Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Comedy: 5465 Films to Rent
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…
Osbournes, The (TV Series) (2002)
- Feat. Ozzy Osbourne
- A smash hit of the ‘Reality TV’ genre, this follows the antics of wealthy heavy metaller Ozzy Osbourne, wife/manager Sharon and two of their…
Ping Pong (2002)
- Dir. Fumisiko Sori
Feat. Yôsuke Kubozuka, Arata
- A madcap, yet gently humourous Japanese sports tale, set around two table tennis hotshots (Kubozuka and Arata) preparing for a ferocious battle at a…
Pipe Dream (2002)
- Dir. John C Walsh
Feat. Martin Donovan, Mary-Louise Parker, Rebecca Gayheart
- Snubbed as a serious romantic partner because he is a plumber, Martin Donovan decides to masquerade as a film director in order to attract women and…
Plots with a View (Undertaking Betty) (2002)
- Dir. Nick Hurran
Feat. Brenda Blethyn, Alfred Molina, Naomi Watts…
- Lunatic Welsh farce in which an unhappy Brenda Blethyn contrives with a besotted funeral director (Molina) to fake her own death so as to escape a…
Puckoon (2002)
- Dir. Terence Ryan
Feat. Elliott Gould, John Lynch, Griff Rhys-Jones…
- A flawed but unique adaptation of Spike Milligan's 1963 satirical novel set on the troubled borders of Northern Ireland in the 1920s.
With a plot…