Archive for the ‘Comedy’ Category

DR. SEUSS’ THE LORAX

Friday, March 2nd, 2012

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 153

Language: English

Director: Ken Daurio

Plot: From the creators of Despicable Me and the imagination of Dr. Seuss comes the 3D-CG feature Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax, an adaptation of the classic tale of a forest creature who shares the enduring power of hope. The animated adventure follows the journey of a 12-year-old as he searches for the one thing that will enable him to win the affection of the girl of his dreams. To find it he must discover the story of the Lorax, the grumpy yet charming creature who fights to protect his world.

 

Project X

Friday, March 2nd, 2012

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 97

Language: English

Director: Nima Nourizadeh

Plot: A group of friends set out to throw the most epic 17th birthday party ever. The film documents a high school party that gets completely out of control, shot from the perspective of the digital cameras that the kids have with them.

 

TIM & ERIC’S BILLION DOLLAR MOVIE

Friday, March 2nd, 2012

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 142

Language:

Director: Tim Heidecker

Plot: Two guys get a billion dollars to make a movie, only to watch their dream run off course….Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie is a star-studded comedy created by the prolific team of Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim, best known for their five seasons of “Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!” which have aired on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim. Numerous celebrity cameos will be featured, as well as the beloved cast of regular characters that appear on “Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!”.

 

Wanderlust

Friday, February 24th, 2012

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 152

Language: English

Director: David Wain

Plot: Paul Rudd and Jennifer Aniston star in Wanderlust, a comedy from director David Wain (Role Models) and producer Judd Apatow (Knocked Up) about a couple who leaves the pressures of the big city and joins a freewheeling community where the only rule is to be yourself.

George (Rudd) and Linda (Aniston) are an overextended, stressed out Manhattan couple. After George is downsized out of his job, they find themselves with only one option: to move in with George’s awful brother in Atlanta.

On the way there, George and Linda stumble upon Elysium, an idyllic community populated by colorful characters who embrace a different way of looking at things. Money? It can’t buy happiness. Careers? Who needs them? Clothes? Only if you want them.

Is Elysium the fresh start George and Linda need? Or will the change of perspective cause more problems than it solves?

 

The Fairy

Friday, February 24th, 2012

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 84

Language: French

Director: Dominique Abel

Plot: Belgium-based trio Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon and Bruno Romy follow their acclaimed ICEBERG and RUMBA with another Tati-inspired, candy-colored romp: this time, a charmingly off-kilter adventure about a hotel clerk who falls in love with a wish-granting fairy.

 

Tere Naal Love Ho Gaya

Friday, February 24th, 2012

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 153

Language: Hindi

Director: Mandeep Kumar

Plot: In a quaint village of Haryana lives Miny, a free-spirited tomboy who instantly wins your heart with her bubbly personality. Her father, Bhatti, runs an autorickshaw business and is adamant to marry her off against her liking to Sunny. The male protagonist Viren, is a humble and ambitious rickshaw driver working for Miny’s father. Bhatti, insecure about Viren’s success, sells of all the rickshaws where Viren had carefully stashed his life savings. In an attempt to recover his money from Bhatti, Viren storms into Miny’s engagement with fury. This gives Miny the perfect opportunity to escape her marriage and so she stages a kidnap. However, the kidnap goes all wrong and she and Viren land up in Viren’s family mansion. Eventually, Miny’s father arrives with the ransom that she had asked for and takes her back home. Back in Punjab, while she is being married off to Sunny, it dawns on Viren to go rescue her as he realizes his love for her. But will he manage to do so is what remains to be seen in a dramatic and comic climax.

 

This Means War

Friday, February 17th, 2012

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 151

Language: English

Director: McG

Plot: Two lifelong best friends, who happen to be spies, fall in love with the same woman.

