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Comedies, Vol. IX
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Another playlist dedicated to the comedic films that I like and thought were funny too


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Movie: Kick-Ass ( 2010 )
Dave Lizewski is an unnoticed high school student and comic book fan who one day decides to become a superhero, even though he has no powers, training or meaningful reason to do so.
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Movie: Heartbreaker ( 2010 )
Alex and his sister run a business designed to break up relationships. They are hired by a rich man to break up the wedding of his daughter. The only problem is that they only have one week to do so.
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Movie: Cop Out ( 2010 )
Jimmy's rare baseball card is robbed. Since it's his only hope to pay for his daughter's upcoming wedding, he recruits his cop partner Paul to track down the robber, a memorabilia-obsessed gangster.
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Movie: Robodoc ( 2009 )
Plagued by uninsured patients, greedy insurance companies, heartless health care conglomerates, and stressed out doctors, the health care delivery system is on the verge of a total breakdown - and Jake Gorman couldn't be happier. The egomaniacal medical malpractice attorney has it all. His face adorns billboards, his ads run constantly on TV and radio, while his army of informants tip him off to profitable new cases. Suing doctors has made Jake a famous and very wealthy man. Jake never met a doctor he couldn't sue, until now. As a cost cutting measure at its hospitals, R.I.P Healthcare has developed the perfect doctor. MD 63 (a.k.a. Robo-Doc) is a robotic doctor whose data bank contains all the medical knowledge in the world, and therefore Robo-Doc CAN'T make a mistake. Robo-Doc was designed to save both money and lives. Success would bring flawless, affordable health care to all and spell ruin for Jake Gorman.
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Movie: My One and Only ( 2009 )
After leaving her philandering husband, an elegant socialite takes her two sons on a road trip across America in search of a better life.
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Movie: The Ugly Truth ( 2009 )
An uptight television producer takes control of a morning show segment on modern relationships hosted by a misogynistic man.
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Movie: The Private Lives of Pippa Lee ( 2009 )
After her much older husband forces a move to a suburban retirement community, Pippa Lee engages in a period of reflection and finds herself heading toward a quiet nervous breakdown.
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Movie: Gigantic ( 2009 )
A mattress salesman finds his plan to adopt a Chinese baby augmented by the arrival of a young woman, who comes into his workplace, falls asleep on one of the beds, and starts to affect his life upon waking up.
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Movie: Mango Tango ( 2009 )
A New York City dance teacher's search for the ideal mate leads her down a challenging and downright dangerous path.
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Movie: Incognito ( 2009 )
This offbeat musical drama stars Lucas (Bénabar), an up-and-coming singer ready to do anything to be on top of the French pop scene.
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Movie: Bob Funk ( 2009 )
After he's fired from his job -- by his mother, no less -- Bob Funk agrees to quit drinking, see a therapist, and eventually report to a new boss, who might just be the woman of his dreams.
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Movie: The Smell of Success ( 2009 )
A comedy about manure salesmen in 1960s heartland America.
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Movie: Bride Wars ( 2009 )
Two best friends become rivals when they schedule their respective weddings on the same day.
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Movie: Control Alt Delete ( 2008 )
A moody romantic comedy exploring fetishism, addiction and love in the information age.
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Movie: Surfer, Dude ( 2008 )
A wave twisting tale of a soul searching surfer experiencing an existential crisis.
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Movie: Miss Conception ( 2008 )
Georgina is an ambitious young London professional who learns she has only one month left in which to conceive a child. After exhausting all possibilities with her baby-phobic boyfriend, Georgina turns to her wildly optimistic friend Clem, with whom she sets out to identify and "land" the perfect father for her child.
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Movie: No Bad Days ( 2008 )
Set in the exotic terrain of the Yucatan Peninsula, NO BAD DAYS is an action/adventure film that manifests all the qualities that make for an entertaining and captivating film. The fast-pace style makes for a surprise at every turn, while the charisma and chemistry of the main characters create a romantic subplot. The story begins when evil tomb-raiders rob precious Mayan artifacts and soon face their most difficult opponent an unpredictable, rugged, ex-military operative who discovers his true self after ending 5 years in hiding. Our hero finds himself being chased through jungles, spying in underground waterways, and falling in love with an attractive, yet stubborn American woman searching for her missing mother, an archeologist who was in the wrong place at the wrong time. This gripping, action-packed, humorous tale peaks in one of the most unique and alluring tropical locations in the world, leading the two heroes on a crusade against evil forces even greater than they anticipated.
