Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Comedy: 5458 Films to Rent
Mr. Deeds (2002)
- Dir. Steven Brill
Feat. Adam Sandler, Winona Ryder, John Turturro
- Spoofy remake of Frank Capra’s MR DEEDS GOES TO TOWN with Adam Sandler playing a smalltime pizza–man who inherits $40 billion and sets…
My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002)
- Dir. Joel Zwick
Feat. Nia Vardalos, John Corbett
- Surprise hit comedy written by its lead performer, Nia Vardalos, marries her own experience growing up a “plain Jane” in a Greek immigrant family…
Mystics, The (2002)
- Dir. David Blair
Feat. David Kelly, Milo O'Shea
- Irish black comedy retreads WAKING NED DEVINE territory with hijinks involving two old–time scammers pretending to be able to communicate with…
Nicholas Nickleby (2002)
- Dir. Douglas McGrath
Feat. Stella Gonet, Christopher Plummer, Tom Courtenay…
- Able–handed version of Dicken's classic of Victorian–age injustice, that respects both the comic and tragic sides to the tale.
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Nick Frost's Danger! 50,000 Volts (TV Series) (2002)
- Feat. Nick Frost, Simon Pegg
- Amusing TV series that provides practical advice on surviving the many pitfalls of our perilous world, while also managing to find humour in its…
Office, The (TV Series) (2002)
- Dir. Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant
Feat. Ricky Gervais, Martin Freeman
- A BAFTA–winning, mock–documentary–style situation comedy about a team of paper–merchant administrators who allow a film crew…
On the Nose (2002)
- Dir. David Caffrey
Feat. Dan Aykroyd, Brenda Blethyn, Robbie Coltrane
- Middling Irish comedy (partly shot in Vancouver) from the dir. of DIVORCING JACK that offers a familiarly cute version of Dublin folk squabbling over…
Once Upon a Time in the Midlands (2002)
- Dir. Shane Meadows
Feat. Robert Carlyle, Kathy Burke, Ricky Tomlinson…
- The bittersweet dramatics of dir. Meadows (ROOM FOR ROMEO BRASS) get a fresh telling in this Nottingham drama, with the added spin of some ironic…
One and Only, The (2002)
- Dir. Simon Cellan Jones
Feat. Justine Waddell, Richard Roxburgh
- Based on a 1999 romantic comedy by Susanne Bier (OPEN HEARTS), this relocates the original film’s star–crossed predicament to Newcastle,…
Orange County (2002)
- Dir. Jake Kasdan
Feat. Colin Hanks, Jack Black, Harold Ramis…
- Wannabe teen author Colin Hanks (son of Tom) aspires to an ivory–tower creative–writing course but first must extricate himself from a…