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Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation

Comedy

Harried Mr. Hobbs (James Stewart) is tired out by his hectic life in the city. His wife, Peggy, finally manages to convince him to take the family on a seaside vacation where they can all be together for once. This, of course, is only the beginning of Mr. Hobbs' life getting much, much more harried than he had ever imagined. With their four children, the husbands of their two eldest daughters and their two grandchildren in tow, the Hobbs family arrives at their rented ocean cottage to find that it's a dark, ramshackle place with a byzantine water pump as dangerous as any mouse trap. That's just the start of the problems. Disaster and discord begin to ensue. Can Mr. Hobbs hold his family together long enough to survive this vacation?

The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom

Comedy

While her husband works, the wife of a bra manufacturer leads a secret life with her lover, whom she conveniently hides in her attic.

Chris Gethard: Career Suicide

Comedy

Comedian/writer/talk-show and podcast host Chris Gethard brings his critically acclaimed one-man, off-Broadway show to HBO. Taped at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center in New York City, the show highlights Gethard's comedic and highly personal reflections on depression, alcoholism, suicide...and the other funniest parts of life. Produced for HBO by Funny or Die and executive produced by Judd Apatow, Gethard finds hope and humor in the strangest of places and holds nothing back over the course of this 90-minute special, as he dives into his experiences with mental illness and psychiatry.

Monuments

Comedy

Laura and Ted are enjoying a dysfunctional marriage in Boulder, Colorado: teaching at the university, drinking at the local tiki bar, and (barely) tolerating Laura’s odd family and odder would-be-suitor, Howl. After a brief estrangement, they are now back together, determined to make it work. When Laura is killed in a car accident, Ted is paralyzed with grief. Unable to let her go, he carries her ashes under his arm and starts seeing her everywhere. Aided by Howl, Laura’s family takes matters into their own hands by stealing the ashes, and heading to the family resting plot to say their goodbyes. At the same time, Ted is suddenly face to face with Laura’s ghost. She explains to Ted his mission: steal her ashes back, head east, and scatter them where they first fell in love, Ted steals Laura's ashes and Howl's truck and heads out on a cross-country road trip with the family and Howl in hot pursuit. Along their odyssey, Ted and Laura's ghost encounter characters that seduce, annoy, hurt, and sidetrack Ted from his mission. There’s Amber, the mysterious seductress; a trio of singing wood-nymphs; a directionless car mechanic, the only security guard at The Field Museum who matters, and Laura’s bratty little sister, Crystal.

Minutes

Comedy

Six interconnected stories about the most important minutes in six characters' lives. Shot in single takes.

Curse of the Pink Panther

Comedy

Interpol's Chief Inspector Dreyfus (Herbert Lom) couldn't be happier-- his nemesis, bumbling Inspector Jacques Clouseau, seems to have vanished. Dreyfus has a brilliant idea...he will program Interpol's computer (named Aldous) to select the world's worst detective (other than Clouseau, of course) to aid in the search. The computer comes up with a klutzy New York City police detective named Clifton Sleigh (Ted Wass), who soon lives up to his reputation for incompetence. With Sleigh on the case (wearing Harold Lloyd-type glasses), Dreyfus begins to hope that Clouseau will remain lost forever! Meanwhile, the fabulous Pink Panther diamond has been stolen again...and Dreyfus realizes that Sleigh is just as ghastly to have around as the missing Inspector Clouseau!... The seventh PINK PANTHER film.

Here Today

Comedy

Veteran comedy writer Charlie Burnz (Billy Crystal) forms an unlikely yet hilarious and touching friendship with New York lounge singer Emma Payge (Tiffany Haddish). Emma unexpectedly wins a lunch with the comedy legend, and their friendship gets off to an extremely rocky start (think seafood allergy, a hospital visit, and an epi pen). Before long, each finds in the other a sort of soul mate, forging a deep bond that kicks the generation gap aside and redefines the meaning of friendship, love, and trust.

Double Dynamite

Comedy

A bank teller reaps the rewards of saving a gangster's life, but can't reveal where he got the money.

Just 45 Minutes from Broadway

Comedy

Whether trodding the boards for paying audiences or performing at the kitchen table for her theatrical family (father Jack Heller, mother Diane Salinger, uncle David Proval, guest boarder Harriet Schock) the only place Pandora Isaacs, nicknamed Panda, (Tanna Frederick) has ever felt truly safe and entirely at home is on a stage. Stinging from the latest of several romantic break-ups, she retreats to the safety of her parents' ramshackle upstate country house - just 45 minutes from Broadway - where her non-theatrical sister (Julie Davis) and her sister's fiancé, a real-estate executive, (Judd Nelson) are also arriving for the weekend and the family's yearly Passover Seder. Family secrets, sibling rivalries, theatrical hysterics and the possibility of true love as rare as a blue bullfrog all emerge. But is this a play Panda is in or is it "real life?" Like so many actors, she is not entirely sure she knows the difference.

Fits and Starts

Comedy

David Warwik is a struggling writer who has been toiling away at the same novel for years. His wife Jennifer is a hot young literary figure, who has just released a new masterpiece. When her publisher invites the couple to an artists' salon at his home in Connecticut, the pair embark on a twisted journey, and David must face his demons and try to “not be weird” among the waspy salon guests and competitive art set in attendance. He encounters a dentist with publishing aspirations, a book critic full of condescending advice, a fellow writer who may know his wife a little too well, an old “friend," and a high powered bipolar literary agent who just might be able to help him... for a price.

Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Shape of Things to Come

Comedy

Emily's crew watches as three people and their robot friend try to put a stop to an evil plot to destroy the colonies living on the moon in H.G. Wells' THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME (1979). On the SOL, the bots roast the robot from the movie.