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Movie: Sweet Rain: Accuracy of Death ( 2008 )
Kaneshiro plays a Grim Reaper who appears to his victims in human form and spends a week with them before deciding whether to off them or not.
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Movie: Mad Money ( 2008 )
Three female employees of the Federal Reserve plot to steal money that is about to be destroyed.
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Movie: Southland Tales ( 2007 )
During a three day heat wave just before a huge 4th of July celebration, an action star stricken with amnesia meets up with a porn star who is developing her own reality TV project, and a policeman who holds the key to a vast conspiracy.
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Movie: Music Within ( 2007 )
The true story of Richard Pimentel, a brilliant public speaker with a troubled past, who returns from Vietnam severely hearing -impaired and finds a new purpose in his landmark efforts on the behalf of Americans with disabilities.
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Movie: Ten Canoes ( 2006 )
A story within a story. In Australia's Northern Territory, a man tells us one of the stories of his people and his land. It's a story of an older man, Minygululu, who has three wives and realizes that his younger brother Dayindi may try to steal away the youngest wife. So, over a few days and several trips to hunt and gather, Minygululu tells Dayindi a story set in the time of their ancestors when a stranger came to the village and disrupted the lives of a serious man named Ridjimiraril, his three wives, and his younger brother Yeeralparil who had no wife and liked to visit his youngest sister-in-law. Through stories, can values be taught and balance achieved?
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Movie: Alien Autopsy ( 2006 )
Humouristic reconstruction of the 1995 scandal when two British lads were accused of having faked a documentary from the Roswell incident in 1947.
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Movie: Shadows in the Sun ( 2005 )
An aspiring young writer (Jackson) tracks a literary titan (Keitel) suffering from writers block to his refuge in rural Italy and learns about life and love from the irascible genius and his daughters.
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Movie: The Weather Man ( 2005 )
A Chicago weather man, separated from his wife and children, debates whether professional and personal success are mutually exclusive.
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Movie: The Wendell Baker Story ( 2005 )
Luke Wilson plays a good-hearted ex-con who gets a job in a retirement hotel. Three elderly residents help him win back his girlfriend as he lends them a hand in fighting hotel corruption.
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Movie: Adam's Apples ( 2005 )
A neo-nazi sentenced to community service at a church clashes with the blindly devotional priest.
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Movie: Man with the Screaming Brain ( 2005 )
The brains of a Russian taxi driver and a wealthy businessman are brought together in one body by a mad scientist.
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Movie: Criminal ( 2004 )
Two con artists try to swindle a currency collector by selling him a counterfeit copy of an extremely rare currency bill.
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Movie: Matchstick Men ( 2003 )
A phobic con artist and his protégé are on the verge of pulling off a lucrative swindle when the former's teenage daughter arrives unexpectedly.
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Movie: Lucky 7 ( 2003 )
Instead of really living her life since losing her mother at age 7, Seattle lawyer Amy Myer sticks to a ridiculously-detailed timeline her mother drew as a guideline in all walks of life, even love in search of marriage with 'number 7'.
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Movie: Nola ( 2003 )
An urban fairy tale and romantic comedy in which aspiring songwriter Nola leaves her abusive Kansas home and heads to New York City to find her biological father--and finds much more.
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Movie: Crime Spree ( 2003 )
An out-of-town heist becomes a nightmare for a crew of French burglars when they mistakenly rob the head of the Chicago mafia. Unaccustomed to the ways of the American underworld, it is not long before they have the mafia, the FBI and a couple of street gangs on their backs as they attempt to make their way back to Paris.
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Movie: Try Seventeen ( 2003 )
The story of a young man who enters college only to discover that he can learn more about life and love from his neighbors in the apartment building where he lives.
