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Comedy, Comedy horror, Horror
When Max Taylor wins the ancestral home of Callum Chance in a game of poker, little does he realize that the game is far from over. Max Taylor chooses to ignore Chance's ominous warning and moves into the house within days. After moving into the ancestral home with his family, the nightmare begins after Max spins a wheel of chance, (a wheel with four parts, two saying win, and two saying lose).
The Tampico Stogies are a last-place baseball team based in Tampico, Florida. The team competes in the lowest-level (Class D) professional Gulf Coast league during the summer of 1957. The team is unaffiliated with a major league franchise; so, it must sign and pay all of its own players without any financial support outside of the team's owners.
Comedy
Comedy, Science fiction, science fiction comedy
After years of pursuing an unsuccessful jazz career, Mark Deveraux took several jobs writing TV show themes and commercial jingles to earn a living; while successful in acquiring steady work, he wishes to write meaningful music. After winning out over several more experienced composers to score a science fiction film, he spends a weekend in a cabin trying to develop a song that sounds like a "universal greeting" based on the producer's instruction. After composing something he believes is worthwhile, he calls his girlfriend, the producer for an internationally syndicated talk radio show, who accidentally broadcasts the song.
Computeranimation
A cat named Lorenzo lounges on a cushion. A black cat passes by, and Lorenzo can't help but express his glee that the stray is missing her tail. Lorenzo flaunts his own luxurious backside accessory and goads the cat with expansive displays of tailery.
Comedy
Scout Bozell has always dreamed of becoming a member of the safety patrol at his school, Rockridge Middle School. However, his clumsy, bumbling, hazardous nature prevents him from doing so. In one such instance shown at the film's beginning, while he picks up a banana peel on the ground and describing how hazardous it is, a kid trips over his backpack, causing his marbles to roll out and the kids to slip on them, one girl sending her lunchbox flying and it hits the principal on the head.
romance film, romantic comedy, Tragicomedy
Tommy Turner is an English teacher at football-crazed Midwestern University. Although he is uninvolved with the politics of the day, Tommy suddenly finds himself the center of a free-speech debate on campus. An editorial in a student magazine praises him for planning to read Bartolomeo Vanzetti's sentencing statement to his class as an example of eloquent composition, even in broken English composed by a non-professional.
Comedy, musical film, romantic comedy
The film is essentially a two-part program. The first half consists of a romantic comedy storyline involving an aerialist, played by Gene Kelly, who is drafted into the US Army but really wants to join the Air Force. During training, he falls in love with Kathryn (played by Kathryn Grayson), the daughter of his commanding officer, who has similarly put her singing career on hold in order to serve by providing entertainment for the troops.
LGBTQ-related film
The film's plot combines several elements from these original films. Starrbooty (RuPaul) is in the middle of a major karate fight when she receives a phone call informing her that her adopted niece Cornisha has been kidnapped. With the help of fellow crime fighter Agent Page Turner, Starrbooty learns that her nemesis Annaka Manners is using her billion-dollar cosmetics company as a front for kidnapping prostitutes and selling their organs on the black market.
Drama, Tragicomedy
Set in Manhattan in the early 1940s, the film focuses on the relationship between Joseph Mitchell, a writer for The New Yorker, and Joe Gould, an aging, bearded, disheveled bohemian and Harvard University graduate who wanders through the streets of Greenwich Village carrying a tattered portfolio and demanding donations to "The Joe Gould Fund." At times Gould is calmly sweet and perceptive, at others he's a pathological liar and an obnoxious drunk, and he frequently experiences sudden outbursts of rage. Earning occasional financial support from poet e.e. cummings, portrait painter Alice Neel, Village Vanguard founder Max Gordon, and art…
comedy thriller, Crime, romantic comedy
A voice over says, "No, that's not right." The scenario is repeated with adjustments until the voice is eventually satisfied. The screen fades to Cathy Palmer sitting at a typewriter, finishing up the story. She seals it in an envelope and sends it off.
