Posts Tagged ‘screwball’

The Nutty Professor (1996)

Friday, February 12th, 2010
Genres: Comedy | Romance | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Eddie Murphy | Jada Pinkett Smith | James Coburn | Larry Miller | Dave Chappelle | John Ales | Patricia Wilson | Jamal Mixon | Nichole McAuley | Hamilton von Watts | Chao Li Chi | Tony Carlin | Quinn Duffy | Montell Jordan | Doug Williams
Directors: Tom Shadyac
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Sherman Klump is an incredibly fat and good-hearted man. He is a college professor on the verge of a breakthrough in DNA restructuring when he meets an admirer of his, named Carla, who is a teacher new to Klump’s college. He is enamored of her, but is frustrated by his tremendous bulk. He then decides to test a formula on which he’s been working on himself. He is then transformed into the lecherous swinger, Buddy Love, and romantic complications ensue.

Runaway Bride (1999)

Saturday, July 11th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Julia Roberts | Richard Gere | Joan Cusack | Hector Elizondo | Rita Wilson | Paul Dooley | Christopher Meloni | Donal Logue | Reg Rogers | Yul Vazquez | Jane Morris | Lisa Roberts Gillan | Kathleen Marshall | Jean Schertler | Tom Hines
Directors: Garry Marshall
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Ike Graham, New York columnist, writes his text always at the last minute. This time, a drunken man in his favourite bar tells Ike about Maggie Carpenter, a woman who always flees from her grooms in the last possible moment. Ike, who does not have the best opinion about females anyway, writes an offensive column without researching the subject thoroughly. The next day, Ike gets fired by his publisher (and former wife), because he went too far and faked the facts, which real journalists don’t do. Ike’s only way back into the business now is to do a fact-based report on Maggie and her upcoming fourth wedding attempt, which Ike predicts to fail again. So, as he circles her like a vulture his prey-to-be, Maggie’s opinion of Ike sinks below zero. Not only is Ike waiting for her to fail again but the whole town is poking fun at Maggie about her mistakes. But that is a point which Ike doesn’t like.

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 Princess Bride (1987)

Friday, May 8th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Fantasy | Romance | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Cary Elwes | Mandy Patinkin | Chris Sarandon | Christopher Guest | Wallace Shawn | André the Giant | Fred Savage | Robin Wright Penn | Peter Falk | Peter Cook | Mel Smith | Carol Kane | Billy Crystal
Directors: Rob Reiner
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When a young boy falls ill, his grandfather pops round to visit him. To cheer his grandson up, Grandpa has brought a storybook; The Princess Bride, a tale of the love between the beautiful Buttercup and the besotted Westley, a love cruelly interrupted by Westley’s tragic apparent death at sea when seeking his fortune. Heartbroken, Buttercup has sworn never to love again, but accepts the marriage proposal of the rich and handsome Prince Humperdinck, heir to the throne of Florin; but death is no barrier to true love, and in a story filled with exotically-accented swordsmen, big-hearted giants, genius kidnappers, sadistic torturers, vile swamps, Rodents of Unusual Size, the Dread Pirate Roberts and a somewhat embittered miracle worker, the love between Westley and Buttercup twists and turns on a path filled with adventure. Will the True Love of Westley and Buttercup win the day? Will Inigo Montaya find the six-fingered man who murdered his father? Will Humperdinck’s evil plans come to fruition? And, more importantly, will Grandpa be able to tell the story without any of the yucky kissing?

Who’s That Girl (1987)

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Music | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Madonna | Griffin Dunne | Haviland Morris | John McMartin | Bibi Besch | John Mills | Robert Swan | Drew Pillsbury | Coati Mundi | Dennis Burkley | James Dietz | Cecile Callan | Karen Elise Baldwin | Kimberlin Brown | Crystal Carson
Directors: James Foley
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His soon-to-be father in law has the dopey lawyer Louden to give the pretty and no less self conscious Nikki Finn a ride from the prison to the bus station to ensure that she leaves town immediately. However Nikki has different plans: after being in prison many years for a murder she didn’t commit, she wants to find out who really killed her friend Johnny. Unscrupulously she uses Louden for her objectives.

