Subgenre Sampler
Comedy: 5546 Films to Buy & Rent
Grumpy Old Women (TV Series) (2005)
- A range of female celebrities gripe about everything from their husbands to drunkenness in this forthright – and often amusing – homage…
Guy X (2005)
- Dir. Saul Metzstein
Feat. Jason Biggs, Natascha McElhone, Jeremy Northam
- Low–key comedy starring Jason Biggs as a soldier mistakingly sent to a base deep in the frozen wasteland of Greenland during the…
Happy Endings (2005)
- Dir. Don Roos
Feat. Lisa Kudrow, Steve Coogan, Maggie Gyllenhaal…
- A clutch of hedonistic Americans collide, abuse and impregnate each other in this typically light yet smart black comedy from the dir. of THE…
Hard Pill (2005)
- Dir. John Baumgartner
Feat. Jonathan Slavin, Scotch Ellis Loring, Susan Slome…
- Provocative comedy–drama dares to posit a scenario in which a little pill can induce heterosexuality and when a depressed gay man wonders if…
Hating Alison Ashley (2005)
- Dir. Geoff Bennett
Feat. Delta Goodrem, Saskia Burmeister
- Candyfloss comedy set in a Melbourne high school, where the arrival of pretty Alison Ashley (Goodrem) creates difficulties for Erica Yurken…
Heartbreak Hotel (2005)
- Dir. Colin Nutley
Feat. Helena Bergstrom, Maria Lundqvist
- Two recently–divorced Swedish women form an unlikely bond and navigate their way through the perils of singledom in this fresh–faced…
Herbie Fully Loaded (2005)
- Dir. Angela Robinson
Feat. Lindsay Lohan, Matt Dillon, Michael Keaton
- A refit of the 1970s classic about a Volkswagon 'beetle' with a mind of its own, with Lohan playing a the teenage daughter of a race–driver…
Hitch (2005)
- Dir. Andy Tennant
Feat. Will Smith, Eva Mendes, Michael Rapaport…
- A self–amused Smith headlines this Manhattan comedy, as professional matchmaker who 'hitches' couples back together in faltering…
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The (2005)
- Dir. Garth Jennings
Feat. Martin Freeman, Zooey Deschanel, Sam Rockwell…
- Maintaining the comic wonderstuff and special British eccentricity of Douglas Adams' original novel (and radio and TV spin–offs), this…
How I Met Your Mother (TV Series) (2005)
- Feat. Jason Segel, Neil Patrick Harris, Alyson Hannigan…
- Situational comedy in the vein of FRIENDS follows a group of quirky young urbanites on their quest for love and self–fulfilment. Sharp writing…