Archive for the ‘Farce’ Category
Saturday, January 30th, 2010
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Two guys find out the hard way that sneaking into the wrong party can cause serious problems in this comedy.
Jeremy Klein (Vince Vaughn) and John Beckwith (Owen Wilson) are a pair of longtime friends who work for a law firm, helping contentious couples mediate their divorces.
Their job has given them a cynical attitude about marriage, and as a hobby each weekend the two make a point of crashing weddings reception, where they load up on free food and booze and try their luck at seducing the bridesmaids.
When William Cleary (Christopher Walken), the nation’s Secretary of the Treasury and a possible candidate for the Presidency, announces his daughter is to wed, the nuptials are billed as the social event of the year, and Jeremy and John decide they must attend the reception.
However, John makes the mistake of falling head over heels for Claire (Rachel McAdams), the bride’s sister, while Jeremy attracts the attentions of a woman he’d prefer not to be involved with, and soon their romantic peccadilloes get them in very hot water. |
| Also Known As: |
Wedding Crashers |
| Genres: |
Comedy, Sex Comedy, Farce, |
| Running Time: |
119:00 |
| Actor List: |
Owen Wilson, Vince Vaughn, Christopher Walken, Rachel McAdams, Jane Seymour, Isla Fisher, Bradley Cooper, Will Ferrell, Ron Canada, Ellen Albertini Dow, Henry Gibson, John McCain, Keir O’Donnell, |
Posted in Comedy, Farce, Sex Comedy | No Comments »
Tuesday, December 15th, 2009
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When a bumbling movie lover becomes magnetized while attempting to sabotage a local power plant and accidentally erases all of the videotapes in the small video store where his best friend works, the pair attempt to keep the store’s loyal customer base by remaking as many of the top-renting movies as possible.
Mike (Mos Def) is an employee at Be Kind Rewind, a modest mom and pop video store that is owned by Mr.
Fletcher (Danny Glover).
Mike’s best friend Jerry (Jack Black) works in an auto garage/junkyard directly adjacent to a local power plant.
Lately Jerry has become increasingly paranoid about the effects that the power plant is having on his health.
Convinced that he has developed a brain tumor from working in such close proximity to the power plant, Jerry attempts to sabotage the plant.
Unfortunately for Jerry, his brain is magnetized in the process.
The next time Jerry goes to visit Mike at Be Kind Rewind, the powerful magnetization emanating from his brain erases every videotape in the store.
Now the only way for Mike and Jerry to be sure that Be Kind Rewind stays in business is to remake every film on the shelves before the customers notice.
But when word gets out that Mike and Jerry have remade such Hollywood classics as Back to the Future, Robocop, The Lion King, and Rush Hour without permission, the store is threatened with copyright violations and forced to close its doors.
In the aftermath of the closing, Mr.
Fletcher and his employees discover just how loyal their customers really are when the entire neighborhood pools their resources to transform the junkyard into a legitimate movie studio and produce an entirely original film detailing the incredible adventures of a local jazz legend. |
| Also Known As: |
Be Kind Rewind |
| Genres: |
Comedy, Comedy of Errors, Farce, |
| Running Time: |
101:00 |
| Actor List: |
Jack Black, Mos Def, Danny Glover, Mia Farrow, Melonie Diaz, Chandler Parker, Irv Gooch, Arjay Smith, Marcus Carl Franklin, Blake Hightower, Amir Ali Said, Sigourney Weaver, |
Posted in Comedy, Comedy of Errors, Farce | No Comments »
Thursday, September 24th, 2009
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Mr.
Show alumnus Bob Odenkirk directed — and SNL vet Will Forte scripted — this gleefully raunchy tale of two socially backward but kind-hearted adult brothers, Dean and John Solomon (Forte and Will Arnett), who had the misfortune to be home-schooled by their father at a remote Arctic outpost.
Destined to be perpetually single, their moronic, klutzy attempts at meeting new women (such as popping the question on a first date in a crowded restaurant) always blow up in their face.
Then, one day, the Solomons receive the distressing news that their father is on his deathbed — and to complicate matters, he indicates that his dying wish involves having a grandchild.