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Movie: Adaptation. ( 2002 )
A lovelorn screenwriter becomes desperate as he tries and fails to adapt 'The Orchid Thief' by Susan Orlean for the screen.
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Movie: Blurred ( 2002 )
Follows five groups of teenagers as they hit the road for Schoolies Week.
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Movie: The Rules of Attraction ( 2002 )
The incredibly spoiled and overprivileged students of Camden College are a backdrop for an unusual love triangle between a drug dealer, a virgin and a bisexual classmate.
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Movie: Comic Book Villains ( 2002 )
Told from the point of view from Archie, a comic book collector, this is the story of a rivalry between two comic book shop owners. One does it for the love of comics, while the other shop, run by a husband-and-wife team are in it strictly for the money. The situation brews to a head when a sneak collector, Conan discovers a large collection of perfectly-preserved classic comics, leading the two shops to vie to acquire them, along with a "villain" who hopes to steal them first.
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Movie: The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys ( 2002 )
A group of Catholic school friends, after being caught drawing an obscene comic book, plan a heist that will outdo their previous prank and make them local legends.
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Movie: Stark Raving Mad ( 2002 )
A crook quietly plots his revenge against the boss who murdered his brother while working for him.
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Movie: Wish You Were Dead ( 2002 )
Two bad women fight over one man in a back-stabbing, money-grabbing, insurance-hustling, double-dealing, two-timing caper.
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Movie: The New Guy ( 2002 )
A high school senior branded uncool in the ninth grade gets himself expelled so he changes his image to cool kid at the town's other high school.
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Movie: About a Boy ( 2002 )
A cynical, immature young man is taught how to act like a grown-up by a little boy.
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Movie: 40 Days and 40 Nights ( 2002 )
After a brutal break-up, a young man vows to stay celibate during the forty days of Lent, but finds the girl of his dreams and is unable to do anything about it.
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Movie: The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra ( 2002 )
A bad scientist and wife, a mad scientist and skeleton, two aliens and their escaped pet are all searching for the elusive element "atmospherium".
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Movie: Who Is Cletis Tout? ( 2001 )
This is a comedy about mistaken identities, a hitman who sees everything in terms of the movies, and a twenty-year-old diamond heist.
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Movie: Dog Eat Dog ( 2001 )
A kidnap caper of a dog to make some much needed cash to pay off some outstanding debts goes wrong...with not so hilarious consequences.
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Movie: Skipped Parts ( 2001 )
An ungrounded young mother and her thoughtful teenage son are banished to a remote provincial town by her domineering father.
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Movie: Novocaine ( 2001 )
A dentist finds himself a murder suspect after a sexy patient seduces him & steals all of the drugs from his practice.
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Movie: Bubble Boy ( 2001 )
Bubble Boy's been in a bubble all his life due to no immune system. A cute blonde girl befriends BB. Her boyfriend proposes and BB decides to travel across USA to Niagara Falls to stop the wedding.
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Movie: Just Visiting ( 2001 )
A French count is in England to marry the princess. She's killed. A wizard helps him to time travel back before the murder - except they end up in Chicago, April 2000. A descendant helps him. He looks for the wizard to return to the 1100s.
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Movie: Say It Isn't So ( 2001 )
Jo and Gilly date. They find out they're brother and sister. Jo moves away. Gilly finds out that he's not Jo's brother and that Jo's getting married. Can he stop the wedding in time?
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Movie: The Family Man ( 2000 )
A fast-lane investment broker, offered the opportunity to see how the other half lives, wakes up to find that his sports car and girlfriend have become a mini-van and wife.
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Movie: Hotel Splendide ( 2000 )
The Hotel Splendide is on a remote and cold island, accessible only by a once-a-month ferry. It's a dark and dreary spa created by the late Dame Blanche, whose grown children now run the hotel according to her specificiations, serving up ghastly seaweed and fish-based food and enema treatments. Kath, once the sous chef, arrives when she receives an anonymous letter telling her of the matriarch's death. Will she bring light into the place with her wonderful cooking?
