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Christmas film, Comedy, fantasy film
King Nicholas XX has been Santa Claus for 100 years and is now preparing to hand over the baton to his, and the Queen's son, Nick St. Nicholas. Nick is living the high life in Miami and is slightly reluctant to become Santa Claus.
Comedy drama
teen film
Following in his deceased father's footsteps, Grover Dunn finds a magic formula that makes him vanish. The formula causes all types of trouble for Grover and his mother and the love of his life when his high school principal rigs a basketball game; and he enlists the aid of a put-down cop to investigate.
boxing film, Drama, sport film, teen film
In a typical English working-class town, the juveniles have nothing more to do than hang around in gangs. Alan Darcy, a highly motivated man with the same kind of youth experience, tries to get the young people off the street and into doing something they can believe in, boxing. He opens a training facility which is accepted gratefully by them and the gangs merge together into a group of friends.
Comedy, Tragicomedy
A naïve country boy named Benny Miller, from Cucamonga, California, has been taking correspondence phonograph lessons in salesmanship. Upon completion of the course, he leaves his mother and his girlfriend Martha to pursue a career in Los Angeles. He arranges a meeting with his Uncle Clarence, a bookkeeper with the Hercules Vacuum Cleaner Company.
Comedy, war film
On June 1, 1942, after fourteen years working in a bank, mild-mannered 44-year-old Wilbert G. Winkle suddenly quits his boring bank job to follow his dream, to open a repair shop. Everyone is shocked, particularly his status-conscious wife Amy, who demands he choose between her and his new career.
zombie comedy
The film follows a zombie rapist as he returns from the dead to cannibalize and assault the living.
Comedy
Chuck Donovan is a not so successful agent in New York who is hired by some television producers for a special job. He is to find the real identity of the woman who modeled for commercial sketch artist Bob Randolph as he created the famous "Randolph Girl". No one besides Randolph, not even the artist's secretary, Miss Brooks, has ever met the woman.
Action, Comedy, thriller film
Comedy, Drama
Pete Cozy (Eric Mabius) lives in a house in the suburbs with a job in the pricing department of a middling supermarket chain. Pete's job allows him to spend quality time with his wife (Annie Parisse) and young son and, despite the family drowning in debt, they appear happy. Everything changes when Pete gets a new boss, the beautiful, high-powered, fast talking Susan Felders (Parker Posey).
Comedy
Jackie is trying to circulate a petition among his classmates to keep school open during the summer, as he and the gang are afraid that they might lose Miss Crabtree during summer vacation. In addition, the kids fear she might get married and therefore no longer be able to teach them. The gang has grown to like Miss Crabtree tremendously, and ride with her in her roadster to school every morning.
Drama, mystery film
Against the backdrop of a child abduction case the film follows five days in the life of a variety of people living in Los Angeles. Kate is a lawyer arguing in a custody battle on behalf of Drew, who cares for her completely disabled brother. He was an accomplished marathoner.
Comedy, romance film, romantic comedy
An international arms dealer, at a NATO meeting to sell weaponry, becomes entangled with a female journalist from The Washington Post whose worldview is very different from his.
Parody
The plot follows the quest of Art Chew (Michael Chow) to retrieve the ancient peach. The movie starts with Art Chew traveling to America, after briefly showing Art's training at the Shur-li temple, showing many kung-fu clichés such as grabbing the pebble from the master's hand (at which Art succeeds without effort), fighting on trees (in this case small potted palms) and "listing" for elements (Earth, Wind & Fire play a funky tune). After the montage is shown, Art meets up with his cousin Wayman (Darryl Fong), a Chinese adult who tries to act American so he isn't embarrassed by stereotypes, and foster cousin Roy Lee (Colman Domingo), an…
Comedy
The Stooges are all-night plumbers, hired to retrieve a valuable ring that fell down a drain at the opulent Norfleet mansion. Mr. Norfleet is hosting an elegant party and hopes that the plumbers won't disturb his guests.
Comedy, Drama
A police officer finds a baby in a trash can, and Mrs. Lippett, the cruel matron at an orphanage where children are made to work, names her "Jerusha Abbott" (she picks "Abbott" out of a phone book and gets "Jerusha" from a tombstone). The orphan, who comes to be called Judy, does what she can to stand up for the younger children, frequently clashing with both Mrs.
romantic comedy
Ira Black is a 33-year-old psychology Ph.D. candidate with therapist parents. He has been in an on-and-off relationship with Lea for the past nine years and is unsatisfied with their relationship on many levels.
Comedy drama, musical film, Western
thumb|thumbtime=20|Montana Moon (1930) Joan Prescott is a vacuous and flirtatious daughter of the wealthy Montana rancher, John Prescott. On the train, Joan's sister, Elizabeth tells her she's in love with Jeff. Jeff is more smitten with Joan, and kisses her.
Comedy
The film follows the fortunes of washed-up punk rocker Johnny Jones (Phil Daniels) and his attempts to make a comeback into the British music charts. After a drunken session with his old bandmates, Johnny records what he feels could be a hit. However, faced with record company executives who no longer see him or his music as relevant, he hires a group of fresh-faced youngsters to film a video in which they mime to his music.
Melodrama
When Sarah Hopson (Valerie Edmond) discovers she has brain-stem carcinomas (a brain tumour), she leaves her successful high-rise lifestyle in New York City, returning to her hometown in the Scottish Borders, as she has little time left to live. That is where Sarah left her widowed father Frank (James Cosmo) and her childhood sweetheart Sam (Gerard Butler) to pursue a career in the United States seven years ago. Her father's house is right behind the sea wall and the beach in Berwick, a border town between Scotland and England.
Comedy
The film begins with the strains of "Why Can't I Touch It" by Buzzcocks as the camera pans across a rural landscape to the face of a beautiful teenage girl (Susanne Ashley) who is atop a hill surveying the road below. An open-ended truck rolls into view bearing a young man lying on a pile of turnips. This is Pondo Sinatra (Matthew Causey), the star of the story, a 22-year-old virgin burdened with raging hormones, no sex appeal or social skills.
Comedy
Jimmy Daley and his bandmates, Mike and Ox, land a performing date at Lake Tahoe, California. His father, a doctor, gives his approval, although he is concerned about Jimmy neglecting his education for music. Joan Wright, his girlfriend, is sorry to see Jimmy leave, but he gives her a bus ticket and invites her to come visit.
Comedy
Three men track down a pack of dobermans and, along with a young Native American boy, train the dogs to rob the campaign funds of a politician.
Comedy drama
The film starts with John, a teenager living in Manchester, learning that his father (who he barely knew) has died in a scooter accident. Deciding as a tribute he will take his father's ashes to Brighton, he embarks on a road trip from his home in Manchester, riding his father's prized Lambretta. On the way, he stays with a friend of his Dad's, and meets his daughter Nicki (Sacha Parkinson), a feisty contrast to his rather understated character, who decides to accompany him on the trip, keen to get to a Paul Weller concert in Brighton.