Subgenre Sampler
Comedy: 5541 Films to Buy & Rent
About a Boy (2002)
- Dir. Paul Weitz, Chris Weitz
Feat. Hugh Grant, Toni Collette, Rachel Weisz…
- “No man is an island” is a theme explored with wit and pathos in this romantic comedy that’s plot and characters refreshingly detour from…
About Schmidt (2002)
- Dir. Alexander Payne
Feat. Jack Nicholson, Hope Davis, Dermot Mulroney…
- Age becomes Jack Nicholson in a beautifully modulated comedy of late life lament that doubles as an affectionate satire of middle…
Adaptation (2002)
- Dir. Spike Jonze
Feat. Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper…
- Another virtuoso post–modern comedy from the team behind BEING JOHN MALKOVICH, with a miraculously adapted Nicolas Cage – in identical twin…
Adventures of Pluto Nash, The (2002)
- Dir. Ron Underwood
Feat. Eddie Murphy, Randy Quaid, Rosario Dawson…
- Sci–fi comedy set in 2080 and following a lunar nightclub owner and ex–convict (Eddie Murphy) who is trying to keep the mafia out of his…
Ali G In Da House (2002)
- Dir. Mark Mylod
Feat. Sacha Baron Cohen
- Sacha Baron Cohen and his wildly successfully small–screen alter–ego take to the feature film narrative like a duck to water in this…
Analyze That (2002)
- Dir. Harold Ramis
Feat. Robert De Niro, Billy Crystal, Lisa Kudrow
- Not bearing up to much analysis, this expectedly familiar sequel to the De Niro–Crystal comedy duet runs on repeat gags but enjoys the humorous…
Anita and Me (2002)
- Dir. Metin Hüseyin
Feat. Kathy Burke, Lynn Redgrave, Sanjeev Bhaskar
- A funny, yet finally serious drama about a Indian girl’s coming of age in the English Midlands in the early 1970s.
Life is idyllic enough until…
Anna Nicole Smith Show, The (TV Series) (2002)
- Feat. Anna Nicole Smith
- Former Playmate turned gold digger Anna Nicole Smith joins the queue in adapting her vacant Z–list lifestyle into a Reality TV series.…
Asterix and Obelix - Mission Cleopatra (2002)
- Dir. Alain Chabat
Feat. Gerard Depardieu, Alain Chabat, Monica Bellucci…
- The core cast of 1999's disastrous ASTERIX AND OBELIX TAKE ON CAESAR return for a far more successful adaptation of one of those classic…
Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002)
- Dir. Jay Roach
Feat. Mike Myers, Robert Wagner, Michael York…
- The third and probably final instalment of the wildly successful spy spoof series sets itself in the garish 1970s, but having run clean out of…