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Comedy drama, Coming-of-age, Drama, Tragicomedy
Conor (Edward MacLiam), a highly skilled woodworker and carpenter, suffers a stroke that caused him to spend a month in a coma and several months in rehab. The stroke leaves him mentally challenged and much changed as he returns home to his wife Vanetia (Maxine Peake) and two children. Vanetia tries to keep her family together in the wake of Conor’s changed childlike condition.
Comedy
A milquetoast bank clerk finds himself stuck in a speeding trailer towed by gangsters after a bank robbery goes awry. Unfortunately for him, the police and even his own domineering wife believe that he is the robber and so head off in hot pursuit, precipitating a fast-paced merry chase.
Comedy
Sue Graham (Normand) is a small town girl who travels to Hollywood to escape marriage, and in the hope of becoming a motion picture star. She wins a contract with a studio on the strength of a picture of a quite different (and very attractive) girl sent instead of hers; but when she arrives the mistake is discovered. Since the error was the result of another's deception, the studio manager agrees to give her a job in the costume department.
Comedy
While conducting a census in an apartment complex, the Stooges encounter Mrs. Lucy Wyckoff, a member of a husband-and-wife Magician Troupe. They soon discover that Mrs.
Comedy, Western
Set in the Old West, the Stooges are wanted for vagrancy, in order to escape custody, Moe suggests they leave for a town known as Peaceful Gulch. Meanwhile, the once-tranquil town of Peaceful Gulch faces turmoil as the notorious Red Morgan and his gang intimidate the populace and drive out the sheriff. In a bid to restore law and order, members of the sheriff's posse devise a plan to deceive Morgan and his cohorts by fabricating the arrival of three renowned marshals.
Comedy drama, Heist, LGBTQ-related film
Troy and Duke have attended dozens of funerals for friends who have died of AIDS. Many of them were unable to afford the prohibitively expensive drugs they needed to stay alive. With their own funds running low, Troy and Duke decide to stage a series of robberies, stealing supplies of the life-saving drugs.
Tom and Aysha (character names) are at the economic bottom of the LA scene; no money, on drugs, and selling themselves to exist. Tom brains his drug dealer, steals his drugs and the two split town by bus and thumb, heading 'home'. Hitching a ride from a quixotic, dangerous character, Bubba, they put up with his advances until he too is ejected from his own car as the two free themselves from all restraint.
Comedy
A mild-mannered gardener becomes a lovable legend in his town for his talent to romantically please every woman that fancies him.
Comedy
Bob Peters (Paul Michael Glaser) works as a High School football coach while his wife Pat (Dee Wallace) is a stay-at-home mom. Now without any gain of support, Pat becomes restless after Bob wins the "Man of the Year Award". After receiving his award, the school principal (David Doyle) asks if Pat would be interested in becoming the school's secretary for the summer, but Bob says no, believing that her place is in the home.
Comedy, Crime
Two misfit men, Sal (Dennis Farina) and his friend Charlie (Leo Rossi), are cheated out of $10,000 that they had borrowed from a Mafia kingpin. They must flee from New York to Los Angeles, only to there get involved in a caper involving a video of Senators in compromising positions. Given a cool million for the video, they are then pursued by the mob and the FBI.
Comedy, Drama
Set in the Muslim Indian enclave of Fordsburg, Johannesburg. Material revolves around the tempestuous relationship between Cassim Kaif and his aging father whose one dream is for his son to take over the family's fabric shop, which is struggling to stay afloat. However, Cassim wants to be a stand-up comedian, a notion that his traditionalist father strongly disapproves of.
romantic comedy
Shamrock O'Day, a poor laundress dreams of a marrying a rich man. Her neighbour Tom McGuire, the chauffeur of socialite Iris van Suydam, is secretly in love with his mistress. On the other side of the city, Iris is not happy with her pampered life and she dreams of living in a vine-covered cottage.
Comedy
After having trouble with his girlfriend, a painter named Jackson searches Los Angeles to find love, though he mostly finds casual sex.
Comedy horror, Ghost
After Slip discovers a spiritualist in the neighborhood, he enlists the boys to investigate. They discover that she is a fake who is working for Margo the Medium, a radio star who has convinced Sach and Whitey that ghosts exist. The boys visit her, using Louie as a decoy.
Comedy
After Wally fills little Marianne's favorite doll with sawdust and gives it to her, neighborhood bully Leonard lassos it with a rope and swings it out in the street, where a passing truck crushes it. The gang then promises to purchase a new doll for the brokenhearted girl, as her big sister Jane comforts her. Unfortunately, the kids have no money; but it doesn't dampen their spirits.
Comedy drama
Olivia Martin , a college student who is 21, is faced with the responsibility of taking care of her half sister, Celia, when her dad and his wife died in a car accident. Being the child from the first marriage, Olivia is distant and constantly disagrees with her father. While Celia is close to her father.
Comedy, romantic comedy
The film opens with Stuart being fired for his excessive bourbon drinking. His friend invites the depressed Stuart to join his family on a trip to Paris. Under the Eiffel Tower, 50-something Stuart proposes to 26 year-old Rosalind.
Comedy, Drama, Horror, mystery film
romantic comedy
Ben Riddick (Andrew Tarbet), an unhappily married journalist is forced to confront his feelings for his wife Sarah (Kari Matchett) when he is assigned by his employer to write a story about telephone personals services.
Comedy
Set during the 1920s in the Midwestern United States, the movie revolves around two coal miners, Charlie Jacobs (Ross Hagen) and Thad (Kelly Thordsen), who decide to follow a life of crime like their role model Al Capone. Jacobs adopts the gangster persona "Bad Charleston Charlie", an anachronistic reference to the 1962 song "Charleston Charlie". The duo has to deal with forming a gang, learn to handle "wild women", bribe corrupt officials, and battle rival gangs plus the Ku Klux Klan.
Comedy, Comedy horror, Horror
When die-hard horror movie fan Merv Doody (James Heathcote) finds a dangerous escaped mental patient at his doorstep, he has a panic attack but regains his cool when he realizes the potential in the hapless killer. Merv invites best pal Onkey (Dan Palmer) over and the two soon set about executing a makeover on the maniac to create the ultimate slasher movie villain. Outfitted with a snazzy orange jumpsuit, an appropriately menacing hockey mask, and armed with a spatula, Merv and Onkey's murderous creation soon sets out on a violent rampage that sends the small-town citizens of Redwater Cove running for their lives.
Comedy drama, Drama
Geraldine Liddle (Curtin) is a small town woman from New Brunswick who gains local fame as she is about to appear on a game show called Bring Home the Bacon (a show with a pig theme similar to Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?) with a top prize of $2 million dollars. As friends and family gather to watch Geraldine on television, family secrets come to surface and a physical fight occurs, bringing all the family and friends outdoors. As the fight is happening, Geraldine calls them for help with a question during the game show.
Comedy drama
In 1977, in the small town Whynot in the American South, two hairdressers, Violet and Pearl, one white, one African American, go into business for themselves by opening a hair salon named "Salt and Pepper." With hopes it entices clientele from both black and white backgrounds and brings to light Whynot's long standing prejudices.
Comedy
Stand-up comic Zoe Hardwick is desperately in love with his beautiful girlfriend, Miranda (Julia Dennis). When she dies tragically, Zoe is devastated and drops his budding career, moves back home, and pines after his departed love for a year. His father, the principal of an elementary school, decides that one year of moping around the house is enough and forces Zoe to take a job teaching kindergarten, Zoe finds himself standing before a very different demographic.