Funny People
Release Date: 11/24/2009
Judd Apatow casts his former real-life roommate Adam Sandler as George Simmons, a comic superstar who learns in the movie's opening scene that he suffers from a rare blood disorder that will likely kill him within a year. This news gives him the impulse to go back out and work on his standup, something he hasn't done in years thanks to the massive success of his movie career. At a club, he meets struggling standup Ira Wright (Seth Rogen), takes a shine to him, and hires the young man both to write jo ...
Actor(s): Adam Sandler, Seth Rogen, Leslie Mann
Director(s): Judd Apatow
MPAA Rating: NR
Genres: Comedy Drama, Feature
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Adventureland
Release Date: 08/25/2009
Inspired by writer/director Greg Mottola's own true-life job-from-hell experience, Adventureland stars The Education of Charlie Banks' Jesse Eisenberg as an uptight recent college graduate who discovers that he'll have to get a degrading minimum-wage job at a local amusement park instead of spending his summer drinking German beer, visiting world-class museums, and flirting with cute French girls. It's the summer of 1987, and James Brennan (Eisenberg) has just graduated college. James is all set to e ...
Actor(s): Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, Martin Starr
Director(s): Greg Mottola
MPAA Rating: R
Genres: Comedy Drama, Feature
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Sunshine Cleaning
Release Date: 08/25/2009
A thirtysomething single mother whose boundless potential was squandered through a series of failed relationships and a misguided effort to help her younger sister succeed in life finds the fruits of her labors finally coming together in director Christine Jeffs' dark family comedy. Back in high school, the future looked pretty bright for Rose Lorkowski (Amy Adams); not only was she the cheerleading captain, but she was also dating the star quarterback. Flash forward a little over a decade, and Rose ...
Actor(s): Amy Adams, Emily Blunt, Alan Arkin
Director(s): Christine Jeffs
MPAA Rating: R
Genres: Comedy Drama, Feature
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Tyler Perry's Madea Goes to Jail
Release Date: 06/16/2009
Tyler Perry transitions another one of his hit plays to the big screen with this adaptation of Madea Goes to Jail. The successful filmmaker stars once again as the mischief-prone older woman whose exploits this time lead her to jail, where she befriends and reforms a prostitute named Candy (The Cosby Show's Keshia Knight Pulliam). ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide ...
Actor(s): Tyler Perry, Keshia Knight Pulliam, Derek Luke
Director(s): Tyler Perry
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Genres: Comedy Drama, Feature
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Smother
Release Date: 05/05/2009
When an everyday thirtysomething is fired from his job, his unemployment woes are soon compounded as the ticking of his wife's maternal clock reaches a deafening pitch, and his overbearing mother announces plans to move in with the struggling couple. Dax Shepard, Liv Tyler, and Diane Keaton star in a film directed by Vince Di Meglio, co-scripted by Di Meglio and Tim Rasmussen, and produced by Rasmussen, Bill Johnson, and Jay Roach. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide ...
Actor(s): Diane Keaton, Dax Shepard, Liv Tyler
Director(s): Vince Di Meglio
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Genres: Comedy Drama, Feature
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Lie to Me
Release Date: 03/24/2009
Director/co-screenwriter John Stuart Muller throws melodrama to the wind with this lively comedy concerning the quirks of modern romance, and the complications that come when an outwardly loving couple realizes that there's more to life than monogamy can offer them. Appearances would suggest that published novelist Mason (Steve Sandvoss) and twenty-something fashion designer Samantha (Courtney Ford) are the perfect couple, but a closer look at the state of their relationship reveals that there may be ...
Actor(s): Brandon Routh, Steve Sandvoss, Courtney Ford
Director(s): John Stewart Muller
MPAA Rating: G
Genres: Comedy Drama, Feature
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True Confessions of a Hollywood Starlet
Release Date: 03/03/2009
A teen movie star attempts to overcome her addition to alcohol and salvage what's left of her career after passing out on the red carpet at her big Hollywood premiere and being sent to recover with her upbeat aunt in Indiana. Morgan Carter (Jo Jo) is only seventeen years old, but she's already on top of the world. But so much fame so early in life can yield unpredictable consequences, and when Morgan is sent to the hospital with alcohol poisoning, it's clear that she isn't ready to deal with the pres ...
Actor(s): Joanna 'Jojo' Levesque, Valerie Bertinelli, Ian Nelson
Director(s): Barbara Lieberman
MPAA Rating:
Genres: Comedy Drama, Feature
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The Village Barbershop
Release Date: 03/03/2009
Hair is the only thing two people have in common before they come into each other's lives in this independent comedy-drama. For thirty years, Arthur Leroldi (John Ratzenberger) has operated a barbershop with his business partner Enzo. Arthur is a fine barber, but Enzo is the member of the team with the business sense and a talent for charming people, so when Enzo suddenly dies, Arthur soon finds himself flirting with bankruptcy. As Arthur scrambles to pay his bills, his landlord Jacobi (Amos Glick) w ...
Actor(s): John Ratzenberger, Shelly Cole, Cindy Pickett
Director(s): Chris Ford
MPAA Rating:
Genres: Comedy Drama, Feature
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Henry Poole Is Here
Release Date: 01/20/2009
Given a grim diagnosis during a routine doctor's checkup, a man who once had it all finds his attempt to disappear into a working-class suburb and spend his remaining days subsisting on vodka and junk food hopelessly disrupted when he falls for the beautiful divorcTe next door and a busybody neighbor notices a miraculous stain on his stucco wall. Henry Poole (Luke Wilson) had a comfortable life and a beautiful fiancTe. But just when it seemed that the future couldn't look any brighter for Henry, a vi ...
Actor(s): Luke Wilson, Radha Mitchell, Adriana Barraza
Director(s): Mark Pellington
MPAA Rating: PG
Genres: Comedy Drama, Feature
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The Women
Release Date: 12/19/2008
Veteran producer/director Diane English (The Lathe of Heaven, Murphy Brown) helms this contemporized remake of George Cukor's beloved proto-feminist comedy drama The Women (1939), an adaptation of Clare Boothe Luce's play. The English version follows the gossip, bitchy wisecracking, and overall disillusionment that erupt among a group of socialite friends when their dearest and most envied learns of her husband's marital infidelity at the hands of a backstabbing shopgirl. The all-female cast is front ...
Actor(s): Meg Ryan, Annette Bening, Eva Mendes
Director(s): Diane English
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Genres: Comedy Drama, Feature
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