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romantic comedy
New York novelist Anthony Amberton meets up with actress Cherry Chester. The two date and later marry, though neither knows of the other's fame. The real adventure begins on the honeymoon, when their relationship heats up with insults and arguments.
Comedy horror, Ghost
The Marshall family of Georgia has rented an old house in New York, where youngest daughter Melinda is due to make her singing debut at Carnegie Hall. When the family is unsettled by strange noises and visions, eldest daughter Susanna runs next door for help. Unfortunately for her, next door is a nightclub, where Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson perform their zany routines with gun shots, airborne props, and trap doors.
romantic comedy
Switchboard operator Marie Lawson is conned by admirer Nicky, who tells her it is just a practical joke, into redirecting a phone call. However, Nicky uses what he learns to his own benefit, costing the intended recipient a lot of money. When the victim complains to Marie's boss, telephone repairmen Terry Riley and John are called in to see if the phone was tapped.
romantic comedy
Bob Hope is an out of work writer who stays home and plays house husband while his wife goes to work for her former fiancé and Hope's publisher who is still carrying a torch for her.
Comedy
An earnest groom-to-be (Timothy Hutton) seeks his lost shoe all over the city through a series of increasingly crazy exploits, with the help of an unhappily married woman (Maria Grazia Cucinotta).
Action Comedy, buddy cop film, Comedy, Crime
Comedy
Cannes, 1999. Alice, an actress, wants to direct an indie picture. Kaz, a talkative (and maybe bogus) deal maker, promises $3 million if she'll use Millie, an aging French star.
Comedy
The story is a brick-by-brick account of the building of a young couple's dream house. From the day when the site is first selected, to the day – several years and children later – when the couple finally move in, the story is a noisy but wordless comedy of errors, as the incompetent labourers struggle to complete the house. In this satirical look at British builders, many cups of tea are made, windows are broken and the same section of road is dug up over and over again by the water board, the electricity board and the gas board.
romantic comedy
Movie director Ivan Ivanski (Leonid Kinskey) stages a publicity stunt involving actress April Tremaine (Marjorie Woodworth), railroad engineer Mike Monohan (Victor McLaglen), and a baby (Gay Ellen Dakin), which turns into a real kidnapping, leaving Tremaine caught in the middle aboard the flagship train of the Pennsylvania Railroad.
Action, Adventure, children's film, Comedy, family film, fantasy film, Science fiction
Following the events of the previous film, Junjie has settled in as a member of the Shane Gang and introduces to them concept of Slug-Fu. Where in by forging a deep connection to his Slugs Junjie can control them from a distance, as he demonstrates with his Infurnus Joo-Joo. Things soon take a turn for the bizarre when all of the group's Air and Toxic Slugs suddenly turn into incurable Ghouls.
Comedy
After escaping New York City with the loot from a successful scam they pulled, sisters Letty and Jane Stanton decide to hide out in a small town in Maine close to the Canada–US border. Robbie McCleary takes them in, only to discover the large surplus of money mysteriously appearing. The girls reluctantly get involved in a charity program and unwittingly become the local celebrities of the town, something that causes a problem when their fame attracts attention outside the small town and the people affected by their previous scams begin to catch up with them.
Comedy, Crime, Criminal Comedy Film
Comedy, musical film
Sisters Kay and Barbara Latimer work as carhops in a Texas drive-in restaurant with their aunt Susan, the cook, when they are notified that an expected inheritance of $55,000 is only $4,000 after taxes and fees. Determined to marry a millionaire, Kay tells Barbara and Susan to spend the money on a trip to Miami, hoping to hook a rich man at a resort. With Barbara posing as Kay's secretary and Susan as her maid, the three women check into the Flamingo Hotel and make the acquaintance of Jack O'Hara, a bartender who pontificates about his hatred of fortune hunters.
romantic comedy
In Monte Carlo, Paul Gaillard, an impoverished Russian exiled aristocrat, has a run of good luck, breaking the bank at the baccarat table. His winnings, ten million francs, are so vast he needs a suitcase to carry away the banknotes. The management tries to entice him to stay, placing various signs of good luck including four-leaf clovers, a horseshoe, and a hunchback in his path, to no avail.
Comedy, Drama, romance film, romantic comedy
Daniel and Tommy met in college and played lacrosse together, and Tommy has been crushing on Daniel ever since. The film opens with Tommy, who has since come out, and Daniel unexpectedly meeting one another in a bar and reminiscing over their college years. They end up sleeping together after leaving the bar, and the next morning, Daniel announces he is engaged to Jen.
Comedy drama, musical film
Jackson is about two homeless men in Los Angeles, Donald and Sam. At the start of the day Donald is given a $20 bill (also known as a "Jackson"). The film follows the two and shows their adventures throughout the day with this money, and features songs from various operas.
Comedy drama
From the moment he was six, Max wanted to die. He tried shooting himself, hanging himself and even throwing himself out of a window. But somehow, he always managed to survive.
Crime
In 1928 Chicago, two gangsters kill a store owner. Mobster Big Ed sends top henchman Bugsy Welch to place his trademark white carnation on the corpses to suggest that he is responsible for the murders. The police rush to arrest Big Ed, but he has an alibi: he has been in the park, where he encounters Ruth Manning, a country girl who came to Chicago to be a singer but is now a children's governess.
Comedy drama
Comedy
Lulu Monahan, press agent for John Barrymore, tries to attract a sponsor for Barrymore's radio program. Lulu and bandleader Kay Kyser's agent concoct a story that a great actor will teach Kyser how to play Shakespeare. In New York City, they visit each other to find out how the Hollywood contract for a new agent is.
Comedy
The Stooges propose marriage to three sisters but must first win consent from their prospective father-in-law. His hostile rejection of their suit prompts the Stooges to initiate a sitdown strike in their fiancees' home. Their protest garners widespread attention, eliciting a deluge of fan mail, including promised donations of a free lot and a free "ready-cut" house.
Comedy
Comedy, Drama
A washed-up inventor, Danny Travis, takes matters into his own hands in a very extreme way when he learns that his house will be condemned and his beloved children left on the street. Travis is so upset that when a city official comes to evict him from the premises, he takes the man hostage. A television reporter, Paula Herbert, turns public sympathies both for and against Travis, prolonging the story opportunistically as a Los Angeles police captain, Gerrity, attempts to defuse the situation.
buddy film, Comedy, Ghost
A gruff sea captain grapples with the impediment of recruiting sailors owing to his vessel's ill-reputed status as haunted, which dissuades potential enlistment. A fortuitous encounter unfolds as the captain intersects with Stan and Ollie during a tranquil fishing outing. Despite the captain's entreaties, Stan and Ollie demur from maritime service, attributing their reluctance to an aversion towards the ocean, predicated upon its purportedly shark-infested waters.