Archive for the ‘Comedy’ Category

In a World

Friday, August 9th, 2013

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 147

Language: English

Director: Kate Bell

Plot: Carol (Bell) competes against a series of men to voice the new trailer of a blockbuster trilogy. The trailers are known for their catchphrase, “In a world…”

 

Planes

Friday, August 9th, 2013

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 85

Language: English

Director: Klay Hall

Plot: The all-new story offers an exciting cast of characters and centers on Dusty’s high-flying dream. But Dusty’s not exactly built for racing, so he turns to a seasoned naval aviator who helps Dusty qualify to take on the defending champ of the race circuit. Dusty’s courage is put to the ultimate test as he aims to reach heights he never dreamed possible, giving a spellbound world the inspiration to soar.

 

WE’RE THE MILLERS

Friday, August 9th, 2013

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 153

Language: English

Director: Rawson Marshall Thurber

Plot: David Burke (Jason Sudeikis) is a small-time pot dealer whose clientele includes chefs and soccer moms, but no kids—after all, he has his scruples. So what could go wrong? Plenty. Preferring to keep a low profile for obvious reasons, he learns the hard way that no good deed goes unpunished when he tries to help out some local teens and winds up getting jumped by a trio of gutter punks. Stealing his stash and his cash, they leave him in major debt to his supplier, Brad (Ed Helms). In order to wipe the slate clean—and maintain a clean bill of health—David must now become a big-time drug smuggler by bringing Brad’s latest shipment in from Mexico. Twisting the arms of his neighbors, cynical stripper Rose (Jennifer Aniston) and wannabe customer Kenny (Will Poulter), and the tatted-and-pierced streetwise teen Casey (Emma Roberts), he devises a foolproof plan. One fake wife, two pretend kids and a huge, shiny RV later, the “Millers” are headed south of the border for a Fourth of July weekend that is sure to end with a bang.

 

The To Do List

Friday, July 26th, 2013

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 150

Language: English

Director: Maggie Carey

Plot: THE TO DO LIST follows the story of Brandy Klark (Plaza), a Type-A, overachiever who comes up with a “to-do list” featuring all the risqué extra-curricular activities she missed out on in high school and wants to complete before college.

 

Girl Most Likely

Friday, July 19th, 2013

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 150

Language: English

Director: Shari Springer Berman

Plot: Kristen Wiig stars as Imogene, a failed New York playwright awkwardly navigating the transition from Next Big Thing to Last Year’s News. After both her career and relationship hit the skids, she’s forced to make the humiliating move back home to New Jersey with her eccentric mother and younger brother (Annette Bening and Christopher Fitzgerald). Adding further insult to injury, there’s a strange man sleeping in her old bedroom (Darren Criss) and an even stranger man sleeping in her mother’s bed (Matt Dillon). Through it all, Imogene eventually realizes that as part of her rebuilding process she must finally come to love and accept both her family and her Jersey roots if she’s ever going to be stable enough to get the hell away from them.

 

Grown Ups 2

Friday, July 12th, 2013

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 140

Language: English

Director: Dennis Dugan

Plot: The all-star comedy cast from Grown Ups returns (with some exciting new additions) for more summertime laughs. Lenny (Adam Sandler) has relocated his family back to the small town where he and his friends grew up. This time around, the grown ups are the ones learning lessons from their kids on a day notoriously full of surprises: the last day of school.

 

The Hot Flashes

Friday, July 12th, 2013

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 115

Language: English

Director: Susan Seidelman

Plot: Hot Flashes is an unlikely group of middle-aged women who challenge the high school girls’ state basketball champs to raise money for a mobile breast cancer screening truck to continue its work. Sparks fly as the women go to comic extremes to prove themselves on and off the court, gaining a new lease on life.

 

The Way, Way Back

Friday, July 5th, 2013

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 152

Language: English

Director: Nat Faxon

Plot: THE WAY, WAY BACK is the funny and poignant coming of age story of 14-year-old Duncan’s (Liam James) summer vacation with his mother, Pam (Toni Collette), her overbearing boyfriend, Trent (Steve Carell), and his daughter, Steph (Zoe Levin). Having a rough time fitting in, the introverted Duncan finds an unexpected friend in gregarious Owen (Sam Rockwell), manager of the Water Wizz water park. Through his funny, clandestine friendship with Owen, Duncan slowly opens up to and begins to finally find his place in the world – all during a summer he will never forget.

 

Despicable Me 2

Wednesday, July 3rd, 2013

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 55

Language: English

Director: Pierre Coffin

Plot: Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment’s worldwide blockbuster, Despicable Me, delighted audiences around the globe in 2010, grossing more than $540 million and becoming the 10th-biggest animated motion picture in U.S. history. In Summer 2013, get ready for more minion madness in Despicable Me 2. Chris Meledandri and his acclaimed filmmaking team create an all-new comedy animated adventure featuring the return of Gru (Steve Carell), the girls, the unpredictably hilarious minions…and a host of new and outrageously funny characters.

 

R.I.P.D.

Friday, June 28th, 2013

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 154

Language: English

Director: Robert Schwentke

Plot: Based on the comic by Peter M. Lenkov. A dead cop joins the Rest in Peace Department in order to find the man who murdered him.

