Subgenre Sampler
Comedy: 5541 Films to Buy & Rent
Plots with a View (Undertaking Betty) (2002)
- 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…
Puckoon (2002)
- Dir. Terence Ryan
Feat. Elliott Gould, John Lynch, Griff Rhys-Jones…
- A flawed but unique adaptation of Spike Milligan's 1963 satirical novel set on the troubled borders of Northern Ireland in the 1920s.
With a plot…
Pumpkin (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 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…
Raising Victor Vargas (2002)
- Dir. Peter Sollett
Feat. Victor Rasuk, Judy Marte
- A sensitive, appealing urban coming of age story set in a Hispanic New York subculture that rewardingly favours low–key incident over…
Rat Race (2002)
- Dir. Jerry Zucker
Feat. John Cleese, Whoopi Goldberg, Rowan Atkinson…
- A contemporary re–race of IT’S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD, wealthy John Cleese devising a money–scramble for $2 million among…
Real Cancun, The (2002)
- Dir. Rick de Olieira
Feat. Brittany Brown-Hart
- Purely an 'of the moment' concept, this truncated imitation of a Reality TV show purports to document the carousing of 16 American…
Respiro (Grazia's Island) (2002)
- Dir. Emanuele Crialese
Feat. Valeria Golino
- Highly charged and mostly insightful depiction of a free–spirited woman whose near–psychotic episodes have a profound effect on her small…
Robin Williams - Live on Broadway (2002)
- Dir. Marty Callner
Feat. Robin Williams
- Robin Williams returns to his roots as a stand–up comedian after a 16 year hiatus, proving to have lost nothing of his stupendous comic…
Run Ronnie Run! (2002)
- Dir. Troy Miller
Feat. Bruce Taylor, David Cross
- A passable riff on the 'Reality TV" syndrome of instant fame for the random bozo, in this case a mullet–haired David Cross. After 'starring' on…