Posts Tagged ‘black-comedy’

Wag the Dog (1997)

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Dustin Hoffman | Robert De Niro | Anne Heche | Denis Leary | Willie Nelson | Andrea Martin | Kirsten Dunst | William H. Macy | John Michael Higgins | Suzie Plakson | Woody Harrelson | Michael Belson | Suzanne Cryer | Jason Cottle | David Koechner
Directors: Barry Levinson
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After being caught in a scandalous situation days before the election, the president does not seem to have much of a chance of being re-elected. One of his advisors (DeNiro) contacts a top Hollywood producer (Hoffman) in order to manufacture a war in Albania that the president can heroically end, all through mass media.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)

Saturday, July 11th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Comedy
Countries: UK
Actors: Graham Chapman | John Cleese | Eric Idle | Terry Jones | Michael Palin | Connie Booth | Carol Cleveland | Neil Innes | Bee Duffell | John Young | Rita Davies | Avril Stewart | Sally Kinghorn | Mark Zycon
Directors: Terry Gilliam
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The movie starts out with Arthur, King of the Britons, looking for knights to sit with him at Camelot. He finds many knights including Sir Galahad the pure, Sir Lancelot the brave, the quiet Sir Bedevere, and Sir Robin the Not-Quite-So-Brave-as-Sir Lancelot. They do not travel on horses, but pretend they do and have their servants bang coconuts to make the sound of horse’s hooves. Through satire of certain events in history (witch trials, the black plague) they find Camelot, but after literally a quick song and dance they decide that they do not want to go there. While walking away, God (who seems to be grumpy) come to them from a cloud and tells them to find the Holy Grail. They agree and begin their search…

The Cable Guy (1996)

Friday, July 10th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Jim Carrey | Matthew Broderick | Leslie Mann | Jack Black | George Segal | Diane Baker | Eric Roberts | Janeane Garofalo | Andy Dick | Harry O'Reilly | David Cross | Amy Stiller | Owen Wilson | Keith Gibbs
Directors: Ben Stiller
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Steven Kovak has been kicked out of his apartment by his girlfriend. Steven has a new apartment, and decides to slip the cable guy (Chip) $50 for free cable. Steven then fakes an interest in Chip’s line of work. However Chip takes this to heart trying to become Steven’s best bud. When Steven no longer wants to be Chips friend the man who can do it all goes on an all out assault to ruin Steven’s life. In the backdrop is the delicate sub-plot of the trial of a former kid star for murdering his brother.

Election (1999)

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Matthew Broderick | Reese Witherspoon | Chris Klein | Jessica Campbell | Phil Reeves | Molly Hagan | Delaney Driscoll | Mark Harelik | Colleen Camp | Frankie Ingrassia | Joel Parks | Matt Malloy | Holmes Osborne | Jeanine Jackson | Loren Nelson
Directors: Alexander Payne
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Tracy Flick is the most driven student at Carver High, who just happens to be having an affair with one of her teachers. Another teacher—Mr. McAllister—is having an affair with his wife’s best friend. Student Elections are under way, when Mr. McAllister persuades football jock Paul to run against Flick for his own pleasure. Flick, of course, is mortified that Paul is even trying to compete. Tammy, Paul’s lesbian sister who got dumped by her girlfriend to go with Paul, decides that running against her brother is the best revenge. Who will win the election this year?

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
Genres: Comedy
Countries: UK
Actors: Peter Sellers | George C. Scott | Sterling Hayden | Keenan Wynn | Slim Pickens | Peter Bull | James Earl Jones | Tracy Reed | Jack Creley | Frank Berry | Robert O'Neil | Glenn Beck | Roy Stephens
Directors: Stanley Kubrick
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U.S. President Merkin Muffley is on the hot line to Moscow with some rather embarrassing news for the Soviet premier: “Hello, Dimitri….I’m fine….Now then, you know how we’ve always talked about the possibility of something going wrong with the bomb….The bomb, Dimitri. The hydrogen bomb….Well, now, what happened is that, uh, one of our base commanders…he went a little funny in the head….and he went and did a silly thing….He ordered his planes to attack your country.” A comedy about an accidental nuclear attack? One that ends with total annihilation, thermonuclear apocalypse? Preposterous! Stanley Kubrick thought otherwise. In the end his thinking prevailed. The mad saga revolves around a psychotic Strategic Air Command officer, Gen. Jack D. Ripper, who lets loose his B-52 bomber squadron on the Soviet Union. Ripper takes this unilateral action because of his paranoid belief that Communists are sapping and contaminating “all our precious bodily fluids” as part of their plan to take over the world.” Unbeknownst to Ripper, his attack will trigger the Russian’s ultimate weapon, the Doomsday Machine, a diabolical retaliatory device set to blow up the planet.

