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Comedies, Vol. V
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Another playlist of comedic films that I like and thought were funny too


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Movie: What Happened Was... ( 1994 )
Jackie and Michael are coworkers at a large law firm, who decide to meet at Jackie's for dinner one night. As this 'first date' plays out, the audience is guided through a mental minefield of disappointment.
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Movie: Nebraska ( 2013 )
An aging, booze-addled father makes the trip from Montana to Nebraska with his estranged son in order to claim a million-dollar Mega Sweepstakes Marketing prize.
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Movie: August: Osage County ( 2014 )
Violet Weston (Meryl Streep) has cancer and a propensity for pills and alcohol. She's a difficult woman to deal with and her husband has finally had enough. Violet's family gathers including middle daughter Ivy, youngest daughter Karen (with her new fiancé), eldest daughter Barbara (with her separated husband and teenage daughter), and her sister Mattie Fae (with her husband and son in tow). A family tragedy causes tensions to run high and secrets to come out. The Weston women will be forced to examine themselves and their lives whether they want to or not. Welcome to Osage County, Oklahoma in the sweltering heat of August.
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Movie: Love & Friendship ( 2016 )
Lady Susan Vernon takes up temporary residence at her in-laws' estate and, while there, is determined to be a matchmaker for her daughter Frederica -- and herself too, naturally.
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Movie: Café Society ( 2016 )
In the 1930s, a Bronx native moves to Hollywood and falls in love with a young woman who is seeing a married man.
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Movie: Chéri ( 2009 )
The son of a courtesan retreats into a fantasy world after being forced to end his relationship with the older woman who educated him in the ways of love.
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Movie: In Her Shoes ( 2005 )
Strait-laced Rose breaks off relations with her party girl sister, Maggie, over an indiscretion involving Rose's boyfriend. The chilly atmosphere is broken with the arrival of Ella, the grandmother neither sister knew existed.
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Movie: Trasharella ( 2009 )
Rena Riffel (Showgirls/Mulholland Drive) stars in her directorial debut, the B Movie Musical Retro Satire, Trasharella. Transforming into a recycling trashy super hero, it is up to Trasharella to kill the Hollywood Vampire.
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Movie: Scoop ( 2006 )
An American journalism student in London scoops a big story, and begins an affair with an aristocrat as the incident unfurls.
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Movie: Rag Tale ( 2005 )
A romance that plays out in the splashy, sensational world of British tabloids.
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Movie: Konga TNT ( 2020 )
After becoming injected with a formula derived from an alien ship, a lab gorilla escapes from his containment and befriends two young boys. The alien formula causes the gorilla to grow to gargantuan size and rampage throughout the city and the boys must find a way to save their simian friend before the army takes him down.
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Movie: Charlie Bartlett ( 2008 )
A rich kid becomes the self-appointed psychiatrist to the student body of his new high school.
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Movie: Bad Taste ( 1988 )
The population of a small town disappears and is replaced by aliens that chase human flesh for their intergalactic fast-food chain.
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Movie: Perrier's Bounty ( 2010 )
A gangster named Perrier looks to exact his revenge on a trio of fugitives responsible for the accidental death of one of his cronies.
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Movie: Henry's Crime ( 2011 )
Released from prison for a crime he didn't commit, an ex-con targets the same bank he was sent away for robbing.
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Movie: For Richer or Poorer ( 1997 )
A real estate hustler and his wife hide from the IRS among the Amish.
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Movie: A Midsummer Night's Dream ( 1999 )
Lovers' lives are complicated by city law, feuding faerie royalty, and... love.
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Movie: Trust Me ( 2014 )
In an attempt to sign a Hollywood starlet, struggling talent agent and former child star Howard Holloway must contend with her volatile father, a scheming long-time rival, and a producer and casting director who despise him.
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Movie: The Paper ( 1994 )
Henry Hackett is the editor of a New York City tabloid. He is a workaholic who loves his job, but the long hours and low pay are leading to discontent. Also, publisher Bernie White faces financial straits, and has hatchetman Alicia Clark, Henry's nemesis, impose unpopular cutbacks. Henry's wife Martha, a hugely pregnant former reporter of his, is fed up because he has so little time for his family. He is therefore considering an offer from Paul Bladden to edit a paper like the New York Times, which would mean more money, shorter hours, more respectability...but might also be a bit boring for his tastes. But a hot story soon confronts Henry with tough decisions.
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Movie: Sandy Wexler ( 2017 )
Sandy Wexler is a talent manager working in Los Angeles in the 1990s, diligently representing a group of eccentric clients on the fringes of show business.
