Posts Tagged ‘slapstick’

Be Kind Rewind (2008)

Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Black, Jack | Def, Mos | Glover, Danny | Gooch, Irv | Parker, Chandler | Smith, Arjay | Aaron, Quinton | Perez, Gio | Soltys, Tomasz | Franklin, Marcus Carl | Hightower, Blake | Said, Amir Ali | Slotkoff, David | Heins, Frank | Hogan, Harvey
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A small VHS only video store faces foreclosure in a poor community. While watching the store for the owner, a blundering employee’s friend accidentally erases all of the tapes. In order to keep their blunder from becoming apparent, the duo of Mos Def and Jack Black begin remaking the films themselves using homemade special effects and outdated filming techniques.

Raising Arizona (1987)

Monday, June 9th, 2008
Genres: Action | Comedy | Crime
Countries: USA
Actors: Cage, Nicolas | Hunter, Holly | Wilson, Trey | Goodman, John | Forsythe, William | McMurray, Sam | McDormand, Frances | Cobb, Randall 'Tex' | Kuhn, T.J. | Kitei, Lynne Dumin | Benedek, Peter | Smith, Charles 'Lew' | Keith, Warren | Kendrick, Henry | Dawson, Sidney
Directors: Coen, Ethan
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Colourful and unconventional slapstick comedy. Ex-con Hi and ex-cop Ed meet, marry and long for a child in the wilds of Arizona. When Ed discovers she’s barren the God-given solution is presented: to snatch a baby from a set of quins. Thus begins a series of kidnappings, capers and rum goings-on that revolve around the helpless yet universally-loveable child. Hi’s convict friends, his boss, and even the Lone Biker Of The Apocalypse become involved in the ever-twisting plot in the quest to own the baby.

1941 (1979)

Thursday, June 5th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Aykroyd, Dan | Candy, John | Oates, Warren | Lee, Christopher | Toshiro Mifune | Robert Stack | Allen, Nancy | Williams, Treat | John Belushi | Beatty, Ned | Fuller, Samuel
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Hysteria grips California in the wake of the bombing of Pearl harbour as an assorted group of defenders attempt to make the coast defensible against an imagined Japanese invasion in this big budget, big cast comedy. Members of a Japanese submarine crew scout out the madness.

Are We Done Yet? (2007)

Monday, June 2nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Cube, Ice | Long, Nia | McGinley, John C. | Aleisha Allen | Bolden, Philip Daniel | Katz, Jonathan | Kash, Linda | Kalugin, Alexander | Joffre, Dan | Arce, Pedro Miguel | Mowry, Tahj | Vargas, Jacob | Prieur, Brenda | MacArthur, Hayes | Strange, Colin
Directors: Carr, Steve
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Newlyweds Nick (Ice Cube) and Suzanne (Long) decide to move to the suburbs to provide a better life for their two kids. But their idea of a dream home is disturbed by a contractor (McGinley) with a bizarre approach to business.

Kicking & Screaming (2005)

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Family | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: Ferrell, Will | Duvall, Robert | Ditka, Mike | Walsh, Kate | Vander, Musetta | McLaughlin, Dylan | Hutcherson, Josh | Lawrence, Steven Anthony | Bergman, Jeremy | Cho, Elliott | Walker, Erik | McKinney, Dallas | Liotti, Francesco | Ruggiero, Alessandro | Fine, Sammy
Directors: Dylan, Jesse
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Family man Phil Weston, a lifelong victim of his father’s competitive nature, takes on the coaching duties of a kids’ soccer team, and soon finds that he’s also taking on his father’s dysfunctional way of relating…

Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo (2005)

Thursday, April 17th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Schneider, Rob | Griffin, Eddie | Krabbé, Jeroen | Schweiger, Til | Sills, Douglas | Ponce, Carlos | Keating, Charles | Verboom, Hanna | Sommer, Kostas | Ragas, Bastiaan | Telford, Zoe | Raison, Miranda | Dordei, Federico | Canalis, Elisabetta | Vaughan, Johnny
Directors: Bigelow, Mike
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After an accident with dolphins and elders on a beach, the clumsy fish tank cleaner and former gigolo Deuce Bigalow (RobSchneider) is invited by his pimp friend T.J. Hicks (Edie Griffin) to travel to Amsterdam where he is presently living. Once there, T.J. Hicks is wrongly taken as a whore-men serial killer. Bigalow joins the gigolo’s association trying to find the true identity of the murderer and clean TJ Hicks. Meanwhile, he meets the gorgeous Eva (Hanna Verboom), and while dating her, he suspects that she may be the wanted killer.

