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Series
Summary
Four classic comedies starring the Three Stooges. Disorder in the court: the Stooges get involved in the trial of a fan dancer who is accused of shooting her lover. Brideless groom: Shemp must marry to inherit $500,000. Malice in the palace: the Stooges try to recover diamond stolen from King Rutin-Tutin's Tomb. Sing a song of six pants: The Stooges try to pay off past due notes to Skin & Flint by capturing a burglar.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Summary
New York City architect Natalie works hard to get noticed at her job but is more likely to be asked to deliver coffee and bagels than to design the city's next skyscraper. And if things weren't bad enough, Natalie, a lifelong cynic when it comes to love, has an encounter with a mugger that renders her unconscious, waking to discover that her life has suddenly become her worst nightmare, a romantic comedy, and she is the leading lady.
3) Leap year
Pub. Date
2010.
Summary
When Anna's four-year anniversary to her boyfriend passes without an engagement ring, she decides to take matters into her own hands. Inspired by an Irish tradition that allows women to propose to men on Leap Day, Anna follows Jeremy to Dublin to propose to him. But after landing on the wrong side of Ireland, she must enlist the help of the handsome and carefree local Declan to get her across the country. Along the way, they discover that the road...
Pub. Date
c2003
Summary
Charlie and Louis are from Brooklyn. Charlie's stepfather, Sal, is a crime kingpin who has loaned Charlie a lot of money. Sal sends Charlie and Lewis to Australia, where they're to meet and deliver a large amount of cash to a mysterious Mr. Smith. En route to the outback, Charlie and Louis accidentally run over a kangaroo, and they decide to dress the marsupial in sunglasses and Louis' favorite jacket for snapshots. Since the animal wasn't dead, it...
5) Cadillac man
Pub. Date
c2002, 1989
Summary
Whether he's pitching himself, or his high-priced luxury cars at Turgeon Auto Sales, Joey O'Brien never lets a day go by without "doing" someone good. But Joey's schmoozed through life on cruise control...and now he's riding in the hot seat.
6) Best men
Pub. Date
2002
Summary
Fresh out of jail, the groom is met by his friends to escort him to the altar. But on the way, one friend decides to stop and rob a bank, forcing the angry bride to join them in the stand-off.
Pub. Date
2009
Summary
Trying to better her financial situation, a single mother starts a crime scene cleaning business and asks her unreliable sister to join her. Together they clean up the deadly messes left by others, and deal with the messes in their own lives as well.
"A smartly done morality tale that couldn't be more in synch with these troubled times."--Los Angeles Times
"Dark humor intersperses with poignant moments."--USA Today
"It's a solid depiction of a...
8) The kid
Summary
International superstar Bruce Willis (Unbreakable, The Sixth Sense) along with Lily Tomlin (9 to 5, Tea with Mussolini), Emily Mortimer (Scream 3, The Newsroom), and newcomer Spencer Breslin star in the hilarious and heartwarming comedy Disney's The Kid. Successful, high-powered Russ Duritz (Willis) has spent all of his incredibly empty life forgetting the child he used to be -- until one day, he meets him face-to-face! Thinking this kid is a hallucination,...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Summary
A backstage look at the making of Nora Ephron's revered trilogy—When Harry Met Sally, You've Got Mail, and Sleepless in Seattle—which brought romantic comedies back to the fore, and an intimate portrait of the beloved writer/director who inspired a generation of Hollywood women, from Mindy Kaling to Lena Dunham.
In I'll Have What She's Having entertainment journalist Erin Carlson tells the story of...
In I'll Have What She's Having entertainment journalist Erin Carlson tells the story of...
Pub. Date
2016.
Summary
The long-awaited follow-up to the highest-grossing romantic comedy of all time. The film reveals a Portokalos family secret that will bring the beloved characters back together for an even bigger and Greeker wedding.
"The sequel is a little like a bear hug from a beloved old relative..."--Los Angeles Times.
"Vardalos is wonderful, and 88-year-old Michael Constantine casually pockets every scene he's in."--Richard Roeper.
"Some elements are even...
11) When in Rome
Pub. Date
2010
Summary
An ambitious young New Yorker, disillusioned with romance, takes a whirlwind trip to Rome, where she defiantly plucks magic coins from a fountain of love, inexplicably igniting the passion of an odd group of suitors: a sausage magnate, a street magician, an adoring painter, and a self-admiring model. But when a charming reporter pursues her with equal zest, how will she know if his love is the real thing?
"...a sweet, romantic trip worth taking..."--Boxoffice...
12) A dim valley
Pub. Date
[2020]
Summary
A curmudgeonly biologist and his stoner graduate students encounter a group of mysterious backpackers who disrupt their lives in surprising ways.
14) Dudley Do-Right
Pub. Date
1999
Summary
Follow the hilarious exploits of the dedicated but hapless young Mountie as he struggles to outwit the evil Snidely Whiplash.
Pub. Date
[2020]
Formats
Summary
Sixth-grader Peter is pretty much the average kid, he likes gaming, hanging with his friends and his beloved pair of Air Jordans. But when his recently widowed grandfather moves in with Peter's family, the boy is forced to give up his most prized possession of all, his bedroom. Unwilling to let such an injustice stand, Peter devises a series of increasingly elaborate pranks to drive out the interloper, but Grandpa Ed wonb2st go without a fight.
Pub. Date
c2004
Summary
Two carefree bachelors are on a mission to seek out beautiful women while on their Club Med ski vacation. Bobby, a hilarious jokester, and Jackson, a playboy who thinks he can ski worthy of a championship find themselves in real adventures while they also unexpectedly find themselves.
17) Instant family
Pub. Date
[2019]
Summary
After adopting three children, a couple finds themselves in over their heads.
18) Trainwreck
Pub. Date
[2015]
Summary
Since she was little, it's been drilled into Amy's head by her dad that monogamy isn't realistic. Now a magazine writer, Amy lives by that credo; enjoying what she feels is an uninhibited life free from stifling, boring romantic commitment, but in actuality, she's kind of in a rut. When she finds herself starting to fall for the subject of the new article she's writing, a charming and successful sports doctor named Aaron Conners; Amy starts to wonder...
19) Three amigos
Pub. Date
©1999
Summary
The Three Amigos, a silent screen comedy act, arrive in a remote Mexican hamlet for what they think is a lucrative personal appearance, only to discover that they are expected to save the village from a terrorizing gang of bandits.
Pub. Date
2010
Summary
Reporter Bob Wilton is in search of his next big story when he encounters Lyn Cassady, a shadowy figure who claims to be part of an experimental U.S. military unit. With unparalleled psychic powers, they can read the enemy's thoughts, pass through solid walls, and even kill a goat simply by staring at it.
"...irreverent and lighthearted."--USA Today
"A likable, lightweight, absurdist comedy."--New York Times
"...remarkably entertaining."--Arizona...
