Comedy Films
What Just Happened
Based on the personal memoirs of Hollywood Producer Art Linson What Just Happened? is a fictional showbiz comedy which stars Robert De Niro as Ben a fading Hollywood producer who is having a hard time trying to get his new movie made. Having just suffered through his second divorce with ex-wife Kelly (Robin Wright Penn) Ben (De Niro) is hanging on to the tattered threads of his career as he tries to maintain his dignity while surviving the mounting humiliations of Hollywood.
My One and Only
My One and Only follows actor George Hamilton's teenage years. It's an appealing comedy a road movie set in the 1950s and starring Renée Zellweger as his mother the irrepressible Anne Devereaux. She's a blond Southern belle married to Dan a bandleader (Kevin Bacon) who loves her but is a compulsive womaniser. After finding him in bed with one woman too many Anne leaves him and takes her two sons: George (Logan Lerman) and Robbie (Mark Rendall) half-brothers from her two marriages. In a sky-blue Cadillac convertible they set off an odyssey to find Anne a new husband - the only way she can imagine to support them. Anne is 40-ish and attractive to men but no longer this year's model. Their journeys take them to a series of her old beaus in Boston Pittsburgh and St. Louis; these hunting expeditions are seen through George's dubious eyes. One is an ex-military sadist one a playboy all not suitable candidates. She tries actually working but being a waitress is beyond her and then she apparently strikes pay dirt with a proposal from a man whose family owns a big house-paint business.
Rumour Has It?
At last there's a movie for anyone who's ever looked at the eccentrics and oddballs in his or her family and wondered: Who are these people? Jennifer Aniston stars in and Rob Reiner (When Harry Met Sally...) directs a star-powered romantic comedy about family love marriage and other major catastrophes.Aniston portrays Sarah Huttinger whose return home with her fiance convinces her that the sedate proper country-club lifestyle of her family isn't for her and that maybe the Huttinger family isn't even hers. Join Sarah as she uncovers secrets that suggest the Huttingers are neither sedate nor proper - and as Kevin Costner Shirley MacLaine and Mark Ruffalo join the fun. The story is rumor. The laughs are real!
National Lampoon's Animal House [Collector's Edition]
This hilarious special edition of the movie that made food fights an art form. This raunchy screwball spoof about college life in the 1960s sees Bluto (John Belushi) Otter (Tim Matheson) Pinto (Tom Hulce) and Flounder (Stephen Furst) lead the way with their outrageous behaviour in the ultimate campus comedy!
Sullivan's Travels
Comedy director John Sullivan (Joel McCrea) decides to give up his life of luxury and sets off on the road to research how the other half live. He plans to make Oh Brother Where Art Thou? a somber social conscious movie inspired by his experiences of poverty and desperation.A chance encounter with failed starlet Veronica Lake enables him to escape the studio publicity machine and learn at first hand the true value of entertainment.
Vampire In Brooklyn
Eddie Murphy's got the bite stuff in this movie mix of bone-chilling horror and chill-out comedy directed by Wes Craven (A Nightmare on Elm Street). As the Vampire Maximillian the popular star is most diabolical dashing and definitely undead dude in the 'hood'. To add to the macabre fun Murphy morphs into two other must-see characters: a paunchy preacher and a fast talking thug.Angela Bassett (The Score) plays the cop whose world is rocked by Maximillian's attempts to make her his mate for eternity. And Kadeem Hardison is the vampire's haplessly decaying sidekick. Brooklyn may be home to the undead now that Max is around- but that mean's it's livelier than!
Burn After Reading
An all-star cast including George Clooney Brad Pitt Frances McDormand Tilda Swinton and John Malkovich come together in this outrageous spy comedy about murder blackmail sex addiction and physical fitness! When a disc filled with some of the CIA’s most irrelevant secrets gets in the hands of two determined but dim-witted gym employees the duo are intent on exploiting their find. But since blackmail is a trade better left for the experts events soon spiral out of everyone’s and anyone’s control resulting in a non-stop series of hilarious encounters! From Joel and Ethan Coen the Academy Award-winning directors of No Country For Old Men and The Big Lebowski comes this brilliantly clever and endlessly entertaining movie that critics are calling smart funny and original.
