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Crime Comedy, Heist
Siblings Tracy and Jay begin their Easter holidays with disappointment as they hear their mother, Carolyn, whom they had expected to pick them up from school, is instead in Hong Kong. Before she left, she made plans that the two children spend the vacation with their grandfather, Los Angeles billionaire J.W. Osborne.
Comedy, Coming-of-age
Megan is a 14-year-old girl who is afraid of trying new things. She hangs out with her confident friend Paige and birthday girl Anna Maria, the latter of whom is going through family troubles involving her divorced parents and soon-to-be step-siblings including Veronica, a goofy and overconfident girl. The four girls decide to have a sleepover at Anna Maria's house to celebrate the day before her birthday, which just so happens to also be the day of her father's wedding, something that irritates her, especially when he insists on taking her hiking.
Animation, Comedy, family film, Family Comedy
On the planet Dorkon, Professor Wally shows Emperor Jon his new invention, the Moscram ray gun, a device powered by the Klopman crystal that can scramble inanimate objects and organisms into new creatures under the user's control, but the Emperor is more concerned about finding a wife to continue the royal line. Soon a warship led by Vetvix lands outside the palace and Emperor Jon instantly falls in love with her, asking if he can marry her. She agrees, sensing an opportunity to steal the Moscram.
Comedy, teen film
Brett Blackmore's pushy parents are excitedly celebrating his acceptance into seven out of eight Ivy League schools (including bragging to their friends, his high school, the local paper) with Harvard being the only one he is wait-listed for. When his friends—Nico, Clint, Les, and Stacy—take him to break into the school to play a benign prank, they accidentally blow up one of the buildings. He is the only one identified from this and, as a result, he loses his college acceptances.
romantic comedy, screwball comedy film
Sam Bissell works in the art department of a San Francisco advertising agency, but feels that his career is going nowhere after working in the same low-level job for six years without a promotion. He lives in a suburban home with his loving wife, Min, and their two young daughters. At the agency, an extremely important client, puritanical dairy tycoon Simon Nurdlinger, demands that an upstanding "family man" represent his advertising account, or else he will take his business elsewhere.
Computeranimation
Marge Simpson drops off Maggie at the Ayn Rand School for Tots, where, after going through a security screening, she is classified as being of "average intelligence", by a machine manufactured by "Often-Wrong Technologies". A guard then carries her past the "Room for Gifted Babies" and puts her in the "Nothing Special" dreary corner. The playtime items are either taken away or eaten by the other babies.
Comedy, Comedy drama, Drama, fantasy film
In 1920s Newport, Rhode Island, Theophilus North is an engaging, multi-talented, middle-class Yale University graduate who spends the summer catering to the wealthy families of the city. He becomes the confidant of James McHenry Bosworth, and a tutor and tennis coach to the families' children. He also befriends many from the city's servant class including Henry Simmons, Amelia Cranston, and Sally Boffin.
Action, Caper-Movie, Comedy, Heist, thriller film
Kevin, Sam, and Rob play a game that they call "Foolproof", in which they create working plans to infiltrate and burgle various targets. They do not actually execute these heists, preferring to simply simulate them using necessary technical and physical abilities to carry out the tasks required. They adhere to some rules, such as using identical equipment and infrastructure as the target and using no firearms of any kind.
Comedy, Drama, Road Movie, thriller film
Comedy, Comedy drama, Drama, musical film
While dancing at the Palais Royale in Akron, Ohio, Bubbles, a cynical blonde chorine, and Judy O'Brien, an aspiring young ballerina, meet Jimmy Harris, the scion of a wealthy family. Both women are attracted to Jimmy, a tormented young man who is still in love with his estranged wife, Elinor. Back in New York, Bubbles finds work in a burlesque club, while Madame Basilova, the girls' teacher and manager, arranges an audition for Judy with ballet impresario Steve Adams.
Comedy
Charismatic, revolutionary Mac Laslow (Ali) and a group of disillusioned college students, came together to form a "World Summit" to counter the apathy of a privileged generation.
