Archive for the 'Comedy movies' Category
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
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| Taglines: | 1: Every Woman Will Have Her Day |
| Plot Summary: | Guinevere Pettigrew, a middle-aged London governess, finds herself unfairly dismissed from her job. An attempt to gain new employment catapults her into the glamorous world and dizzying social whirl of an American actress and singer, Delysia Lafosse. |
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Forbidden Kingdom, The
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| Taglines: | 1: The battle for eternity is the fantasy of a lifetime. (Canadian poster) 2: The path is unsafe. The place is unknown. The journey is unbelievable. |
| Plot Summary: | An American teenager who is obsessed with Hong Kong cinema and kung-fu classics makes an extraordinary discovery in a Chinatown pawnshop: the legendary stick weapon of the Chinese sage and warrior, the Monkey King. With the lost relic in hand, the teenager unexpectedly finds himself traveling back to ancient China to join a crew of warriors from martial arts lore on a dangerous quest to free the imprisoned Monkey King. |
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Meet Dave
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| Plot Summary: | A crew of miniature aliens operate a spaceship that has a human form. While trying to save their planet, the aliens encounter a new problem, as their ship becomes smitten with an Earth woman. |
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Scenes of a Sexual Nature
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| Plot Summary: | Sex and love. Some seek it, some need it, some spurn it and some pay for it, but we’re all involved in it. Set on one afternoon on Hampstead Heath, London, the film investigates the minutiae of seven couples. What makes us tick? |
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Beavis and Butt-Head Do America
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| Taglines: | 1: Coming to a screen bigger than your TV. |
| Plot Summary: | MTV junkies Beavis and Butt-head awaken one day to find their beloved TV stolen. On their adventure to do a murderous smuggler’s wife (Demi Moore), they encounter an FBI agent (Robert Stack) with a predilection for cavity searches, two rather familiar looking ex-Motley Crue roadies, Mr. Van Driessen singing “Lesbian Seagull”, a little old lady, and, of course, Mr. Anderson and his trailer. Can the Great Cornholio save the day? Let’s hope so! |
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Military Intelligence and You!
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| Plot Summary: | Major Nick Reed is an intrepid analyst for Army Intelligence. It’s his job to locate a secret enemy base whose fighters - the dreaded Ghost Squadron - attack our bombers. Complicating his efforts is a chance meeting with his former love, Lt. Monica Tasty, and her current beau, Major Mitch Dunning. Can Reed find the fighter base in time for the 4th Armoured to attack? Will the Nazi learn our next target and send the Ghost Squadron to attack our bombers? Why do some women fall for the bad boys, completely ignoring the good responsible men right in front of them? Learn the answers in ‘At War With Intelligence.’ |
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Slippery Slope
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| Taglines: | 1: a sexy comedy about an uptight young feminist filmmaker that secretly takes a job directing adult films to raise funds for her documentary. |
| Plot Summary: | A sexy comedy about an uptight young feminist filmmaker that secretly takes a job directing adult films to raise funds for her documentary. |
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George and the Dragon
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| Taglines: | 1: A Dragon, a Princess, and a Knight to Remember 2: George left England as a Knight and soldier. He Came home a Dragonslayer… and a Legend. |
| Plot Summary: | The first crusade to free the Holy Land has ended. A mass of weary knights, squires, soldiers of fortune and priests are making their way home across a Europe that has changed forever. George, a handsome English knight, unsettled by the horrendous bloodletting he witnessed in Palestine, desires to hang up his sword and settle down to a quiet, peaceful life. On returning to England, George heads north where he’s heard the land is good and the population sparse and of a kindly King named Edgaar. He finds King Edgaar in a terrible state. His beautiful daughter, Lunna has recently disappeared. In return for a small plot of land, George agrees to search for Princess Lunna. With Edgaar’s faithful servant, Elmendorf, George sets out. George discovers both the princess and the truth behind her strange disappearance. The quest now set before them ends in a love, a lie and a legend that has lasted a thousand years. |
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Transamerica
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| Taglines: | 1: Life is a journey. Bring an open mind. 2: Life is more than the sum of its parts. |
| Plot Summary: | One week before her sex-change operation, Bree receives a call from a 17-year-old identifying himself as her son from a college liaison. Bree’s psychiatrist won’t approve the surgery until Bree deals with this relationship, so Bree flies to New York City, bails the youth out of juvenile detention, and offers him a ride back to Los Angeles without disclosing that she is his father. Both her plans and his go awry, and as secrets will out, what might become a friendship (or more) founders. The lad’s step-father, a sex-change support group, a peyote eater, a Navajo wrangler, and Bree’s family all play their parts in this exploration of family, gender, and expectations. |
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Welcome Home, Roscoe Jenkins
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| Taglines: | 1: Going home is no vacation. |
| Plot Summary: | A successful talk show host leaves Los Angeles to reunite with his family in the Deep South. |
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