Garfield The Movie
The long-running popular comic strip about the fat and lazy cat named Garfield comes to life with this live-action Hollywood comedy. Based on characters created by Jim Davis the film tells the story of this supremely spoiled pet who wants the affection of everyone around him only he wants it on his own terms. Trouble arises one day when under the influence of the beautiful veterinarian Liz (Jennifer Love Hewitt) Garfield's owner Jon (Breckin Meyer) stuns him by bringing home a cuddly dog Odie. Jealous at the attention Odie is receiving Garfield locks Odie out of the house. Odie runs away and when he's kidnapped by the evil television personality Happy Chapman (Stephen Tobolowsky) Garfield realizes his mistake and embarks on a brave mission to rescue his new housemate. Bill Murray is a perfect choice to provide the loveable voice behind the computer-animated cat. Director Peter Hewitt keeps the story moving along at a clipped pace which will ensure that children's attention spans won't be tested. Breezy and charming Garfield is a nostalgic return to the past for older viewers who grew up with the fuzzy feline and an engaging introduction for younger audiences who are meeting him for the very first time.
When Brendan Met Trudy
From the pen of Roddy Doyle the celebrated writer of THE COMMITMENTS THE SNAPPER and THE VAN comes this irresistible romantic comedy set in the heart of contemporary Dublin.Brendan is out of touch. In school his pupils ignore him and his fellow teachers give him a wide berth. His enthusiasm for old movies borders on obsession and even his love of music doesn't help him to connect with the world.He sings baritone in his local choir but the rest of the time he's solo. Then one night over his lonely pint of Guinness Brendan meets Trudy. Beautiful extrovert and fast-talking she drags him out of his black-and-white dreams into a full colour world. But what Brendan could never guess is that it's not just his heart she's breaking and entering...
Saucy Seventies - Eskimo Nell
This memorable collection of classic British made erotica marks a mucky milestone in the history of our domestic cinema. A unique catalogue of this country's first legal full-frontal sex DVDs it features a roll-call of familiar comedy actors and actresses.Rude nude and filthily funny these are the hilarious and horney movies that had the 'dirty mac' brigade flocking to Soho's cinemas for more than a decade. Now widely available to buy on DVD for the very first time they are a giggling quivering mix of sex and comedy.
State And Main
A big-budget movie crew descends upon the sleepy town of Waterford Vermont. Soon money will change hands careers will be jeopardized and love will bloom.Pity the poor film director (William H. Macy Fargo) who's arrived only to discover that the local mill - a crucial location for his movie since it's titled 'The Old Mill' - burned down in 1960. The idealistic screenwriter (Philip Seymour Hoffman The Talented Mr. Ripley) would rather pursue a pure-hearted local girl (Rebecca Pidgeon) than do a last-minute rewrite; the bimbo starlet (Sarah Jessica Parker Sex in the City) is now baulking at her contractual nude scene; a local teenager (Julia Stiles Save the Last Dance) is only too willing to exploit the indiscretions of the film's skirt chasing star (Alec Baldwin Pearl Harbor) and of course the power-wielding producer (David Paymer Amistad) is panicking about everything. David Mamet's hilarious State and Main will have you laughing as you watch this part screwball comedy part showbiz satire.
Take The Money & Run
Woody Allen sends up criminals and gangster movies in his first comic masterpiece as writer director and star. This is vintage Woody Allen and with his trademark visual gags and inspired one-liners this hilarious comedy established him as a major force in filmmaking. Psychologically unfit for life as a child Virgil Starkwell (Woody Allen) begins a life of compulsive petty crime. Before reaching the age of 25 he has become an extremely inept criminal who is known to police by five aliases. For a while however his life seems to change when he meets and falls in love with the beautiful Louise (Janet Margolin). But it's not long before his compulsive ways return and as he sets out to rob banks he fails in increasingly fascinating and hilarious ways.
National Lampoon's TV: The Movie
National Lampoon's TV the movie is a celebration of the ever-increasing ridiculousness of society as reflected through the televisions in your living room....Who are we trying to kid? We just want to break a lot of shit throw Steve-O off a building and get some chicks naked.Combining jackassian stunts with fast action and sketch comedy this is a demented channel-changing adventure for the unfocused youth of the world.This brilliantly funny spoof comedy stars pop culture icons from the past three decades and the cast of Jackass!From Fear Factor to The Apprentice to Wife Swap to many more spoofs of reality TV - Nothing Is Off Limits..So sit back relax and let us change the channel for you!