John and Dean are happy to oblige — but where in the world will they find a mother for this infant? Suddenly, the bachelors’ romantic desperation doubles, and each brother embarks on a nutty, madcap quest to find the girl of his dreams and the mother of his future children.
Malin Akerman, Kristen Wiig, Jenna Fischer, and Chi McBride co-star. |
| Also Known As: |
The Brothers Solomon |
| Genres: |
Comedy, Absurd Comedy, Farce, |
| Running Time: |
93:00 |
| Actor List: |
Will Arnett, Will Forte, Chi McBride, Kristen Wiig, Malin Akerman, Lee Majors, Stephanie Courtney, Jenna Fischer, Casey Wilson, |
Posted in Absurd Comedy, Comedy, Farce | No Comments »
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009
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With Peter Sellers as star, Neil Simon as screenwriter, and Vittorio DeSica as director, how could After the Fox miss? Miss it did, however—though the film, patchy and inconsistent though it might be, definitely has its moments.
Sellers plays an Italian master thief who can’t seem to stay out of jail.
His latest scheme involves moving $3 million worth of stolen gold bullion from Cairo to Rome.
To cover his tracks, Sellers pretends to be a “nouvelle vague” movie director, filming a crime picture.
Britt Ekland, Mrs.
Sellers at the time, plays his movie-struck sister.
The film is effortlessly stolen by Victor Mature, who is unbearably funny as a vainglorious hasbeen Hollywood star.
Director DeSica shows up in the film as “himself”-at least until all his camera equipment is stolen by Sellers and his partner-in-crime Akim Tamiroff.
Never as hilarious as it should have been, After the Fox nonetheless manages a few isolated belly laughs.
Outside of Mature’s performance, our favorite bit in the film is the final gag: “Ze wrong man has escaped!” |
| Also Known As: |
After the Fox |
| Genres: |
Comedy, Crime Comedy, Farce, |
| Running Time: |
103:00 |
| Actor List: |
Peter Sellers, Britt Ekland, Lydia Brazzi, Paolo Stoppa, Tino Buazzelli, Victor Mature, Martin Balsam, Mac Ronay, Akim Tamiroff, Maria Grazia Buccella, Lando Buzzanca, Pier Luigi Pizzi, Enzo Fiermonte, Carlo Croccolo, Timothy Bateson, Francesco de Leone, Maurice Denham, Roberto De Simone, Giustino Durano, Piero Gerlini, David Lodge, Lino Mattera, Tiberlo Murgia, Nino Musco, Mimmo Poli, Franco Sportelli, Daniele Vargas, |
Posted in Comedy, Crime Comedy, Farce | No Comments »
Friday, July 10th, 2009
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This nutty British comedy observes with jet black humor the myriad of outrageous calamities that befall an eccentric English clan with more than a few skeletons in its closets, when its patriarch dies an unexpected death.
Soon, every complication imaginable - including the wrong corpse in the coffin, the accidental consumption of hallucinogenic drugs and the disclosure of the deceased’s closeted homosexuality - befall the grief-stricken mourners.
The funeral commences at the family estate, with the arrival of younger son Daniel (Matthew MacFayden), a Manhattanite who has long felt uncomfortable around his cocky, licentious novelist brother Robert (Rupert Graves) - and thus dreads seeing him.
Meanwhile, Daniel is also struggling to adhere to promises he’s made to his wife (Keely Hawes).
Also arriving at the house are cousin Martha (Daisy Donovan) and her intended, Simon (Alan Tudyk), who embarrasses just about everybody, including himself, by accidentally consuming a strange drug that imparts him with wild delusions and gives him an uncontrollable penchant for exhibitionism.
But the event that truly turns the family members onto their ears is the arrival of a dwarf (Peter Dinklage) who speaks openly of the patriarch’s secret passions, which included dressing up in a kinky gladiator outfit and watching young men skinny-dip.
