Sentences with phrase «comedy about a couple»

It's a cheap, toothless comedy about a couple whose wedding continues to get postponed for myriad reasons.

Parker Posey and Eric McCormack star in this comedy about a couple who set out to build a new home and enlist the services of an uncompromising modernist architect who proceeds to build his dream house, instead of theirs.

Comedy about a couple who get a dog that takes over their lives.

Superbad (R for profanity, sexuality, alcohol and drug use, a violent image, and pervasive crude content) Raunchy, coming - of - age comedy about a couple of inseparable, nerdy high school seniors (Jonah Hill and Michael Cera) who plan the perfect party in order to end their interminable losing streak and finally get the girls of their dreams before they set off in the Fall to different colleges.

The Brothers Solomon (R for sexuality and profanity) Dysfunctional - family comedy about a couple of romantically - challenged brothers (Will Arnett and Will Forte) in search of a woman willing to mate with one of them in order to fulfill their dying father's (Lee Majors) wish for a grandson.

Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson spark off one another magnificently in this hit comedy about a couple of sneaky divorce lawyers who gatecrash weddings to score the bridesmaids.

A low - key comedy about a couple going through divorce may not sound like the stuff of cinematic magic, but with its spot - on character observation and sardonic wit The Squid and the Whale is an unexpected delight.

Steven Soderbergh came out of retirement to direct this deep - fried comedy about a couple of brothers (Channing Tatum and Adam Driver) who aren't so smart but are pretty wily.

Fans of whimsical American indie movies will enjoy this ramshackle road comedy about a couple of losers who only come to life when they play their music.

On the Other Side of the Tracks (R for profanity, sexuality, nudity and violence) Buddy cop comedy about a couple of mismatched partners (Omar Sy and Laurent Lafitte) assigned to crack a murder case.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS Christmas in Wonderland (PG for crude language) Holiday comedy about a couple of kids from L.A. who find a million dollars of fake money in a Canadian mall and go on a shopping spree while being chased by a hapless gang of counterfeiters and a Canadian Mountie.

The History of Future Folk (Unrated) Sci - fi comedy about a couple of aliens (Nils D'Aulaire and Jay Klaitz) sent to earth from a faraway planet who ignore their orders to wipe out humanity and instead form a band after falling in love with bluegrass music.

Please Give (R for nudity, profanity and sexuality) New York City comedy about the a couple in crisis (Catherine Keener and Oliver Platt) trying to work on their relationship while dealing with the demands of the cranky tenant next - door (Ann Morgan Guilbert) being looked after by two grown granddaughters (Rebecca Hall and Amanda Peet).

Bottle Rocket is a caper comedy about a couple of twenty - something Texans (just like Anderson and the Wilsons were when they made the film) determined to become master thieves.

Soul Men (R for nudity, sexuality and pervasive profanity) Samuel L. Jackson and the late Bernie Mac co-star in this road comedy about a couple of R&B legends who reunite for a memorial concert at the Apollo in honor of their recently - deceased front man.

Marley & Me (PG for mature themes and suggestive language) Jennifer Aniston and Owen Wilson co-star in this family comedy about a couple of newlyweds who move from Michigan to Florida where they learn a host of life lessons from their mischievous Labrador retriever as he grows from a cute puppy into an uncontrollable,100 - pound steamroller.

Free Birds (PG for action, rude humor and scenes of peril) Animated family comedy about a couple of squabbling turkeys (Owen Wilson and Woody Harrelson) who put aside their differences to travel back in time in order to get turkey taken off the Thanksgiving menu.

(In Kinyarwanda with subtitles) Offshore (Unrated) Globalization comedy about a couple of telemarketers (Emily Rose Merrell and Deb Tunis) who decide to take revenge when their jobs are outsourced and they are asked by their company's CEO (Marty Bufalini) to train their East Indian replacements.

Office Christmas Party (R for crude sexuality, graphic nudity, drug use and pervasive profanity) Raunchy holiday comedy about a couple of corporate execs» (Jason Bateman and T.J. Miller) attempt to save their jobs by throwing a wild party to impress a potential client.

Class Rank (Unrated) Romantic comedy about a couple of couple of college - bound teens (Olivia Holt and Skyler Gisondo) who hatch a plan to improve their admissions chances by having their high school abolish its student ranking system.

Abe & Phil's Last Poker Game (R for profanity and sexuality) Baby - daddy comedy about a couple of childless retirees» (Martin Landau and Paul Sorvino) competition to convince a nurse (Maria Dizzia) that he's her long - lost father.

Nell Minow: This bittersweet comedy about a couple who find each other again by turning their arguments into rock songs has a surprisingly touching message about the vital necessity of creating art.

Friends with Benefits (R for violence and brief sexuality) Mila Kunis and Justin Timberlake co-star in this romantic comedy about a couple whose agreement to share intimacy with no expectations does nevertheless lead to relationship complications.

Fat Girls (R for drug and alcohol use, profanity, and graphic sexual content) Coming - of - age comedy about a couple of ostracized Texas teenage friends, one, just chubby (Ashley Fink), the other, gay (Ash Christian), and dreaming of unleashing his inner diva on Broadway.

Weirdsville (R for violence, sexual references and drug use) Horror comedy about a couple of slackers (Scott Speedman and Wes Bentley) who, mistakenly believing a friend (Taryn Manning) has overdosed, end up burying her alive in the basement of a movie theater where a satanic cult performs ritual sacrifices.

