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Peep Show (TV Series)Peep Show (TV Series) (2003-2015) Recommended
Feat. David Mitchell, Robert Webb
Warped comedy about two perpetual adolescents and their oddball adventures told inventively with off kilter point–of–view and voice overs…
Wilbur Wants to Kill HimselfWilbur Wants to Kill Himself (2003)
Dir. Lone Scherfig
Feat. Adrian Rawlins, Shirley Henderson
'Dogme' film by way of Scotland, that surveys the doings of four childlike adults, achieving a curious dual tone of whimsical drama and gallows…
BarbershopBarbershop (2002)
Dir. Tim Story
Feat. Ice-Cube, Sean Patrick Thomas
Set on the last day of business for a Chicago barbershop, this spins much engaging chatter, discourse and comedy between barbers and their black…
Death to SmoochyDeath to Smoochy (2002)
Dir. Danny DeVito
Feat. Robin Williams, Edward Norton, Catherine Keener
An exuberantly mean–spirited send–up of kids’ television, where lewd, foulmouthed clown Robin Williams declares "death to Smoochy", a…
Divine InterventionDivine Intervention (2002) Recommended
Dir. Elia Suleiman
Feat. Elia Suleiman, Manal Khader
A rare cinematic glimpse into life in Ramallah, on the Palestine–Israel border, with its daily challenges presented through a series of…
Plots with a ViewPlots with a View (Undertaking Betty) (2002) Recommended
Dir. Nick Hurran
Feat. Brenda Blethyn, Alfred Molina, Naomi Watts
Lunatic Welsh farce in which an unhappy Brenda Blethyn contrives with a besotted funeral director (Molina) to fake her own death so as to escape a…
PumpkinPumpkin (2002)
Dir. Adam Larson Broder, Tony R Abrams
Feat. Christina Ricci, Hank Harris, Brenda Blethyn
Politically–confused blackly comic satire that follows the progress of Christina Ricci's 'inappropriate' romantic fixation with a disabled…
Punch-Drunk LovePunch-Drunk Love (2002)
Dir. Paul Thomas Anderson
Feat. Adam Sandler, Emily Watson, Philip Seymour Hoffman
Popular mainstream comic Adam Sandler takes a left turn for the director of MAGNOLIA and BOOGIE NIGHTS in this doggedly off–beat yet beguiling…
SecretarySecretary (2002) Aro Favourite
Dir. Steven Shainberg
Feat. James Spader, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jeremy Davies
A spanking good black comedy detailing the bizarre relationship between a peculiar, ill–tempered lawyer and the meek secretary he…
Sweet RevengeSweet Revenge (The Revenger's Comedies) (2002)
Dir. Malcolm Mowbray
Feat. Sam Neill, Helena Bonham Carter, Kristin Scott Thomas
A blackly comic caper, this adaptation of Alan Ayckbourn’s “Revenger’s Comedies” concerns two would–be suicides who, on…

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