Frank Oz (In and Out, Bowfinger) helms; Dean Craig authored the script. |
| Also Known As: |
Death at a Funeral |
| Genres: |
Comedy, Black Comedy, Farce, Ensemble Film, |
| Running Time: |
90:00 |
| Actor List: |
Matthew MacFadyen, Keeley Hawes, Andy Nyman, Ewen Bremner, Daisy Donovan, Alan Tudyk, Jane Asher, Kris Marshall, Rupert Graves, Peter Egan, Peter Dinklage, Peter Vaughan, |
Posted in Black Comedy, Comedy, Ensemble Film, Farce | No Comments »
Saturday, October 25th, 2008
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In A Fish Called Wanda, Jamie Lee Curtis plays an ambitious con artist who uses every ounce of her sexual wiles to obtain a fortune in jewels stolen by her gangster lover Tom Georgeson.
First, she romances Georgeson’s dimwitted but deadly henchman Kevin Kline (who won an Academy Award for his performance).
Then, to clear the path for her getaway with Kline, Jamie woos Georgeson’s starched-shirt attorney, John Cleese — and it’s Cleese whom she genuinely falls in love with.
Michael Palin, Cleese’s former Monty Python cohort, plays a stuttering mob flunkey who continually messes up his one big assignment: killing a little old lady (it isn’t that he has any qualms about knocking off the old dear; it’s just that her pet dogs keep getting in the way).
A Fish Called Wanda was scripted by star John Cleese. |
| Also Known As: |
A Fish Called Wanda |
| Genres: |
Comedy, Farce, Crime Comedy, Caper, |
| Running Time: |
98:00 |
| Actor List: |
John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline, Michael Palin, Tom Georgeson, Maria Aitken, Patricia Hayes, Al Ashton, Kim Barclay, Imogen Bickford-Smith, Roger Brierley, Ken Campbell, Robert Cavendish, Cynthia Caylor, Jeremy Child, Charu Bala Chokshi, Waydon Croft, John Dixon, Mark Elwes, Stephen Fry, Roger Hume, Katherine John, Sophie Johnstone, Peter Jonfield, Kate Lansbury, Tia Lee, Andrew Maclachlan, Roland MacLeod, Robert McBain, Clare McIntyre, Pamela Miles, Patrick Newman, Geoffrey Palmer, Anthony Pedley, Michael Percival, Neville Phillips, Robert Putt, Llewellyn Rees, David Simeon, Tom Piggot-Smith, Sharon Twomey, |
Posted in Caper, Comedy, Crime Comedy, Farce | No Comments »
Thursday, October 16th, 2008
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This nutty British comedy observes with jet black humor the myriad of outrageous calamities that befall an eccentric English clan with more than a few skeletons in its closets, when its patriarch dies an unexpected death.
Soon, every complication imaginable - including the wrong corpse in the coffin, the accidental consumption of hallucinogenic drugs and the disclosure of the deceased’s closeted homosexuality - befall the grief-stricken mourners.
The funeral commences at the family estate, with the arrival of younger son Daniel (Matthew MacFayden), a Manhattanite who has long felt uncomfortable around his cocky, licentious novelist brother Robert (Rupert Graves) - and thus dreads seeing him.
Meanwhile, Daniel is also struggling to adhere to promises he’s made to his wife (Keely Hawes).
Also arriving at the house are cousin Martha (Daisy Donovan) and her intended, Simon (Alan Tudyk), who embarrasses just about everybody, including himself, by accidentally consuming a strange drug that imparts him with wild delusions and gives him an uncontrollable penchant for exhibitionism.
But the event that truly turns the family members onto their ears is the arrival of a dwarf (Peter Dinklage) who speaks openly of the patriarch’s secret passions, which included dressing up in a kinky gladiator outfit and watching young men skinny-dip.
Frank Oz (In and Out, Bowfinger) helms; Dean Craig authored the script. |
| Also Known As: |
Death at a Funeral |
| Genres: |
Comedy, Black Comedy, Farce, Ensemble Film, |
| Running Time: |
90:00 |
| Actor List: |
Matthew MacFadyen, Keeley Hawes, Andy Nyman, Ewen Bremner, Daisy Donovan, Alan Tudyk, Jane Asher, Kris Marshall, Rupert Graves, Peter Egan, Peter Dinklage, Peter Vaughan, |
Posted in Black Comedy, Comedy, Ensemble Film, Farce | No Comments »
