Sentences with phrase «classic comedy starring»

Such is the case of the with Some Like It Hot, the classic comedy starring Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, and Marilyn Monroe.

Classic comedy starring Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn as husband - and - wife journalists whose relationship flounders when her career begins to eclipse his.

This classic comedy stars Eddie Murphy as an African prince who travels to Queens, New York, to find the woman of his dreams.

Not exact matches

Starring numerous actors who have gone on to become huge stars, this wacky 1980s - set comedy that looks at the last day of camp has become a cult classic.

Serge Bozon's sharply political comedy — a giddily imaginative reworking of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale — stars Isabelle Huppert, who revels in its sly blend of dissonant humor, intellectual fervor, and macabre violence.

Set among the upper class in 1930s Philadelphia, this irreverent classic romantic comedy features radiant performances by three legendary stars.

In 1999, she starred in the romantic comedy classic NOTTING HILL; and over the course of that same year, she starred in WONDERLAND, in which she earned the BAFTA Award for Best Actress; and WOMEN TALKING DIRTY, the latter of which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival; and THE LOST PRINCE, which earned her a BAFTA nomination.

In this classic American comedy, Buster Keaton stars as a young man who is given a chance for redemption when Yankee spies steal his locomotive.

On television, he was among the all - star cast of the classic British comedy I»M ALAN PARTRIDGE.

Born in 1937 in West Cliff - on - Sea, England, screenwriter - turned - director Dick Clement cut his teeth on the small screen in his mid - to late twenties, as a BBC television writer and director, including such now - classic programs as the sitcom The Likely Lads (1964), the Dudley Moore and Peter Cook series Not Only... But Also (1965), and the brief Steptoe and Son successor Mr. Aitch (1967), starring Harry H. Corbett.Clement segued into big - screen comedy in 1966, co-scripting (with Ian La Frenais) the Michael Winner - directed picture The Jokers.

Oscar - winners Cary Grant («The Awful Truth,» «North by Northwest») and Katharine Hepburn («The African Queen,» «On Golden Pond») star in this screwball comedy classic about a madcap heiress who upsets the staid existence of a straitlaced zoology professor.

The legend of Superbad, Jonah Hill, also stars in this classic comedy, but his character is pointless in the film.

Yet another bonkers thriller starring Nicolas Cage, this trashy crime comedy comes from director Paul Schrader, who wrote classics like Taxi Driver before turning director with American Gigolo.

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PRETTY WOMAN stars JULIA ROBERTS and RICHARD GERE have reunited with director GARRY MARSHALL to reminisce about the classic romantic comedy, 25 years...

Diane Keaton stars in a romantic comedy, Colin Trevorrow's baffling passion project, Isabelle Huppert's new comedy, and the re-release of a classic

I suppose I could choose the great movies that have made me laugh the most — the first that come to mind, such as: a Keaton («Sherlock, Jr.» or «Steamboat Bill, Jr.»), a Fields («It's A Gift» or «The Bank Dick»), a Marx Bros. («Animal Crackers» or «Duck Soup»), a Sturges («The Lady Eve» or «Miracle of Morgan's Creek»), and, let's say, a classic comedy (preferably starring Cary Grant or Barbara Stanwyck or Jean Arthur, and written and / or directed by Ernst Lubitsch or Howard Hawks or Billy Wilder or Mitchell Leisen, like «Trouble in Paradise» or «Heaven Can Wait» (1943) or «Bringing Up Baby» or «His Girl Friday» or «The Major and the Minor» or «Some Like It Hot» or «Easy Living» or «Ball of Fire»...).

Anne Hathway and Rebel Wilson will star in a remake of the Steve Martin and Michael Kaine comedy classic Dirty Rotten Scoundrels which tells the story of two con artists who try to swindle -LSB-...]

For example, Bill Murray is a riot in Zombieland, but did you know there's one more tidbit with the Ghostbusters star spouting off a classic line from Caddyshack at the end of the credits of the horror comedy?

Next week we get Ruby Sparks (very good, unexpected, non-traditional romantic comedy), Killer Joe (William Friedkin's grotty NC - 17 thriller, starring Matthew McConaughey), Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (documentary about the Chinese activist, said to be very inspiring), The Graduate (45th anniversary engagement of Mike Nichols» classic), Farewell My Queen (French period drama, said to be quite good), plus the wide releases of the Total Recall (possibly only for junk food fanatics, but who knows yet), so it's a good weekend to catch up on any holdovers you might have missed.

Drunken Master II — Jackie Chan stars in the sequel to his classic Wong Fei - hung parody that helped invent the modern martial arts comedy genre.

Following its world premiere at SXSW last month, Sony Pictures Classics has debuted the first trailer for writer - director Shana Feste's upcoming comedy drama Boundaries which stars Vera Farmiga, Christopher Plummer, Lewis MacDougall, Bobby Cannavale, Kristen Schaal, Yahya Abdul - Mateen II, Christopher Lloyd, Peter Fonda, and Dolly Wells; watch it here...

Check out the fresh, young faces of future stars in this classic»80s teen comedy — Anthony Edwards, Nicolas Cage, Eric Stoltz, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Forest Whitaker.

The Disaster Artist, which is directed by James and out in wide release Friday, is a comedy chronicling the making of 2003's The Room — the film written by, starring, and directed by Tommy Wiseau, which has been christened both the worst movie ever made and, in the years since, a cult classic.

Showtime at the Apollo: Season 1 Premiere (FOX): Emmy Award - winning personality Steve Harvey hosts this two - hour event and reimagining of the classic talent showcase series, in which Harvey will celebrate his return to the famed theater, where he launched his own career, and where he'll be joined by some of the biggest stars in comedy and music.

