Subgenre Sampler
Comedy: 5546 Films to Buy & Rent
Napoleon Dynamite (2004)
- Dir. Jared Hess
Feat. Jon Heder, Jon Gries, Aaron Ruell…
- Destined for cult status, this plays like a high school comedy made by its alienated students, with its quirky in–jokes and non–sequiturs…
Narco: Secret Adventures of Gustav Klopp (2004)
- Dir. Tristan Aurouet
Feat. Guillaume Canet, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Benoit Poolevarde…
- A narcoleptic comic–book writer finds illusion and reality blurring between his fantastical imagination, a succession of dead–end day…
New York Minute (2004)
- Dir. Dennie Gordon
Feat. Mary-Kate Olsen, Ashley Olsen, Eugene Levy
- Fairly innocuous comedy in which the uber–marketing triumph 'The Olsen Twins' head to New York as chalk–and–cheese sisters who…
Night of the Living Dorks (2004)
- Dir. Mathias Dinter
Feat. Tino Mewes, Manuel Cortez, Thomas Schmieder…
- High school geek revenge flick meets living dead spoof when four geeky buddies accidentally become zombies – and reap the social benefts – in…
Nighty Night (TV Series) (2004)
- Feat. Julia Davis
- Thoroughly "wicked" drama series follows the nefarious efforts of arch–manipulator Julia Davis to 'move on' after her husband falls ill to…
Outing Riley (2004)
- Dir. Pete Jones
Feat. Pete Jones, Nathan Fillion, Michael McDonald…
- Good–natured comedy about a man summoning up the courage to tell his tough Irish family he's gay, when his sister decides to take matters into…
Pacifier, The (2004)
- Dir. Adam Shankman
Feat. Vin Diesel, Lauren Graham, Tate Donovan
- A breezy reprise of KINDERGARTEN COP, with the sleek Vin Diesel playing a disgraced Navy Seal who is assigned to protect the children of a US…
People (2004)
- Dir. Fabien Onteniente
Feat. Rupert Everett, Jose Garcia, Ornella Muti
- Raucous French comedy starring one Rupert Everett as the Parisian Jet Set's party organiser, who finds himself departing to Ibiza in order to retain…
Peter Kay - Live at the Top of the Tower (2004)
- Feat. Peter Kay
- Actor Peter Kay hits the stand–up stage with his lively, rotund brand of British humour.
Phil the Alien (2004)
- Dir. Rob Stefaniuk
Feat. Rob Stefaniuk, Boyd Banks
- One of the more original satires to emerge from Canada, this proffers the tale of a humanoid alien who crashlands his saucer in the backwoods of…