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Comedy movies
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SON OF RAMBOW is the name of the home movie made by two little boys with a big video camera and even bigger ambitions. Set on a long English summer in the early 80's, SON OF RAMBOW is a comedy about friendship, faith and the tough business of growing up. We see the story through the eyes of Will, the eldest son of a fatherless Plymouth Brethren family. The Brethren regard themselves as God's 'chosen ones' and their strict moral code means that Will has never been allowed to mix with the other 'worldlies,' listen to music or watch TV, until he finds himself caught up in the extraordinary world of Lee Carter, the school terror and maker of bizarre home movies. Carter exposes Will to a pirate copy of Rambo: First Blood and from that moment Will's mind is blown wide open and he's easily convinced to be the stuntman in Lee Carters' diabolical home movie. Will's imaginative little brain is not only given chance to flourish in the world of film making, but is also very handy when it comes to dreaming up elaborate schemes to keep his partnership with Lee Carter a secret from the Brethren community. Will and Carter's complete disregard for consequences and innocent ambition means that the process of making their film is a glorious rollercoaster that eventually leads to true friendship. They start to make a name for themselves at school as movie makers but when popularity descends on them in the form of the Pied Piper-esque French exchange student, Didier Revol, their unique friendship and their precious film are pushed, quite literally, to breaking point. |
| Ten, The
[2007,
USA]
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| If He'd meant the commandments literally, He'd have written them in stone. |
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Ten stories, each inspired by one of the ten commandments. |
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Young Florentines regale one another in the Italian countryside while the black plague decimates their city. |
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The charming romantic comedy tells the story of a young Indian woman named Shalini Singh (Namrata Singh Gujral) who arrives in the United States only to discover that her fiancé is far from the man of her dreams. Shalini sets out to find her perfect match and crosses paths with wannabe Hollywood movie producer Rob Shorwell (Brad Raider) who does his best to teach her all about the American way of life in order to make her a celebrity. The two eventually fall in love develop cultural understanding. |
| Game Plan, The
[2007,
USA]
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| Joe Kingman had the perfect game plan to win the championship... but first, he has to tackle one little problem. |
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This uplifting family comedy concerns Joe Kingman (Dwayne Johnson), a wealthy and popular NFL quarterback who happily lives his carefree single life. His hugely self-absorbed existence is drastically changed by an 8-year-old precocious girl named Peyton Kelly (Madison Pettis) who appears out of the blue, claiming to be his daughter from a former marriage. An egoistical, fun- and party-loving bachelor, he reluctantly accepts the duty of taking care of Peyton and eventually becomes the loving dad the girl craves. |
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A sister and brother face the realities of familial responsibility as they begin to care for their ailing father. |
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The charismatic tandem of Detective James Carter (Chris Tucker) and Chinese Chief Inspector Lee (Jackie Chan) is back! They are in Paris to protect a French woman who has connections with the crime syndicate, the 'Triads'. The chase will lead them, knowing neither the French language nor the French capital, through the city's labyrinths, shifting from Paris subway to the Eiffel Tower, while they try to outwit the bad guys. |
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12-year-old Justin Schumacher (Jamie Kennedy) had only one passion – breakdancing. In 1986, while performing in the school talent show, Justin received a serious head injury and lapsed into a coma. Twenty years later, he wakes up only to find that things have changed so much in the world. His childhood sweetheart, Jennifer (Maria Menounos), is engaged to marry his grade school nemesis, Kip (Michael Rosenbaum). His parents, Marty (Christopher McDonald) and Sylvia (Debra Jo Rupp), are up to their ears in debt accumulated as a result of his long-term hospital treatment. Now Justin must do his utmost to revive his dance career and win his dream girl's heart. |
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A delusional young guy strikes up an unconventional relationship with a doll he finds on the Internet. |
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Based on a play, Sleuth confronts two extremely clever British men in a game of trickery and deceit. Andrew Wyke (Michael Cain), an aging famous author who lives alone in a high-tech mansion, after his wife Maggie has left him for a younger man; and Milo Tindle (Jude Law),an aspiring actor, equipped with charm and wit, who demonstrates both qualities once again). When Wyke invite Tindle to his mansion, Tindle seeks to convince the former into letting his wife go by signing the divorce paper. However, Wyke seems far more interested in playing mind games with his wife's new lover, and lures him into a series of actions he thoroughly planned in seeking revenge on his unfaithful spouse. |
