Posts Tagged ‘screwball’

Raising Arizona (1987)

Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Genres: Action | Comedy | Crime
Countries: USA
Actors: Cage, Nicolas | Hunter, Holly | Wilson, Trey | Goodman, John | Forsythe, William | McMurray, Sam | McDormand, Frances | Cobb, Randall 'Tex' | Kuhn, T.J. | Kitei, Lynne Dumin | Benedek, Peter | Smith, Charles 'Lew' | Keith, Warren | Kendrick, Henry | Dawson, Sidney
Directors: Coen, Ethan
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Colourful and unconventional slapstick comedy. Ex-con Hi and ex-cop Ed meet, marry and long for a child in the wilds of Arizona. When Ed discovers she’s barren the God-given solution is presented: to snatch a baby from a set of quins. Thus begins a series of kidnappings, capers and rum goings-on that revolve around the helpless yet universally-loveable child. Hi’s convict friends, his boss, and even the Lone Biker Of The Apocalypse become involved in the ever-twisting plot in the quest to own the baby.

Flirting with Disaster (1996)

Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Stiller, Ben | Arquette, Patricia | Leoni, Téa | Alda, Alan | Moore, Mary Tyler | Segal, George | Tomlin, Lily | Brolin, Josh | Jenkins, Richard | Weston, Celia | Fitzgerald, Glenn | Ostrosky, Beth | Lamontagne, Cynthia | Kelly, David Patrick | Noonan, John Ford
Directors: Russell, David O.
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Five months after the birth of his son, Mel Coplin remains unable to name the child until he has met his own biological parents and discovered who he “really is.” He, his wife Nancy, and his social-worker-in-training Tina Kalb jet off to California to meet his birth mother—who turns out not to be his mother, due to an error with the agency’s adoption records. The quartet sets out in search of Mel’s real parents, with tensions growing because of the sexual chemistry lacking between Mel and Nancy and growing between Mel and Tina.

Mr. Woodcock (2007)

Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Thornton, Billy Bob | Scott, Seann William | Sarandon, Susan | Poehler, Amy | Sagemiller, Melissa | Suplee, Ethan | Davich, Jacob | Baldridge, Kyley | George, Alec | Sargent, Joseph Michael | Gainey, M.C. | Briscoe, Brent | Kuhr, Dave | Wyatt, Lisa K. | Fuller, Kurt
Directors: Gillespie, Craig
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Taken aback by his mother’s wedding announcement, a young man returns home in an effort to stop her from marrying his old high school gym teacher, a man who made high school hell for generations of students.

Beetle Juice (1988)

Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Fantasy | Horror
Countries: USA
Actors: Baldwin, Alec | Davis, Geena | McEnroe, Annie | Page, Maurice | Stanger, Hugo | Keaton, Michael | Mittelman, Rachel | O'Hara, Catherine | Saunders, J. Jay | Ettlinger, Mark | Jones, Jeffrey | Ryder, Winona | Shadix, Glenn | Martinez, Patrice | Daly, Cindy
Directors: Burton, Tim
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The Deetz’s gothic daughter discovers the Maitands in the attic and befriends them. She finds their after life handbook which is eventually confiscated by the family’s interior decorator who is fascinated by the paranormal, and during a seance,conjures up the Maitlands. Most of the trouble starts as the free lance bio-excorist, Beetlejuice gets involved.

HouseSitter (1992)

Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Martin, Steve | Hawn, Goldie | Delany, Dana | Harris, Julie | Moffat, Donald | MacNicol, Peter | Shull, Richard B. | Cronin, Laurel | Cooper, Roy | Durang, Christopher | Broun, Heywood Hale | Jones, Cherry | Simek, Vasek | Whang, Suzanne | Klug, Mary
Directors: Oz, Frank
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When his longtime girlfriend Becky says no to marriage and the house he has built, architect Newton Davis takes it badly. Three months later a one night liaison with livewire waitress Gwen gets rather out of control when she tracks down the dream house, moves in, and lets it be known locally that she and Newton are married. Everyone in the small town take to her, including his parents, while Becky shows renewed interest. When Newton realises the situation he suggests to Gwen that continuing the deception might have advantages for both of them.

