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Senseless

Comedy

Perpetually poor Darryl is destined to lose his dream Wall Street job to a wealthy snob until Darryl volunteers for a high-paying scientific experiment that gives him superhuman senses--and the competitive edge he needs. But when the side effects start, he finds his chances for success sabotaged by attacks of sensory overload.

Friends With Benefits

Comedy

Dylan (Justin Timberlake) and Jamie (Mila Kunis) think it's going to be easy to add the simple act of sex to their friendship, despite what Hollywood romantic comedies would have them believe. They soon discover, however, that getting physical really does always lead to complications.

Very Bad Things

Comedy

She was the perfect stripper for a bachelor party. There was only one problem... she was dead. Christian Slater, Cameron Diaz, Jon Favreau, Jeremy Piven, Daniel Stern and Leland Orser star in the savagely funny, unexpected comedy, Very Bad Things. Kyle Fisher (Favreau) has one last night to celebrate life as a single man before marrying Laura (Diaz), so he sets out to Vegas with four of his best buddies. But a drug and alcohol filled night on the town with a stripper who goes all the way, turns into a cold night in the desert with shovels when the stripper goes all the way into a body bag after dying in their bathroom. And that's just the first of the bodies to pile up before Kyle can walk down the aisle. The four friends decide to bury the evidence, but fate has a way of not letting the truth stay buried for long - several ways in fact, all outrageous, all hilarious and full of jaw-dropping surprises.

David E. Talbert's What Goes Around Comes Around

Comedy

Get ready for a hilarious “battle of the sexes” tale in the classic comedy, DAVID E. TALBERT'S WHAT COMES AROUND GOES AROUND. Celebrated ladies’ man, Tyree Jackson (Wesley Jonathan), thinks his only job is to sneak women in and out of his apartment while his live in girlfriend, Desirae Baxter (Reagan Gomez-Preston), is at work. Tired of his philandering ways, Desirae and her girlfriends devise a plan that will give Tyree a taste of his own medicine. This all-star cast also stars comedians Tony Rock (All of Us), Lavell Crawford (Shaq's Comedy All-Stars), and film and television stars BeBe Drake (Martin) and Tico Wells (Five Heartbeats).

Starter For 10

Comedy

A brilliantly book-smart young man heads to college bent on leading his school on a popular TV quiz show, only to get caught up in a series of personal entanglements. James McAvoy ('The Last King of Scotland') stars as Brian, the blue-collar brainiac whose rise up the social ladder at Bristol University hits a snag when he falls for an upper-crust beauty. But can he keep it together to achieve his lifelong dream: an appearance on the game show 'University Challenge'?

Thumbsucker

Comedy

Meet Justin Cobb (Lou Pucci), a teenager who still sucks his thumb. Realizing it's totally disrupting his home, love and school love life, he allows his orthodontist (Keanu Reeves) to break him of the habit through hypnosis. Justin begins to experiment with prescription drugs, pot and sex as alternate means to overcome his anxieties and become "normal," never realizing normal is just a state of mind.

Step Lively (1944)

Comedy

Gordon Miller (George Murphy) has a hit in the works, especially since he latched onto a playwright whose real talent is his singing voice. Now all that flimflamming Miller must do is put his musical revue on stage before the rubber check underwriting it bounces his troupe from Broadway to the Bowery. As the typewriter-toting crooner, Frank Sinatra steps into his first top billing in this antic backstage musical based on the Broadway/Marx Brothers movie hit Room Service. With a nimble cast (including Gloria DeHaven, Adolphe Menjou and Walter Slezak) and buoyant Sammy Cahn/Jule Styne songs to go with farce, footlights and Frank, what else can a movie do but Step Lively?

Grumpier Old Men

Comedy

A blockbuster comedy hit sequel as hilarious as the original! Academy Award-winners Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau reprise their roles as bickering best friends. Legendary screen siren Sophia Loren is the vivacious newcomer who might just prove a formidable rival to the grumps as they try to keep her from turning their cherished local bait store into an Italian restaurant. Also returning from the original are Oscar-nominee Ann-Margret, Kevin Pollak, Daryl Hannah and Burgess Meredith.

A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas

Comedy

The new "Harold & Kumar" comedy picks up six years after the duo's last adventure. After years of growing apart, Harold Lee (John Cho) and Kumar Patel (Kal Penn) have replaced each other with new friends and are preparing for their respective Yuletide celebrations. But when a mysterious package mistakenly arrives at Kumar's door on Christmas Eve, his attempt to redirect it to Harold's house ends with the "high grade" contents-and Harold's father-in-law's prize Christmas tree- going up in smoke. Reluctantly embarking on another ill-advised journey with Kumar through New York City, their search for the perfect tree almost blows Christmas Eve sky high.

Where the Bears Are

Comedy

A comedy/mystery featuring 3 bear roommates who attempt to solve the murder of a party guest. It is the Golden Girls meets Murder She wrote, with big, gay hairy men.

Hero (1992)

Comedy

When her plane crashes into a Chicago bridge, ace reporter Gale Gayley (Geena Davis) is saved by a mysterious hero. Joining Davis in this heart-warming Capra-esque comedy are Dustin Hoffman as the unlikely hero, and Andy Garcia as the homeless vet who impersonates him.