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Movie: The Crew ( 2000 )
Four retired mobsters plan one last crime to save their retirement home.
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Movie: Masked Avenger Versus Ultra-Villain in the Lair of the Naked Bikini ( 2000 )
Masked Avenger is a hero to the modern world. He destroys his enemies with kung fu fighting, handsaws and guns, but with one small hang-up. At the sight of a woman, The Masked Avenger immediately begins to gratify himself, no matter what situation he is in. The evil Helmut Gunta plans to impregnante a virgin in order to have an heir, and the woman he has in mind is a nun, Sister Mary who happens to be the Masked Avenger's sister. Gunta has a plan to stop The Masked Avenger from getting in the way... organise a gang of strippers to keep him pre-occupied until Sister Mary is pregnant.
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Movie: 28 Days ( 2000 )
A big-city newspaper columnist is forced to enter a drug and alcohol rehab center after ruining her sister's wedding and crashing a stolen limousine.
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Movie: Three to Tango ( 1999 )
A rich businessman's assumption that his new colleague is gay leads him to ask the man to keep an eye on his mistress. However, the man is not gay, and begins to fall for the woman himself.
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Movie: Made Men ( 1999 )
While hiding in a small town, a former mobster finds out the man he snitched on is sending men to kill him.
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Movie: Parting Shots ( 1999 )
When the doctors tell Harry Sterndale to get his affairs in order, he does just that - with a vengeance. With nothing to lose, Harry is out to give everyone who ever "done him wrong" something to remember him by: exactly what they de
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Movie: Show Me Love ( 1998 )
Two teenage girls in small-town Sweden. Elin is beautiful, popular, and bored with life. Agnes is friendless, sad, and secretly in love with Elin.
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Movie: Doctor Dolittle ( 1998 )
Dr. John Dolittle has the world in his hands: A beautiful wife at his side, two adorable daughters and a career that could not go better. One night, he nearly runs over a dog with his car. The dog yells "bonehead" and disappears. From then on, his childhood ability is back: To communicate with animals. Unfortunately, the word of Dolittle's ability is spreading quickly. Soon, many animals from rat to horse flock to his place to get medical advice. But his colleagues suspect he's going mad, and as the clinic Dolittle used to work for is about to being taken over for a huge amount of money, many decisions have to be made. Believe him? Put him into a mental institution? Sell the clinic? But also his family is close to breaking apart. Until a circus tiger falls seriously ill.
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Movie: Major League: Back to the Minors ( 1998 )
Gus Cantrell is a major league pitcher in the twilight of his career. He contacted by Roger Dorn, General Manager of the Minnesota Twins, and offered the role of managing the Buzz, the Twins' AAA team. Cantrell accepts but regrets it almost immediately. The Buzz is a dysfunctional no-hoper team, with an odd assortment of characters. However, Cantrell quickly sets about forging them into a winning team.
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Movie: Wide Awake ( 1998 )
A 10-year-old boy goes on a search for God after his grandfather dies.
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Movie: Betty ( 1998 )
The world's most famous actress freaks out on the set of her latest Christmas blockbuster and runs away to hide in the unlikely setting of Palm Springs. She meets three men who, like the Scarecrow, Tinman and Lion, help her find her way home.
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Movie: Mousehunt ( 1997 )
A family film about a mouse that lives in an old house where the geriatric owner dies, and Ernie and Lars Smuntz have plans for, but they have trouble getting rid of the mouse. It's like Home Alone with a mouse.
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Movie: Excess Baggage ( 1997 )
A bratty teenager fakes her own kidnapping, but gets mistakenly kidnapped for real instead.
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Movie: Picture Perfect ( 1997 )
A young advertising executive's life becomes increasingly complicated when, in order to impress her boss, she pretends to be engaged to a man she has just met.
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Movie: The Winner ( 1997 )
A story about a man who can't seem to do anything but win at the tables in Vegas. This, of course, brings hustlers out of the woodwork intent on using him for financial gain. One of them is the man's brother who, incidentally, is trying to find who it was that killed their father, while still another is a woman who has schemes of her own. Couple all of this with drug kingpins and general thugs and you have a comedy with a fresh twist on surviving in Vegas.
