Larry is not met with open arms at the various fancy eateries he inspects. He begins to investigate an outbreak of mysterious food poisonings at the city's most expensive restaurants. But when his bizarre methods cost him his job, Larry has to go undercover to bring the conspirators to justice. |
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Darren Giles has lost his college scholarship, can't work up the courage to ask out the girl of his dreams and doesn't have the cash to stay in college another semester. Unless he can survive the teenage dominatrix, New York's largest drug mogul, convince his parents he's not gay, write a paper on Dante's Inferno, escape three thugs chasing the wrong guy and sell fifty pills of ecstasy in time to make his tuition payment, he'll never get the chance to date the girl of his dreams. |
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In 1950 ZomCon Corporation domesticates flesh-eating zombies, turning them into gardeners, milkmen, paper boys, domestic servants and even our favourite pets. A lonely eleven-year-old boy, Timmy Robinson (K'Sun Ray), spends much time in his room; even his own parents pay little attention to him. So it is a great surprise to him when his mother, Helen (Carrie-Anne Moss), buys a six-foot zombie servant (Billy Connolly). He is really amazed when the creature suggests playing catch. After the zombie protects the little boy from bullies, Timmy takes to the creature and names him Fido. Timmy strengthens his friendship with Fido even when he ends up eating the some friendly townsfolk. Mr. Bottoms (Henry Czerny), a high-powered ZomCom executive, sets out to investigate the case but Timmy does everything in his power to keep Fido as a member of the family... |
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Hollywood send-up. No-name actors are making a low-budget period drama called "Home for Purim," when an anonymous post on the Internet suggests that one performance is Oscar-worthy. Then, two more cast members get Oscar-related press: buzz in "Variety" and appearances on TV prompt the studio executives to insist on changes in the script in anticipation of a blockbuster. Jump ahead a few months to the days before Oscar nominees are announced: just the possibility of a nomination has changed the actors' lives. Agents, publicists, make-up artists, local celebrity reporters, and other bit players round out the backstage ensemble. Hooray for Hollywood! |
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The smashing comedy revolves around two hapless buddies, Maurice (Ray Romano) and Dave (Kevin James), living in Los Angeles and working as door-to-door meat salesmen. They've both hit the bad patch. Determined to make a sale by all means, they unwittingly get more than they have bargained for. Now the scale is trembling between life and death. Will the crafty Maurice and Dave be able to put the big deal through and get the money before they are dead meat?
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[2006,
USA]
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| What If You Had A Universal Remote... That Controlled Your Universe? |
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Michael Newman (Adam Sandler), an architect, is a father of two. He's a workaholic, and being frustrated in his job and an ungrateful boss. Suddenly Michael discovers a universal remote allowing him to control not only his home electronics but entirely his life. In this high-concept fantasy comedy Sandler's hero travels back and forth through the different points of his life. The wonderful device lets him to mute a neighbour's barking dog and to zoom back the details of a past quarrel with wife. Suddenly Michael realizes the huge amount of important things he missed in his life paying to much attention to his work. |
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Garfield (Bill Murray), a self-centered, slothful and sardonic American feline, stows away on a flight with his owner, Jon Arbuckle (Breckin Meyer), to London where the latter is planning to propose to his sweetheart, veterinarian Liz Wilson (Jennifer Love Hewitt). In the UK, Garfield winds up being mistaken for Prince (Tim Curry), a royal cat who has recently inherited a fabulous castle from his owner, the deceased queen. While Garfield relishes his lordly lifestyle, Prince is quite satisfied with his new life, from eating lasagna to going to pubs. Meantime, Lady Eleanor's nephew, the heinous Lord Dargis (Bill Connolly), who is next in line to fall heir to the large estate, is concocting a diabolical scheme to get rid of the cat by any means so that he will be able to use the castle as a tourist resort. |
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