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From writers / directors Jay and Mark Duplass (Cyrus) comes Jeff Who Lives at Home, a coming of age comedy for two men who are already well beyond their youth.
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The critically - acclaimed Amazon drama Transparent — created by Jill Soloway and inspired by her own father's transition at age 75 — won the 2015 Golden Globe for best TV series, musical or comedy, thereby increasing its odds to score an Emmy (or two) come September.
What it's about: Before pesky production codes changed what movies were allowed to show onscreen, Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable made a romantic comedy for the ages, about a socialite who runs off on an escapade with a reporter.
With activities for all ages such as a casino, art gallery and Nickelodeon - themed events as well as entertainment including Blue Man Group, comedy troupe Second City and a Cirque Show, Norwegian Epic's goal is simple — be all things to all people.
Now on «the wrong side of 35» and diagnosed with a chronic case of fatherhood, the trio offer up raucous comedy for grown - ups of all ages and parenting statuses.
«ComedySportz is perfect for ages 7 to 97 because the comedy is clean due to our built - in «brown bag foul.»
The cast is superb: Malkovich as the analyst Cox shows a true flair for comedy, Clooney is on top form here as the sleaze whose life intersects with Litzke almost by accident and Brad Pitt, playing a much younger man than his true age, is brilliantly idiotic and brainless.
A professional actor since the age of 15, Fox became a household name in the early 1980's for his Emmy and Golden Globe Awards winning role as Alex P. Keaton in the NBC comedy series Family Ties in which he starred as the young Republican son of hippie parents.
The film, which hits theaters February 16, is a modern twist on a romantic comedy (boy and girl meet, fall in love, but then break up, and are suddenly reunited, ending up in that awkward stage where they have to debate whether to wave hello while taking out the trash), but it's also a particularly female spin on the coming of age story, the likes of which we're only beginning to see onscreen as more women carve out a place for themselves in writer's rooms and director's chairs.
Teenage girl's skeleton found deep in underwater Mexican cave dates from the last ice age 13,000 years ago and is oldest ever 8 Simple Rules (originally 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter for the first season) is an American sitcom comedy television show, originally
Dating My TV: A new comedy web series about two unlikely best friends looking for love in the age of The
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.
hanks to Susan Seidelman for reminding us that romantic comedy is suitable for any population or age group...
When a geeky high - school valedictorian throws caution to the wind by expressing his love for a popular cheerleader during his graduation speech, life finally starts to get interesting in this coming - of - age comedy adapted from the book by journalist / author / screenwriter Larry Doyle.
A handful of men and women «of a certain age» pick up the pieces of their lives and look for new love after the loss of their mates in this comedy drama from writer - director Susan Seidelman.
He tackled two of his last assignments in the 2006 omnibus picture Paris, je t «aime and the 2008 comedy - drama Looking for Palladin, prior to his death at age 86 in early February 2012.
In this coming of age comedy, a family vacation during the summer of 1985 changes everything for a shy teenage boy obsessed with ping pong.
In 2009, the comedian released Aged and Confused, a comedy set detailing the pitfalls of middle age, and took on a hosting gig in 2011 for a re-launch of the gameshow Lingo.
The game - show climax is as exciting and riveting as one might've expected, however, and Starter for 10 finally (and ultimately) establishes itself as a perfectly watchable (yet far - from - memorable) romantic comedy / coming - of - age story.
Let the Sunshine In Juliette Binoche gives a marvelous performance as a middle - aged divorcee looking for love in all the wrong places, but Claire Denis» exquisite and soulful romantic comedy defies every expectation of that premise.
At times, this coming - of - age comedy is quirkily saccharine, at others good - for - you sophistic.
Overall this is the best comedy around for ages.
The hard thing for me is that I look either my age or younger and I think right now the roles are for late twenties, early thirties for these really great comedies.»
Tiny Furniture (Unrated) Coming - of - age comedy about a rudderless, recent college grad (Lena Dunham) with a worthless degree in film appreciation who moves back into her mother's (Laurie Simmons) loft in Soho where she has to settle for an unfulfilling job as a restaurant hostess.
