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Meet Joel Goodsen, Industrious, college-bound 17-year-old. Responsible, trustworthy son. But he's been good for too long. Joel's parents are away and he's in charge of the house. They trust him. Maybe they shouldn't.
Bryan Cranston and James Franco star in this comedy directed and co-written by John Hamburg. Overprotective father Ned (Cranston) has always had a special relationship with his daughter Stephanie (Zoey Deutch) so when she invites him, along with her mother Barb (Megan Mullally) and brother Scotty (Griffin Gluck), to spend Christmas with her and her millionaire boyfriend Laird (Franco), he reluctantly agrees, for the sake of his daughter's happiness. However, when Laird reveals his plan to propose to Stephanie and asks for Ned's blessing, the caring father vows to do everything in his power to prevent his little girl from agreeing to spend her life with the moronic mogul. With Laird determined to convince his future father-in-law to accept him however, he devises a plan to get Barb and Scotty on his side.
British comedy starring Dakota Blue Richards, Christian McKay and Miles Jupp. When a group of men face the daunting prospect of finding a new local pub after theirs is threatened with closure, they pool together to figure out a way to raise enough cash to save the pub. When they decide to write a novel based on the popular 'mummy porn' genre, they contact a publisher (Eileen Atkins), pretending to be the author's agents, who agrees to publish the book on the condition that the author commit herself to a book tour. Desperate for the deal to go through, David (McKay) asks his sister-in-law Zoe (Richards) to pretend to be the author of their prospective best-seller for the sake of the press. All goes to plan until a studio buys the film rights and asks Zoe to play the lead...
British comedy co-written and co-directed by Lee and Wayne Lennox. The film follows stoner Jack (Jonathan Readwin) as he travels to Amsterdam in search of his father Mick (Sean Power). With little information to go on, he finds him running a struggling coffee shop which is losing all of its business to the rival across the street. But Jack thinks he may have found a way to improve his fortunes when a mysterious homeless man presents him with a magic seed that turns into a gigantic marijuana plant...
Jon Lucas and Scott Moore co-write and direct this American comedy starring Mila Kunis, Christina Applegate and Kristen Bell. Amy Mitchell (Kunis) is a 32-year-old, happily married, committed mother-of-two who works as a sales rep for a coffee company. But after finding out her husband is cheating on her, Amy becomes fed up with her stressful life and decides to take action. She quits the PTA in protest of its overbearing leader Gwendolyn (Applegate) and gets together with some of her fellow mothers for a wild and liberating night on the town. Along with town outcast and single mum Carla (Kathryn Hahn) and worn out mother-of-four Kiki (Bell), Amy hits the bars for an all-night bender that allows the trio to let loose in a wild, indulgent trip of liberation before deciding to make some important changes to their lives, including tackling Gwendolyn head-on.
Comedy drama directed by Chad Hartigan and starring Craig Robinson, Markees Christmas and Carla Juri. American father Curtis Gentry (Robinson) and his 13-year-old son Morris (Christmas) live together in Heidelberg, Germany. Curtis works as a football coach and Morris attends school, but neither have adapted terribly well yet to their new surroundings. Morris struggles with the language barrier as well as the ordinary tumult of school years, which is all the worse for being in an unfamiliar setting. Morris does, however, meet a girl called Katrin (Lina Keller), with whom he becomes infatuated and who encourages him to work at his dream of becoming a successful rap musician.
All six episodes from the second series of the BBC comedy, starring Jasper Carrot and Robert Powell as the bumbling duo, promoted well beyond their crime fighting talents. In this series, the inept cops are kidnapped by local gangsters, and when they're given firearms to protect them on a dangerous case, they end up spending more time playing with the guns like toys. Episodes are: 'Collared;' 'Witness;' 'Never Without Protection'; 'Dutch Cops' and 'Sparring Partners'.
Smokey and the Bandit (1977)
Smokey and the Bandit II (1980)
Smokey and the Bandit III (1983)
Bobby Bowfinger (Steve Martin) is Hollywood's least successful director. He figures that the only way to boost his flagging reputation is to make a film with megastar Kit Ramsey (Eddie Murphy). However, the only way to get Kit into the movie is to film him surreptitiously, while actors approach him and say their lines. Bowfinger also stumbles upon Kit's movie buff brother Jeff (Murphy again), whom he convinces to impersonate his befuddled brother. Frank Oz directs from Steve Martin's original script.
British comedy starring Leslie Phillips. Simon Hurd (Phillips) takes it upon himself to raise the necessary finances to keep the local youth club open. But he uses a peculiar technique to do so - he attends funerals and blackmails mourners into giving him money by threatening to reveal unfortunate stories about them to the press. However, he may regret his pitches after potentially meeting his match...
