Tag Archives: screwball

Along Came Polly

IMDB Rating: 5.80
18788 votes

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Can a risk-averse insurance salesman on the rebound from his bride's infidelity (during their honeymoon) find happiness with a waitress he knew in junior high who's averse to commitment? Reuben is a sweet klutz who's ready to settle down but sees in her a chance to recover from disappointment and have some fun; Polly is a sweet itinerant, not ready to settle down but sees a chance to spend time with a nice guy who likes her. What will he do when his bride comes crawling back? What will Polly do, when he runs the numbers and thinks she's a good risk? Sub-plots involve his self-centered pal, who's a has-been actor, and an assignment to assess the insurability of a balls-out Aussie.
Actors
Reuben FefferBen Stiller
Polly PrinceJennifer Aniston
Sandy LylePhilip Seymour Hoffman
Also posted in 2004, Comedy, Romance | Comments (2)

Laws of Attraction

IMDB Rating: 5.70
4851 votes

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This is the story of two New York divorce attorneys (Moore, Brosnan) who are often competing against each other, but end up in a relationship nonetheless. When they get married, can they avoid the same issues at home that lead people to provide them business at work? One of the central cases in the story is the heavily-publicized divorce of a rock star (Sheen) from his wife (Posey)...
Actors
Daniel RaffertyPierce Brosnan
Audrey WoodsJulianne Moore
Thorne JamisonMichael Sheen
Also posted in 2004, Comedy, Romance | Comments (1)

50 First Dates

IMDB Rating: 6.80
28572 votes

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Henry Roth (Sandler) is a veterinarian living in Hawaii who enjoys the company of vacationing women. He leaves the playboy life behind after he falls for Lucy (Barrymore), who suffers from short-term memory loss. Since she can never remember meeting him, Henry has to romance Lucy every single day and hope that she falls for him.
Actors
Henry RothAdam Sandler
Lucy WhitmoreDrew Barrymore
UlaRob Schneider
Also posted in 2004, Comedy, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (4)

Just Married

IMDB Rating: 5.00
7189 votes

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A happy young couple, Sarah and Tom (Brittany Murphy and Ashton Kutcher) marry against the wishes of Sarah's friends and family and go to Europe for their Honeymoon. Unfortunately for them, Sarah's parents send Sarah's ex-boyfriend Peter Prentis (played by Christian Kane) to break up the happy marriage.
Actors
Tom LeezakAshton Kutcher
Sarah McNerneyBrittany Murphy
Peter PrentissChristian Kane
Also posted in 2003, Comedy, Romance | Comments (4)

Freaky Friday

IMDB Rating: 6.70
14842 votes

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The wide generation gap between Tess Coleman (Jamie Lee Curtis) and her teenage daughter Anna (Lindsay Lohan) is more than evident. They simply cannot understand each other's preferences. On a Thursday night they have a big argument in a Chinese restaurant. Both receive a fortune cookie each from the restaurant owner's mother which causes them to switch bodies next day. As they adjust with their new personalities, they begin to understand each other more and eventually it's the mutual self-respect that sorts the things out.
Actors
Tess ColemanJamie Lee Curtis
Anna ColemanLindsay Lohan
RyanMark Harmon
Also posted in 2003, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, High IMDB rating | Comments (2)

Serving Sara

IMDB Rating: 4.80
4604 votes

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When Sara (Elizabeth Hurley) is served divorce papers while she is in New York, she is stunned. Not about to lose the fortune she amassed with her self-serving Texas husband, she makes an offer to her process server, Joe (Matthew Perry) that sets them off on a wild trip across the country.
Actors
Joe TylerMatthew Perry
Sara MooreElizabeth Hurley
TonyVincent Pastore
Also posted in 2002, Comedy, Romance | Comments (3)

The Curse of the Jade Scorpion

IMDB Rating: 6.70
9129 votes

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CW Briggs is a veteran insurance investigator, with many successes. Betty Ann Fitzgerald is a new employee in the company he works for, with the task of reorganizing the office. They don't like each other - or at least that's what they think. During a night out with the rest of the office employees, they go to watch Voltan, a magician who secretly hypnotizes both of them, in order to use them for his dirty schemes. The next evening already, Briggs makes his first robbery, and when he wakes up in the morning he has no memory of it. Things get really complicated when he starts investigating the case. Will he be able to uncover... himself?
Actors
SamJohn Tormey
MizeJohn Schuck
C.W. BriggsWoody Allen
Also posted in 2001, Comedy, Crime, High IMDB rating, Mystery | Comments (6)

Meet the Parents

IMDB Rating: 7.00
47700 votes

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A Jewish male nurse (Ben Stiller) plans to ask his live-in girl friend (Teri Polo) to marry him. However, he learns that her strict father (Robert DeNiro) expects to be asked for his daughter's hand before she can accept. Thus begins the visit from Hell as the two travel to meet Mom (Blythe Danner) and Dad, who turns out to be former CIA with a lie detector in the basement. Coincidentally, a sister (Nicole DeHuff) also has announced her wedding to a young doctor (Thomas McCarthy). Of course everything that can go wrong, does, including the disappearance of Dad's beloved Himalayan cat, Jinxie.
Actors
Jack ByrnesRobert De Niro
Gaylord 'Greg' FockerBen Stiller
Pam ByrnesTeri Polo
Also posted in 2000, Comedy, High IMDB rating | Comments (30)

There’s Something About Mary

IMDB Rating: 7.20
51706 votes

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Ted was a geek in high school, who was going to go to the prom with one of the most popular girls in school, Mary. The prom date never happened, because Ted had a very unusual accident. Thirteen years later he realizes he is still in love with Mary, so he hires a private investigator to track her down. That investigator discovers he too may be in love with Mary, so he gives Ted some false information to keep him away from her. But soon Ted finds himself back into Mary's life, as we watch one funny scene after another.
Actors
Mary JensenCameron Diaz
Pat HealyMatt Dillon
Ted StroehmannBen Stiller
Also posted in 1998, Comedy, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (0)

The Big Lebowski

IMDB Rating: 8.10
84631 votes

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When "The Dude" Lebowski is mistaken for a millionaire Lebowski, two thugs urinate on his rug to coerce him into paying a debt he knows nothing about. While attempting to gain recompense for the ruined rug from his wealthy counterpart, he accepts a one-time job with high pay-off. He enlists the help of his bowling buddy, Walter, a gun-toting Jewish-convert with anger issues. Deception leads to more trouble, and it soon seems that everyone from porn empire tycoons to nihilists want something from The Dude.
Actors
Jeffrey Lebowski - The DudeJeff Bridges
Walter SobchakJohn Goodman
Maude LebowskiJulianne Moore
Also posted in 1998, Comedy, Crime, High IMDB rating, Mystery | Comments (0)
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