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Comedy movies
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Although life hasn't turned out the way they once dreamed, life-long buddies Mark, McGriff and Jason are managing to stay above water in their small Pennsylvania hometown. Mark, whose fleeting college football glory has morphed into a dangerous obsession with gambling, McGriff, the beer truck driver who has never let go of his rock-n-roll aspirations, and Jason the high school Valedictorian working as a clerk in an office supply store. After the death of Marl's Dad and McGriff's discovery of his wife's infidelity, the guys embark on a cross country road trip to a football game, boozing and misbehaving every step of the way. They finally discover what is really important: in this crazy, uncertain world, the one thing we can count on is our friends. |
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The life of plants and animals of the rainforest is under the deadly threat: bulldozers and other human machines are destroying trees and all tropical inhabitants. The other threat is that the evil spirit named Hexxus (voiced by Tim Curry) will be released if an old tree where he was confined long ago, will be injured by the bulldozers. Forest animals and mystic creatures should stop the felling: Krysta (voiced by Samantha Mathis), Pips (voiced by Christian Slater), Beetle Boys and Zak (Jonathan Ward) should prevent the forest from extinction. Zak is a human, who initially worked at the felling, but later he sworn to defend the beauty of the forest. |
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Duets is a road-trip comedy which revolves around the little known world of karaoke and the whimsical characters who inhabit it. There's the struggling singer who dreams of making it to the big time, a frustrated salesman who ends up on an unexpected road trip, the dysfunctional family performers which includes a con-artist (Huey Lewis) and his long lost daughter, and an escaped convict (Andre Braugher) with the voice of an angel. All roads lead to Omaha, site of a national karaoke competition where this motley group of singers and stars come together for a blow-out sing-off. |
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Alan, son of a toy store owner, tries out some new action figures: The Commando Elite vs. The Gorgonites. What he does not know, is that both sets of toys were designed to move, talk and play back. The Commando Elite's purpose is to destroy the Gorgonites. Unfortunately, the toy designer who was responsible for the programming, bought highly intelligent military computer chips that are usually used for steering missiles - and are able to learn. Now, the Commando Elite, led by Major Chip Hazard, is up to destroying the Gorgonites, led by peaceful Archer, who hide in Alan's parents' house. Now, a battle, in which the destructive ability of creative computer chips against creative computer chips with a different attitude comes to light, is about to begin. |
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The Devil (Elizabeth Hurley) has never been so seductive. This time, he assumes the aspect of a gorgeous woman and forces a man to do reckless things. A hapless computer programmer, Elliot Richards (Brendan Fraser), is a perfect person to make a deal with. The perfidious Devil makes a tempting offer to Elliot: she promises to fulfill seven wishes in exchange for his soul. However, there is no such thing as a free lunch. It's no wonder that Elliot's life is turned into a hell when he sells his soul to the Devil. He can't enjoy the bargain because each time he makes a wish, the results are regrettable... |
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A young Mormon missionary named Joe Young (Trey Parker) finds himself fortuitously on the set of a new porno movie directed by Maxxx Orbison (Michael Dean Jacobs) who immediately offers him the part of noble Captain Orgazmo, a superhero who fights against enemies using his ' Orgazmorator'. Both the movie and Joe become an overnight success with audiences. All his dreams seem to have materialized: he has won hordes of fans worldwide, and money flows like water. Maxxx is about to make the movie into a series, but Joe's fiancée, Lisa (Robyn Lynne Raab), tells him to quit his scandalous job. Joe decides to leave the porn industry for the sake of love. But the perfidious film-maker abducts Lisa and thus forces Joe to take part in further filming. |
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Steve Barker (Johnny Knoxville), an office drone, must raise a large sum of money to pay for his gardener’s surgery, while his hapless uncle Gary (Brian Cox) owes $40,000 in gambling debts. Desperate to find the cash, they come up with a nefarious yet effective scheme. Steve and Gary decide to rig the Special Olympics Championship by having the former posing as a mentally challenged athlete so that the latter can bet on him to defeat the six-time medalist Jimmy Washington (Leonard Flowers). Thus they hope to earn enough money to solve both of their financial problems.
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Set in the world of high-stakes professional poker, the plot centers around Huck Cheever (Eric Bana), a hotshot player who goes all out to win games without fear of taking risks. When he comes to Las Vegas to win the World Series of Poker – and the heart of Billie Offer (Drew Barrymore), a young charming aspiring singer from Bakersfield – he runs into his estranged father, L.C. Cheever (Robert Duvall), a legendary poker player. As a result, the father and the son become rivals both in life and at the poker table. Huck feels geared up for fighting tooth and nail to be triumphant.
