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Outfront Theatre presents a new production of writer Del Shore's cult classic comedy about the sordid lives of residents of small - town Winters, Texas.

A League of Their Own Rated PG for adult situations / language Rotten Tomatoes Score: 77 % Celebrating its 25th Anniversary is this classic comedy about a group of women who join an all - female baseball league while the men of the country are off fighting during WWII.

Relive this classic comedy about an exasperated weatherman (played by the incredible Bill Murray) who relives the same day over and over and over and over again.

It's just one hilarious situation after another in this classic comedy about two polar opposites (one compulsively neat, the other a slob) forced to live together.

Not exact matches

The crowd laughed nervously when Salome asked for the head of John the Baptist and when Herodias nagged her husband, Herod, about hitting on her daughter — murder and incest not exactly classic comedy moments.

The Chaser team has since gone on to produce Classic comedy in just about every corner of Australian media, including print, online, radio, television and Christmas crackers.

«Guess Who» is a dry comedy, a remake of the classic «Guess Who's Coming to Dinner» (1967), only this time, it has a race role reversal, where the original film was about a white family meeting a black man, this film centers around a black family meeting a white man.

This remake of the 1985 cult classic was surprisingly not terrible; in fact, most critics had generally good things to say about the new horror - comedy.

The Three Stooges is the latest comedy from the duo that brought you classics like Dumb and Dumber, Me, Myself & Irene and There's Something About Mary.

Forget everything you know about Little Red Riding Hood; the classic fairy tale gets a new look and a new style in this computer - animated comedy for the whole family.

The man behind such classics as Kingpin and There's Something About Mary produces and directs two segments in this ensemble comedy, in theaters now.

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.

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.

THN has been lucky enough to be invited to the lush surroundings of the famous Savoy Hotel in London, which coincidentally also happens to be a major location in the upcoming comedy caper we're here to find out about — GAMBIT, a remake of the classic 1966 Michael Caine / Shirley MacLaine film of the same name.

In his review, Turan compares the film to the classic - age comedies of Preston Sturges and Ernst Lubitsch in noting that «making an anarchic, absurdist comedy about 2008's housing market collapse and the global financial crisis that followed is as unlikely as the collapse itself.

Shot in stunning color and set in a suburb of Tokyo where housewives gossip about the neighbors» new washing machine and unemployed husbands look for work as door - to - door salesmen, this charming comedy refashions Ozu's own silent classic I Was Born, But... to gently satirize consumerism in postwar Japan.

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

In case you are wondering about the director, Jeff Kanew, he is known best for directing the classic comedy film «Revenge of the Nerds».

I've always had a weird feeling about this classic 80's high school comedy.

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.

Baskets is not a classic sitcom that will make you laugh with stupid jokes.Sometimes you will feel bad about the misery of this character and this is what Zach Galifanakis doing great.It may not be for all, but i personally enjoy its drama and comedy combination..

Ever since their 1998 modern classic «There's Something About Mary,» writers - directors Peter and Bobby Farrelly have struggled to try to recapture lightning in a bottle and conjure up yet another raunchy comedy with a heart of gold.

While his background is in writing coffee table books like Classics: The Best The World Has To Offer,» babbling about Barbie dolls does not necessarily give one the chops to write comedy.

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

Filmmaker Chadha is back with another uneven comedy, although unlike Bride & Prejudice, this isn't actually a Bollywood variation on the Frank Capra classic: it's a London farce about arranged marriage with a ghostly twist.The...

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.

Payne has often been likened to the great Preston Sturges, and a generous reading of this movie's unwieldy structure might position it in the spirit of Sturges» classic 1941 comedy «Sullivan's Travels,» with its nutty hairpin turns, earnest doofus hero and sincere if sanctimonious moralizing about What Humanity Really Needs.

In «Peter Rabbit,» Sony Pictures Animation's «irreverent, contemporary comedy with attitude» about the little dude, Peter's long - standing feud with Mr. McGregor (Domhnall Gleeson, who seems to be hellbent on dominating the space of «beloved kid lit classics, reinvented for the big screen» these days) takes on a new dimension when the pair battle over a charming new neighbor (Rose Byrne), who apparently also adores animals.

It's a classic comedy that's so devotedly about friendship, the word is right there in the title.

It's 25 years since Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall's classic 1988 comedy Coming to America, about Akeem, the pampered African prince who journeys to...

Held at The Bitter End, the classic folk and comedy club in New York, and recorded for television, it features Woody Allen talking about his stand up.

At the premiere, Akhavan introduced the film as her attempt at a queer John Hughes comedy, and like his coming - of - age classics, it's both sincere about its characters» struggles and aware that maturity will solve most of them.

Sex Drive (R for crude humor, sexuality, nudity, and drug and alcohol use, all involving teens) Raunchy road comedy about an 18 year - old virgin (Josh Zuckerman) who steals his big brother's (James Marsden) classic Pontiac GTO in order to drive with a couple of friends (Amanda Crew and Clark Duke) from Chicago to Knoxville where he expects to rendezvous with a temptress (Katrina Bowden) he met over the internet.