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Movie: Win a Date with Tad Hamilton! ( 2004 )
A small-town girl wins a date with a male celebrity through a contest. When the date goes better than expected, a love triangle forms between the girl, the male celebrity, and the girl's best friend.
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Movie: Big Trouble ( 2002 )
The lives of several Miami denizens, from ad agents to gunrunners to street thugs to law enforcement to school-children, intersect with humorous and dangerous results.
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Movie: Calendar Girls ( 2003 )
A Women's Institute chapter's fundraising effort for a local hospital by posing nude for a calendar becomes a media sensation.
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Movie: Forbidden Highway ( 2001 )
Young and attractive Cherry decides to hide in Las Vegas after robbed the employer, the boss of a mafia. But that sends on its traces of bandits which have to deliver it back to Los Angeles. Their mission is successful, but their joint travel through the desert becomes a heartrending experience for all...
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Movie: Feeling Minnesota ( 1996 )
An ex-convict and his bumbling crook brother fight for the same woman.
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TV Show: Kitchen Confidential ( 2005 )
Celebrity chef Jack Bourdain, currently making pizzas at a chain restaurant, is offered an opportunity to become head chef of Nolita, a hip New York City restaurant. Pino, the owner of the establishment, has 300 reservations on the bookS and no food, crew or chef. He gives Jack the job and 48 hours to get it done. Jack raids other kitchens, bringing in an all-star team of chefs from his past. When a food critic Jack met during his wild days comes to Nolita, things have a horrible way of going wrong. Chaos ensues, but there is hope - the food critic gives Nolita a rave review on the "Exile on Main Street".
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Movie: New York, I Love You ( 2009 )
Eleven love stories set in one of the most loved and hated cities of the world, New York City.
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Movie: Little New York ( 2009 )
The lives of three residents of New York's Staten Island intersect as they struggle to get ahead.
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Movie: So Close ( 2002 )
A conflict of interest between two high-kicking assassin sisters is complicated as they're pursued by the criminals who hired them and an equally high-kicking female cop.
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Movie: It Came from the Desert ( 2018 )
A pulpy monster movie inspired by the cult classic 1980s video game "It Came from the Desert," featuring rival motocross heroes and heroines, kegger parties in the desert, secret underground military bases...and of course giant ants!
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Movie: Naken ( 2000 )
When Anders wakes up on his wedding day, he finds himself naked in an elevator, only remembering some of what happened.
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Movie: Waking Up in Reno ( 2002 )
A romantic comedy about two trashy couples travelling to Reno to see a monster truck show.
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Movie: Crimewave ( 1985 )
A pair of whacked-out cartoon-like exterminator/hitmen kill the owner of a burglar-alarm company, and stalk the partner who hired them, his wife, and a nerd framed for the murder, who tells the story in flashback from the electric chair.
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Movie: Sweet Liberty ( 1986 )
After selling the rights of his book to a movie production company, a writer finds himself fighting the many egos and varying views around him.
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Movie: Cyrus ( 2010 )
John and Molly, a divorced middle aged man and a single mother meet at a friends party and start up a small relationship, all John has to do now is meet Molly's son... Cyrus
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Movie: Return to Me ( 2000 )
A man who falls in love with the woman who received his wife's heart must decide which woman it is who holds his heart.
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Movie: Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 hours 11 minutes ( 1965 )
Hoping to push Britain to the forefront of aviation, a London publisher organizes an international air race across the English Channel, but must contend with two entrants vying for his daughter, as well as national rivalries and cheating.
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Movie: Girl in Progress ( 2012 )
As single mom Grace juggles work, bills, and her affair with a married doctor, her daughter, Ansiedad, plots a shortcut to adulthood after finding inspiration in the coming-of-age stories she's reading for school.
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Movie: The Importance of Being Earnest ( 2002 )
In 1890s London, two friends use the same pseudonym ("Ernest") for their on-the-sly activities. Hilarity ensues.
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Movie: Weirdsville ( 2007 )
A pair of slackers get in way over their heads when they try to dump the body of a dead girlfriend in the basement of a drive-in movie theater where a satanic cult performs ritual sacrifices.
