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Comedy
Claire (Tatiana Maslany) is a rebellious Toronto teen forced to repeat her senior year of high school due to her dysfunctional attitude towards academics, picks fights with other girls and indulges in sexual promiscuity with student Henry (Spencer Van Wyck) and a much older indie rocker Jim (Steven McCarthy) and pathologically slacks off on her job at a bingo hall serving senior citizens.
Comedy, Drama, Melodrama
After a nervous breakdown, Dr. Alec Considine comes back to New North Hospital for another year of internship. He develops an immediate attraction for a student nurse, Laura Rogers, but she's not so inclined unless he's got marriage in mind.
Comedy
Steve Blair, always on the lookout for a new money-making scheme, spots a stripper acquaintance, Cha Cha Miller, at a Greek restaurant in New York, and overhears her gangster boyfriend Tony Dallas opine that somebody should make a wholesome movie about Adam and Eve. Steve quickly enlists his best friend Paul Ferris to write the script, and together, they talk Tony into putting up the $2 million needed to make the film. Tony, backed up by four identically dressed thugs, insists on one condition: Cha Cha has to be cast as Eve.
Comedy drama
The film stars Maury Chaykin as Desmond Howl, a former rock star who has lived in seclusion in a seaside mansion since the death of his brother Danny (Paul Gross) in a car accident. Howl spends his time composing a symphonic masterpiece for the whales who congregate in the ocean near his property. His reason for this is revealed in the title of one of his songs, "Have You Seen My Brother?" — Danny died by losing control of his car and driving off a cliff into the ocean.
romantic comedy
When Ivana loses her phone at a coffee shop, Ricardo finds it and calls her home phone. They decide to meet at the coffee shop the next morning, and she is surprised by how short he is. As a cardiologist, he sees that she is stressed and takes her sky-diving.
romantic comedy
Joey Coalter, a man who dislikes stable work environments, has been away for too many years when he finds out that his wife Christine Boykin Coalter had divorced him and is planning to remarry. He comes home to confront her, trying to persuade her not to get married, aided by their daughter Beth, who loves him despite his wandering ways. The couple finds out they still have feelings for each other but must decide how best to handle the contradiction of their lifestyles.
Comedy
Tan Chun Huang, a Bak kut teh stall owner, often leaves the stall to his sister Huimin to meet his bookie friends, 4D King and 4D Liang. Huimin disapproves of his gambling habits and neglect toward the soup's quality. Meanwhile, Lee Yong Shun loses his job, and his assistant Richard Huang's proposal is rejected.
Comedy horror
Maggie (Liane Curtis) is a shy woman that isn't very good with men. This changes after she is possessed by Satan, who uses Maggie's body to seduce the souls out of men. Enter Chaser (Dana Ashbrook) a bounty hunter seeking redemption by pursuing Satan and working off his sins for a shot at escaping purgatory.
Tragicomedy
left|thumb|The full film. Remember "Mem" Steddon marries Owen Scudder after a whirlwind courtship. However, on their wedding night, she has a change of heart.
Comedy
A beautiful, sophisticated New York woman who goes by the name Dunreath Henry (Eva Marie Saint) seems to have it all. She is not only the private secretary to the wealthy and popular cartoonist Larry Larkin (George Sanders), she is also his fiancée. But back in Port Huron, Michigan when she was a girl, she was plain old Ethel Jankowski.
Comedy
Amidst the economic turmoil of the Great Depression, the Stooges, facing dire unemployment, embark on a desperate quest for livelihood. Their initial plan is to undertake menial labor by borrowing a merchant's brooms to sweep his sidewalk, but this unexpectedly angers the merchant who thinks they are stealing the brooms. He calls for police and the trio find themselves pursued by a law enforcement officer.
Comedy drama, Drama
Five New Yorkers come to terms with the bitter-sweet reality of life in this collection of intertwined stories. Single dad Sam (Eric Schaeffer) struggles to raise his son; elderly Herb (Alan King) honors a deceased friend with a perilous act; musician Jody (Jill Sobule) worries what heartache will do to her pacemaker; free-spirited Malissa (Elizabeth Reaser) cares for her sick mother; and John (Charles Parnell) reels from his failed marriage.
Comedy
Three graduating students drop their degree certificates, but each picks up the wrong ones off the floor. Keaton plays a botany student who, accidentally, picked up an electrical engineering degree and is invited to wire a home using many gadgets. The man who actually was the electrical engineer graduate exacts revenge by rewiring those gadgets to cause mayhem.
Comedy, Horror, thriller film
Comedy drama, Coming-of-age
Rosalind McCarthy is a spoiled 16-year-old who returns home to New York City from boarding school for the holidays. She confides to a friend, Andy, that she might be pregnant. They seek out the advice of Dr.
Comedy, Satire On War
Lieutenant Humphrey Fairweather, a well-meaning but accident-prone naval officer with a passion for rockets, is posted where he can (so the navy hopes) cause no further damage. He is given command of a mothballed Royal Navy vessel, HMS Berkeley, which has had no commanding officer for several years. She is moored at a wharf on the Suffolk coast near the (fictional) village of Meadows End.
Comedy, Drama, romance film, romantic comedy
The film opens with a voice-over by Don, who states that in life and relationships, "anything can happen." Ann works at a camera shop in a small town in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. One day, she gets dumped by her boyfriend who is in Prague by phone. She makes a halfhearted suicide attempt by drinking a bottle of nail polish remover.
Comedy drama
The plot is set in 1935, during the Depression. Max Brown (Bud Cort) is an urban east-province Canadian fresh from college who travels to Western Canada to accept a teaching position at a one-room rural schoolhouse in the fictional settlement of Willowgreen, Saskatchewan, because there are no other jobs available. He decides to live in the school's basement, having to adapt to teaching in the Depression-era rural setting, especially given the bleakness of the settlement.
Comedy
A married couple, Bob and Jane MacAvoy, and their son, Stevie (Harvey Grant), sell everything and move out to California to buy and start up a newspaper company, the Eden Archive. To the surprise of the MacAvoys, the Eden Archive is a bit worse for wear. A pregnant Jane MacAvoy begins to go into labor and gives birth in the upstairs of the Eden Archive to the couple's second child: a daughter.
Comedy drama, Dance Film, musical film, romance film, romantic comedy, teen film
Comedy
Drama, Teen Comedy Film
Displaying a far from idyllic vision of the teenage years, the fiction follows David, a teenager who finds out that, like everyone else, he is actually quite of a loser.
LGBTQ-related film, romantic comedy
Is It Just Me? is a gay-themed film written and directed by J.C Calcino. The story focuses on the life of a young man, Blaine (Nicholas Downs), as he searches for true love.
buddy film, Comedy
thumb|thumbtime=18|Men O' War (1929) Stan and Ollie, two sailors enjoying a reprieve from duty, encounter two aesthetically pleasing women during a leisurely stroll in the park. Eager to socialize, the sailors extend an invitation for refreshments, only to realize their financial constraints - sufficient funds for only three beverages. A protracted exchange ensues as Ollie endeavors to convey this dilemma to Stan, who struggles to comprehend the necessity for sacrifice.