 

This Is the End

Wednesday, June 12th, 2013

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 132

Language: English

Director: Seth Rogen

Plot: The comedy This Is The End follows six friends trapped in a house after a series of strange and catastrophic events devastate Los Angeles. As the world unravels outside, dwindling supplies and cabin fever threaten to tear apart the friendships inside. Eventually, they are forced to leave the house, facing their fate and the true meaning of friendship and redemption.

 

The Internship

Friday, June 7th, 2013

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 152

Language: English

Director: Shawn Levy

Plot: Billy (Vince Vaughn) and Nick (Owen Wilson) are salesmen whose careers have been torpedoed by the digital world. Trying to prove they are not obsolete, they defy the odds by talking their way into a coveted internship at Google, along with a battalion of brilliant college students. But, gaining entrance to this utopia is only half the battle. Now they must compete with a group of the nation’s most elite, tech-savvy geniuses to prove that necessity really is the mother of re-invention.

 

Much Ado About Nothing

Friday, June 7th, 2013

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 102

Language: English

Director: Joss Whedon

Plot: Leonato (Clark Gregg), the governor of Messina, is visited by his friend Don Pedro (Reed Diamond) who is returning from a victorious campaign against his rebellious brother Don John (Sean Maher). Accompanying Don Pedro are two of his officers: Benedick (Alexis Denisof) and Claudio (Fran Kranz). While in Messina, Claudio falls for Leonato’s daughter Hero (Jillian Morgese), while Benedick verbally spars with Beatrice (Amy Acker), the governor’s niece. The budding love between Claudio and Hero prompts Don Pedro to arrange with Leonato for a marriage.

In the days leading up to the ceremony, Don Pedro, with the help of Leonato, Claudio and Hero, attempts to sport with Benedick and Beatrice in an effort to trick the two into falling in love. Meanwhile, the villainous Don John, with the help of his allies: Conrade (Riki Lindhome) and Borachio (Spencer Treat Clark), plots against the happy couple, using his own form of trickery to try to destroy the marriage before it begins.

A series of comic and tragic events continue to keep the two couples from truly finding happiness, but then again perhaps love may prevail.

 

Frances Ha

Friday, June 7th, 2013

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 113

Language: English

Director: Noah Baumbach

Plot: A valentine to New York City, “Frances Ha” from acclaimed director Noah Baumbach (“The Squid and the Whale”, “Greenberg”) with a wildly inventive comic performance from Greta Gerwig.

 

The Hangover Part III

Friday, May 24th, 2013

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 152

Language: English

Director: Todd Phillips

Plot: “The Hangover Part III” is the third and final film in director Todd Phillips’ record-shattering comedy franchise. This time, there’s no wedding. No bachelor party. What could go wrong, right? But when the Wolfpack hits the road, all bets are off.

 

the Peeples

Friday, May 10th, 2013

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 140

Language: English

Director: Tina Gordon Chism

Plot: Sparks fly when Wade Walker (Craig Robinson) crashes the preppy Peeples annual reunion in the Hamptons to ask for their precious daughter Grace’s (Kerry Washington) hand in marriage. Wade might be a fish-out-of-water among this seemingly perfect East Coast clan, but he’s not about to let himself flounder. Instead, in a wild weekend of fun, dysfunction and hilarious surprises, Wade is about to discover there’s room for all kinds of Peeples in this family, no matter their differences. Writer and first-time director Tina Gordon Chism (writer of DRUMLINE) joins forces with Tyler Perry to present a laugh-out-loud look at the family ties that freak us out . . . but bind us together with love.

 

All Stars

Friday, May 3rd, 2013

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 117

Language: English (International)

Director: Ben Gregor

Plot: All Stars movie trailer – starring Theo Stevenson, Akai Osei-Mansfield, Ashley Jensen, Fleur Houdijk, Dominic Herman-Day, Amelia Clarkson. Directed by Ben Gregor. Theatrical Release Date: 5/3/2013
Genre: Comedy
Rating: Not Rated

 

The Happy House

Friday, April 19th, 2013

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 101

Language:

Director: D.W. Young

Plot: Their relationship on the rocks, a young Brooklyn couple heads to a remote B&B to work things out. But from the moment they arrive at The Happy House it’s one disaster after another, and they soon begin to suspect they’ve wandered into a real life horror movie. Events escalate from weird to terrifying as they contend with the house’s batty owner, her imposing son, a moody Swedish lepidopterist, a pedantic English professor, an extraordinarily rare butterfly, the world’s best blueberry muffins, a .44 Magnum, a demented serial killer, and one very strict rulebook.

 

Scary Movie V

Friday, April 12th, 2013

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 132

Language: English

Director: Malcolm D. Lee

Plot: The latest installment of the SCARY MOVIE franchise includes send ups of PARANORMAL ACTIVITY, MAMA, SINISTER, THE EVIL DEAD, INCEPTION, BLACK SWAN and pop culture featuring Ashley Tisdale, Charlie Sheen, Lindsay Lohan, Snoop Dogg, Katt Williams, Molly Shannon, Terry Crews, Simon Rex, Jerry O’Connell, Sarah Hyland, Katrina Bowden, Tyler Posey, Shad Moss aka Bow Wow, Kate Walsh, Heather Locklear, Mac Miller and Mike Tyson.

 

The Heat

Friday, April 5th, 2013

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2013

Runtime: 129

Language: English

Director: Paul Feig

Plot: An uptight, star FBI agent (Sandra Bullock) and a tough Boston cop (Melissa McCarthy) team up to take down a drug lord but first have to overcome their mutual distrust and learn to work together.