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romantic comedy
thumb|The full film Wealthy businessman William "Will" Van Luyn proposes to his secretary, Joan Thayer. She accepts, but worries how her family will react. When he meets them for the first time, little sister Helen is delighted by the advantages he will bring, but cousin Henry starts lecturing him on the virtues of the downtrodden middle class.
romantic comedy
While pursuing a story on homelessness, an undercover reporter (Blair) finds romance with a transient (Langston).
Comedy
Kwame Gatmon is a young man with a promising career as a music producer and a beautiful girlfriend, Yasmine. But Yasmine is tired of watching all of her girlfriends get married while she stands on the sidelines, and one day she gives Kwame an ultimatum—either he marries her in 30 days, or the relationship is over. Kwame is not sure what to do; while he loves Yasmine, he also likes his freedom.
Comedy
Comedy, Drama, Tragicomedy
MacKenzie Scott, a brilliant musician, is falsely convicted of murder and sentenced to life. While Scott languishes in prison, his long-suffering ex-wife Marjorie raises their two children to adulthood. Out of respect for Scott, whom she still loves, Marjorie never reveals to the kids that their father is in jail, insisting instead that Scott has long since died.
Comedy
Close friends Anne Carr and Helen Todd move into a singles complex where every tenant must be unmarried and under 30. Jim Allen and Bob Merrick, neighbors of bachelor playboy Bret Hendley, make a wager with him that he can't seduce Anne successfully. Bret is too much a gentleman to accept, but when Anne learns the money would pay for Bret's college education, she willingly goes along with a romance.
Action, Comedy
With carpools being assigned by computer, four partners – a call center employee, a nun turned college student, an actor and a boxer – form into a carpool which comes into possession of a million dollars that has fallen off an armored car. An ex-policeman has his eyes on the loot as well, and the chase is on.
Comedy drama
The film begins on New Year's Day as six Long Island natives: Sal, his wife Meghan, Terry, Nate, Eric, and his girlfriend Lina discuss the pro's and con's of going into Manhattan on New Year's Eve. The group spent the holiday in Nassau County going to bars, and Terry makes the decision to drive home while intoxicated, resulting in a DWI arrest. The first part of the film takes place from New Year's Day 2012 to the beginning of Spring and the main tension revolves around the characters struggling to cope with the transition to adulthood.
Comedy
During the 1920s, two young men returning to England on a transatlantic liner fall in love with two fellow passengers.
Action, Comedy, Comedy drama
A collection of characters cross paths during a night in the big city. Two hit men. who receive their contracts from an Englishman.
Comedy, romantic comedy
By day, Nola Devlin (Poppy Montgomery) is an unassuming, frumpy magazine editor who is overlooked and teased by her co-workers. When the sun sets and she is behind the glow and anonymity of her computer screen, she becomes the famous and reclusive advice columnist Belinda Apple. Nola's friends, tired of being overworked and overweight, band together to create the Cinderella Pact, vowing to lose weight by following the advice of their fairy godmother, Belinda Apple.
Comedy
Comedy
thumb|left|Penny Singleton and Rita Hayworth in Blondie on a Budget Blondie Bumstead is having trouble balancing the family budget, particularly as she wants to buy a new fur coat. Her husband Dagwood also needs money for the membership fee of a fishing club he wants to join. Blondie becomes jealous when she finds Dagwood with an overfamiliar old friend, Joan Forrester, and begins to suspect that they are having an affair.
romantic comedy
Robert Wilcot, a popular television personality, is selected as the Conservative candidate for the provincial town of Earndale in the upcoming by-election. His selection is mostly due to the influence of his uncle, Lord Wilcot, a powerful local figure. His opponent is to be Stella Stoker, a fishmonger's daughter with a degree from the London School of Economics who has been chosen to stand for the Labour Party.
romantic comedy
Linda Lawrence skyrockets from a stenographer's desk to a job as account executive in an advertising agency. Although more interested in a career than in marriage, she falls in love with ex-football hero Jimmy Hall after his forceful courtship. They marry after Jimmy promises that he will not ask Linda to resign her position.
Comedy horror, Horror
A mute, illiterate Louisiana farmer's son with an extreme fondness for goats becomes a serial killer who goes after anyone who hurts goats, and wreaks havoc on an unsuspecting film crew shooting a film in the area. A subplot involves a small crew following a sheriff investigating the murders.
musical comedy
A group of widely divergent characters meet up with a broken-down touring concert-party, throw in their lot with them, and eventually triumph after temporary setbacks. This British musical-comedy follows an unlikely trio as they try to revive the fortunes of the floundering theatrical troupe. School teacher Inigo Jolifant with his talent for songwriting, and recently unemployed Jess Oakroyd with his theatrical ambitions, together persuade Miss Trant, an older single woman looking for adventure, to fund them as they attempt to bring "The Dinky Doos" back into the spotlight.
Comedy, fantasy film
In the austere post–World War II British world of rationing, Cyril Clarke composes comical odes for an act for the BBC. As his wife Betty continuously interrupts him to remind him that he needs to obtain supplies from his "under-the counter" contacts for the dinner party they are hosting that evening, he creates an ode to an imaginary character named Merlin Mound who can provide anything one can wish. When he later falls asleep at his desk, he dreams that Merlin has become real and grants his host's wishes for those rationed items of drink and fine food, not by conjuring the items out of thin air, but obtaining them from other people's…
Comedy, Drama
Comedy
The Lyon family attempts to move to a new West End house. The problem is the landlord Mr. Hemmingway regards the family as annoying and disruptive.
romantic comedy
Sofia (Angie Cepeda) is a Colombian college student who is struggling with immigration issues in Los Angeles. Looking for solutions to her situation, she decides to become a surrogate mother for a wealthy couple.
Drama, independent film
Within the most storied city in the world lives Jake (Ernie Hudson), a homeless man who calls all of Manhattan his home. Jake discovers Cameron (Graeme Malcolm), a man down on his luck and sleeping in a tree in Central Park. Taking Cameron under his wing, Jake teaches him how to survive on the streets.
Comedy
The Stooges are deceived into clandestinely boarding a vessel by their neighbor, Mr. Borscht, who is revealed to be an antagonist aligned with a fictional nation resembling the Soviet Union. Adrift at sea aboard a freighter and subsisting on salami, they uncover Borscht's illicit activities involving the concealment of stolen microfilm within watermelons.
Comedy
Pop star Jeep Jackson is conscripted into the British army. He tries to continue his recording career while still undergoing training on camp. When a different J.