Comedy, Daffy Comedy, Silly Movie
In a somewhat frowsy home in Lompoc, Egbert Sousé (soused), a hard-drinking, henpecked family man, has strained relations with his slattern wife and waspish mother-in-law over his drinking, smoking and habit of taking money from the piggy bank of his youngest daughter, Elsie Mae and replacing it with IOUs. Sousé prefers to spend his days reading detective stories and patronizing his favorite saloon, the Black Pussy Cat Café and Snack Bar, run by Joe Guelpe. Sousé is on his way to the saloon when Elsie Mae bounces a ketchup bottle off of his head; Sousé attempts to hit her with a potted palm tree but is interrupted when Myrtle, his eldest…
Comedy, Dark Comedy, Horror, thriller film
In Arkansas in 1999, Mandy is an overworked nurse with a drug addiction. In addition to stealing patient medications, she finances her drug habit by harvesting dead patients' organs. Desk nurse Karen is Mandy's partner, and Mandy has recently brought on her cousin Regina to transport the organs to trafficker Nicholas.
Comedy, Comedy drama, Coming-of-age, Drama
Fifteen-year-old Ellis Whitman (Graham Phillips) is leaving his home in Tucson, Arizona, for his freshman year at Gates Academy, an East Coast prep school. He leaves behind Wendy (Vera Farmiga), his flaky, New Age mother and Goat Man (David Duchovny), a weed-smoking goat trekker and botanist. Goat Man is the only real father Ellis has ever known, since his biological father, Frank (Ty Burrell), left when he was a baby.
Drama, Tragicomedy
Isaac is a middle-aged actor who lives with his girlfriend, Ramona, who is blind and works for a pharmaceutical company that requires her to travel frequently. Isaac leads an acting workshop where he routinely lavishes praise on Alex, his star pupil who is also a working actor, while either denigrating or ignoring Tracy, another one of his students. He is secretly jealous of Alex as his own acting career has devolved into commercial and modeling work for pharmaceutical products.
Comedy
Worst Friends has been described as a dark Indie comedy. The film is set in an unnamed New Jersey suburb and focuses around a number of key characters. The film opens explaining the close but troubled friendship of two young boys.
romantic comedy
Joe MacGonaughgill and Lucy Ackerman are roommates and best friends living in a small Manhattan apartment. Lucy is turning thirty and her love life is embarrassingly dull. Joe, on the other hand, is infatuated with his attractive neighbor Jane.
Comedy, romance film, screwball comedy film
Like the play, the film is divided into three acts, all set in Suite 719 of New York City's Plaza Hotel. The first act focuses on not-so-blissfully wedded couple Sam and Karen Nash, who are revisiting their honeymoon suite in an attempt—by Karen—to bring back the love to their marriage. Her plan backfires, and the two become embroiled in a heated argument about whether Sam is having an affair with his secretary Miss McCormack.
Comedy, Comedy horror, mystery film, romance film, Science fiction
A scientific study known as Life Beyond, launched by Dr. Stevenson in San Francisco, allows people to commit painless suicide with the knowledge that an afterlife does exist. In New York City, two ready-to-die strangers, Rose and Teddy, randomly end up sharing a rental car for a cross-country trip to their respective Life Beyond appointments.
Comedy, romantic comedy
Jean is a timid waiter and bartender at a luxury hotel in Biarritz. Irène is a gold digger who convinces wealthy men to fund her lavish lifestyle in exchange for companionship and sex. When Irène's elderly lover Jacques gets drunk and falls asleep on her birthday, she goes to the hotel bar, where she assumes the barman is absent and Jean is a millionaire guest.
Dark Comedy
buddy film, Crime Comedy
Sam and Eddie are unsuccessful musicians who are unwittingly recruited as professional safe-crackers by a local mobster. Veal Chop finds them in a bar where two famed ones hang out regularly, and incorrectly assumes they are them. Veal Chop coerces Sam and Eddie into supposedly breaking into an older man's home to crack his safe for easy money.
stand-up comedy
In a cold open, DeGeneres walks through the back rooms of the Orpheum Theatre interspersed with video and audio clips of her career in chronological order, with significant coverage of her 2020 bullying accusations. Much of the stand-up is dedicated to her professional life since the 2020 allegations and 2022 end of The Ellen DeGeneres Show, joking that she no longer receives botox treatment and that she had been "kicked out of show business." The song "Golden" by Jill Scott plays over the closing credits.
Comedy, Drama, Western
In 1913, Lena Doyle is the owner of a small tract of land outside Almira, Oklahoma that contains a prominent hill. Lena believes the hill is a dome above a large pool of oil and runs a "wild cat" drilling operation, but her derrick has yet to yield anything. Her only employee is Jimmy, a young Native American.