Subgenre Sampler
Comedy: 5547 Films to Buy & Rent
Most Fertile Man in Ireland, The (2000)
- Dir. Dudi Appleton
Feat. Kris Marshall, Kathy Kiera Clarke, Bronagh Gallagher
- Kris Marshall is the Irishman with the high sperm–count, who is recruited by Catholics and Protestants alike to boost their numbers.…
Mrs. Caldicot's Cabbage War (2000)
- Dir. Ian Sharp
Feat. Pauline Collins, Peter Capaldi
- Pauline Collins (SHIRLEY VALENTINE) plays an elderly widow who is shunted into a resthome by her money grubbing offspring, who don’t count on her…
Muse, The (2000)
- Dir. Albert Brooks
Feat. Albert Brooks, Sharon Stone, Andie MacDowell…
- Thoroughly affable comedy from Albert Brooks will not disappoint his fans, with his gift for dialogue and impeccable comic timing atoning for a…
My Family (TV Series) (2000-2006)
- Feat. Zoe Wanamaker, Robert Lindsay
- Sturdy British sitcom with Zoe Wanamaker and Robert Lindsay at the head of middle–class family whose dysfunctions range from the petty…
My Mother Frank (2000)
- Dir. Mark Lamprell
Feat. Sinead Cusack, Sam Neill, Sacha Horler…
- Sober comedy with an 'it's never too late' theme, is nicely done despite some rather convenient plotting.
Mother and widow Sinead Cusack decides…
Next Best Thing, The (2000)
- Dir. John Schlesinger
Feat. Madonna, Rupert Everett
- 'Who will be the father of my child?' comedy, with Madonna tempted to settle for gay housemate Rupert Everett. Diverting and reasonably topical, the…
Nurse Betty (2000)
- Dir. Neil LaBute
Feat. Renee Zellweger, Morgan Freeman, Chris Rock…
- Part fairy–tale comedy, part edgy thriller, this perhaps qualifies as the perfect date movie.
Due to the trauma of witnessing her…
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
- Dir. Joel Coen
Feat. George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson…
- The Coen Brothers' return to their best form with what they neatly describe as the Rolls–Royce of 'hayseed' movies (by which they mean a…
Panic (2000)
- Dir. Henry Bromell
Feat. William H. Macy, Neve Campbell, Tracey Ullman…
- There is more than meets the eye in this curiously pitched black comedy concerning a well–dressed contract killer (Macy) who seeks refuge from…
Price of Milk, The (2000)
- Dir. Harry Sinclair
Feat. Danielle Cormack, Karl Urban, Willa O'Neill…
- For young–marrieds Danielle Cormack and Karl Urban, the cost of farming their 117 cows is a strange exile in the NZ backblocks...
Milking…