Leaves of Grass (R for violence, drug use and pervasive profanity) Mob comedy about an Ivy League Classics professor (Ed Norton) who is lured home to Oklahoma by a false report of his pot - dealing, identical twin's death only to end - up embroiled in a cockamamie scheme to topple his rival drug kingpin (Richard Dreyfuss).

«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.

The Kids Are All Right, an adorably high - spirited romp from Laurel Canyon director Lisa Cholodenko, is an indie film (with glossy studio production values) about a suburban family standing up to a threat from without; plundering from Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, The Odd Couple and Meet the Parents, it's a classic Hollywood domestic comedy with a mischievous twist.

The premise is similar to Wag the Dog, Barry Sonnenfeld's classic dark comedy about a Hollywood producer and a spin doctor hired to cover up a presidential sex scandal.

Pixels (Blu - ray + Ultraviolet) Details: 2015, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Rated: PG - 13, suggestive comments, language The lowdown: A science fiction comedy about aliens who misinterpret video feeds of classic arcade games as a declaration of war and retaliate by attacking our planet with games such as Pac - Man, Donkey Kong, Centipede, Space Invaders and Galaga.

Farrelly and Wessler are long time collaborators, working on many of the classic Farrelly Brothers comedies including There's Something About Mary, Dumb and Dumber and Shallow Hal.

The disc also comes with a 51 - minute TV spot from 1987 featuring Vincent Price discussing his career with historian David Del Valle, an interview with writer Richard Matheson and a video essay about the career of director Jacques Tourneur so there's plenty of material for fans to trawl through, but overall The Comedy of Terrors may not be a classic when compared to its main cast members» more celebrated works but it is a fun ride through the cemetery with four bona fide horror legends as your guides.

A strong contender for the scrappiest state in the union, «Dirty Jersey» gets the eloquently foulmouthed comedy it deserves in Kevin Smith's indie classic about counter jockeys.

The film did seem to re-energize studio interest in the high school comedy, especially those inspired by classic literature, as movies like She's All That and 10 Things I Hate About You would follow.

A classic style New York romantic comedy with touches of classic screwball and a sprinkling of terrific cameos, the former escort reminisces to a reporter (Illeana Douglas) about her rags to riches fairy tale — a chain of events affecting the lives of everyone involved, including Arnold's wife Delta (Kathryn Hahn), leading man Seth (Rhys Ifans), playwright Joshua (Will Forte) and even Isabella's therapist, Jane (Jennifer Aniston).

(Grade: A --RRB-: This touching, profound and gently humorous German comedy / drama — about a teenage boy, circa 1989, who goes to great lengths to keep his invalid mother from learning communism has collapsed in East Germany — encapsulates the emotion and drama of that epochal event in such a satisfying way it seems destined to become a classic.

Jerry Lewis, le un and only, will be feted in person at Cannes; his comedy «The Ladies» Man» will screen on the beach as part of the Cannes Classics series, and this new picture, a modestly scaled indie, showcases Lewis as a jazz pianist who discovers a secret about his long - time marriage.

Classic Ealing comedy about the mayhem that ensues when a Scotch - laden ship runs aground off the coast of the Outer Hebrides.

Based on Blair Tindall's memoir of the same name, the comedy series about a classic orchestra was created by Roman Coppola... Read More

It's a classic dysfunctional family comedy - drama in many respects, with every single family member of the central Jacobs family dealing with some sort of personal trouble: older sister Dana (Slate) with misgivings about her engagement to Ben (Jay Duplass), which she channels into an affair with an old college friend, Nate (Finn Wittrock); younger sister Ali (Abby Quinn) with a rebellious nature that leads her into all - night clubbing and increasingly adventurous drug use; and their on - the - outs parents, Pat (Edie Falco) and Alan (John Turturro), the stagnation of their marriage only magnified when Ali discovers her father indulging in his own philandering.

The show becomes, in a way, like Harry and the Hendersons, or Beethoven, one of those classic wholesome comedies about how this harried family unit is going to struggle through and ultimately embrace this strange creature that has come into their lives and upset their routine.

Dramatic films which have portrayed the «homefront» during times of war, and the subsequent problems of peacetime adjustment include William Wyler's Mrs. Miniver (1942) about a separated middle - class family couple (Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon) during the Blitz, Clarence Brown's The Human Comedy (1943) with telegram delivery boy Mickey Rooney bringing news from the front to small - town GI families back home, John Cromwell's Since You Went Away (1944) with head of family Claudette Colbert during her husband's absence, and another William Wyler poignant classic The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) with couples awkwardly brought back together forever changed after the war: Dana Andrews and Virginia Mayo, Fredric March and Myrna Loy, and Harold Russell and Cathy O'Donnell.