Category Archives: Comedy
The Comedian
Release 2016
Genre Comedy
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Director: Taylor Hackford
Writers: Art Linson, Jeffrey Ross, Richard LaGravenese, Lewis Friedman
Stars: Robert De Niro, Leslie Mann, Harvey Keitel, Edie Falco, Danny DeVito
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1967614/
A look at the life of an aging insult comic named Jack Burke.
Little Boxes
Release 2016
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Director: Rob Meyer
Writers: Annie J. Howell
Stars: Melanie Lynskey, Nelsan Ellis, Armani Jackson, Oona Laurence, Miranda McKeon
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5030402/
An interracial family struggles to adjust when they move from New York City to a small, predominately white town in Washington State.
Sandy Wexler
Release 2017
Genre Comedy
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Director: Steven Brill
Writers: Dan Bulla, Tim Herlihy, Paul Sado
Stars: Adam Sandler, Jackie Sandler, Millie Wynn, David Spade, Jane Seymour
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5893332/
Sandy Wexler (Adam Sandler) is a talent manager working in Los Angeles in the 1990s, diligently representing a group of eccentric clients on the fringes of show business. His single minded devotion is put to the test when he falls in love with his newest client, Courtney Clarke, a tremendously talented singer who he discovers at an amusement park. Over the course of a decade, the two of them play out a star-crossed love story.
Win It All
Release 2017
Genre Comedy
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Director: Joe Swanberg
Writers: Jake Johnson, Joe Swanberg
Stars: Jake Johnson, Rony Shemon, Morgan Ng, Edward Kaihatsu, Adrian Jasso
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3155328/
Eddie Garrett agrees to watch a duffel bag for an acquaintance who is heading to prison. When he discovers cash in the bag, he's unable to resist the temptation and winds up deeply in debt. When the prison release is shortened, Eddie suddenly has a small window of time to win all the money back.
Ballerina
Release 2016
Genre Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Documentary, Family, Musical
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Director: Eric Summer, Éric Warin
Writers: Eric Summer, Laurent Zeitoun, Carol Noble
Stars: Elle Fanning, Carly Rae Jepsen, Maddie Ziegler, Terrence Scammell, Tamir Kapelian
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2261287/
An orphan girl dreams of becoming a ballerina and flees her rural Brittany for Paris, where she passes for someone else and accedes to the position of pupil at the Grand Opera house.
All Nighter
Release 2017
Genre Comedy
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Director: Gavin Wiesen
Writers: Seth W. Owen
Stars: Analeigh Tipton, Emile Hirsch, J.K. Simmons, Meta Golding, Jon Daly
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4662420/
A workaholic father who attempts to visit his daughter during a layover in LA, only to discover that she's disappeared, is forced to team up with her awkward ex-boyfriend to find her over the course of one transformative night.
Hacker
Release 2016
Genre Comedy, Crime, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
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Director: Akan Satayev
Writers: Akan Satayev, Sanzhar Sultan, Timur Zhaksylykov
Stars: Callan McAuliffe, Lorraine Nicholson, Daniel Eric Gold, Clifton Collins Jr., Zachary Bennett
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3173594/
With the help of his new friends Alex Danyliuk turns to a life of crime and identity theft.
Sleepless
Release 2017
Genre Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
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Director: Baran bo Odar
Writers: Andrea Berloff, Frédéric Jardin, Nicolas Saada, Olivier Douyère
Stars: Jamie Foxx, Scoot McNairy, Gabrielle Union, Octavius J. Johnson, Tim Connolly
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2072233/
A cop with a connection to the criminal underworld scours a nightclub in search of his kidnapped son.
Is That a Gun in Your Pocket?
Release 2016
Genre Comedy
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Director: Matt Cooper
Stars: Andrea Anders, Matt Passmore, Cloris Leachman, Katherine McNamara, John Michael Higgins
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4196832/
If there's one thing that the men of Rockford Texas love as much as their women, it's their guns. But when a gun incident at a neighborhood school spurs one stay at home mom, Jenna (Andrea Anders), to rethink Rockford's obsessive gun culture, life in this idyllic town is turned upside-down. Much to the chagrin of her husband, (Matt Passmore), Jenna ignites a movement by recruiting the women to withhold sex from the men until every gun in Rockford is vanquished. A wild and hilarious showdown ensues between the sexes. As tensions and libidos rise, the men and women of Rockford must decide what's really important: keeping the peace or getting a piece.
Middle Man
Release 2016
Genre Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
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Director: Ned Crowley
Stars: Jim O'Heir, Andrew J. West, Josh McDermitt, Anne Dudek, Tracey Walter
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4835894/
Lenny Freeman is a straight-laced old-school accountant with a dream; to become a famous stand-up comedian. The problem is, Lenny is not very funny. Not even close. When his mother dies, leaving him nothing but debt and her '53 Oldsmobile, Lenny hits the road to chase his dream and head to Vegas to audition for Monte Guy's annual "Stand-Up Stand-Off". Along the way (and against his better judgment) Lenny picks up a mysterious traveler named "Hitch" and his trip quickly turns from bad to worse. When they stop at a small desert town, Lenny tries his act out at an open-mic, but a run-in with a heckler quickly leads to murder. Now with a dead body in his trunk, Lenny and Hitch are on the run. The body count soon piles up and Lenny tries to free himself from his psychotic sidekick and escape to Vegas with the girl of his dreams. But Hitch won't shake so easily. They've got a contract. And the devil is in the details...literally. Not to mention the fact that all this blood and mayhem is having a strange side-effect on Lenny. It is actually improving his comedy! As the saying goes - it's only funny until someone gets hurt.