Subgenre Sampler
Comedy: 5544 Films to Buy & Rent
I Love You, Man (2009)
- Dir. John Hamburg
Feat. Paul Rudd, Jason Segel, Rashida Jones
- Hot on the heels of ROLE MODELS, comes another charmingly crude buddy comedy starring Paul Rudd, here as a socially inept nice guy who goes on a…
Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, The (2009)
- Dir. Terry Gilliam
Feat. Heath Ledger, Christopher Plummer, Andrew Garfield…
- Firing on all imaginative cylinders, dir. Terry Gilliam delivers what is possibly his magnum opus – an original, mind–bending fantasy…
Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle, The (2009)
- Dir. David Russo
Feat. Marshall Allman, Vince Vieluf, Natasha Lyonne
- Pleasingly off–kilter indie comedy bares witness to the spiritual crisis of an office clerk who joins a posse of bohemian night janitors who…
In The Loop (2009)
- Dir. Armando Iannucci
Feat. Tom Hollander, Peter Capaldi, Gina McKee…
- Crushingly sharp political satire set in the hubbub of Whitehall and Washington, where petty political games are hilariously played out while the…
Informant!, The (2009)
- Dir. Steven Soderbergh
Feat. Matt Damon, Scott Bakula, Melanie Lynskey
- Frantic and frivilous, yet oddly diverting upscale comedy from prolific dir. Steven Soderbergh, with Matt Damon's bland appeal put to surprisingly…
Invention of Lying, The (2009)
- Dir. Ricky Gervais, Matthew Robinson
Feat. Ricky Gervais, Jennifer Garner, Jonah Hill…
- Ricky Gervais plays leading man in this romantic comedy, set in a world where everybody tells the truth until a down on his luck writer (Gervais)…
It's Complicated (2009)
- Dir. Nancy Meyers
Feat. Meryl Streep, Alec Baldwin, Steve Martin…
- A divorcee romantic–comedy, and a pretty good one, sees Meryl Streep in comedic bloom as her unlikely affair with her brazen ex–husband…
Jennifer's Body (2009)
- Dir. Karyn Kusama
Feat. Megan Fox, Amanda Seyfried, Johnny Simmons…
- The screenwriter of JUNO brings her distinctive, know–it–all style to this high–school horror–comedy, in which the sultry…
Joneses, The (2009)
- Dir. Derrick Borte
Feat. David Duchovny, Demi Moore, Amber Heard…
- A seemingly perfect couple and their equally perfect teenagers move into an upscale gated community. The only problem is they're not a family but…
Journey of the Childmen - The Mighty Boosh Tour (2009)
- Dir. Oliver Ralfe
Feat. Noel Fielding, Julian Barratt
- Fly–on–the–wall documentary follows Mighty Boosh comedians Noel Fielding and Julian Barratt through the highs and lows of their…