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SIN BIN, directed by Billy Federighi (USA, 2012) Jury Statement: For being a unique re-imagining of a classic coming - of - age comedy with quirky style and a witty, quotable script.

Not exact matches

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.

Indeed, this show's unique mix of music and comedy appeals to guests of all ages and from all walks of life, and it fits in spectacularly with the vintage showroom atmosphere at The Plaza.

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.

You simply couldn't script this whole mess, its like an Ealing comedy of a bygone age, where a bureaucratic nightmare of such proportions should surely only exist in fiction unfortunately the African continent has to contend with as a nightmare of a reality.

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.

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.

Kaczmarek was back to comedy with the ill - received fantasy The Heavenly Kid (1985) and the Judge Reinhold age - switch romp Vice Versa (1988).

The Jungle Book is a solid fun family film filled with comedy and is the type of film anyone of all ages will enjoy.

Canadian - born actress Patricia Owens moved to England with her parents in 1933, and ten years later, at age 18, she made her motion - picture debut in Val Guest's musical comedy Miss London Ltd..

Some of her more notable work included Clay Pigeons, a black comedy with Vince Vaughn and Joaquin Phoenix; Permanent Midnight, which marked another collaboration with Stiller; and the animated Kiki's Delivery Service, which featured Garofalo as the voice of a new age artist and mystic.

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.

The comedy, directed by Aardman fixture Nick Park, centers on Dug (voice of Eddie Redmayne), a late - Stone Age cave man who lives in a lush valley with a tribe of bungling rubes and an adorable pet hog.

The movie is a surprisingly touching, low - key ballad of middle - aged male regret disguised as a kiddie comedy replete with poop and fart jokes and soccer balls launched at Popper's crotch.

Just when you thought Matthew McConaughey had settled into pre-retirement content to play the (dry - aged) beefcake in a string of dippy romantic comedies, the actor comes roaring back with some real acting.

The multihyphenate (who reportedly began authoring poetry and songs at the age of 14) moved with her mother to Southern California immediately after high school graduation to accommodate her dreams of becoming a Hollywood star and promptly landed both representation and a key role as a pop diva in the Hugh Grant / Drew Barrymore romantic comedy Music and Lyrics.

The over-hyped, pretentious modern art scene in London is satirized in this dark ensemble comedy about the double dealings and calculated relationships encircling the effort to get an aging collector to part with a valuable painting.

From the age of five on, Lewis occasionally performed in his parents» act, and later quit high school in order to travel with his own comedy routine, which consisted primarily of mocking famous entertainers while their records were played off - stage.

British actor / comedian Ayoade (The IT Crowd) impressed with his 2011 directorial debut Submarine, a quirky coming - of - age comedy not unlike the work of Wes Anderson but different enough to stake out its own ground.

Staking claim on her fame with her role in the comedy - horror spoof Scary Movie, Regina Hall has frequented the big screen in roles that far from betrayed her age.

Equal parts road comedy and coming - of - age drama, director Taika Waititi masterfully weaves lively humor with emotionally honest performances by Sam Neill and Julian Dennison.

Dotted with honest observational drama and comedy, it makes a curious spiritual sibling to Lady Bird (another coming - of - age movie and another female director's solo debut), though it's considerably more sanguine.

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

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.

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.

The director of Trading Places and The Blues Brothers talks to Jason Solomons about comedy, gaining an air of respectability with age and the making of his horror classic, An American Werewolf in London

And the result is a mix of tones that works, with our review from the Venice Film Festival declaring that, «while the film flirts with a number of genres genres — melodrama, comedy, coming - of - age — it ultimately lands closest to being Green's first western by the time it reaches its conclusion.»

From actress turned writer / director Marielle Heller (A Walk Among Tombstones) comes the latest new - age, post-modern, feminist movement film that doesn't accomplish much more than Aubrey Plaza did with raunchy comedy The To - Do List.

The comedy follows a trio of dysfunctional upper class New York siblings who recruit a «New Age deprogrammer» and go on the road to save their youngest sister from a doomsday cult — confronting their deep - seated issues with each other along the way.

In While We're Young, Baumbach's most accessible comedy yet, the Frances Ha film - maker sets his sights on the generation gap and gets to grips with ageing.

Ana Lily Amirpour follows up her alt - cult sensation A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT with her sand - blasted, dystopian love story THE BAD BATCH; Maren Ade delivers what will be the most uncomfortable film of the festival, the desert - dry black comedy TONI ERDMANN; and Julia Ducournau's directorial debut, RAW, takes us on a cannibalistic coming - of - age shock ride that resonates long after its stunning finale.

This sharply amusing comedy of ageing manners from Noah Baumbach, doyen of elite east coast anxiety, begins and ends with quotable observations about the terror of youth.

It's Superbad meets Zombieland as it's a good mix of awkward teenage coming - of - age comedy sprinkled with tons of blood and guts.

I can totally agree with that analogy, because the film's main trio reminded me of a lot of the same type of characters from the coming of age comedy.

But Post, who broke into directing in 1950, managed to build a résumé that could have belonged to a golden - age Hollywood journeyman like Michael Curtiz, who in 1935 knocked out a labor drama, a workplace romance, and an action picture in rapid succession, along with a Perry Mason programmer, a gangster comedy, and part of an Al Jolson — Ruby Keeler backstage musical that somehow burned through three directors.

Lady Bird is a masterful, exquisite coming - of - age comedy starring the great Saoirse Ronan as Christine — or «Lady Bird,» as she's re-christened herself — and it's as funny, smart, and filled with yearning as its heroine.

They first paired up in 2007 with the brilliant coming - of - age comedy Juno, the story of a sarcastic teenage girl (Ellen Page) and her unplanned pregnancy.

VANCOUVER, B.C. (December 18, 2017)-- Greta Gerwig's coming - of - age comedy Lady Bird leads the Vancouver Film Critic's Circle international awards with three wins, including Best Film.

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.

Taking on the part of a middle - aged mom who goes back to school, McCarthy revisits college comedy tropes with a seductive brand of physical comedy and an empathetic edge.

«The Way Way Back»: Coming - of - age comedy about a teen boy (Liam James) forced to vacation with his mother (Toni Collette) and her boyfriend (Steve Carell).

TCM pushes the envelope with this tidy coming of age comedy «Risky Business.»

In this warm, coming - of - age comedy, shy bird - watching enthusiast David (Kodi Smit - McPhee, ParaNorman) is struggling to cope with his father's impending remarriage when he stumbles across a duck that had been presumed extinct.

Elliott began his show business career as a standup comic, but he first gained public attention as a writer and performer on Late Night With David Letterman, helping that show define a new age of ironic comedy, and winning two Emmys as part of Letterman's writing team.

Everyone has their own coming - of - age experience, so when these movies are done well and told with truth and honesty — and a little comedy — they sing.

Also new: coming - of - age high school comedy Dude (2018, not rated) with Lucy Hale and Alexandra Shipp and romantic drama Porto (2016, not rated, with subtitles) featuring Anton Yelchin in one of his final performances.

Gerwig's wise and perceptive coming - of - age comedy shares the Best Film category with Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk, a time - bending WWII epic, and Paul Thomas Anderson's Phantom Thread, a resplendent melodrama with a prickly and poisonous aftertaste; Gerwig, Nolan, and Anderson assume their respective places in the Best Director category.

Taking the 1983 Vacation and thrusting it into the modern age of high - octane raunch comedy, Vacation (2015) is pretty much the result most would expect: Still filled with laughs, but ultimately a cheaper and more hollow echo of the original film, despite some inspired comedic performances from the cast.