Blazing Saddles (1974)

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Little, Cleavon | Wilder, Gene | Pickens, Slim | Huddleston, David | Dunn, Liam | Karras, Alex | Hillerman, John | Furth, George | Starrett, Jack | Korman, Harvey | Kahn, Madeline | Arthur, Carol | Collier, Richard | McGregor, Charles
Directors: Brooks, Mel
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The Ultimate Western Spoof. A town where everyone seems to be named Johnson is in the way of the railroad. In order to grab their land, Hedley Lemar, a politically connected nasty person, sends in his henchmen to make the town unlivable. After the sheriff is killed, the town demands a new sheriff from the Governor. Hedley convinces him to send the town the first Black sheriff in the west. Bart is a sophisticated urbanite who will have some difficulty winning over the townspeople.

Bud Abbott Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)

Monday, April 14th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Horror | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Abbott, Bud | Costello, Lou | Chaney Jr., Lon | Lugosi, Bela | Strange, Glenn | Aubert, Lénore | Randolph, Jane | Ferguson, Frank | Bradstreet, Charles | Barber, Bobby | Barton, George | Brown, Harry | Kirk, Joe | Negley, Howard | Price, Vincent
Directors: Barton, Charles
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The world of freight handlers Wilbur Grey and Chick Young is turned upside down when the remains of Frankenstein’s monster and Dracula arrive from Europe to be used in a house of horrors. Dracula awakens and escapes with the weakened monster, who he plans to re-energize with a new brain. Larry Talbot (the Wolfman) arrives from London in an attempt to thwart Dracula. Dracula’s reluctant aide is the beautiful Dr. Sandra Mornay. Her reluctance is dispatched by Dracula’s bite. Dracula and Sandra abduct Wilbur for his brain and recharge the monster in preparation for the operation. Chick and Talbot attempt to find and free Wilbur, but when the full moon rises all hell breaks loose with the Wolfman, Dracula, and Frankenstein all running rampant.

Hot Fuzz (2007)

Friday, March 21st, 2008
Genres: Action | Comedy | Crime | Mystery
Countries: France | UK
Actors: Pegg, Simon | Freeman, Martin | Nighy, Bill | Popper, Robert | Cornish, Joe | Waitt, Chris | Mason, Eric | Whitelaw, Billie | Frost, Nick | Wight, Peter | Deakin, Julia | Walton, Tom Strode | Woollan, Troy | Lowings, Rory | Bailey, Bill
Directors: Wright, Edgar
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Top London cop, PC Nicholas Angel (Pegg) is good. Too good. And to stop the rest of his team looking bad, he is reassigned to the quiet town of Sandford. He is paired with Danny Butterman (Frost), who countlessly questions him on the action lifestyle. Everything seems quiet for Angel, until two actors are found decapitated. It is address to as an accident, but Angel isn’t going to accept that, especially when more and more people turn up dead. Angel and Danny clash with everyone, whilst trying to uncover the truth behind the mystery of the apparent “acidents”.

Money Pit, The (1986)

Friday, March 21st, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Hanks, Tom | Long, Shelley | Godunov, Alexander | Stapleton, Maureen | Mantegna, Joe | Bosco, Philip | Mostel, Josh | Smirnoff, Yakov | Caridi, Carmine | Backer, Brian | Lombardo, Billy | Dillon, Mia | Van Dreelen, John | Watson, Douglass | Dobrin, Lucille
Directors: Benjamin, Richard
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A young couple sinks their life savings into a house that was trashed by a rock group to the extent that it no longer has a main stairway or water. This creates strains on their relationship. Every home owner will recognize some of the situations they encounter.