 

Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu

Friday, February 10th, 2012

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 154

Language:

Director: Shakun Batra

Plot: Rahul Kapoor is on his way to become a carbon copy of his parents when he suddenly loses his job as an architect in Vegas. Afraid that he has let his parents down, Rahul decides to hide the truth and find another job. When by a twist of fate, he meets Riana Braganza, a quick-witted hairstylist, who is everything he isn’t. A series of events lead them to meet on Christmas Eve over a few drinks… but like always, it’s never a ‘few’. Following this night of debauchery, they wake up to discover that they’ve gotten married. Now, Rahul has more than just his job loss to hide from his parents. They both decide to get it annulled as soon as possible and get an appointment from the court in ten days. Over the next ten days they have their share of arguments, moments and laughs that results in an unlikely friendship.

 

Flypaper

Wednesday, February 1st, 2012

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 125

Language: English

Director: Rob Minkoff

Plot: A man, caught in the middle of two bank robberies going on at the same time, tries to save his secret love, a bank teller.

 

One for the Money

Friday, January 27th, 2012

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 150

Language: English

Director: Julianna Robinson

Plot: Katherine Heigl brings Stephanie Plum – the popular heroine of Janet Evanovich’s worldwide best-selling sixteen-book mystery series – to vibrant life in Lionsgate and Lakeshore Entertainment’s ONE FOR THE MONEY.

A proud, born-and-bred Jersey girl, Stephanie Plum’s got plenty of attitude, even if she’s been out of work for the last six months and just lost her car to a debt collector. Desperate for some fast cash, Stephanie turns to her last resort: convincing her sleazy cousin to give her a job at his bail bonding company…as a recovery agent. True, she doesn’t even own a pair of handcuffs and her weapon of choice is pepper spray, but that doesn’t stop Stephanie from taking on Vinny’s biggest bail-jumper: former vice cop and murder suspect Joe Morelli – yup, the same sexy, irresistible Joe Morelli who seduced and dumped her back in high school.

Nabbing Morelli would be satisfying payback – and a hefty payday – but as Stephanie learns the ins and outs of becoming a recovery agent from Ranger, a hunky colleague who’s the best in the business, she also realizes the case against Morelli isn’t airtight. Add to the mix her meddling family, a potentially homicidal boxer, witnesses who keep dying and the problem of all those flying sparks when she finds Morelli himself…well, suddenly Stephanie’s new job isn’t nearly as easy as she thought.

 

Joyful Noise

Friday, January 13th, 2012

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2012

Runtime: 151

Language: English

Director: Todd Graff

Plot: Joyful Noise tells the story of an unlikely partnership between two strong-minded women (Queen Latifah and Dolly Parton) who are forced to work together to save a small town Gospel Choir after budget cuts threaten to shut them down.

 

Miss Minoes

Friday, December 23rd, 2011

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 121

Language:

Director: Vincent Bal

Plot: A cat who turns into a young woman (Minoes) retains some of her feline characteristics and helps a journalist to gather news for the front page of his local newspaper. With the help of Minoes, who can talk to the cats in the small town, he soon discovers that the popular chairman of the “Club For Friends of Animals” and boss of a nearby factory has evil plans…

 

We Bought a Zoo

Friday, December 23rd, 2011

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 148

Language: English

Director: Cameron Crowe

Plot: This holiday season, acclaimed filmmaker Cameron Crowe (Jerry Maguire, Almost Famous) directs an amazing and true story about a single dad who decides his family needs a fresh start, so he and his two children move to the most unlikely of places: a zoo. With the help of an eclectic staff, and with many misadventures along the way, the family works to return the dilapidated zoo to its former wonder and glory.

 

Young Adult

Friday, December 9th, 2011

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 119

Language: English

Director: Jason Reitman

Plot: Academy Award winner Charlize Theron plays Mavis Gary, a writer of teen literature who returns to her small hometown to relive her glory days and attempt to reclaim her happily married high school sweetheart (Patrick Wilson). When returning home proves more difficult than she thought, Mavis forms an unusual bond with a former classmate (Patton Oswalt) who hasn’t quite gotten over high school, either.

 

The Sitter

Friday, December 9th, 2011

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 136

Language: English

Director: David Gordon Green

Plot: A college student on suspension babysits the kids next door.

