Tag Archives: farce

The Family Stone

IMDB Rating: 6.30
12580 votes

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The Stone family unites in common cause when their favorite son brings his uptight girlfriend home for the Christmas holiday, with plans of proposing. Overwhelmed by the hostile reception, she begs her sister to join her for emotional support, triggering further complications.
Actors
Julie MortonClaire Danes
Sybil StoneDiane Keaton
Amy StoneRachel McAdams
Also posted in 2005, Comedy, Drama, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (0)

Rumor Has It…

IMDB Rating: 5.60
8113 votes

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Sarah Huttington, recently engaged, goes home to Pasadena with fiancé Jeff for a family wedding. She hears a rumor that "The Graduate" (book and movie) are based on her family. Did her grandmother and her mom have flings with the same man just before her parents married? Is she a strange man's child; does this explain why she doesn't fit in? Was her mother happy? Is she too facing a loveless marriage? Where can she seek answers: her mother's dead, her father's a pleasant naïf. Ask her salty grandma? Better to ask the man in the triangle, the real Benjamin Braddock. With Jeff's blessing, Sarah heads for San Francisco, looking for the key to her past and to her future.
Actors
Sarah HuttingerJennifer Aniston
Beau BurroughsKevin Costner
Katharine RichelieuShirley MacLaine
Also posted in 2005, Comedy, Drama, Romance | Comments (0)

The Wedding Date

IMDB Rating: 5.40
6009 votes

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"The Wedding Date" centers around Kat Ellis (Messing), who returns to her parents' London home for her sister's wedding. Afraid of confronting her ex-fiancé, who dumped her two years before, she hires a top-drawer male escort (Mulroney) to pose as her new boyfriend.
Actors
Kat EllisDebra Messing
Nick MercerDermot Mulroney
AmyAmy Adams
Also posted in 2005, Comedy, Romance | Comments (1)

Madagascar

IMDB Rating: 6.50
23892 votes

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At New York's Central Park Zoo, a lion (Stiller), a zebra (Rock), a giraffe (Schwimmer), and a hippo (Smith) are best friends and stars of the show. But when one of the animals goes missing from their cage, the other three break free to look for him, only to find themselves reunited ... on a ship en route to Africa. When their vessel is hijacked, however, the friends, who have all been raised in captivity, learn first-hand what life can be like in the wild.
Actors
AlexBen Stiller
MartyChris Rock
MelmanDavid Schwimmer
Also posted in 2005, Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Mr. 3000

IMDB Rating: 5.70
3387 votes

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Stan Ross was a baseball superstar who turned his back on the game years ago when he finally hit 3,000 hits. Years later, he's now a successful, self-made entrepreneur whose many businesses revolve around his title: Mr. 3000. But a clerical error has proven that Stan is just short three hits of his spectacular hit record. Now, with time on his side and the potential to be inducted in the Baseball Hall of Fame, Stan must return back to the game and get back his title. But things have changed with age, and as Stan finds out, it's not too easy to get back into the game when he hasn't played for years, and he's nearing 50.
Actors
StanBernie Mac
Maureen "Mo" SimmonsAngela Bassett
BocaMichael Rispoli
Also posted in 2004, Comedy, Drama, Sport | Comments (0)

Fat Albert

IMDB Rating: 4.00
2658 votes

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Fat Albert and the rest of the Cosby Kids are living happily in their animated world of Philadelphia when one day, a young teen cries on her remote control because she doesn't have any friends. Fat Albert and his gang then magically come out of her TV and enter the real Philadelphia! They decide-being such good kids-to help the teen make friends. Albert then falls in love with the girl's beautiful foster sister-but oh, no! If Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids stray from their TV world, they begin to fade away! Will Albert be able to return home after enlisting the help of Bill Cosby himself, or will he and his gang vanish forever? Go and see to find out!
Actors
Fat AlbertKenan Thompson
RudyShedrack Anderson III
MushmouthJermaine Williams
Also posted in 2004, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy | Comments (0)

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

IMDB Rating: 7.20
30608 votes

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Steve Zissou, sea-film auteur a la Jacques Cousteau, has reason to be melancholy: his partner has been eaten, perhaps by a mythic jaguar shark, his wife may be taking up with her ex-husband, a young man appears claiming Steve is his father (Steve hates fathers), his most recent films have tanked, he's having trouble raising money for his venture to revenge his partner, and he's attracted to a pregnant reporter who prefers the pretender. At sea, in pursuit of the shark, will he escape pirates and mutiny, forge the bonds of fatherhood, place his arm around his wife, find the monster of the deep, re-establish box office hegemony, and discover a reason to smile?
Actors
Steve ZissouBill Murray
Ned PlimptonOwen Wilson
Jane Winslett-RichardsonCate Blanchett
Also posted in 2004, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (1)

Shark Tale

IMDB Rating: 5.90
18021 votes

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The sea underworld is shaken up when the son of the shark mob boss is found dead and a young fish named Oscar is found at the scene. Being a bottom feeder, Oscar takes advantage of the situation and makes himself look like he killed the finned mobster. Oscar soon comes to realize that his claim may have serious consequences.
Actors
OscarWill Smith
Don LinoRobert De Niro
AngieRenée Zellweger
Also posted in 2004, Animation, Comedy, Family | Comments (1)

Christmas with the Kranks

IMDB Rating: 4.60
4414 votes

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Allen portrays Luther Krank who, fed up with the commerciality of Christmas, decides to skip the holiday and go on a vacation with his wife instead. But when his daughter decides at the last minute to come home, he must put together a holiday celebration.
Actors
Luther KrankTim Allen
Nora KrankJamie Lee Curtis
Vic FrohmeyerDan Aykroyd
Also posted in 2004, Comedy, Family | Comments (0)

Meet the Fockers

IMDB Rating: 6.40
32714 votes

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Having given permission to male nurse Greg Focker to marry his daughter, ex-CIA man Jack Byrnes and his wife travel to Miami to Greg's parents, who this time around are Mr. and Mrs. Focker, who are as different from them as can be. As asked in the first movie, what sort of people name their son Gaylord M. Focker?
Actors
Jack ByrnesRobert De Niro
Greg FockerBen Stiller
Bernie FockerDustin Hoffman
Also posted in 2004, Comedy, High IMDB rating | Comments (3)