Subgenre Sampler
Comedy: 5546 Films to Buy & Rent
Just Friends (2005)
- Dir. Roger Kumble
Feat. Ryan Reynolds, Amy Smart, Chris Klein…
- Refreshingly sour comedy has an overweight high school dork (Reynolds) return to his home town ten years later as a trim, fit and super–smooth…
Just Like Heaven (2005)
- Dir. Mark Waters
Feat. Reese Witherspoon, Mark Ruffalo, Jon Heder
- A lonely architect (Ruffalo) falls for the the attractive spirit (Witherspoon) of the former tenant of his apartment who is trapped in some kind of…
Keeping Mum (2005)
- Dir. Niall Johnson
Feat. Rowan Atkinson, Kristin Scott Thomas, Maggie Smith…
- In the best English tradition of addled and yet deadly black comedy, this unravels the goings–on in a cute village, where the vicar (Atkinson)…
Kicking and Screaming (2005)
- Dir. Jesse Dylan
Feat. Will Ferrell, Robert Duvall
- A family sports–comedy with a moral twist, this has 'Saturday Night Live's Will Ferrell play a stressed–out father who takes on the…
King and the Clown, The (2005)
- Dir. Jun-ik Lee
Feat. Woo-seong Kam
- Subversive yet broadly–appealing Korean comedy with a gay streak that turns the Chosun Dynasty on its head with its story of two bawdy court…
Kinky Boots (2005)
- Dir. Julian Jarrold
Feat. Joel Edgerton, Chiwetel Ejiofor
- Likeable British comedy adds a quirky twist to the usual battling 'dreamer' storyline, with a struggling Northampton shoe factory (inherited by an…
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)
- Dir. Shane Black
Feat. Val Kilmer, Robert Downey Jnr., Corbin Bernsen…
- Reflexively vulgar and enjoyably vicious, this comic–thriller has fumbling thief Downey Jnr. by chance winning an audition for a film part,…
Koi Aap Sa (2005)
- Dir. Partho Mitra
Feat. Aftab Shivdasani
- Fruity Bollywood number with Aftab Shivdasani as a hunky football captain torn between his spunky girlfriend and coltish childhood sweetheart.
Laughing Samoans - Old School (2005)
- Comedy team Eteuati Ete and Tofiga Fepulea'i return for another humourous look at New Zealand–Samoan life, recycling a few sketches but also…
League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse, The (2005)
- Dir. Steve Bendelack
Feat. Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith…
- Big–screen graduation for the cult TV series set around the inbred Northern English town of "Royston Vasey", where which the trio of Gatiss,…