 

w Er

Friday, December 9th, 2011

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 152

Language: English

Director: Madonna

Plot: Madonna’s W.E. is a beautifully crafted, passionate tale about the search for true love in the modern world, viewed through the prism of one of history’s most fabled romances. The year is 1998, and Manhattan is abuzz with anticipation about the upcoming auction of the estate of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. But the auction is far more than a diversion for Wally Winthrop (Abbie Cornish), a transplanted Southerner trapped in an unhappy and abusive marriage. Transfixed by the exquisite artifacts of the Windsors’ lives, Wally becomes obsessed with the love story of Wallis Simspon (Andrea Riseborough), the chic, charismatic American who captured the heart of King Edward VIII (James D’Arcy). As she learns more about the sacrifices Wallis made in choosing to be with Edward, Wally finds the courage to follow her own heart and create her own happiness.

 

NEW YEAR’S EVE

Friday, December 9th, 2011

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 152

Language: English

Director: Garry Marshall

Plot: “New Year’s Eve” celebrates love, hope, forgiveness, second chances and fresh starts, in the intertwining stories told amidst the pulse and promise of New York City on the most dazzling night of the year.

 

Desi Boyz

Friday, November 25th, 2011

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 152

Language: Hindi

Director: Rohit Dhawan

Plot: The year is 2009. The world has been struck by the financial meltdown. But Nick Mathur and Jerry Patel don’t feel a thing in their comfortable pad in London.

Nick feels smug with his successful investment banking job, the new bonus in his pocket and his beautiful fiance, Radhika, by his side, while Jerry is so used to scraping the bottom of the barrel and living off his best buddy Nick, that recession feels like home. But life has a way of pulling the rug from under our feet.

Nick and Jerry stop smiling the day Nick’s company decides to downsize and unceremoniously fires him. And Jerry is informed by the Social Services that his nephew Veer, who’s local guardian Jerry is will be placed in a foster home unless he gets a steady job.

DESI BOYZ is the story of two men who are forced to do something extremely bizarre which gives them instant gratification but the repercussions tear them apart and its aftermath which tests everything including their friendship.

 

Rid of Me

Friday, November 18th, 2011

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 89

Language: English

Director: James Westby

Plot: Set in Portland, Oregon, RID OF ME is a black comedy that follows Meris (O’Grady), an awkward young woman trying too hard to perfect her marriage, amongst a new group of friends. With a breakthrough lead performance by O’Grady, and an ensemble that includes Art Alexakis (of rock band Everclear) and Theresa Russell (Black Widow, Bad Timing), RID OF ME follows Meris’ rejection from the cool crowd down a path towards truth and salvation which includes a job at a local candy shop, a group of punk friends, community gardening and a newfound love for Cambodian rock music.

 

Tower Heist

Friday, November 4th, 2011

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 122

Language: English

Director: Brett Ratner

Plot: Ben Stiller and Eddie Murphy lead an all-star cast in Tower Heist, a comedy caper about working stiffs who seek revenge on the Wall Street swindler who stiffed them. After the workers at a luxury Central Park condominium discover the penthouse billionaire has stolen their retirement, they plot the ultimate revenge: a heist to reclaim what he took from them.

Queens native Josh Kovacs (Stiller) has managed one of the most luxurious and well-secured residences in New York City for more than a decade. Under his watchful eye, nothing goes undetected. In the swankiest unit atop Josh’s building, Wall Street titan Arthur Shaw (Alan Alda) is under house arrest after being caught stealing two billion from his investors. The hardest hit among those he defrauded? The tower staffers whose pensions he was entrusted to manage.

With only days before Arthur gets away with the perfect crime, Josh’s crew turns to petty crook Slide (Murphy) to plan the nearly impossible to steal what they are sure is hidden in Arthur’s guarded condo. Though amateurs, these rookie thieves know the building better than anyone. Turns out they’ve been casing the place for years, they just didn’t know it.