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Movie: Sharkproof ( 2014 )
Broke, busted, and living in a tent outside their parents backyard. Vince (Cameron Van Hoy) and Freddy (Michael Drayer) hit on the idea of a lifetime, Sharkproof wetsuits, and are determined to strike it rich. They go to a local loan shark, Max (Jon Lovitz) who owns a club in downtown LA to fund the venture. At the club they both fall in love with the same girl, Isabella (Kinga Kierzek) the receiving half of knife throwing duo who are preforming at the club. Yuri (Ken Davitian) is her drunk, knife-throwing partner. When Isabella chooses the boys over Max he sends his goons to reclaim her. Suddenly the boys must become the men they pretend to be, but now it's sink or swim. Almost Sharkproof, a bromantic comedy.
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Movie: Straight A's ( 2013 )
Pressured by his deceased mother's ghost to return home to the family he abandoned, a former addict grabs a bag of pills and a sack of marijuana and hits the road to Louisiana.
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Movie: Special Correspondents ( 2016 )
A radio journalist and his technician get in over their heads when they hatch a scheme to fake their own kidnapping during a rebel uprising in South America and hide out in New York instead.
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Movie: Leading Lady ( 2015 )
Jodi, an idealistic British drama teacher, travels to a South African town to prepare for a major film role. In rehearsals Jodi's interactions with quirky locals may teach her that there is more to life than lights... camera... and action!
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Movie: The Party's Just Beginning ( 2018 )
When her best friend takes his own life, Liusaidh has to deal with stresses of such a situation.
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Movie: Deathgasm ( 2015 )
Two teenage boys unwittingly summon an ancient evil entity known as The Blind One by delving into black magic while trying to escape their mundane lives.
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Movie: Torch Song Trilogy ( 1988 )
Arnold is a gay man working as drag queen in 1971 NYC. He meets a handsome bisexual man.
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Movie: Chain of Fools ( 2000 )
Salma Hayek plays an avid detective assigned to the heist of a batch of precious coins that end up in the hands of a suicidal barber.
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Movie: Girl Walks Into a Bar ( 2011 )
A sharp-witted comedy that follows a group of apparent strangers in interlocking stories taking place in ten different bars during the course of one evening throughout Los Angeles.
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Movie: The Brothers Solomon ( 2007 )
A pair of well-meaning, but socially inept brothers try to find their perfect mates in order to provide their dying father with a grandchild.
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Movie: SubUrbia ( 1997 )
A group of suburban teenagers try to support each other through the difficult task of becoming adults.
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Movie: The Romantics ( 2010 )
Seven close friends reunite for the wedding of two of their friends. Problems arise because the bride and the maid of honor have had a long rivalry over the groom.
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Movie: This Must Be the Place ( 2011 )
Cheyenne, a retired rock star living off his royalties in Dublin, returns to New York City to find the man responsible for a humiliation suffered by his recently deceased father during W.W.II.
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Movie: Wassup Rockers ( 2006 )
Instead of adhering to the norms of their South Central neighborhood, a group of skater boys opt to bus into Hollywood and Beverly Hills, where they attract local rich girls - and plenty of trouble with the police, jealous boyfriends, and nervous parents.
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Movie: The Postman (Il Postino) ( 1994 )
Simple Italian postman learns to love poetry while delivering mail to a famous poet; he uses this to woo local beauty Beatrice.
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Movie: Watching the Detectives ( 2008 )
Neil, a self proclaimed film geek and owner of Gumshoe video, has always been content to live vicariously through his favorite films noir. But when he meets Violet, a real-life femme fatale, his mundane world gets turned upside down and the line between reality and the movies quickly begins to blur. Will Neil step up and embrace a life full of adventure or retreat back to his comfortable couch?
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Movie: From Prada to Nada ( 2011 )
A Latina spin on Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility," where two spoiled sisters who have been left penniless after their father's sudden death are forced to move in with their estranged aunt in East Los Angeles.
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Movie: A Good Man in Africa ( 1994 )
In a West African nation, the womanizing British 1st Secretary of the High Commissioner deals with different issues. Save the good doctor/Sean Connery, the British there seem comically out of place.
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Movie: Ten Inch Hero ( 2007 )
An artist gets a job at a beachside sandwich shop, where she hangs out with a techie, a flirt, a rocker, a hippie, and a Wiccan.
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Movie: Home Fries ( 1998 )
Pregnant Sally unknowingly falls for the stepson of the deceased father of her baby and has to deal with his homicidal family.
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Movie: Cat Run ( 2011 )
When a sexy, high-end escort holds the key evidence to a scandalous government cover-up, two bumbling young detectives become her unlikely protectors from a ruthless assassin hired to silence her.
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Movie: Two Hands ( 1999 )
A 19 year old finds himself in debt to a local gangster when some gang loot disappears and sets him on the run from thugs. Meanwhile two street kids start a shopping spree when they find the missing money.
