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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 22,134 films · Page 434.

Eating Out: All You Can Eat (2009)

LGBTQ-related film, romantic comedy

After the funeral of Marc and Kyle (who had been giving one another oral sex in the car until Celine Dion's tour bus collided with theirs while going the wrong way), Kyle's mom Helen (Mink Stole) takes in her nephew, geeky but cute Casey (Daniel Skelton), and gives his number to Tiffani von der Sloot (Rebekah Kochan), Kyle's infamous slutty fag hag friend, who hires him at her salon Nail Me. They venture to the local LGBT center so Casey can volunteer for an upcoming event, and Casey meets Zack (Chris Salvatore), a gorgeous frequent visitor. So Tiffani and Casey set up a phony online profile using the image of Tiffani's buff ex, Ryan...

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Good Sam (1948)

Comedy drama, romance film, romantic comedy, Tragicomedy

Sam Clayton is too good for his own good. A sermon by Rev. Daniels persuades him to help others in every way he can, including his wife Lu's good-for-nothing brother, Claude, who's been living with them rent-free for six months, and their neighbors the Butlers, who need a car for a vacation when theirs breaks down.

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Taking Chances (2009)

Comedy

Chase Revere manages Patriotville's history museum, the run-down town's sole tourist attraction. Having inherited a love of history from his late mother, Chase happily devotes most of his free time to maintaining the museum's exhibits, directing reenactments on the site of a Revolutionary War battle, and preparing a proposal to expand the museum. His friend Digs, who has devoted himself to having sex with as many high school girls as possible, is disgusted at this and wants Chase to join him on the dating scene.

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Duck Soup (1927)

Comedy

Laurel and Hardy are destitute characters trying to elude forest rangers who are rounding up vagrants to work as firefighters. Using a stolen bicycle to escape the pursuing rangers, they hide out in an empty mansion while the owner is away and the staff are gone. Exploiting the absence of the owner, who is on vacation, Hardy assumes the role of the proprietor, proffering the property for rent to an English couple.

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The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss (1936)

romantic comedy

thumb|thumbtime=10|The full film In London, rich, idle socialite Ernest Bliss (Cary Grant) feels out of sorts for no discernible reason. He sees a doctor (on the advice of his friend, Lord Honiton), Sir James Aldroyd, who bluntly informs him that he is suffering from too much money, and that he would be cured if he lived for a year on a few pounds per week. Bliss is so insulted that he makes a bet for £50,000 with Sir James that he can survive for a year, supporting himself solely on whatever he earns and not touching his inherited millions.

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Santa Baby 2 (2009)

Christmas film, Comedy, comedy television program, fantasy film, Modern-Day Fantasy

Santa finds himself in the midst of a late-in-life crisis. He has grown tired of the responsibilities of his job and is ready to pass on the reins to his business-minded daughter Mary, who feels torn between the family business and running her own high-stakes firm in New York City, along with balancing a relationship with the love of her life, Luke. The situation gets increasingly dire when Teri, an ambitious new arrival to the North Pole, sows dissension at the workshop in an effort to take over Christmas.

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Waiting For The Light (1990)

Comedy

In the early 1960s Kay (Garr), a single mother, inherits a run-down diner in a small town in Washington State and gladly moves from Chicago to run it, taking her young son and daughter and her mentally unstable Aunt Zena (MacLaine), a former magician and vaudevillian who teaches the children magic tricks. Under her instruction they attempt to take revenge on the curmudgeonly neighbor (Schiavelli) who beat them with a belt for stealing his apples, by faking an apparition of an angry ghost. The trick goes awry and he thinks he has had a vision of an angel.

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The Sky's the Limit (1943)

Dance Film, musical film, romantic comedy

During World War II, Flying Tiger triple ace Lieutenant Fred Atwell and his almost-as-successful comrades, Reginald "Reg" Fenton and Richard "Dick" Merlin, are brought back to the United States for a ticker tape parade and a ten-day "leave." The only trouble is, they are expected to spend all their time on a nationwide morale-boosting tour with other military men. Fred sneaks off the train at a rural stop to seek some fun. He eventually ends up in New York City wearing civilian clothes.

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Kart Racer (2003)

Comedy, Comedy drama, Drama

Watts Davies (Will Rothhaar) is a 14-year-old kid who decides to take up go-kart racing, he finds a new pursuit and begins to reconnect with his father, Vic (Randy Quaid), whom he has been clashing with since the death of his mother. Watts has an intense rivalry with Rodney Wells (Joe Dinicol), his enemy and local bully. Rodney stops at nothing to make Watts look bad; and he and his crew are not above getting Watts arrested.

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Dear Mr. Wonderful (1982)

Comedy drama, Drama

Ruby Dennis is a small-time lounge singer who owns a bowling alley which is in danger of closing as credit is being withdrawn and equipment is being slowly taken away by loan sharks. He attempts to make it big while struggling against the mob and finding romance with Sharon. Dennis lives with his sister, Paula, and her son, Raymond.

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Spinning Boris (2003)

Comedy, Comedy drama, Drama, Tragicomedy

In early 1996, three Republican Party campaign operatives take a secret job to assist Boris Yeltsin's reelection. Once in Moscow, they learn Yeltsin is polling at 6% against the Communist Party of the Russian Federation candidate Gennady Zyuganov with the election only a few months away. They decide to vote on whether to stay.

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The Bet (2016)

Comedy

A loser in life and love, Denton Baker gets into a high stakes bet where he has one summer to find, and hook up with, every girl he had a crush on from 1st to 12th grade. If he succeeds, he can win back the company that his father, Mr. Baker had stolen from him by a former friend, Mr.

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End of the Road (1970)

Comedy, Drama

Jacob Horner, who has just received his graduate degree from Johns Hopkins University, walks straight from his graduation ceremony to a nearby railway platform. His walk is interspersed with images of the social upheaval of the 1960s, including the Kennedy assassinations, the civil rights movement, student protests, and the Vietnam War. At the train station, Jacob goes into a catatonic state, unresponsive to anyone who encounters him.

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Wishin' and Hopin' (2014)

Christmas film, Comedy, Coming-of-age

Fifth-grader Felix Funicello (Ralff), the cousin of famous Mickey Mouse Club Mousekteer and teen idol/movie actress Annette Funicello, lives in the fictional small town of Three Rivers, Connecticut. In 1964, he and his classmates at St. Aloyius Gonzaga Parochial School have a momentous fall semester after lay substitute teacher Madame Frechette (Ringwald) and Zhenya (Cohen), a new student from Russia, arrive.

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The Scorned (2005)

Comedy horror, Slasher

Raina (Schneider) tells her best friend, Nichola, that she and her fiance Matt (Guiney) have been arguing. Nichola — who happens to be living in a room of the couple's beach house — assures her that it's merely "pre-wedding jitters," and voices a recurring line: "Your happily ever after is just around the corner." The two return home, and it's not long before Matt and Raina run into yet another argument, resulting in Matt storming from the house in anger. Later that night, Raina awakens and begins to search the house for Matt.

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