Subgenre Sampler
Comedy: 5536 Films to Buy & Rent
Friends with Benefits (2011)
- Dir. Will Gluck
Feat. Justin Timberlake, Mila Kunis, Patricia Clarkson…
- Smug but sporadically amusing comedy with Timberlake and Kunis being the beneficial buddies whose agreement of course has complications.
Inspired…
Friends with Kids (2011)
- Dir. Jennifer Westfeldt
Feat. Adam Scott, Jennifer Westfeldt, Jon Hamm…
- Jennifer Westfeldt directs and stars as a Manhattanite who convinces her platonic best friend to father the child she's always wanted. An upscale…
Fright Night (2011)
- Dir. Craig Gillespie
Feat. Colin Farrell, Anton Yelchin, David Tennant…
- Colin Farrell vamps it up in this prosaic remake of the 80's cult horror, with Anton Yelchin the hapless teen convinced his neighbour is a vampire.…
From Prada to Nada (2011)
- Dir. Angel Gracia
Feat. Camilla Belle, Alexa Vega, Kuno Becker…
- Latin–American riff on SENSE AND SENSIBILITY as two spoiled sisters are left penniless after their father's death, and find themselves forced…
Future, The (2011)
- Dir. Miranda July
Feat. Miranda July, Hamish Linklater, David Warshofsky…
- Another arthouse treasure from the writer/director/actor behind ME AND YOU EVERYONE WE KNOW concerns an atypical 30–something LA couple who…
Geek Charming (2011)
- Dir. Jeffrey Hornaday
Feat. Sarah Hyland, Matt Prokop
- Glossy Disney comedy based on the novel by Robin Palmer in which a film nerd makes a documentary about the life of his classmate, the school diva.
Girl Walks Into a Bar (2011)
- Dir. Sebastian Guitierrez
Feat. Danny De Vito, Carla Gugino, Josh Hartnett…
- The third of dir. Guitierrez's female–centric ensemble comedies, here springing an episodic structure from a noir–ish plot hatched by a…
God Bless America (2011)
- Dir. Bobcat Goldthwait
Feat. Joel Murray, Tara Lynne Barr, Melinda Page Hamilton
- Irrepressible writer/director Bobcat Goldthwait returns with another sizzling, charcoal–black comedy that takes aim at the worst proponents of…
Good Old Fashioned Orgy, A (2011)
- Dir. Alex Gregory, Peter Huyck
Feat. Jason Sudeikis, Leslie Bibb, Tyler Labine…
- Stiff sex comedy with a group of thirty–somethings determined to end the summer with a bang. Reportedly inspired by dir. Huyck's wild partying…
Goon (2011)
- Dir. Michael Dowse
Feat. Seann William Scott, Jay Baruchel, Liev Schreiber…
- Sports thuggery as comedy, this shaggy (under)dog story of an inarticulate bouncer who finds his calling as a violent enforcer on a struggling minor…