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Ignacio is a monk who aspires to be a professional wrestler (luchador = fighter in Spanish). This is against the other priests. He wrestles under the name "Nacho" for the children to help pay for their needs in hiding. The movie is what happens when he does this. |
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The dramedy follows Augusten Burroughs (Joseph Cross) who is raised by his alcoholic father, Norman (Alec Baldwin), and his mentally unstable mother, Deirdre (Annette Bening). His mother deludes herself into thinking she is a fine poet, and unsuccessfully tries to publish her works, hoping to become famous. When the Burroughs' marriage ends, Deirdre commits her teenage son to the care of her psychiatrist, Dr. Finch (Brian Cox). From now the confused boy has to spend his adolescence in Dr. Finch's large and eccentric family. |
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Montgomery "Monty" Brewster is a baseball player who has going back and forth from the minors to the majors for nearly 15 years. After getting into a brawl in a bar, he and his friend end up in jail, his team has not only decided not bail him out but to cut him. At his hearing Monty doesn't know what to do but a man who has been following him for sometime appears in court and offers to pay his bail. Monty assumes that it's a baseball scout but when they arrive at where they were going, Monty is taken to a law office and informed that he is the sole heir of a man who is one of the richest men in the country, who is also his long lost uncle. His uncle's last will and testament is that Monty must spend 30 millions dollars in 30 days, if which he accomplishes, he will get 300 million. But at the end of 30 days he must not own anything. He also must not give the money away and must not destroy anything valuable and he also cannot tell anyone why he is spending all this money. He thinks that he's on his way to doing that but Spike unwittingly invests some of the money and recoups everything that Monty has spent. And he also doesn't exactly have the support of the lawyers, cause is he fails they take control of the estate and give themselves a healthy fee for ahndling it. And also a lot of people especially the woman he is attracted to, thinks he is jerk. |
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Haley Graham is a rebellious 17 year-old who is forced to return to the regimented world of gymnastics after a run-in with the law. She is sentenced to her ultimate nightmare: she is to attend to an elite gymnastics academy run by legendary hardnosed coach Burt Vickerman (Jeff Bridges). Haley is surprised finding an unexpected ally in the person of her new coach. He respects Haley's talent, and together she shows him and her new teammates how to follow the rules while still expressing your individuality. |
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This is the story of Mia Thermopolis (Anne Hathaway), an ordinary 15-year-old San Francisco girl. One fine day Mia is surprised to discover that her father, the Prince of Genovia, is missing and she is the sole heiress to the throne of the tiny European kingdom. In the twinkle of an eye, the awkward Mia is taken into care of her strict newfound grandmother, Queen Clarisse Renaldi (Julie Andrews). The granny is intent to turn Mia from a clumsy teenager into a bright society lady. But there's the rub, though Mia doesn't object to her new status, she doesn't feel like taking court etiquette lessons. What will she choose: the crown or freedom?! |
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It's impossible to imagine what absurd ideas may come into the mind of American teenagers during pubescence. Pee Wee (Dan Monahan), Billy (Mark Herrier), Tommy (Wyatt Knight), and Mickey (Roger Wilson) are four high school students who are desperate to lose their cumbersome virginity. Hoping to get a night to remember, they travel to Porky's, a striptease bar located outside of town. However, they find themselves tricked and humiliated by the owner of the bar. When the confused guys return home, they vow to exact revenge. |
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The Bakers, a family of 12, move from small-town Illinois to the big city after Tom Baker (Martin) gets his dream job to coach his alma mater's football team. Meanwhile, his wife (Hunt) also gets her dream of getting her book published. While she's away promoting the book, Tom has a hard time keeping the house in order while at the same time coaching his football team, as the once happy family starts falling apart. |
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Daniel Rafferty (Pierce Brosnan) and Audrey Miller (Julianne Moore) are two rival divorce attorneys in NY, they pleads the cases of two quarreling spouses and follows two opposite ways of life as it seems. They feel a kind of sympathy to each other but almost don't give it a way until the moment they are to visit the castle which is a subject-matter of case. While Daniel and Audrey try to come to terms with their own relations, their heavily-publicized clients, a rock star and his wife, carry out their own. Battle of the sexes rages on! |
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Two totally incompetent applicants, Emmett Fitzhume and Austin Millbarge, are chosen from a CIA recruitment program. They are parachuted into Pakistan and eventually end up in Afghanistan, chased by the Russians, where they learn they are being used as decoys to draw out the Sovet defenses. Two real spies are sent in. Their mission is to Hijack a soviet Missile launcher, launch the Soviet missile and test the new US orbital defence laser. The missile is fired and while heading for an American City, the laser system misses it's target. The contingency plan for this scenario, as set out by the Pentagon Nuts who planned it from deep within a secret underground bunker, is to let the 3rd World War happen anyway. |
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The legendary high jacker is actually Dan Cooper. DB Cooper is the name of the man arrested shortly after the real high jacker jumped from the plane but was quickly cleared by the authorities. Unfortunately, the newspapers picked up DB Cooper's name instead of Dan Cooper and the name stuck. |
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A dramatic comedy about a self-induced attention-deficit disordered, learning disabled, Tourette's syndrome suffering, balance impaired, ex-alcoholic young man from the Upper East Side of Manhattan and the gold-digging girl who inspires him to try to get it together. |
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Jack Giamoro (Ben Affleck), a top Hollywood agent, has everything he has longed for: a beautiful wife, money, a successful career, and to top it all, he is a man with a big name. But things seem to be crumbling and disintegrating when Jack discovers the bitter truth: his wife Nina (Rebecca Romijn) is cheating on him with one of his most high-profile clients! Unfortunately, there’s no end of troubles. Unscrupulous and anxious for a scoop, reporter Barbi Ling (Bai Ling) somehow steals Jack’s diary containing both his personal and professional secrets. And now with his reputation hanging in the balance and his marriage falling apart, Jack must fight to restore his lost family happiness.
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