Subgenre Sampler
Comedy: 5546 Films to Buy & Rent
Down With Love (2002)
- Dir. Peyton Reed
Feat. Ewan McGregor, Renee Zellweger, Tony Randall
- Entertaining homage to the early 1960s comedies of Doris Day and Rock Hudson, where a 'love advice' columnist is slyly seduced by a playboy…
Dummy (2002)
- Dir. Greg Pritikin
Feat. Adrien Brody, Milla Jovovich, Illeana Douglas…
- Unusual, mostly effective comedy has unemployed clerk Brody take up his ventriloquism hobby fulltime. With yiddish sidenotes, simmering romance and…
Eight Legged Freaks (2002)
- Dir. Ellory Elkayem
Feat. David Arquette, Kari Wuhrer, Scarlett Johansson
- Every decade produces at least one eight–legged monster movie, and this one for the CGI generation comes courtesy of Kiwi ‘bug…
Elvira's Haunted Hills (2002)
- Dir. Sam Irvin
Feat. Cassandra Peterson, Richard O'Brien
- "Mistress of the Dark" Elvira returns – paying homage to the Corman–Poe horrors with a camped–up musical set in 1850s…
Flyfishing (2002)
- Dir. David L. Williams
Feat. Helen Baxendale, Kate Ashfield, Frances Barber
- A nicely bumbling comic farce, in which various Londoners – housewives, gigolos and yuppies – trip over each other's private lives in the…
Footballers' Wives (TV Series) (2002)
- Feat. Christian Solimeno, Zoe Lucker, Gary Lucky
- Compulsive campy drama about women married to members of a fictional English Premiership soccer team.
At heart this is soap opera of the highest…
Full Frontal (2002)
- Dir. Steven Soderbergh
Feat. Julia Roberts, Catherine Keener, David Duchovny…
- Director Stephen Soderbergh calls on the favours of famous friends for a makeshift, semi–improvised poke at the film industry that only a…
Funny Ha Ha (2002)
- Dir. Andrew Bujalski
Feat. Kate Dollenmayer
- Less 'funny ha ha' than funny peculiar drama about a young woman's desultry efforts to move on in life after completing her university degree. Its…
Get a Clue (2002)
- Dir. Maggie Greenwald
Feat. Lindsay Lohan, Bug Hall, Amanda Plummer
- 'Queen of the tweenies' Lindsay Lohan plays a fashionable NYC teenager who stumbles into knowing of a secret affair between two of her teachers. When…
Good Girl, The (2002)
- Dir. Miguel Arteta
Feat. Jennifer Aniston, Jake Gyllenhaal, John C. Reilly…
- Quirky, downbeat comedy about people stuck with dead end lives in small–town America adds a string to the bow of acting challenges for starlet…