Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Comedy: 5458 Films to Rent
Haunted Mansion, The (2003)
- Dir. Rob Minkoff
Feat. Eddie Murphy, Jennifer Tilly, Terence Stamp…
- Inspired by Disneyland's famous funride, this ghostly comedy has real estate agent Eddie Murphy and kin inadvertantly spending the night in a spooky…
Head of State (2003)
- Dir. Chris Rock
Feat. Chris Rock, Bernie Mac, Lynn Whitfield
- Likeable comedian Chris Rock makes his directorial debut with this middling yet prescient political comedy with a then–humorously unlikely…
Holes (2003)
- Dir. Andrew Davis
Feat. Sigourney Weaver, Jon Voight, Tim Blake Nelson…
- Surprisingly cunning comedy, where a teenager is unjustly sent to an isolated reformatory, and set to work digging holes in the desert for no…
Hollywood Homicide (2003)
- Dir. Ron Shelton
Feat. Harrison Ford, Josh Hartnett, Lena Olin…
- Frantic action–comedy, hardly distinctive for its 'in–shop' Hollywood setting, but with enough gags and star pratfalls from the leads to…
Honourable Wally Norman, The (2003)
- Dir. Ted Emery
Feat. Kevin Harrington
- A fairly biting political satire sees a rural meatworker (Harrington) accidentally stumbling into the local electoral race for MP and soon he is…
I'll Be There (2003)
- Dir. Craig Ferguson
Feat. Craig Ferguson, Charlotte Church, Joss Ackland…
- Surprisingly likeable light comedy has an aging 80s popstar discovering by chance the daughter he never knew he had.
Travelling to Wales, he finds…
Intolerable Cruelty (2003)
- Dir. Joel Coen
Feat. George Clooney, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Billy Bob Thornton…
- Another sophisticated comedy from the Coen Brothers, here certifying George Clooney as a leading man with dab comic timing, opposite a smouldering,…
James' Journey to Jerusalem (Massa'ot James Be'eretz Hakodesh) (2003)
- Dir. Ra'anan Alexandrowicz
Feat. Siyabonga Melongisi Shibe
- A witty yet significant portrait of contemporary Israel that takes the form of a deceptively straightforward fable, charting the progress of a young…
Jeff Green Live - Back from the Bewilderness (2003)
- Feat. Jeff Green
- Author and comedian Jeff Green brings stand–up to the West End in this one man one night only routine in front of a sell–out crowd.…
Johnny English (2003)
- Dir. Peter Howitt
Feat. Rowan Atkinson, John Malkovich, Tim Pigott-Smith
- A British spy spoof that through the expertise of Rowan Atkinson holds its own against the more sophisticated AUSTIN POWERS.
When the entire…