Subgenre Sampler
Comedy: 5546 Films to Buy & Rent
Weeds (TV Series) (2005-2012)
- Feat. Mary-Louise Parker, Elizabeth Perkins, Justin Kirk…
- Tinkering with suburban values and the illusion they help maintain, this wry and caustic comedy of affluence trafficks the drug trade of a widowed…
Wendell Baker Story, The (2005)
- Dir. Luke Wilson, Andrew Wilson
Feat. Luke Wilson, Owen Wilson, Eva Mendes…
- Typical Wilson brother comedy fare about a scheming ex con who finds work at a retirement hotel and helps the residents get revenge on their nasty…
Wild Colonial Psychos - Bandits on the Run (2005)
- A compelling live recitation of misdeeds, yarns, balck humour and more from several real–life 'colonial psychos': Mark 'Jacko' Jackson, best…
Winter Passing (2005)
- Dir. adam rapp
Feat. Ed Harris, Zooey Deschanel, Will Ferrell…
- Lyrical, character driven drama offering humour tinged ruminations on loneliness and yearning. Zooey Deschanel provides an arresting lead…
Yours, Mine and Ours (2005)
- Dir. Raja Gosnell
Feat. Dennis Quaid, Rene Russo, Rip Torn
- A 'bigger is better' knock–off of CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN (based on a 1968 comedy) in which two high school sweethearts (Quaid and Russo), both…
13 Going on 30 (2004)
- Dir. Gary Winick
Feat. Jennifer Garner, Mark Ruffalo, Andy Serkis…
- A winning variation on the "body swaparoo", with an unhappy teenager waking from her 13th birthday to find time fast–forwarded and herself a…
2 B Perfectly Honest (2004)
- Dir. Randel Cole
Feat. Adam Trese, John Turturro, Andrew McCarthy…
- Sporting a setting and story that's unusual enough to be worthwhile, this semi–goofy comedy concerns a mismatched pair of New Yorkers (Trese…
50 First Dates (2004)
- Dir. Peter Segal
Feat. Adam Sandler, Drew Barrymore, Rob Schneider…
- A curious Hawaiian–set romcom with marine biologist Sandler wooing Barrymore – trouble is she has short–term amnesia (because of an…
A Dirty Shame (2004)
- Dir. John Waters
Feat. Tracey Ullman, Selma Blair, Johnny Knoxville…
- An outrageous, if obvious, return to boundary–crossing comedy for dir. John Waters (PINK FLAMINGOS), with Tracey Ullman playing a repressed…
A Lot Like Love (2004)
- Dir. Nigel Cole
Feat. Ashton Kutcher, Amanda Peet, Taryn Manning…
- Cutely delivered riff on WHEN HARRY MET SALLY, this pairs Kutcher with Peet for a long–stalling love affair over the years as both gradually…