Midnight Masquerade

Comedy

Young businesswoman Elyse Samford's life takes a turn when she inherits Samford Candy, a multi-billion dollar corporation, from her retired father. A trademark infringement lawsuit against a rival company brings Elyse to Higgins Attorneys and Sons, where Rob Carelli, a young, too-nice-for-his-own-good lawyer, is bullied by his boss, firm founder Carter Higgins, and his two arrogant sons. Despite his workplace woes, Rob becomes instantly smitten with Elyse. With Halloween just around the corner, Elyse invites the Higgins law firm staff to an opulent masked Halloween costume ball. Rob obeys an order to remain in the office working that night, but has a change of heart when his spunky, 12-year old niece, Ruby, convinces him to attend the ball wearing a prince costume. After a magnificent waltz and magical exchange with the handsome "prince", Elyse yearns to locate this mysterious man and hopefully find the romance her life has been missing.

Santa Who?

Comedy

In this heart-warming Christmas tale, the real Santa Claus tumbles out of his sleigh and develops amnesia. He soon comes across a jaded TV reporter who is his only hope for getting his memory back in time to save the holiday.

My Man Godfrey (1936)

Comedy

A landmark screwball comedy from Hollywood’s golden age, My Man Godfrey follows the madcap antics of a ditzy debutante (Carole Lombard) who stumbles upon a “forgotten man” (William Powell) at the city dump. Determined to help Godfrey out, she offers him work in her household and he soon becomes the perfect butler for her eccentric family. As the family’s antics grow increasingly more absurd, it is only a matter of time before Godfrey’s secret past is revealed. Featuring brilliant comedic performances by Carole Lombard and William Powell along with Mischa Auer and Alice Brady, this timeless comedy classic was the first film ever to receive Academy Award® nominations in all four acting categories.

Advance to the Rear

Comedy

When a company of lovable Civil War misfits with no particular urge to fight or die is sent to garrison a remote Western fort rather than cause more mischief, its soldiers become reluctant heroes for the Union when they Advance to the Rear. After proving themselves more a liability than an asset in the war, Colonel Claude Brackenby (Academy Award winner Melvyn Douglas), Captain Jared Heath (Glenn Ford) and their men encounter Martha Lou (Stella Stevens), a Southern spy posing as a lady of the evening, working aboard a riverboat for madam Easy Jenny (Joan Blondell). Now, these losers hilariously become heroes when they somehow save a shipment of Union gold and rout the enemy along the way.

Landline

Comedy

Ted Gout is a public relations executive at Sanders PR. Just after securing the account for the upcoming season for the Chicago Cubs, Ted is passed over for a big promotion that would have supplied the finances for Ted and his pro-bono working, civil-rights lawyer, husband, Jack, to purchase their dream home. To make matters worse, he was passed over for his arch-nemesis, only five years his junior, but well more fine-tuned in the arts of social media. Ted gradually loses his sanity and finds himself slowly cutting himself off from society, thanks to a chance meeting with a low-tech hippie named Norm. As Ted’s husband worries for him and Ted’s friends go along for the ride, Ted must experience the pro’s and con’s of modern technology before finding a way to win his promotion back and get their dream home.

Such Good Friends

Comedy

Julie Messinger (Dyan Cannon) has it made. She is a New York housewife whose husband, Richard (Laurence Luckinbill), is an editor for a prominent photography magazine. They have a small circle of friends, including well-meaning, but inept Dr. Timothy Spector (James Coco), photographer Cal Whiting (Ken Howard) and Cal's live-in girlfriend Miranda (Jennifer O'Neill). Julie's mother (Nina Foch) spends her days getting pedicures and manicures, applying make-up and fake eye-lashes and buying expensive clothes, all the while criticizing her daughter for her looks and behavior. When Richard goes into the hospital for a minor mole-removal surgery, Julie gets more than she bargained for. Richard suffers from complications and goes into a coma, supposedly caused by a rare surgical factor, and she gathers friends and family together, culminating in a hilarious "quasi-cocktail-party" scene in the blood donation center of the hospital. While dealing with red tape, hospital bureaucracy and clueless doctors, Julie discovers her husband's "little black book," which contains the names of her friends. She confirms that her husband had been sleeping around and proceeds to make a fool out of him by getting it on with his male friends. When the complications get more ominous, guilt opens the door to her liberation as a woman. A scathingly funny examination of the dirty rich partying while one of their number lies on the brink of death.

In the Army Now

Comedy

Pauly Shore is definitely not one of the few good men Army recruitment has in mind for molding into a soldier. But that doesn't stop pacifist Pauly from signing up for a hitch in the Reserves in order to cash in on all the great perks, including free room and board and a steady salary for doing minimal work. Now, this man's Army is putting Pauly to the test. And Pauly the military misfit is serving his country as only he can, and single-handedly putting the Army on Red Alert.

Where the Bears Are 4

Comedy

Murder hits close to home when a party crasher keels over from a glass of poisoned champagne at Nelson and Todd’s wedding shower kicking off another murder investigation in the fourth feature film of this world wide hit comedy mystery series. As America’s favorite gay bear couple prepare for their upcoming nuptials with the help of their BFFs (Bear Friends Forever) Reggie and Wood, our furry detectives find themselves on the hunt for a demented killer landing them on the set of a TV game show, attacked by armed predator drones and fighting for their lives on board a luxury yacht off the coast of Catalina Island!

Booksmart

Comedy

In this fresh, unfiltered modern comedy, best friends and academic overachievers Amy (Kaitlyn Dever) and Molly (Beanie Feldstein) realize they’ve missed out on fun during high school. So, on the eve of graduation, they decide to make up for lost time with one wild adventure in a coming-of-age story about the meaningful bonds we create, also starring Jason Sudeikis, Will Forte and Lisa Kudrow.

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