Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Comedy: 5458 Films to Rent
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…
Pumpkin (2002)
- Dir. Adam Larson Broder, Tony R Abrams
Feat. Christina Ricci, Hank Harris, Brenda Blethyn
- Politically–confused blackly comic satire that follows the progress of Christina Ricci's 'inappropriate' romantic fixation with a disabled…
Punch-Drunk Love (2002)
- Dir. Paul Thomas Anderson
Feat. Adam Sandler, Emily Watson, Philip Seymour Hoffman…
- Popular mainstream comic Adam Sandler takes a left turn for the director of MAGNOLIA and BOOGIE NIGHTS in this doggedly off–beat yet beguiling…
Raising Victor Vargas (2002)
- Dir. Peter Sollett
Feat. Victor Rasuk, Judy Marte
- A sensitive, appealing urban coming of age story set in a Hispanic New York subculture that rewardingly favours low–key incident over…
Rat Race (2002)
- Dir. Jerry Zucker
Feat. John Cleese, Whoopi Goldberg, Rowan Atkinson…
- A contemporary re–race of IT’S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD, wealthy John Cleese devising a money–scramble for $2 million among…
Real Cancun, The (2002)
- Dir. Rick de Olieira
Feat. Brittany Brown-Hart
- Purely an 'of the moment' concept, this truncated imitation of a Reality TV show purports to document the carousing of 16 American…