Subgenre Sampler
Comedy: 5540 Films to Buy & Rent
Change-Up, The (2011)
- Dir. David Dobkin
Feat. Jason Bateman, Ryan Reynolds, Olivia Wilde…
- Wickedly scatological take on FREAKY FRIDAY, with Bateman and Reynolds swapping bodies after simultaneously urinating in a magical fountain.
Chinese Takeaway (2011)
- Dir. Sebastian Borensztein
Feat. Ricardo Darín, Muriel Santa Ana, Ignacio Huang…
- Wry comedy of clashing cultures centres on an unlikely friendship between a curmudgeonly hardware store–owner and a young immigrant.
Collaborator (2011)
- Dir. Martin Donovan
Feat. Martin Donovan, David Morse, Olivia Williams…
- A playwright whose marriage and career are in a free fall has an explosive run–in with his former neighbor, a right–wing ex–con.
Coming & Going (2011)
- Dir. Edoardo Ponti
Feat. Rhys Darby, Sasha Alexander, Fionnula Flanagan
- Rhys Darby plays a luckless gynecologist who ends up temporarily in a wheelchair, only to attract the sympathy of a red hot lawyer looking to change…
Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011)
- Dir. Glenn Ficarra, John Requa
Feat. Steve Carell, Julianne Moore, Ryan Gosling…
- Steve Carell plays a hapless recent divorcee co–piloted by a handsome wingman (Ryan Gosling) back into the dating game in this fresh scented…
Curb Your Enthusiasm - Season 8 (TV Series) (2011)
- Feat. Larry David
- More episodes in the quirky celebrity–studded comedy. Eighth season finds Larry relocating to New York while moving his way back into the dating…
Curry Munchers (2011)
- Dir. Cristobal Araus Lobos
Feat. Aunanda Naaido, Alison Titulaer, Ben Mitchell
- Knockabout comedy has a young Indian immigrant struggling to catch the attention of kiwi girls.
Death in Paradise (TV Series) (2011)
- Feat. Ben Miller, Sara Martins, Kris Marshall…
- A stuffy London detective is assigned the murder case of a fellow British policeman on a fictional Caribbean island, and ends up staying against his…
Decoy Bride (2011)
- Dir. Sheree Folkson
Feat. Kelly MacDonald, David Tennant, Alice Eve…
- Undemanding whimsy with MacDonald hired to throw paparazzi off the scent when a celebrity comes to her hometown, and tolerable contrivances ensure…
Delicacy (2011)
- Dir. David Foenkinos, Stéphane Foenkinos
Feat. Audrey Tautou, François Damiens
- Audrey Tautou breezes through yet another whimsical French souffle, here playing a widowed gamine beauty who rediscovers love in the form of a…