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Movie: 'Til There Was You ( 1997 )
Two strangers, whose paths are always crossing, finally meet when fate steps in.
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TV Show: The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders ( 1996 )
Masterpiece Theatre brings its four-hour fling with a scandalous 18th century heroine, in a broadcast of Moll Flanders. A costume drama which follows the fortunes of Moll Flanders in 18th Century England. Her determination to reach a secure place in society results in incest, bigamy, adultery, wealth and poverty. Based on the novel by Daniel Defoe.
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Movie: Tin Cup ( 1996 )
A washed-up golf pro working at a driving range tries to qualify for the U.S. Open in order to win the heart of his successful rival's girlfriend.
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Movie: Flirting with Disaster ( 1996 )
Mel Coplin departs on a mission of discovery dragging his wife and 4 month old son behind. He and wife, Nancy, won't agree on a name for their son until adopted Mel gets in touch with his roots. He assures her that once he knows who he really is, the right name for their boy will be a snap. Enlisting the aid of student-psychologist and part-time adoption agent, Tina Kalb, they embark on a journey across the United States to find Mel's "birth" mother. "The best part," Mel tells Nancy, "is it's all free." Tina is finishing her dissertation and will film the happy reunion of mother and child as part of her research. For this privilege, she's footing the bill. His adoptive parents are left behind feeling abandoned by an ungrateful son. Clerical errors, mistaken identities, Nancy's misplaced high school friend and his gay lover, and a super-charged libido here and there are thrown into the mix along the way until -- at last -- Mel's real parents, the Schlictings (mispronounced as "Shit-kings" by Mrs. Coplin), are discovered in remote New Mexico. There, Mel begins to wonder if he would have been better off not knowing these people, after all.
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Movie: Swimming with Sharks ( 1995 )
A young, naive Hollywood studio assistant finally turns the tables on his incredibly abusive producer boss.
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Movie: Billy Madison ( 1995 )
In order to inherit his fed up father's hotel empire, an immature and lazy man must repeat grades 1-12 all over again.
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Movie: Trapped in Paradise ( 1994 )
Residents of a friendly Pennsylvania town foil three brothers' plan to rob a bank on Christmas Eve.
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Movie: Eat Drink Man Woman ( 1994 )
A senior chef lives with his three grown daughters; the middle one finds her future plans affected by unexpected events and the life changes of the other household members.
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Movie: Barcelona ( 1994 )
An American working in Barcelona, having sworn off beautiful women, is forced to be host to his playboy cousin in this witty comedy of good intentions and mixed signals.
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Movie: Kika ( 1994 )
Kika, a cute cosmetologist, prepares Ramon for funeral when he revives. He proposes to the much older Kika who has his dad as lover. Did Ramon's dad murder his mom? What about the escaped rapist and the PSYCHOlogist video reporter?
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Movie: Guarding Tess ( 1994 )
A former U.S. First Lady wants a particular Secret Service agent to head her bodyguard detail, even though he can't stand her.
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Movie: Six Degrees of Separation ( 1993 )
An affluent New York City couple finds their lives touched, intruded upon, and compelled by a mysterious young black man who is never quite who he says he is.
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Movie: Money for Nothing ( 1993 )
An unemployed man finds a money bag of $1.2 million after it dropped off an armored car.
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Movie: Delicatessen ( 1992 )
Post-apocalyptic surrealist black comedy about the landlord of an apartment building who occasionally prepares a delicacy for his odd tenants.
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Movie: Once Upon a Crime... ( 1992 )
Phoebe and fellow American Julian Peters meet in Rome, find a lost dog, and agree to return it to Monte Carlo to split the five thousand dollar reward. Discovering the dog's owner dead, they panic and become fugitives. Other victims of misfortune also become suspects, as the plot twists and luck and judgment desert everyone.
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Movie: High Heels ( 1991 )
A girl's mother returns after 15 years to find her daughter has married one of her (the mother's) old boyfriends. They try to mend their broken mother/daughter relationship and deal with their common lover.