A League of Their Own

Comedy

Tom Hanks, Geena Davis and Madonna star in this major-league comedy from the team that brought you Big. Hanks stars as Jimmy Dugan, a washed-up ballplayer whose big league days are over. Hired to coach in the All-American Girls Baseball League of 1943, while the male pros are at war, Dugan finds himself drawn back into the game by the heart and heroics of his all-girl team. Jon Lovitz adds a scene-stealing cameo as the sarcastic scout who recruits Dottie Hinson (Geena Davis), the baseball dolly with a Babe Ruth swing. Teammates Madonna, Lori Petty and Rosie O'Donnell round out the roster, taking the team to the World Series. Based on the true story of the pioneering women who blazed the trail, on the fields and off, for generations of athletes.

Emma (1932)

Comedy

A housekeeper faces unexpected snobbery when she marries her boss in this enjoyable drama starring Oscar-nominee Marie Dressler ("Dinner at Eight") and Oscar-honoree and Golden Globe-winner Jean Hersholt ("Grand Hotel"). Co-starring Oscar-honoree Myrna Loy ("The Best Years of Our Lives"). Dressler received an Oscar nomination for Best Actress for her role as Emma. Directed by multiple Oscar-nominee Clarence Brown ("National Velvet").

There's Something About Mary

Comedy

Ted (Ben Stiller) is still in love with his high school prom date, Mary (Cameron Diaz), even though it's been years after the humiliating incident that cut their date short. Ted hires Pat, a private detective (Matt Dillon) to track her down, but Pat ends up falling in love with her too! And so begins the hilarious battle for Mary's heart!

Christmas In Connecticut (1945)

Comedy

Journalist Elizabeth Lane is one of the country's most famous food writer. In her columns, she describes herself as a hard working farm woman, taking care of her children and being an excellent cook. But this is all lies. In reality she is an unmarried New Yorker who can't even boil an egg. The recipes come from her good friend Felix. The owner of the magazine she works for has decided that a heroic sailor will spend his Christmas on 'her' farm. Miss Lane knows that her career is over if the truth comes out, but what can she do?

An Everlasting Piece

Comedy

Director Barry Levinson attempts to repeat the success of several recent, low-budget British imports such as The Full Monty (1997), Waking Ned Devine (1998), and Saving Grace (2000) with this comedy about a pair of prison barbers trying to make a success of a hairpiece business in Northern Ireland. Colm (Barry McEvoy), a Catholic, and George (Brian F. O'Byrne), a Protestant, are friends who toil away in a lackluster job cutting the hair of convicts in a prison for the insane where Colm's girlfriend Bronagh (Anna Friel) also works. When the two lads hear of a prisoner nicknamed The Scalper (Billy Connolly), they learn that he was the only seller of hairpieces in the country, and decide to begin crafting their own toupees for sale as a way to start their own business. As they ply their wares through the war-torn country, the friends are not above using their respective religions to make sales, but competition soon arrives in the form of Toupee or Not Toupee, a rival company, and a race to be the first outfit to sell 30 units quickly ensues. Politics, business, and religious beliefs soon intersect to cause big trouble for both men.

Breaking News In Yuba County

Comedy

After her husband goes missing, Sue Buttons (Allison Janney), an underappreciated suburban wife, gets a taste of being a local celebrity as she embarks on a search to find him. She quickly finds herself in over her head, dodging cops, criminals and local reporters all aiming to uncover the truth. After being overlooked for so long, Sue goes to exaggerated lengths to prolong her “15 minutes of fame” and keep the truth from coming out.

Someone To Love

Comedy

Henry Jaglom's moving exploration of the contemporary heart, Someone To Love is a wonderful comedy which centers around a movie director's puzzled search for romance and his attempt to find out why life hasn't worked out quite like anyone expected it to. Aiding in his quest is Orson Welles, in his last screen role, who serves as pundit, commentator and witty Greek chorus, "summing up with dazzling eloquence, the wisdom of a lifetime," says Kevin Thomas in the Los Angeles Times. "'Someone To Love' is a whole wonderful movie unto itself.” The movie also features fine and funny performances by the striking actress Sally Kellerman, angst-ridden, fast-talk artist Michael Emil and the beautiful and remarkable singer Andrea Marcovicci.

Star of Midnight

Comedy

Star of Midnight shines in the stylish tradition of Hollywood's Thin Man series, combining the spunk and sparkle of Ginger Rogers and the urbane sophistication of William Powell with gals, gangsters, Broadway and banter to shape a classic '30s whodunit. Powell is a debonair lawyer suspected in the murder of a nosy newspaper columnist. Aided by classy, sassy, marriage-minded Rogers, he untangles the Manhattan maze of double-crosses, disguises and misdirections without disarranging his dinner jacket – or bruising his gin. Martinis all around if you solve the mystery first!

Corky Romano

Comedy

Chris Kattan (A Night At the Roxbury, TV's Saturday Night Live), Peter Falk (TV's Columbo), Peter Berg (Cop Land, TV's Chicago Hope), and Chris Penn (Rush Hour) star in this hilarious, fish-out-of-water comedy caper from two of the producers of The Waterboy. Naive, bumbling Corky Romano (Kattan), the outcast son of a Mafia boss (Falk), is recruited by his family to infiltrate the FBI and steal any and all evidence that will put his cranky father in jail. But he's in way over his head when he's made out to be a super agent! It's a reputation he must live up to as he tries to fake his way through one tough assignment after another while hunting for the elusive incriminating proof of his father's illegal activities.

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