The Keystone Comedies
One of the early classic movie studios Keystone Pictures Studios was founded in 1912 by Mack Sennett and would find lasting fame with their brand of slapstick comedy especially the Keystone Cops. These four films which include ; The Bangville Police the first popular Keystone Cops film showcase their brand of slapstick to perfection. ; ; The Bangville Police: A young farmer's daughter spots some strangers hanging around in the barn and rushes off to call the police. But ; the police have a haphazard rush across country to get there in time. ; ; Her Painted Hero: An heiress decides to use her new found wealth financing her favourite star's new vaudeville show but on the ; understanding that a part is found for her. ; ; Love Speed And Thrills: An injured Walrus who has been shot is carried home by Ambrose but Walrus recovers enough to start flirting ; with Ambrose' wife! ; ; Wife And Auto Trouble: Bossed about at home by his wife and his mother-inlaw a meek husband finds comfort in the arms of his secretary. ; In gratitude he has bought her a car but unfortunately the wife spots it first.
Christmas With The Kranks
No! Ho! Ho! ; ; The Kranks have always celebrated a picture-perfect Christmas. But with their only daughter Blair (Julie Gonzalo) away from home on her Peace Corps assignment Nora (Jamie Lee Curtis) and Luther (Tim Allen) are suffering from empty nest syndrome and decide to skip Christmas in favor of a Caribbean cruise. But their neighbours led by Vic Frohmeyer (Dan Akroyd) take Christmas very seriously and are none too happy about the Kranks' boycott. In this neighbourhood where every house is decorated to the hilt and has a Frosty on the roof skipping Christmas is virtually a crime. And just as the Kranks are preparing for their Christmas Day departure they get a call from their daughter who announces that she is coming home for Christmas after all. ; ; Suddenly all systems are go for their annual Christmas Eve party and a normal--highly festive--holiday. Will the Kranks be able to pull together a perfect Christmas for Blair in just a few hours or will she discover their plan to skip Christmas? ; ; An all-star cast populate this festive comedy boasting a hilarious screenplay from family movie maestro Chris Columbus. Based on the novel Skipping Christmas by John Grisham!
My One And Only
My One And Only follows actor George Hamilton's teenage years. It's an appealing comedy a road movie set in the 1950s and starring Renée Zellweger as his mother the irrepressible Anne Devereaux. ; ; She's a blond Southern belle married to Dan a bandleader (Kevin Bacon) who loves her but is a compulsive womaniser. After finding him in bed with one woman too many Anne leaves him and takes her two sons: George (Logan Lerman) and Robbie (Mark Rendall) half-brothers from her two marriages. In a sky-blue Cadillac convertible they set off an odyssey to find Anne a new husband - the only way she can imagine to support them. ; ; Anne is 40-ish and attractive to men but no longer this year's model. Their journeys take them to a series of her old beaus in Boston Pittsburgh and St. Louis; these hunting expeditions are seen through George's dubious eyes. One is an ex-military sadist one a playboy all not suitable candidates. She tries actually working but being a waitress is beyond her and then she apparently strikes pay dirt with a proposal from a man whose family owns a big house-paint business.
My One and Only
My One and Only follows actor George Hamilton's teenage years. It's an appealing comedy a road movie set in the 1950s and starring Renée Zellweger as his mother the irrepressible Anne Devereaux. She's a blond Southern belle married to Dan a bandleader (Kevin Bacon) who loves her but is a compulsive womaniser. After finding him in bed with one woman too many Anne leaves him and takes her two sons: George (Logan Lerman) and Robbie (Mark Rendall) half-brothers from her two marriages. In a sky-blue Cadillac convertible they set off an odyssey to find Anne a new husband - the only way she can imagine to support them. Anne is 40-ish and attractive to men but no longer this year's model. Their journeys take them to a series of her old beaus in Boston Pittsburgh and St. Louis; these hunting expeditions are seen through George's dubious eyes. One is an ex-military sadist one a playboy all not suitable candidates. She tries actually working but being a waitress is beyond her and then she apparently strikes pay dirt with a proposal from a man whose family owns a big house-paint business.
Richard Pryor - Live & Smokin'
Live and Smokin' is possibly the greatest example of Richard Pryor's savage pioneering comedy. Young fierce and funny as hell - this is genuinely astonishing material. Years before the cocaine abuse and movie roles tampered with his mettle this is the full fire of the greatest stand-up comedian of all time. Filmed in a small hip New York stand-up club in 1971 before a shocked crowd this is one of modern comedy's true defining moments.