The Outskirts (PG - 13 for profanity, crude humor, suggestive content and teen partying) Revenge comedy about a couple of ostracized nerds (Victoria Justice and Eden Sher) who join forces with other geeks to topple the clique of popular classmates making high school miserable.

War on Everyone (R for violence, nudity, sexuality, drug use and pervasive profanity) Crime comedy about a couple of corrupt cops (Alexander Skarsgard and Michael Pena) who get more than they bargained for when they try to shakedown a strip club manager (Caleb Landry Jones).

Open Five (Unrated) Mumblecore romantic comedy about a couple of groupies (Shannon Esper and Genevieve Angelson) from New York City who venture to Memphis where they spend a very eventful weekend with a struggling musician (Jake Rabinbach) and his aspiring filmmaker sidekick (Kentucker Audley).

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening February 20, 2009 BIG BUDGET FILMS Fired Up (PG - 13 for profanity, sexuality, partying, partial nudity and pervasive crude humor) Teen comedy about a couple of high school's football stars (Eric Christian Olsen and Nicholas D'Agosto) who hatch a plan to spend the summer at a camp filled with gorgeous girls by quitting the team to try out for the cheerleading squad instead.

Hotel for Dogs (PG for crude humor, mild epithets and mature themes) Family comedy about a couple of orphaned siblings (Emma Roberts and Jake T. Austin) who turn an abandoned hotel into a shelter for stray dogs after being pressured by their foster parents to put their own beloved pooch up for adoption.

Not exact matches

The year's funniest movie is probably The Big Sick, a heartwarming romantic comedy written by Kumail Nanjiani and Emily Gordon, who tell their own life story in this film about an interracial couple dealing with their cultural differences.

A romantic comedy about lazy rich people on holiday in Italy in the 1930s, it stars Helen Hunt as a gold - digging woman «of a certain age» who's stalking a young married couple — for third - act catharsis reasons you can see coming — and causing snippy, gossipy society people to make snippy, gossipy comments.

The result feels a bit like a lavishly produced, superhero - and supervillain - stocked standup comedy special, with fight scenes, chases and explosions spliced into footage of the hero telling you about the wild couple of weeks he just had.

Williams next signed for a pivotal supporting role in the crime comedy First Sunday (2008), about a couple of criminals who take hostage a bunch of church members.

This 1934 will - they - won't - they comedy about a mismatched couple is a timeless classic — and it's been hailed as the ever first romcom.

Indie legend Tamara Jenkins returns with an unusually compassionate comedy about a middle - age couple's struggle to conceive.

Get a Job (Blu - ray + Ultraviolet) Details: 2016, Lionsgate Home Entertainment Rated: R, crude and sexual content, nudity, language, drug use The lowdown: Miles Teller and Anna Kendrick star in this comedy about a pair of millennials whose goal is to become a power couple.

Damon Wayans Jr. and Amber Stevens West star in this a comedy about a happily married couple who begin to reconnect with their younger, cooler selves when an exuberant young pop star drawn to their super-ordinary suburban life, unexpectedly moves in with them.

We told you a couple of weeks ago about the new comedy special, Crash Test, wrangled by Rob Huebel and Paul Scheer and starring some big - name talent, including Aziz Ansari, Aubrey Plaza, and Jack McBrayer.

A charming comedy - drama about finding new love late in life and all the complications that come with any coupling.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

«I Give it a Year»: «Borat» scribe Dan Mazer makes his feature film directing debut with this romantic comedy about a young couple (Rose Byrne and Rafe Spall) who are doing their best to stay married despite the doubts of their friends and relatives.

There is nothing conspicuously revolutionary about the «The Kids Are All Right», a sleek, smart, enormously entertaining film about a middle - aged lesbian couple (played by Annette Bening and Julianne Moore) whose teenage kids seek out the sperm donor who is their biological father (Mark Ruffalo); it has big - name actors, a sun - dappled Los Angeles setting, and the feel of a classic Hollywood comedy at its snappiest.

That isn't meant to give too much heft to a fairly silly and overly episodic comedy about a Manhattan couple, Linda (Aniston) and George (Rudd), whose careers dead - end on the same day.

A Birder's Guide to Everything (PG - 13 for profanity, sexuality, drug use and partial nudity) Ornithological comedy about a 15 year - old bird watcher (Kodi Smit - McPhee) who embarks on an expedition with a couple of friends in search of the supposedly - extinct Labrador Duck.

Dan Mazer makes his directorial debut with this romantic comedy about a young couple's first year of marriage.

The literal - titled comedy just added Julia Stiles and America Ferrera in a movie about «four couples who meet for Sunday Brunch only to discover they are stuck -LSB-...]

Rapture - Palooza (R for profanity, drug use and crude sexuality) Post-apocalyptic horror comedy about a suburban Seattle couple (Anna Kendrick and John Francis Daley) left to deal with plagues and an amorous Anti-Christ (Craig Robinson) after billions of other souls ascend to Heaven during the Rapture.

The Contenders (Unrated) Dark comedy about the bizarre reaction of guests gathered for a celebration at the lakefront vacation home of a couple of friends (Anna Gutto and Nick Stevenson) when the birthday girl mysteriously dies.

(In Albanian with subtitles) Neon Flesh (Unrated) «It's hard out here for a pimp» comedy, set in Buenos Aires, about a 22 year - old ne'er - do - well (Mario Casas) who hopes to earn his prostitute mother's (Macarena Gomez) respect by opening up a whorehouse with the help of a couple of streetwise buddies (Vincente Romero and Luciano Caceres).