Subgenre Sampler
Comedy: 5546 Films to Buy & Rent
Quiet Night In (2005)
- Dir. Christopher Banks
Feat. Nicolette Kenny
- Odd low–budget Kiwi comedy that chronicles a series of unfortunate events over one evening, where a would–be–novelist ends up…
Racing Stripes (2005)
- Dir. Frederik Du Chau
Feat. Bruce Greenwood, M. Emmet Walsh, Hayden Panettiere
- Likable family comedy has 'Stripes' the zebra (voiced by Frankie Muniz) growing up on a farm believing he is a racehorse and being humoured by other…
Ringer, The (2005)
- Dir. Barry W. Blaustein
Feat. Johnny Knoxville, Brian Cox
- A taboo–fumbling–dodging comedy in which, due to a large outstanding debt, Johnny Knoxville (JACKASS) poses as mentally handicapped and…
Robinsons, The (TV Series) (2005)
- Feat. Martin Freeman, Hugh Bonneville
- A wry British sitcom of family dysfunction with the disarming Martin Freeman – who’s since cornered the English everyman role all for himself –…
Robot Chicken (TV Series) (2005)
- Devilish stop–motion animated series jiving an array of random sketch–comedy segments to the tune of pop–cultural parody, rounded…
Romance and Cigarettes (2005)
- Dir. John Turturro
Feat. James Gandolfini, Susan Sarandon, Kate Winslet…
- Actor John Turturro wrote, directed and self–released this bawdy and often brilliant 60's–pop–anthem–fuelled comedy musical,…
Rumour Has It... (2005)
- Dir. Rob Reiner
Feat. Jennifer Aniston, Kevin Costner, Shirley Maclaine…
- An intriguing meta–Hollywood 'sequel' to THE GRADUATE (1967), in which Aniston plays an unlucky–in–love New Yorker who learns that…
Russian Dolls (Les Poupées russes) (2005)
- Dir. Cedric Klapisch
Feat. Audrey Tautou, Romain Duris, Cecile De France…
- A sequel of substance to the pan–Euro comedy THE SPANISH APARTMENT, which will again strike an entertaining chord with the young globetrotting,…
Seeing Other People (2005)
- Dir. Wally Wolodarsky
Feat. Jay Mohr, Josh Charles, Lauren Graham…
- Sporting a nicely screwball premise – a soon–to–be–married couple (Mohr and Nicholson) agree to have a two–month bout…
Seven Periods with Mr Gormsby (TV Series) - Series 1 (2005)
- Dir. Danny Mulheron
Feat. David McPhail, Jason Hoyte, Tandi Wright…
- Gleefully un–PC series stars David McPhail as an aggressively behind the times 'relief teacher' in a small New Zealand secondary school, whose…