Collection of British comedies from the 1930s. Lupino Lane directs 'Letting in the Sunshine' (1933) in which Albert Burdon stars as Nobby Green, a window cleaner. When he bumps into his old flame Jane (Renee Gadd) they conspire to outwit a band of jewel thieves. In 'Lucky to Me' (1939), directed by Thomas Bentley, Potty (Stanley Lupino), a clerk at a legal firm, marries secretary Minnie (Barbara Blair) in secret. To keep their marriage hidden from their colleagues the pair plan a one-night honeymoon. However, even this comes under threat when Potty's boss orders him to go on a business trip!
The British Royal Family is dispatched en masse after being electrocuted during a family portrait. A search for a successor turns up Ralph Jones (John Goodman), a Las Vegas lounge singer, as the unlikely next-in-line. Before long, Buckingham Palace resembles a funfair and Lord Graves (John Hurt) is plotting King Ralph's demise.
Jack Black and James Marsden star in this comedy written and directed by Andrew Mogel and Jarrad Paul. Dan Landsman (Black) hasn't achieved much in his adult life and so when his annual high school reunion comes around once again he, as head of the reunion committee, tries to prove himself by getting more people than ever before to attend. As he receives more and more negative responses he begins to think the whole idea of a reunion is stupid, until he sees a television commercial starring his former classmate Oliver Lawless (Marsden). As he hatches a plan to get Oliver to the reunion in the hope that everyone else will attend with the promise of a celebrity, Dan travels to LA to convince Oliver to go along with his master plan.
Roger Corman directs this post-apocalyptic sci-fi comedy. Following an accidental military gas leak everyone over the age of 25 is wiped from the Earth. The story follows the surreal adventures of hippie Coel (Robert Corff) and his new girlfriend Cilla (Elaine Giftos) who meet various colourful characters who have also survived the deadly gas leak. They travel to a commune where some remaining survivors have grouped together to try to start a fresh human civilisation in the wake of the devastation.
Baby Bink is out on the town for the day, visiting wondrous places and seeing fantastic sights. The only problem is, he is travelling alone! Frantically hunted by his mother and turned into a celebrity by the media, Baby Bink stays one step ahead of a trio of bumbling con artists eager to collect the reward money being offered by his wealthy parents. Cool, calm, collected and totally unaware of the havoc he wreaks, Baby Bink's daytrip is a hilarious mix of comedy and ground-breaking special effects.
Bobby Bowfinger (Steve Martin) is Hollywood's least successful director. He figures that the only way to boost his flagging reputation is to make a film with megastar Kit Ramsey (Eddie Murphy). However, the only way to get Kit into the movie is to film him surreptitiously, while actors approach him and say their lines. Bowfinger also stumbles upon Kit's movie buff brother Jeff (Murphy again), whom he convinces to impersonate his befuddled brother. Frank Oz directs from Steve Martin's original script.
DJ Adrian Cronauer (an Oscar-nominated Robin Williams) causes uproar when he arrives in war-torn 1965 Saigon to take over the early morning radio show. His irreverent humour soon offends the top brass, in the form of Lt. Steven Hauk (Bruno Kirby), but Cronauer becomes a hit with the GIs. Meanwhile, Cronauer shows a more sober side to his character in his romance with Trinh, a local Vietnamese woman (Chintara Sukapatana).
Eleven-year-old Timmy (Macaulay Culkin) is about to be reunited with his ex-con father (Ted Danson), who he has not seen for years. Unfortunately he arrives to witness dad, now a pastry chef, preparing for one last heist to set him up for life. However, once the theft has taken place, Timmy hides the booty, and blackmails his father into spoiling him rotten in return for telling him the loot's whereabouts.
All six episodes from the first series of the ribald comedy written by and starring 'Bo'Selecta!' comedian Leigh Francis. The Bear (Francis) has been adopted into the Hennerson family, where mum Helen (Patsy Kensit), dad Richard (Sean Pertwee) and teenager Lillian (Yasmin Kerr) have a hard time adjusting to his risque antics. Also featured is their transvestite neighbour, Dave Ian McCall (Davina McCall). Episodes are: 'The Good, the Bear, and the Ugly'; 'Adventures in Bearbysitting'; 'The Son of Bear-elzebub'; 'Meet the Bearents'; 'Blame it on the Bearboy'; and 'Two Weddings, a Bear and No Funeral'.
When an unannounced, uninvited and unwelcome family of fun-loving misfits converge upon a lakeside resort to join their relatives for a summer of relaxation, the result is anything but restful in this raucous comedy starring Dan Aykroyd and John Candy. It's a vacationers worst nightmare, as wheeler-dealer Aykroyd, his sexually repressed wife and eerie twin daughters" join" the easygoing Candy and his straight-laced clan for a season of "fun" in die sun. Unfortunately, die only thing tliese two in-laws have in common is their intense dislike for each other. Soon, it's brother-in-law against brother-in-law in an uproarious and hilarious fight to the finish to see which one really knows how to enjoy The Great Outdoors. |
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