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High school student Dawn works hard at suppressing her budding sexuality by being the local chastity group's most active participant. Her task is made even more difficult by her bad boy stepbrother Brad's increasingly provocative behavior at home. A stranger to her own body, innocent Dawn discovers she has a toothed vagina when she becomes the object of violence. As she struggles to comprehend her anatomical uniqueness, Dawn experiences both the pitfalls and the power of being a living example of the vagina dentata myth. |
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Billy Crudup stars as Henry, a complex, misanthropic and overall strange author of children's books. As his soulmate and creative collaborator Rude (Tom Wilkinson) dies, Henry faces the necessity to team up with a new illustrator, Lucy (Mandy Moore). So Henry suffers a lot and deprives himself of a chance to go on, he continues to communicate (successfully) with Rudy via the Unisphere - a giant globe that was part of the World's Fair in Queens, New York, in the 1960s. However, no matter how much nuts Henry's becoming, he attempts to work with a new, by the way lovely, colleague, on a sequel to his successful children's book. As for Lucy, she's followed by her ex-boyfriend Jeremy, who left her two years ago and suddenly appears now, extremely apologetic, and dedicates his new book to her... |
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It falls to Norbit's lot to undergo many severe trials. As a kid, he (Eddie Murphy) is abandoned at the door of a Chinese restaurant and reared by Mr. Wong (Eddie Murphy). During his schooldays the spineless Norbit is forced to pay court to an aggressive masterful obese girl, Rasputia (also Eddie Murphy), because she protects him from bullies. Some years later, he dares not protest and leads his 'protector' to the altar. Rasputia's aim in life is to eat to satiety and humble her weak-willed henpecked husband. When Norbit's childhood flame, Kate Thomas (Thandie Newton), comes back to town, he ventures to resort to various tricks in order to get rid of his tyrannical, monstrous, unfaithful spouse and win the heart of Kate who is engaged to Deion Hughes (Cuba Gooding Jr.). |
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After the defeat of their old arch nemesis, The Shredder, the Turtles have grown apart as a family. Struggling to keep them together, their sensei, Master Splinter, becomes worried when strange things brewing in New York City. Tech-industrialist tycoon Max Winters revives four ancient stone warriors and enlists the help of the foot clan to help capture ancient monsters. |
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This touching comedy drama tells the story of two terminally ill men given only several months to live. While sharing a room in a cancer ward, blue-collar mechanic Carter Chambers (Morgan Freeman) and millionaire Edward Cole (Jack Nicholson) decide to live their last days to the fullest and make a "bucket list" of things they want to do before they kick the bucket. Escaping from hospital, the newly made friends embark on an adventurous journey which includes seeing the wonders of the world, race car driving, sky diving, going on a safari in Africa and playing poker in Monte Carlo. |
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Will you kill for a good story? If you are James Cooper, a 28 year old copy editor with dreams of literary stardom, you will. After all, your girlfriend was just crowned the "voice of a new America" by the New York literati, and you waste your days editing third-rate textbooks in a dreary Chicago basement. Your first book got panned. Your agent just dumped you. You have no future. But when your girlfriend's corpse ends up sprawled beneath your bedroom window, you finally know what to write about. Crime Fiction is the story of murder, betrayal and outrageous artistic fortune. |
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Richie Donovan (Stephen Dorff), an American professional thief, is charged by his mobster boss to go to Russia to steal an invaluable antique cross. Once there, during the well-planned heist, he and his Russian confederates unexpectedly find themselves trapped by the police and forced to take hostages in the elevator on the unused 13th floor of a Moscow skyscraper. |
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Dan Burns is a single father who dedicates his life to his children, but one day he meets Marie at a bookstore. They get to know each other, but then Dan finds out that Marie is actually dating his brother, Mitch Burns. |
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Mackenzie Carpenter, a gorgeous 17-year-old girl who would kick your ass for saying so, thinks her biggest problem is dying of boredom in the bucolic wasteland of Orange County...that is until her classmates start dying of massive blood loss and Horny The Clown begins madly stalking her with cryptic messages hidden in 70's kitsch toys. It isn't until Mac discovers her unbelievable connection to Horny and his victims that she realizes, if she's gonna live to see 18, she must come face to face with the killer clown in the bloodiest week Blanca Carne, California has ever known. |
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The dramedy focuses on Nolan Byrd (Devon Werkheiser) a bashful, gaunt 8th grader who, like many other kids at his school, endures everyday bullying from Bubba Bixby (Andrew Caldwell), the son of local magnate Bob Bixby (Daniel Roebuck). When his patience is exhausted, Nolan makes the courageous decision to stand up for himself and his peers. In the great tradition of detective movies, Nolan begins spying on the offender and filming the humiliation in action. Under the pseudonym "Shredderman," he then sets up a website exposing Bubba's execrable behavior to the world. |
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