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Comedy
The Bumsteads have $100 left over from their budget and decide to donate it to charity. Unfortunately, they both unknowingly donate the money, leaving them $100 short. Alvin decides to help them out by submitting a song written by a relative of Bumstead's to a songwriting contest.
romantic comedy
Ollie Radway is a daffy dowager who, with equally eccentric brother John, runs a thriving newspaper. After firing the managing editor for failing to keep her niece Virginia out of the newspaper business, she hands the job to David Partridge, a minor employee with a crush on the girl. In short order, Partridge is assigned to keep Virginia away from fortune-hunting editorial artist Dimitri Kyeff.
Comedy
Comedy
James Foster is a man at a crossroads with himself and his marriage. Coming out on top after a high-profile case with a band of thugs, James has been sober for 18 months. He decides that to take a trip to Vegas with his wife Genie would be a good way to rekindle their relationship as well as an opportunity to employ his bodyguard friend, Nick, a few more days as a holiday "thank you" for their security in the case.
Comedy
Comedy
Gracie Pearson (Fields) is a singer/comedian who returns home to enjoy a little holiday, but there is trouble brewing. First, she has to use all of her hard-earned money to pay for part of what her brother owes to a money lender. Then when they go to see their father, they find he has collapsed due to the Plumborough Market (where he has a stall) is threatened with demolition to make way for a department store.
Comedy
Sach Jones and Slip Mahoney are copy boys for the New York Daily Chronicle newspaper who hear that two local police officers, including their friend Gabe, have been shot in the line of duty while trying to stop a robbery. Gabe survives, but his partner does not, so they decide to help find the person responsible - a gangster and member of the Loop Gang from Chicago. The boys then decide to go undercover to try to infiltrate the mob and expose them.
Comedy, Comedy Of Mistaken Identity, romance film
Comedy drama, Drama
A competition between Ames and How to be Gillespie's new assistant. Ames' involvement with a beautiful young woman who passed out in a car, presumably from drinking but in fact had no alcohol in her system, and her mother, whose intense arthritis has her kept in a neck brace and a chair, unable to move without pain.
Comedy
Peter Foley (Rex Lease) is a beneficiary of his grandfather, who leaves him $800,000 in his will, on the condition that he gets married. Peter is very interested in getting the money, especially since he has debts, and plans to marry Alice Blake (Vera Reynolds) as soon as she arrives from Kansas City. He plans to take her to his Uncle Henry's (Charles Sellon) home before midnight to actually get the inheritance.
Adventure, Drama
Fifi is an accomplished young chef who is constantly hounded with offers for her talents. Her food is so delicious that it takes on sexual symbol of its own and no one can look at food in the same way again. The film takes the viewers through the life of the chefs and the way they look at the work and how much they crave about food.
Comedy
An overly controlling father tries to dissuade his adored daughter from marrying the man of her dreams, someone of whom the father does not approve. Meddling in her life, the father tries to find a more suitable candidate but ends up making things worse.
Comedy
When tennis player Shad Hart goes to enter the Mayflower tournament to face his nemesis Colt Skyler, he learns that Skyler's father raised the entry fee to $500. With the help of friend Blaze and sister Chrystal he raises the money, but then the money is stolen.
Comedy
On the day he is promoted to head clerk (or "head cluck," as Spanky mistakenly puts it), Spanky's father (Emerson Treacy) declares that it is time Spanky stopped sleeping in his parents' room and go to bed in his own room. Earlier, the gang asked Spanky if they could board Pete, their dog. Spanky could not do that.
musical film, musical comedy
Biography, romantic comedy
Linda is a single woman who must re-enter the dating world after undergoing a mastectomy and breast reconstruction surgery due to cancer.
Comedy drama, Drama, romantic comedy
The film follows a non-linear convoluted journey through (4) different settings: One which represents today; one which represents protagonist Wes' dreamworld; and the remaining two representing the good times shared with Alison who is Wes' dearest and closest platonic friend. The movie has been made the same way as the memoirs it is trying to portray. Non-existence of time is one aspect of the protagonist that is loved by his friend.
romantic comedy
Comedy
Various parties including scientists and spies chase after a horse that has eaten a roll of microfilm.
Comedy
Frustrated because they cannot get their songs published, Jingles Collins and Bob Grant decide to leave New York City and return home. On one last night out on the town, joined by Jingles' sweetheart Jackie, they encounter Barbara Wyngate, mistaking her for a dance hostess when she is actually a wealthy young heiress. Barbara keeps her identity a secret after falling for Bob and pays to have a song published.
Comedy drama
romantic comedy
A West Point cadet falls in love with a girl who sings in his brother's band.
Comedy
As good at math as he is terrible with girls, Ryan Chess (Troy Doherty) has spent an entire summer pining away for his pretty and vivacious co-worker, Carly Alvarez (Flavia Watson). Just as the summer is coming to a close and he has worked up the courage to ask her out, he is shocked to learn the store is closing at the end of the day. And Carly is going to move away.
black comedy film, Drama, fantasy film, Horror, romance film, thriller film
The plot takes the form of a dark fairytale. After sending hundreds of letters to strangers, lonely 'She' (with an obsessive–compulsive disorder behavioural pattern) is answered back by 'He'. After they meet up, they start to live together and she gets pregnant.