Subgenre Sampler
Comedy: 5563 Films to Buy & Rent
Peter Kay - Live at the Top of the Tower (2004)
- Feat. Peter Kay
- Actor Peter Kay hits the stand–up stage with his lively, rotund brand of British humour.
Phil the Alien (2004)
- Dir. Rob Stefaniuk
Feat. Rob Stefaniuk, Boyd Banks
- One of the more original satires to emerge from Canada, this proffers the tale of a humanoid alien who crashlands his saucer in the backwoods of…
Piccadilly Jim (2004)
- Dir. John McKay
Feat. Sam Rockwell, Frances O’Connor, Brenda Blethyn…
- Adapted from P.G. Wodehouse’s comic novel, this tells the tale of an American scoundrel who flails about and fails on both sides of the Atlantic in…
Prince and Me, The (2004)
- Dir. Martha Coolidge
Feat. Julia Stiles, Miranda Richardson, James Fox
- Solid 'Cinderella' updating, with Stiles playing a student who becomes romantically entwined with Crown Prince of Denmark. Fairly playful, and Stiles…
Producing Adults (2004)
- Dir. Aleksi Salmenpera
Feat. Minna Haapkyla, Kari-Pekka Toivonen, Minttu Mustakallio…
- Finnish comedy–drama about a woman who develops an unlikely relationship with the female doctor she meets at the fertility clinic, while she is…
Raise Your Voice (2004)
- Dir. Sean McNamara
Feat. Hilary Duff, John Corbett, Rita Wilson…
- The fetching Hilary Duff plays an aspiring young singer from Arizona, who after the tragic death of her brother, elopes to a music–training…
Raising Helen (2004)
- Dir. Garry Marshall
Feat. Kate Hudson, John Corbett, Joan Cusack…
- Sweet comic fluff, with Hudson playing a successful New York party animal who is exiled to the suburbs when she 'inherits' the three children of her…
Rice Rhapsody (Hainan ji fan) (2004)
- Dir. Kenneth Bi
Feat. Sylvia Chang, Mélanie Laurent, Maggie Q
- Light, good–natured familial farce about a sturdy single mother who, fearing a drought of grandchildren, plots to ‘straighten’ the…
Satan's Little Helper (2004)
- Dir. Jeff Lieberman
Feat. Katheryn Winnick, Alexander Bricknel, Amanda Plummer
- A Halloween–set black comedy about a nine–year–old boy who inadvertently teams up with a masked psychopath on his round of…
Saved! (2004)
- Dir. Brian Dannelly
Feat. Jena Malone, Mandy Moore, Macaulay Culkin…
- Satire of 90s Christian teen mores sees Jena Malone ostracised by her righteous friends after becoming pregnant. Surprising lack of bite is…