Some Like It Hot (1959)

Tuesday, March 10th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Drama | Music | Romance | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Marilyn Monroe | Tony Curtis | Jack Lemmon | George Raft | Pat O'Brien | Joe E. Brown | Nehemiah Persoff | Joan Shawlee | Billy Gray | George E. Stone | Dave Barry | Mike Mazurki | Harry Wilson | Beverly Wills
Directors: Billy Wilder
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Joe, the saxophone player, is Josephine in the all girls band that he joined with Jerry, the bass violin player, to be one step ahead of the mob after witnessing the 1929 St. Valentine’s Day Massacre in Chicago. After a train ride that sets a record for number of people in an upper berth, they are In Miami. Joe decides to be the man of Sugar Kane’s dreams and invites her out to a yacht he doesn’t have. But he can use Osgood Fielding’s yacht if Jerry — as Daphne — will keep Osgood dancing. The pace gets even giddier when the Chicago mob arrives in Miami for a convention.

I Love Trouble (1994)

Wednesday, February 25th, 2009
Genres: Action | Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Nick Nolte | Julia Roberts | Saul Rubinek | James Rebhorn | Robert Loggia | Kelly Rutherford | Olympia Dukakis | Marsha Mason | Eugene Levy | Charles Martin Smith | Dan Butler | Paul Gleason | Jane Adams | Lisa Lu | Nora Dunn
Directors: Charles Shyer
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She’s green and eager. He’s seasoned and jaded. They’re reporters for rival Chicago newspapers assigned to cover the same story. He offers tips and advice; she scoops him. Then, their snappy patter, repartee, and ripostes get romantic even as their competitive juices overflow. Will corrupt scientists at a chemical company whose goats give cancer-causing milk kill the cub and the columnist, or will they escape with their lives and their by-lines to hear wedding bells?

Hold That Ghost (1941)

Thursday, February 19th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Horror | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Bud Abbott | Lou Costello | Richard Carlson | Joan Davis | Mischa Auer | Evelyn Ankers | Marc Lawrence | Shemp Howard | Russell Hicks | William B. Davidson | Ted Lewis | Ted Lewis' Orchestra | Laverne Andrews | Maxene Andrews | Patty Andrews
Directors: Arthur Lubin
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Two bumbling service station attendants are left as the sole beneficiaries in a gangster’s will. Their trip to claim their fortune is sidetracked when they are stranded in a haunted house along with several other strangers.

Hands Across the Table (1935)

Monday, December 15th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Carole Lombard | Fred MacMurray | Ralph Bellamy | Astrid Allwyn | Marie Prevost | Ruth Donnelly | Joseph R. Tozer | William Demarest | Edward Gargan | Ferdinand Munier | Harold Minjir | Marcelle Corday | Albert Conti | Herman Bing | Peter Allen
Directors: Mitchell Leisen
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Hotel manicurist Regi Allen is a cynical golddigger who meets her match in Theodore ‘Ted’ Drew III. After a date with Ted, she lets him sleep on her couch when he’s too drunk to go further; but what is she to think when he wants to extend the arrangement?

Working Girl (1988)

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Harrison Ford | Sigourney Weaver | Melanie Griffith | Alec Baldwin | Joan Cusack | Philip Bosco | Nora Dunn | Oliver Platt | James Lally | Kevin Spacey | Robert Easton | Olympia Dukakis | Amy Aquino | Jeffrey Nordling | Elizabeth Whitcraft
Directors: Mike Nichols
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A witty, romantic look at life in the corporate jungle: Tess McGill is an ambitious secretary with a unique approach for climbing the ladder to success. When her classy, but villainous boss breaks a leg skiing, Tess simply takes over her office, her apartment, even her wardrobe. She then creates a deal with a handsome investment banker that will either take her straight to the top - or finish her off for good.