Subgenre Sampler
Comedy > Drama: 1111 Films to Buy & Rent
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002)
- Dir. George Clooney
Feat. Sam Rockwell, George Clooney, Julia Roberts…
- The life and neuroses of TV–producer Chuck Barris are the subject of this 'confession', a freewheeling comic fantasy in which the worlds of…
Dalkeith (2002)
- Dir. Leigh Sheehan
Feat. Ray Barrett
- The residents of a retirement home are given a greyhound who, to the surprise of all turns out to be a winner, but when management puts a stop to the…
Divine Intervention (2002)
- 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…
Footballers' Wives (TV Series) (2002)
- Feat. Christian Solimeno, Zoe Lucker, Gary Lucky
- Compulsive campy drama about women married to members of a fictional English Premiership soccer team.
At heart this is soap opera of the highest…
Full Frontal (2002)
- Dir. Steven Soderbergh
Feat. Julia Roberts, Catherine Keener, David Duchovny…
- Director Stephen Soderbergh calls on the favours of famous friends for a makeshift, semi–improvised poke at the film industry that only a…
Funny Ha Ha (2002)
- Dir. Andrew Bujalski
Feat. Kate Dollenmayer
- Less 'funny ha ha' than funny peculiar drama about a young woman's desultry efforts to move on in life after completing her university degree. Its…
Good Girl, The (2002)
- Dir. Miguel Arteta
Feat. Jennifer Aniston, Jake Gyllenhaal, John C. Reilly…
- Quirky, downbeat comedy about people stuck with dead end lives in small–town America adds a string to the bow of acting challenges for starlet…
Hollywood Ending (2002)
- Dir. Woody Allen
Feat. Woody Allen, Tea Leoni, George Hamilton…
- Dir. Allen turns the lense onto his own business in an ever–characteristic comedy about a struggling film director (Allen) whose comeback…
Hope Springs (2002)
- Dir. Mark Herman
Feat. Colin Firth, Minnie Driver, Heather Graham…
- Smoothly enjoyable though indistinguishable romance that sees a British illustrator (Firth) 'start again' in a small New England town after being…
Igby Goes Down (2002)
- Dir. Burr Steers
Feat. Kieran Culkin, Claire Danes, Jeff Goldblum…
- More than meets the eye in this indie New York satire about an over–educated ‘slacker’ experiencing growing pains amid upper…