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Movie: Younger and Younger ( 1993 )
A strange man owns a self-storage facility and lives in a reality of his own, until reality comes crashing down.
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Movie: Filth and Wisdom ( 2008 )
In London, A.K. is a Ukrainian Gypsy, seeking fame as a rocker, doing odd jobs: he's a dom, drives a hack, and runs errands for his neighbor, a poet full of self pity since going blind. A.K's flatmates are Holly, a ballerina who becomes a reluctant stripper in need of coaching, and Juliette, a pill-popping assistant at a pharmacy run by an Indian tired of his marriage. Juliette, estranged from her family, dreams of helping the poor children of Africa; A.K. has a crush on Holly; Juliette's boss lusts after her. Her hapless sister calls from time to time. The poet despairs. Is there a route from filth to wisdom for these souls? Can they find fun and fulfillment? A.K. provides philosophical comment.
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Movie: The History Boys ( 2006 )
An unruly class of gifted and charming teenage boys are taught by two eccentric and innovative teachers, as their headmaster pushes for them all to get accepted into Oxford or Cambridge.
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Movie: Because of Grácia ( 2017 )
Two high-school couples explore friendship and dating along dissimilar lines, leading to courage and transformation for one teen and a personal crisis for another.
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Movie: See This Movie ( 2004 )
Two bumbling but determined three-day film school graduates enter the Montreal World Film Festival with a feature film that doesn't exist.
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Movie: Masked and Anonymous ( 2003 )
A singer, whose career has gone on a downward spiral, is forced to make a comeback to the performance stage for a benefit concert.
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Movie: Vice Versa ( 1988 )
During an argument, a divorced executive and his 11 year old son casually touch a magical Tibetan skull, releasing a mysterious power that transfers the father's mind to the body of the son and vice versa. Their problems have just begun.
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Movie: Waking Ned Devine ( 1998 )
When a lottery winner dies of shock, his fellow townsfolk attempt to claim the money.
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Movie: The Castle ( 1997 )
A working-class family from Melbourne, Australia fights city hall after being told they must vacate their beloved family home to allow for infrastructural expansion.
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Movie: Kill Your Friends ( 2015 )
An A&R man working at the height of the Britpop music craze goes to extremes in order to find his next hit.
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Movie: Spike of Bensonhurst ( 1988 )
Spike Fumo is an Italian kid apsiring to be a boxer. He falls in love with a rich girl, who turns out to be the daughter of a Mafia boss. Spike is threatened to leave Bensonhurst by the mob, and then goes to a poverty-stricken Puerto Rican part of Brooklyn.
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Movie: Love, Honor and Obey ( 2000 )
A north London postman who gets involved with a gang of criminals
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Movie: The Truth About Love ( 2007 )
Drunk, Archie sends a valentine to his best friend's wife. She sends one to her husband. He hides it so she disguises herself as a slut. Will he cheat on his wife - with his wife? Let us see what happens.
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Movie: Wah-Wah ( 2006 )
Set at the end of the '60s, as Swaziland is about to receive independence from Great Britain, the film follows the young Ralph Compton, at 12, through his parents' traumatic separation, till he's 14. It is written and directed by Richard E Grant, and based on true events from Richard E Grant's childhood.
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Movie: Step Sisters ( 2018 )
To get the college dean's backing for Harvard, Jamilah has to teach girls at a white sorority to step dance.
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Movie: Assault of the Killer Bimbos ( 1988 )
Two go-go dancers, Lulu and Peaches, are framed for the murder of their employer by the real killer, sleazy gangster Vinnie. Picking up waitress Darlene along the way, the three are involved in wild car chases with cops as they head south to cross the border into Mexico, where they unexpectedly encounter Vinnie in a fleabag Mexican motel.
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Movie: The Mysteries of Pittsburgh ( 2008 )
Based on Michael Chabon's novel, the film chronicles the defining summer of a recent college graduate who crosses his gangster father and explores love, sexuality, and the enigmas surrounding his life and his city.
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Movie: The Legacy of a Whitetail Deer Hunter ( 2018 )
The great hunter Buck Ferguson (Josh Brolin) and his trusted cameraman Don (Danny McBride) set out for an epic weekend adventure to reconnect with Buck's young son (Montana Jordan).
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Movie: Visioneers ( 2008 )
The Jeffers Corporation is a world success, endorsed by the U.S. President, pitching productivity and happy talk. George is a third level employee, supervising three or four others. Around the world, people are exploding as the stress of denying feelings takes its toll. The Jeffers' response: mind control. George and his wife are miserable: he's impotent with occasional fits of infantile pique. She's reading a book on happiness, trying everything. His brother, released from prison, starts of freedom-of-expression movement in George's backyard. Plus there's Charisma, a woman from Level Four who sends him paperwork - with smiley faces. Can George connect?
