Category Archives: Comedy

On the Buses

IMDB Rating: 5.00
295 votes

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Stan gets a little annoyed when his Mum and Sister keep buying expensive items on hire purchase, but the money he earns for overtime working as a bus driver means that he can afford it... just! His job is secure, as bus drivers are hard to come by, and his overtime prospects are good, until the bus company decide to revoke a long standing rule and employ women bus drivers. Aghast at the thought of no overtime and, therefore, less wages, he joins forces with his long time work colleague Jack to sabotage the new female employees.
Actors
Stan ButlerReg Varney
Stan's MumDoris Hare
Arthur, Stan's Brother-in-LawMichael Robbins
Also posted in 1971 | Comments (0)

Road to Bali

IMDB Rating: 6.80
1498 votes

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Having to leave Melbourne in a hurry to avoid various marriage proposals, two song-and-dance men sign on for work as divers. This takes them to an idyllic island on the way to Bali where they vie with each other for the favours of Princess Lala. The hazardous dive produces a chest of priceless jewels which arouses the less romantic interest of some shady locals.
Actors
George CochranBing Crosby
Harold GridleyBob Hope
Princess LalaDorothy Lamour
Also posted in 1952, High IMDB rating, Musical | Comments (0)

Office Space

IMDB Rating: 7.80
52664 votes

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Peter Gibbons just can't seem to catch a break. His girlfriend is cheating on him, he has an obnoxious neighbor, and he's completely miserable with his job as a small cog in a company called Initech. Then he visits a hypnotherapist, who dies just after putting Peter into a state of complete bliss. Free of worrying about making a living, he no longer feels the need to keep his job, just as the company is going through a massive downsizing. However, his new attitude only makes him more valuable in the company's eyes, and his friends Michael and Samir are fired instead. Together, they scheme to plant a virus inside Initech's computer system that will pull money into their own account.
Actors
Peter GibbonsRon Livingston
JoannaJennifer Aniston
Michael BoltonDavid Herman
Also posted in 1999, Crime, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (0)

Americanizing Shelley

IMDB Rating: 5.70
27 votes

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A wannabe Hollywood player sets out to Americanize an Indian girl from the Himalayas.
Actors
Shalini Singh/ShelleyNamrata Singh Gujral
Gary GordonBeau Bridges
Rob ShorwellBrad Raider
Also posted in 2007, Romance | Comments (0)

Alvin and the Chipmunks

IMDB Rating: 5.70
5773 votes

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In a tree farm, three musically inclined chipmunks, Alvin, Simon and Theodore, find their tree cut down and sent to Los Angeles. Once there, they meet the frustrated songwriter David Seville, and despite a poor house wrecking first impression, they impress him with their singing talent. Seeing the opportunity for success, both human and chipmunks make a pact for them to sing his songs. While that ambition proves a frustrating struggle with the difficult trio, the dream does come true after all. However, that success presents its own trials as their unscrupulous record executive, Ian Hawke, plans to break up this family to exploit the boys. Can Dave and the Chipmunks discover what they really value amid the superficial glamor around them?
Actors
David SevilleJason Lee
IanDavid Cross
ClaireCameron Richardson
Also posted in 2007, Family | Comments (0)

A Dog’s Breakfast

IMDB Rating: 6.50
875 votes

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If you've never been good at anything in your life, why would murder be any different? A Dog's Breakfast is a head smacking, bone breaking, fiancé bashing romp, about a family that just loves themselves to pieces. Patrick has always had a somewhat combative relationship with his little sister Marilyn. But when she brings home her new TV star fiancé Ryan, it's all out war. When Patrick fails to drive a wedge between the happy couple, he reaches for sharper instruments. Every family has a few skeletons in the closet; A Dog's Breakfast is the nightmarishly funny mess Patrick makes when he tries to add another to his.
Actors
PatrickDavid Hewlett
MarilynKate Hewlett
RyanPaul McGillion
Also posted in 2007, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

The Tuxedo

IMDB Rating: 4.90
11691 votes

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Jimmy Tong (Chan) is just a lowly chauffeur for millionaire Clark Devlin (Isaacs), until Devlin has an accident that puts him in the hospital. Tong is sent back to fetch some things for Devlin and unknowingly tries on Devlin's tuxedo and finds that it gives extraordinary powers to anyone that dons the suit. This discovery thrusts Tong into world of international intrigue and espionage and pairs him with an inexperienced partner (Hewitt).
Actors
Jimmy TongJackie Chan
Del BlaineJennifer Love Hewitt
Clark DevlinJason Isaacs
Also posted in 2002, Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller | Comments (3)

Stuck on You

IMDB Rating: 6.00
13940 votes

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Stuck On You is a Farrelly's Brothers comedy about a pair Siamese twins who have their own everything but are joined at the hip because they share a liver. They use their unique gift in a means to gain acceptance and live as normally as possible within everyday life. Everything is going great until Walt (Greg Kinnear) follows his dreams of making it as a Hollywood actor, and persuades his hesitant brother Bob (Matt Damon) to go along for the ride. Hollywood may never be the same as Bob and Walt find fame, love and a new outlook on their unusual but inseparable bond.
Actors
Bob TenorMatt Damon
Walt TenorGreg Kinnear
April MercedesEva Mendes
Also posted in 2003, Drama | Comments (1)

Up Pompeii

IMDB Rating: 5.40
256 votes

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Roman slave Lurkio inadvertently becomes the possessor of a scroll naming the proposed assassins of the Emperor Nero. Administering to the participants of his master's orgy guests seems small compared to the trouble the scroll brings - but all are in for a nasty shock when Mount Vesuvius decides to erupt.
Actors
LurcioFrankie Howerd
Ludicrus SextusMichael Hordern
AmmoniaBarbara Murray
Also posted in 1971 | Comments (0)

The Road to Wellville

IMDB Rating: 5.20
4779 votes

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In Welville, at Battle Creek, eccentric rich Dr. John Harvey Kellogg (a historical figure) runs a stylish health farm for the wealthy, an idea ahead of his time, based on extreme vegetarianism, neither sex, masturbation or even sensual stimulation, but laughing therapy and purging the 'polluted' body, mainly by exercises, often in open air, vicious diet, his invention corn flakes, laxatives, anal yogurt cure, enemas and brutal mechanical cleansing. Eleanor Lightbody drags her sickly, incredulous husband Will along to the therapy; the couple is almost immediately separated and getting horny for more available members of the opposite sex. Kellogs stubbornly willful adopted son (among over 30 kids) George is a filthy embarrassment, paid off just to stay away. Charles Ossining panics when arriving in Battle Creek he finds his aunt's fortune made him partner in the empty shell- health food company Per-fo, not the planned corn-flakes factory; however with a former Welville-employee and George's name they hope to get rich from their own cornflakes brand. When an electric therapy goes fatally wrong and several other patients die, Will's incredulous reluctance turns to panic...
Actors
Dr. John Harvey KelloggAnthony Hopkins
Eleanor LightbodyBridget Fonda
William LightbodyMatthew Broderick
Also posted in 1994 | Comments (0)