Team America: World Police (2004)

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
Genres: Action | Adventure | Animation | Comedy
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Matt Stone
Directors: Trey Parker
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Team America follows an international police force dedicated to maintaining global stability. Learning that power hungry dictator Kim Jong Il (Parker) is out to destroy the world, the team recuits Broadway star Gary Johnston (Parker) to go undercover. With the help of Team America (Stone, Miller, Masasa, Parker, and Norris), Gary manages to slip into an arms dealer’s hideout to uncover the plan to destroy the world. Will Team America be able to save the world?

Clue (1985)

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Eileen Brennan | Tim Curry | Madeline Kahn | Christopher Lloyd | Michael McKean | Martin Mull | Lesley Ann Warren | Colleen Camp | Lee Ving | Bill Henderson | Jane Wiedlin | Jeffrey Kramer | Kellye Nakahara | Will Nye | Rick Goldman
Directors: Jonathan Lynn
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Here is the murderously funny movie based on the world-famous Clue board game. Was it Colonel Mustard in the study with a gun? Miss Scarlet in the billiard room with the rope? Or was it Wadsworth the butler? Meet all the notorious suspects and discover all their foul play. You’ll love their dastardly doings as the bodies and the laughs pile up before your eyes. Features three surprise endings!!

The Meaning of Life (1983)

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Fantasy | Musical
Countries: UK
Actors: Graham Chapman
Directors: Terry Gilliam
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The Monty Python group examines the meaning and purpose of life in a series of sketches from conception to death and beyond. In typical Monty Python fashion they satirizes and humourizes almost everyone.

Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967)

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Spencer Tracy | Sidney Poitier | Katharine Hepburn | Katharine Houghton | Cecil Kellaway | Beah Richards | Roy Glenn | Isabel Sanford | Virginia Christine | Alexandra Hay | Barbara Randolph | D'Urville Martin | Tom Heaton | Grace Gaynor | Skip Martin
Directors: Stanley Kramer
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Joey Drayton brings her fiancĂ©, Dr. John Prentice, home to sunny San Francisco to meet her affluent parents. Their liberal persuasions are now put to the test, for although the young man is an ideal choice (he’s highly and internationally respected in the medical field, and he’s impeccably mannered, handsome, well dressed and of a respectable California family), he’s black. The film, which covers one busy day in the Drayton home, is essentially a drawing-room comedy, a series of cross-conversations between the young doctor and the girl’s parents, and finally between all sets of parents and offspring. A simple dinner is extended to include the doctor’s parents, who fly up from Los Angeles for the evening, and the crusty but benevolent old Irish priest, a friend of the family. Thus, the title of the film . . .

Lucky Numbers (2000)

Monday, April 27th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Crime
Countries: France | USA
Actors: John Travolta | Lisa Kudrow | Tim Roth | Ed O'Neill | Michael Rapaport | Daryl Mitchell | Bill Pullman | Richard Schiff | Michael Moore | Sam McMurray | Michael Weston | Maria Bamford | Caroline Aaron | John F. O'Donohue | Colin Mochrie
Directors: Nora Ephron
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Winter, 1988: Harrisburg PA’s celebrity weatherman, Russ Richards, is broke: he’s borrowed heavily to open a snowmobile dealership, and it’s still unseasonably warm. Gig, his seedy pal, advises him to run an insurance scam; when it goes awry, Russ is out another $10,000 and in trouble with Dale, a bat-wielding thug. Gig convinces Russ to rig the state lottery with the help of Crystal, a gold-digging ditz with a heart of tin. They have to find a beard to buy the ticket, and then they have to cash it. Soon, murder and various double-crosses add to Russ’s nightmare. A lazy cop zeroes in. Jail is closer than riches. Will Russ have to choose between his money and his life?