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Movie: Barry Munday ( 2010 )
Barry Munday wakes up after being attacked to realize that he's missing his family jewels. To make matters worse, he learns he's facing a paternity lawsuit filed by a woman he can't remember having sex with.
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Movie: Motherhood ( 2009 )
In Manhattan, a mother of two preparing for her daughter's sixth birthday party has no idea of the challenges she's about to face in order to pull off the event.
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Movie: A Chorus of Disapproval ( 1989 )
A man new to a smallish British town joins an amateur theatre company. Once there, he discovers that the drama on stage is quite often nothing compared to what's happening behind the scenes: seduction, romance, faction fighting, and the inevitable jealosy.
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Movie: Every Woman's Dream ( 1996 )
A young woman believes she has married the man of her dreams without suspecting her husband is leading a double life. When his lies go sour, he makes a deadly turn into a life of crime.
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Movie: The Moneychanger ( 2019 )
Spanning the fifties to the seventies, the film follows Humberto as he gets increasingly in over his head with multiple shady book-cooking schemes throughout South America, leading to an ultimate life-or-death decision.
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Movie: Big Stone Gap ( 2016 )
In a small town nestled in the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia, self-proclaimed spinster Ave Maria Mulligan finds her life shaken up and forever changed after learning a long-buried family secret.
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Movie: Compulsion ( 2013 )
The lives of two female neighbors intersect when their individual obsessions begin to unravel.
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Movie: Love, Wedding, Marriage ( 2011 )
A happy newlywed marriage counselor's views on wedded bliss get thrown for a loop when she finds out her parents are getting divorced.
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Movie: Citizen Ruth ( 1996 )
An irresponsible, drug-addicted, recently impregnated woman finds herself in the middle of an abortion debate when both parties attempt to sway her to their respective sides.
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Movie: Hunky Dory ( 2013 )
In the heat of the summer of 1976, keen drama teacher Vivienne fights sweltering heat and general teenage apathy to put on an end of year music version of Shakespeare's The Tempest. To engage her students, she uses hits of the time, which will be performed by a fresh young cast led by rising star Aneurin Barnard.
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Movie: Family Weekend ( 2013 )
When her family misses her jump roping competition, a 16-year-old girl and her siblings hold their parents hostage, hoping to correct their unsatisfying behavior.
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Movie: Bar Starz ( 2008 )
The adventures of some seriously odd club denizens.
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Movie: Pisica alba, pisica neagra ( 1998 )
A small time hustler gets more than he bargained for when he tries to repay his debts by marrying his son to a sister of a troublesome gangster.
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Movie: The Lightkeepers ( 2010 )
Set in the year 1912 on Cape Cod, a lighthouse keeper who has disavowed any association with females, must deal with the appearance of two attractive women who move into a nearby cottage for the summer.
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Movie: Best Night Ever ( 2013 )
Claire is about to get married, but her bachelorette party quickly spirals out of control.
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Movie: Bad Eggs ( 2003 )
Ben Kinnear and Mike Paddock are two undercover detectives with way too much publicity.
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Movie: Cat Run 2 ( 2014 )
Gritty and action-packed, Cat Run 2 stars the seductive Winter Ave Zoli (Sons of Anarchy), as a high-end call girl with a secret military connection. Better than ever, Scott Mechlowicz and Alphonso McAuley return as Anthony and Julian, the unlikely team of bumbling, up-and-coming private detectives. After a "sex party" turned massacre leaves Julian's cousin in trouble, the wannabe detective team takes on the case and discovers a military secret they wish they hadn't. This sexy, thrilling, epic will leave you at the edge of your seat!
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Movie: Most Likely to Murder ( 2018 )
A home for the holidays murder-mystery comedy - former high-school hero Billy (Adam Pally) comes back to his hometown expecting things to be like they used to. Instead, he finds all his friends have moved on, and his ex (Rachel Bloom) is dating the former high school outcast (Vincent Kartheiser). So, Billy becomes obsessed with proving the outcast is actually the killer behind a mysterious local death. It's like Rear Window - for stoners.
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Movie: Chalk It Up ( 2016 )
When a super girly-girl is dumped by her boyfriend; she decides to do everything she can to get him back by building a college gymnastics team, quickly learning that she is capable of a lot more than just getting an MRS degree.