Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Comedy: 5458 Films to Rent
Blackball (2003)
- Dir. Mel Smith
Feat. Paul Kaye, Vince Vaughn, James Cromwell…
- Television comedian Paul Kaye ('Dennis Pennis') takes up the spherical orb in this mild sports comedy as the youthful English lawn bowler, striving…
Bon Voyage (2003)
- Dir. Jean-Paul Rappeneau
Feat. Isabelle Adjani, Gerard Depardieu, Virginie Ledoyen…
- A plushly–mounted, grander–than–life romantic farce from director of "Cyrano De Bergerac".
It's June 1940, when a group of…
Bookies (2003)
- Dir. Mark Illsley
Feat. Nick Stahl, Lukas Haas, Rachael Leigh Cook…
- Four college friends become small–time bookies, only to find their world spinning dangerously out of control when their greed attracts the…
Bright Young Things (2003)
- Dir. Stephen Fry
Feat. Emily Mortimer, Stephen Campbell Moore, Dan Aykroyd…
- Set among the aspirant youth of 1930s Britain, this fresh satirical comedy marks a promising debut for dir. Fry, even if the drama is sliced a little…
Bruce Almighty (2003)
- Dir. Tom Shadyac
Feat. Jim Carrey, Jennifer Aniston, Morgan Freeman
- The second coming of Jim Carrey for the director of LIAR LIAR is a similar ‘high concept’ comedy with the same ratio of side–splitting and…
Bullshit (TV Series) (Penn & Teller: Bullshit!) (2003)
- Abrasive and profanely cogent, partners in crime Penn & Teller (better known as a gross–out magic duo) turn to their BS–detectors in…
Calendar Girls (2003)
- Dir. Nigel Cole
Feat. Helen Mirren, Julie Walters, Linda Bassett…
- A group of middle–aged Yorkshire–women decide to disrobe for a charity calender, in an affirmative spin on the FULL MONTY…
Camp (2003)
- Dir. Todd Graff
Feat. Daniel Letterle, Joanna Chilcoat, Don Dixon
- A heart–on–its–sleeve musical set an American summer camp for 'artistic' teenagers, in which individual fears and hopes find group…
Canterbury Tales, The (TV Mini-Series) (2003)
- Feat. James Nesbitt, Julie Walters, Billie Piper…
- A contemporay retelling of six tales from Geoffrey Chaucer's medieval classic, which dispenses with the framing journey to concentrate on the…
Carolina (2003)
- Dir. Marleen Gorris
Feat. Julia Stiles, Shirley Maclaine, Randy Quaid…
- Slightly off–kilter romantic comedy, with the dir. of MRS DALLOWAY injecting a little originality into the normal recipe.
Stiles, projecting…