-- Claudia Puig, NPR NOMINATED FOR 5 ACADEMY AWARDS ® INCLUDING BEST MOTION PICTURE AND BEST DIRECTING The Critically Acclaimed Coming - of - Age Comedy Arrives on Blu - ray ™ Combo Pack and DVD March 6 from Lionsgate SA... [Read More]
The perfect holiday gift for romantic comedy fans of all ages, Home Again on Blu - rayTM, DVD and Digital features a bonus commentary with the director and the producer of the film, taking viewers even deeper into the heartfelt story.
DreamWorks Animation's comedy «Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie» brings the anarchic adventure and unbridled potty humor of author Dav Pilkey's beloved children's book series — which for 20 years has sent countless elementary - school - age kids into fits of giggles and a few easily offended adults into fits of pique — to movie screens for the first time.
Greta Gerwig won the best screenplay award for her Oscar - nominated coming - of - age comedy - drama Lady Bird.
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 Judd Apatow factory, which has refreshed the coming - of - age comedy (for all ages of adolescent men) in comedies like Knocked Up, Superbad and Forgetting Sarah Marshall, has been stretching itself thin (that's my best explanation for Drillbit Taylor and Step Brothers).
The Way, Way Back is a crowd - pleasing, indie comedy that clearly has a fondness for adolescence and a story that will bring warm feelings to adults and coming - of - age teenagers alike.
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.
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MUBI celebrates International Women's Day with Rachel Lang's indie film, which balances balance of comedy and tragedy to create a unisex heroine for the ages.
The surreal L.A. - based coming - of - age comedy is written by author and Vice.com sex columnist Karley Sciortino, and it follows Araki directing a number of episodes of the Soderbergh - produced Red Oaks series for Amazon.
While Channing Tatum may be given credit by today's youth for inventing the art of striptease, anyone over the age of 20 knows that he has nothing on this British comedy.
The Blu - ray exclusive documentary makes up slightly for the abysmal quality of Shrek the Third, so for the most part it's worth buying if you're kids are still of the age where they appreciate the Shrek films, because any parent knows the films have plenty of comedy the kids won't understand until they're older.
Based on the books and animated TV series, this far - too - childish 3D comedy is pretty painful to watch for audiences of any age, as the cast and crew overplay every gag.
This new feature - length Comedy Central special lets us reconnect with the legendary comic and discover his knack for storytelling remains intact into his old age.
As a sucker for coming - of - age comedies, writers / directors Nat Faxon and Jim Rash's The Way, Way Back (Matt's Sundance review here) is one that I can't wait to see.
However, what he hadn't quite done is go the distance into shamefully trite family comedies for all ages, especially one so lame, so the snickers turned into guffaws at Arnold's expense, to the detriment to his once vaunted status as the world's biggest action box office attraction.
The 42nd Toronto film festival was notable for its strong showing of female talent — not least an endearing coming - of - age comedy directed by Greta Gerwig
Fox Searchlight has released the first trailer for the coming of age comedy / drama The Way, Way Back.
A Thousand Words (PG - 13 for profanity, sexuality and drug - related humor) Revenge comedy about a lying literary agent (Eddie Murphy) forced to stop talking when a New Age guru (Cliff Curtis) puts a curse on him.
Behind the scenes she has edited for movies such as the fantasy drama «The Age of Adaline,» the holiday comedy «Four Christmases,» and romance drama «The Vow,» among many more.
After collaborating on comedies like Tammy and The Boss (both starring McCarthy and directed by Falcone), the pair is at it again with Life of the Party, co-writing this story of a middle - aged mother who returns to college after her husband asks for a divorce.
In movies, coming - of - age has become convenient shorthand for the crush of stories about the high school crowd — sci - fi, drama, comedy, horror, take your pick.
«Genevieve» and «Green for Danger»: What a nice night out at the movies - a rare double feature of comedy and suspense from Britain's golden age.
In an age where all you need for movie comedy, to paraphrase Godard, is a girl and a bong, Stiller's a precious commodity, moreover a dying breed.
The 1982 comedy «Fast Times at Ridgemont High» is the prototypical coming - of - age guy flick best known for enduring stoner - surfer archetype Jeff Spicoli, played by future Oscar winner Sean Penn, the image of a topless Phoebe Cates and as the introduction...