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Movie: Necessary Roughness ( 1991 )
Due to NCAA sanctions, the Texas State University Fightin' Armadillos must form a football team from their actual student body, with no scholarships to help, to play their football schedule.
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Movie: Mystery Date ( 1991 )
A teenage boy would like to meet with a very pretty, blonde girl who lives next door. His elder brother helps him with a car and a credit card to be successful. This simple story gets complicated because of the corpse in the trunk. From there, other nightmares begin .
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Movie: Queens Logic ( 1991 )
A group of lifelong friends meet again in Queens for Ray's (Ken Olin) bachelor party and wedding.
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Movie: Brenda Starr ( 1989 )
Mike is a struggling artist who draws the "Brenda Starr" strip for the papers. When Brenda comes to life in the strip and sees how unappreciated she is by Mike, she leaves the strip. To get her back, and keep his job, Mike draws himself into the strip. In her world, Brenda Starr is the Ace Reporter for the New York Flash. She is talented, fearless, smart, and a very snappy dresser. The only competition she has is from the rival paper's top reporter Libby Lipscomb. Brenda heads to the Amazon jungle to find a scientist with a secret formula which will create cheap and powerful gas from ordinary water.
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Movie: Slaves of New York ( 1989 )
Benadette Peters stars in this ironic film based on Tama Janowitz's best-selling collection of short stories that defined the downtown New York art scene of the 1980s
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Movie: Spies, Lies & Naked Thighs ( 1988 )
In this spoof of spy films, Alan, a U.N. translator, and his kindergarten teacher wife, Beverly, get roped into helping foil a presidential assassination plot by an unlikely G-man-who just so happens to look like Alan's old college buddy, Freddie. But before "Freddie" can finger the real hired-gun-a cold-hearted killer with a penchant for using kitchen tools to do the deed-he, Alan, and Beverly must first rule out some strange and unusual suspects!
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Movie: Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown ( 1988 )
A television actress encounters a variety of eccentric characters after embarking on a journey to discover why her lover abruptly left her.
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Movie: Lucky Stiff ( 1988 )
Rotund Ron Douglas has no luck with women until he meets Cynthia Mitchell, who invites him home for Christmas dinner. Her backwoods clan, descended from the Donner party, is skewed toward the unnatural. Will Ron find his way back to civilization?
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Movie: Slave Girls from Beyond Infinity ( 1987 )
Lovely and resourceful Daria and Tisa escape a space gulag only to crash land on a nearby world where a guy in tight pants named Zed is playing The Most Dangerous Game. Zed turns the girls and another guest loose in his jungle preserve to serve as the prey in a mad hunt. Armed only with knives and their wits, the girls must battle their way accross the jungle to a hidden arms cache before Zed catches and kills them.
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Movie: Zegen ( 1987 )
A Japanese immigrant in 1901 Hong Kong wishes to become a simple shopkeeper. Fate soon intervenes, allowing him to mix adventure and fervent patriotism with greed.
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Movie: The Millionaires' Express ( 1986 )
Multi-genre flick (western, martial arts, comedy, adventure, etc.) with an all-star cast about a man who returns to his home town, buys everything in sight, and tries to improve its municipal (and his personal) profits by sabotaging a train so the passengers all have to stop in his town and spend lots o' money! Throw in various subplots involving some Japanese swordsmen, some bungling bankrobbers (one of whom is the head of security), and a gang of no-goods who try to mess up the town.
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Movie: Young Doctors in Love ( 1982 )
It's a spoof on hospital soap operas with a few gangsters thrown in. A new batch of interns begins at City Hospital.
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Movie: Oh, God! Book II ( 1980 )
God asks a young girl to help spread his word and influence with a slogan.
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Movie: Oh, God! ( 1977 )
When God appears to an assistant grocery manager as a good natured old man, the Almighty selects him as his messenger for the modern world.
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Movie: Red Lion ( 1969 )
Impersonating an Imperial Army officer by wearing a "red lion's mane", a poor servant returns to his village after 10 years of absence to end the village's suffering caused by corrupt officials and businessmen.