All Together, The (2007)

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: UK
Actors: Freeman, Martin | Johnson, Corey | Topic, Velibor | Dyer, Danny | Harrington, Richard | Abbington, Amanda | Kenna, Jamie | Edwards, Charles | Ryland, Jonathan | Thompson, Ian | Hutchison, Nicholas | Bamber, David | Gilbreath, Alexandra | Marcia Warren | Brown, Wendy Mae
Directors: Claxton, Gavin
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Martin Freeman plays Chris, a frustrated TV producer who is forced to leave his unreliable flatmate Bob played by Velibor Topic in charge of showing a series of real estate agents around the house he is trying to sell. Worried by Bob’s habit of spending all day working in the basement playing loud music, Chris asks his friend to listen out for the door bell and show anyone who comes calling inside. Bob promises to do exactly that and for once, not to let him down. Over the course of the day, whilst Chris struggles to cope with his insane TV presenter colleague Jerry, played by Richard Harrington - back at the house it is soon clear that bonkers Bob is taking his promise to Chris rather too literally. Bob has indeed, allowed anyone inside, including a couple of gun-toting gangsters - an incompetent young Brit played by Danny Dyer and an incontinent American played by Corey Johnson. That evening, Chris is surprised to return home and find his flatmate, four estate agents, two Jehovah’s Witnesses, a corpse and a terrified children’s entertainer in what remains of his flooded kitchen. Of course, a roomful of water and broken furniture doesn’t mean the end of the world - but the half-crazed American sitting outside the toilet with a gun, just might.

Holiday, The (2006)

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Diaz, Cameron | Winslet, Kate | Law, Jude | Black, Jack | Wallach, Eli | Burns, Edward | Sewell, Rufus | Englefield, Miffy | Pritchard, Emma | Parish, Sarah | Sossamon, Shannyn | Macy, Bill | Berman, Shelley | Hahn, Kathryn | Krasinski, John
Directors: Meyers, Nancy
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In London, Iris Simpkins write a wedding column in a newspaper and has an unrequited love for her colleague Jasper Bloom. Nearby Christmas, she is informed that Jasper is engaged and will marry another colleague, and her life turns head over heels. In Los Angeles, the movie-trailers maker Amanda Woods has just broken with her unfaithful boyfriend Ethan and wants to forget him. Amanda access a house exchange website, and impulsively swaps her mansion for Iris’ cottage in Surrey for the holiday along the next two weeks. While in Surrey, Amanda meets Iris’ widow brother and book editor Graham and they fall in love for each other. Meanwhile Iris meet her next door neighbor, the ninety year old screenplay writer Arthur, who helps her to retrieve her self-esteem, and the film composer Miles, and they fall in love for each other.

Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987)

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Martin, Steve | Candy, John | Robins, Laila | McKean, Michael | Bacon, Kevin | Baker, Dylan | Bruce, Carol | Burnette, Olivia | Douglas, Diana | Ferrero, Martin | Hankin, Larry | Herd, Richard | Kellerman, Susan | Lawrence, Matthew | McClurg, Edie
Directors: Hughes, John
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All that Neal Page wants to do is to get home for Thanksgiving. His flight has been cancelled due to bad weather, so he decides on other means of transport. As well as bad luck, Neal is blessed with the presence of Del Griffith, Shower Curtain Ring Salesman and all-around blabbermouth, who is never short of advice, conversation, bad jokes, or company. And when he decides that he is going the same direction as Neal….

Who’s Harry Crumb? (1989)

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Candy, John | Jones, Jeffrey | Potts, Annie | Thomerson, Tim | Corbin, Barry | Smith, Shawnee | Bromfield, Valri | Steckler, Doug | Coleman, Renée | Mann, Wesley | Kelsey, Tamsin | Flaherty, Joe | Roeske, Fiona | O'Byrne, Lori | Goodger, Michele
Directors: Flaherty, Paul
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Harry is the latest generation of the Crumbs, famous and extremely talented detectives. Unfortunately, talent seems to have skipped a generation, and Harry is reduced to “gumshoe” work at a remote branch of the Crumb detective agency. Back at headquarters, Crumb executive Elliot Draison hatches an evil plan, which requires the inclusion of an incompotent detective. With Harry Crumb on the case, Draison thinks everything will run fine for him. Despite his best efforts, Crumb actually makes some headway in the case…

Just Married (2003)

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Kutcher, Ashton | Murphy, Brittany | Kane, Christian | Moscow, David | Mazur, Monet | Rasche, David | Luckinbill, Thad | Agranov, David | Killam, Taran | Barry, Raymond J. | Toda, Toshi | Gaynes, George | Schina, Massimo | Andrews, Valeria | Thomas, Alex
Directors: Levy, Shawn
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A happy young couple, Sarah and Tom (Brittany Murphy and Ashton Kutcher) marry against the wishes of Sarah’s friends and family and go to Europe for their Honeymoon. Unfortunately for them, Sarah’s parents send Sarah’s ex-boyfriend Peter Prentis (played by Christian Kane) to break up the happy marriage.