With Peggy Sue, though, Cage's career kind of took off and the following year would see him star in both the Oscar - winning romantic comedy Moonstruck and the Coen Brothers» offbeat cult classic Raising Arizona.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 25th — Park City, Utah — Sony Pictures Classics has acquired US and Latin American rights to the action comedy THE GUARD, written and directed by John Michael McDonagh and starring Brendan Gleeson as an unorthodox Irish policeman who joins forces with a straitlaced FBI agent, played by Don Cheadle, to take on an international drug - smuggling gang.

-- «My Man Godfrey» (1936): This 1936 screwball comedy, starring Carole Lombard and William Powell, is a beloved classic.

The remake of Garry Marshall's 1987 comedy classic, starring Anna Faris and Eugenio Derbez, will be hitting theaters in April.

IFC Films acquired North American rights to the Ewan McGregor and Eva Green romantic thriller Perfect Sense, Sony Pictures Classics acquired the action comedy The Guard starring Don Cheadle and Brendan Gleeson, and Fox Searchlight snatched up the sci - fi drama Another Earth starring William Mapother and Brit Marling.

A failure at the box office when it was released, it stands today as a classic comedy, with two great stars in top form - Hepburn is far fizzier than usual, and Grant, usually so suave, is befuddled and flustered instead.

Blonde Bombshells Where: Castro Theatre, 429 Castro St., 415-621-6120 When: All Week Why: The Castro's celebration of all things blonde continues through Sept. 5 with Billy Wilder's classic sex farce Some Like It Hot, Jean Harlow and Lionel Barrymore starring in the pre-code, Depression - era comedy Dinner at Eight, and Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe's final screen appearances in the 1961 John Huston drama The Misfits.

«Zoolander 2» (Feb. 12): Ben Stiller's 2001 comedy «Zoolander,» about a male model and his brainless friends, has become such an esteemed modern classic that the idea of a sequel — even with original stars Owen Wilson and Will Ferrell — sounds worrisome.

Pegg and Frost went on to co-write the lackluster extraterrestrial comedy «Paul» on their own (and Pegg appeared in two «Star Trek» pictures) while Wright made the stellar «Scott Pilgrim vs. the World,» a film which failed to connect in its initial release but has become something of an instant cult classic.

All three bring a new passion and timeliness to A Star Is Born one of the screen's classic love stories (previously filmed in 1937 and 1954) and winner of five Golden Globe Awards including Best Picture Actress and Actor (Musical / Comedy).

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The pitch - black comedy of the Coen Brothers classic film has been transposed onto the small screen, with Martin Freeman and Billy Bob Thornton starring

ET was on set with the stars of the classic comedy remake, and we even found out their favorite lines from the original!

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His appearances in film and television throughout the years were jump - started by his turn as ambitious warehouse manager Daryl Philbin in cult TV classic The Office which in turn resulted in a string of parts in Evan Goldberg comedies including Pineapple Express, This is the End and, most recently, Sausage Party as well as features on other notable comedies as Knocked Up, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, Zack and Miri Make a Porno and a starring role in the two Hot Tub Time Machine movies (though we wish we could forget that second one.)

That performance (coupled with some high - profile US gigs like hosting the MTV VMAs for two years straight and a Comedy Central stand - up special) catapulted him to movie stardom, leading to starring roles in 2010's Get Him to the Greek (in which Brand actually reprised his Sarah Marshall character) and a remake of the Dudley Moore classic Arthur.

More character - driven spy romantic comedy than espionage movie, this film harkens back to the classic days of the «star» film, and for the witty back and forth alone, this is better than you may have heard.

The classic NBC comedy starring Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin based loosely on the backstage happenings of Saturday Night Live brings laugh after laugh with each witty, irreverent episode, and it's bound to be your next brilliant binge.

Also in multiplexes: Jack Black, Steve Martin, and Owen Wilson square off as rival birdwatchers in the star - studded comedy The Big Year, while Craig Brewer gives the Hustle & Flow / Black Snake Moan treatment to Footloose, a sexed - up remake of the 1984 «classic» that features all the steamy sensuality and dirty dancing a PG - 13 rating will allow.

But an onslaught is coming: next year brings a sixth «Resident Evil» movie, sequel / reboot «Hitman: Agent 47» and the Michael Fassbender - starring adaptation of «Assassin's Creed,» along with sci - fi comedy «Pixels,» which isn't based on one specific property but instead collects a bevy of 80s lo - fi game classics in one film.

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Following its world premiere at SXSW last month, Sony Pictures Classics has debuted the first trailer for writer - director Shana Feste's upcoming comedy drama Boundaries which stars Vera Farmiga, Christopher Plummer, Lewis MacDougall, Bobby Cannavale, Kristen Schaal, Yahya Abdul - Mateen II, Christopher Lloyd, Peter Fonda, and Dolly Wells; watch it here... SEE ALSO: Exclusive Interview — Shana Feste, Yahya -LSB-...]

It's like a classic Hollywood screwball comedy starring Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn.

The revered comic actor starred in such inarguable classics as The Producers, Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory, Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein and worked alongside such comedy greats as Mel Brooks, Woody Allen, Richard Pryor (four times), Wilder's wife Gilda Radner, Madeleine Kahn, Cloris Leachman, Marty Feldman and Charles Grodin — and even with the likes of Donald Sutherland and... Read

The revered comic actor starred in such inarguable classics as The Producers, Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory, Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein and worked alongside such comedy greats as Mel Brooks, Woody Allen, Richard Pryor (four times), Wilder's wife Gilda Radner, Madeleine Kahn, Cloris Leachman, Marty Feldman and Charles Grodin — and even with the likes of Donald Sutherland and Harrison Ford.