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Comedy
Fred Barlow (Daniels) and Winslow Schnaebelt (Presnell), are the heads of two different door-to-door vacuum cleaner distributors, with salesmen who are competing for the same territory. Their rivalry becomes so fierce that the president of the manufacturer of the product, Mr. Suckerton, decides that for the good of the company, the town will have only one group of sales representatives.
Comedy
A baby is abandoned at the United Nations headquarters in New York by a mother who heard the UN's Frank Larrimore speak on behalf of children's rights on a radio show. UN docent Lisette finds the baby and brings her to the security office. Because the baby is in international territory and her nationality is unknown, Frank, a bachelor, is begrudgingly forced to take her to his apartment until a proper home can be found.
Comedy, fantasy film, musical film
A high school teenager named Sky (Emily Shenaut) is magically transported to the fairy tale kingdom of Celestia, where the villagers know her as Princess Geneva. She immediately finds herself on a daring journey to rescue her father, the King (Gabriel Burrafato), from the evil forces of Madame Mizrabel (Bridget Winder) and her slapstick sidekicks.
Comedy, Crime, musical film
Two sidewalk photographers, Tubby McCoy and Flash Fulton, aspire to work for the local newspaper. Their childhood friend, Dr. Bill Burns, invites them to come along on a call to a building fire.
romantic comedy
romantic comedy
Susan Graham is a discontented heiress whose joint guardians are both trying to get her married to their odious nephews. On her nineteenth birthday, the five of them visit a nightclub called the Magnolia Club; also present happens to be radio star Nick Martin, whom Susan detests. When she is inadvertently seated at Martin's table directly in front of the floor show, she refuses to move, and Martin, despite his radio reputation as a fearless detective, is too intimidated by her hauteur to insist.
Comedy, war film
In 1944, during the last stages of the war in Europe, American officers Paul MacDougall (Heston) and Joseph Angelico (Guardino) are sent to Rome to act as spies for the Allies, even though they have no experience in espionage. Working with Italian partisan soldier Ciccio Massimo (Baccaloni), MacDougall and Contini send regular reports to their superiors by carrier pigeon. Angelico also finds himself falling in love with Massimo's pregnant daughter Rosalba (Pallotta), while her sister Antonella (Martinelli) has her eye on MacDougall.
Comedy drama, Coming-of-age
The film follows the adventures of three high school girls the summer after they graduate. After their jobs at a dude ranch fail to work out, the girls head to Lake Tahoe where they meet Talia (Cristen Kauffman). Talia's boyfriend Roscoe then helps the girls get a job at a casino which leads to trouble.
Comedy
Two brothers, both wonderful chefs, fall out catastrophically. At the climax of their dispute they rip the family recipe book in half – one brother gets the starters and the other gets the main courses. They set up rival restaurants, on opposite sides of the same road, and spend the next twenty years trying to outdo each other.
Tragicomedy
romantic comedy
Commander Key Weedon, a pilot with the U.S. Navy, is sent to investigate when an S.O.S. emergency signal is spotted in the San Diego area near NAS North Island.
Comedy
Following the assassination of his crime boss's biological father (Robert Forster), whom he had not even known existed, a young Ohio investment advisor (Michael Rapaport) must impersonate a Mafia Godfather for a few weeks to prevent a gang war. He tries to keep this new life secret from his real family, especially his very jealous fiancée (Christine Taylor), with the help of his new "family" and his father's chief lieutenant (Christopher Walken). At the same time, he is being pressured by his boss at work to sign off on a due diligence report for a questionable investment, trying to keep his family safe, dodging assassination attempts,…
independent film
The Utopian Society is about a group of college students who are put together by their professor to complete a final project: create a utopian society. Like most college students, they’ve waited until the night before it is due to start working on it. They each come from different backgrounds and have pre-existing assumptions about the others, causing them to want to spend as little time working with each other as possible.
Comedy horror
Jenna invites Rocky, Catalina, and Kiana to help her decorate her family's home for Halloween, while her mother is away for a week. The girls decide to take a break from decorating so that they can drink and dance. Rocky discovers a copy of a horror movie, The Killer Eye, complete with a plastic replica of the titular Eye.
Comedy
Unable to find funding for his next film, a Hollywood director burns down his house for the insurance money.
Comedy
Comedy, Drama
It is 1988, and two best friends from Ireland—Fergus Montagu (Jimeoin) and Wesley Murray (McKee)—flee from Belfast after a violent confrontation with Colin (Robert Morgan) of the IRA and illegally enter Australia, finding seasonal work picking fruit at orchards to afford hostels, sustenance and booze costs (but so cash-strapped, their whiskey and cokes are made by taking swigs of whiskey and coke, mixing the two on the fly in their mouth), the last often used to dull the two's fear of immigration officers. After some gentle persuasion, Fergus goes on a TV dating game show and wins a trip to Queensland. This, however, occurs just as the…
Comedy
James is useless with women, but his luck changes under the tutelage of pick-up artist, Ampersand. As James learns the art of seduction he begins to wonder about Ampersand's intentions and questions what would truly make him happy in life.
Comedy
Rock Slyde is a clumsy private detective, helped by his assistant Judy Bee. Slyde is trying to protect Sara Lee, a seductive baker, from a mysterious stalker, while contending with cult leader Bart and his followers, the Bartologists, who are trying to take over Slyde's office space.
Comedy
In a silent movie studio, a stagehand named David has an enormous supervisor named Goliath. David is overworked but is still labelled as a loafer by the lazy Goliath and his supervisor. A country girl arrives at the studio in hopes of becoming an actress, but is quickly turned away by Goliath.
musical film
Rufus Jones is an African American child who is elected president of the United States.
Comedy, female buddy film
As Bebe prepares for a big date, her best friend Dee Dee offers nothing but cynical barbs. Meanwhile, sex-crazed Clementine wanders into their lives, sparking a wild adventure through the streets of New York City.
musical film, romantic comedy
Lieutenant Donald (Pat Boone) of the US Navy is assigned to look after a troublesome sailor, Garfield (Buddy Hackett), who is from an oil-rich Indian tribe. He also romances journalist Sally Hobson (Barbara Eden).
beach party film, Comedy, teen film
A trio of college kids – all friends of each other – attempt to ensure summer jobs for themselves by becoming concert promoters at a lakeside dance pavilion that is in danger of closing. A local lifeguard, Turk, jealous of both Rick and Mickey, tries to ruin their plan and at the same time tries to steal Rick’s girl, Cindy – who has secretly arranged for her rich dad to finance the pavilion. Rick flips when he finds out about Cindy’s dad, and Turk tries to sabotage the dance hall with some hired goons – who, after failing, bully Turk into ripping the place off.