Comedy, fantasy film
The Stooges find themselves embroiled in an unexpected journey through time when they assist their neighbor, Schuyler Davis, in constructing a time machine. Transported to Ithaca in ancient Greece during the reign of King Odius, the Stooges and their companions become entangled in a series of misadventures. Initially mistaken for gods due to their arrival coinciding with the imprisonment of Ulysses, they must navigate the amorous advances of the lecherous king while attempting to rectify the historical disruption they have caused.
Comedy horror
Angel Martin has just made the deal of a lifetime. Fame, fortune and beautiful women will all be his - for a price. To become a rock star Martin must give his soul, and to survive he must feed on the souls of others.
Comedy, Drama, Heist
The film follows the story of two women living in London, Shannon and Frances, attempting to con a group of gangsters, led by Kerrigan and Mason, into giving them £1,000,000 after they overhear a conversation between gang members during a local bank heist. The idea is that the money will later be used to purchase a large amount of expensive medical equipment for the hospital where Shannon works as an overworked and underpaid nurse. Frances, a failing American actress who has resorted to doing voice acting for children's cartoons, wants the money so that she can get out of the rut she believes she is stuck in, and also because she wants a…
Comedy
After returning from a holiday at Hope Cove in the West Country, Dennis Carter (Adrian Edmondson) attempts to impress a girl by claiming he is involved in drug smuggling. Although the girl is unimpressed, his remarks are overheard by the police. Dennis is arrested for questioning and pressured into becoming a supergrass, with the promise of leniency in exchange for information.
Comedy
On Stephanie's wedding day, her mother tells her that it is an auspicious day as a solar eclipse will occur. Among those who will attend are: Precy, a single, middle-aged, and feisty lawyer who is the godmother. Medelyn, an overworked nanny preparing her bratty ward Inaki, who will be a ring-bearer, and Bien, the sickly grandfather of the groom Harold, who is paying for the wedding.
Comedy
A famous comedian perishes in a plane crash. Members of his management team, worried that they will be jobless, decide to find someone to take his place as their "meal ticket". Stanley Belt is a bellboy at their hotel and they decide he will become their next star.
Comedy drama, Drama, Tragicomedy
Paul Giamatti is an actor who becomes so impassioned with the characters and roles that he plays that he has trouble disassociating himself from the character after the scene is done. As a result, his mind and spirit are a tangled mass of emotions that he seems to have trouble separating from his own feelings. As he struggles to play Uncle Vanya, he reads an article in The New Yorker regarding "Soul Storage," a procedural clinic that physically removes one's soul from his body.
Drama, Tragicomedy
Ukrainian single mother Olive Younger test drives a Cadillac with her son Bobby, calling each other Bonnie and Clyde. While the car salesman Aaron Kessler gets paperwork, Olive drives away to Walt's service garage in Guthrie, Oklahoma. He offers $2,000, but she keeps it.
Comedy, Comedy horror, zombie comedy
Ed Chilton inherits his family's hardware store following the death of his beloved mother, Mabel. He lives with his maternal uncle, Benny, who appears to be happy that his annoying sister is out of his life. One morning, Ed is approached at work by salesman A.
Comedy, musical film
Lily Mars is a 19-year-old girl from small town Indiana, who aspires to become an actress on Broadway. She visits her next-door neighbor Mrs. Mimi Thornway hoping her son John, who is a Broadway producer, will give her a part in his latest touring production.
Comedy, Comedy drama, LGBTQ-related film, romance film, romantic comedy
Paige, an environmental lawyer, and Sasha, a struggling musician working as a receptionist, are long-time best friends in their late 20s. Paige supports her lesbian friend in her LBGTQ rallies and they regularly watch TV shows together. After forcing themselves to try online dating one night, they go on separate dates.
Comedy
Comedy, war film
Spanky (George McFarland), Alfalfa (Carl Switzer), Buckwheat (Billie Thomas) and others form an army called "The Royal Protection of Women and Children Regiment Club of the World and Mississippi River". The group sees unexpected action when Union troops approach, engaging in battles more farcical than fierce. Using clowning tactics instead of military tactics, the kids stop the advance .