The Informant!
Release Date: 02/23/2010
A rising star in the agricultural industry suddenly turns whistleblower in hopes of gaining a lucrative promotion and becoming a hero of the common people, inadvertently revealing his penchant for helping himself to the corporate coffers and ultimately threatening to derail the very investigation he helped to launch in this offbeat comedy from Academy Award-winning director Steven Soderbergh. Mark Whitacre (Matt Damon) was fast rising through the ranks at agri-industry powerhouse Archer Daniels Midla ...
Actor(s): Matt Damon, Scott Bakula, Joel McHale
Director(s): Steven Soderbergh
MPAA Rating: R
Genres: Comedy Drama, Feature
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Whip It
Release Date: 01/26/2010
Drew Barrymore makes her directorial debut with Whip It!, the story of an ex-beauty pageant contestant named Bliss (played by Juno's Ellen Page) who leaves her crowns behind after joining a roller-derby team. While her mother would prefer that Bliss unlace her skates and step back before the judges, the rebellious teen instead seeks the wisdom of rowdy mentor Malice in Wonderland (Kristen Wiig) in learning the tricks of the circuit track. The Mandate Pictures production was written by roller derby st ...
Actor(s): Ellen Page, Marcia Gay Harden, Kristen Wiig
Director(s): Drew Barrymore
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Genres: Comedy Drama, Feature
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Tyler Perry's I Can Do Bad All By Myself
Release Date: 01/12/2010
A hard-living nightclub singer discovers the importance of family with the help of a handsome Mexican immigrant in this inspirational comedy drama from writer/director Tyler Perry. When pistol-packing granny Madea (Perry) awakens to the sound of her home being ransacked by wayward teen Jennifer (Hope Olaide Wilson) and her two younger brothers, she promptly marches the troubled kids over their aunt April's house. But despite being the only relative the kids can turn to, April (Taraji P. Henson) is ha ...
Actor(s): Taraji P. Henson, Adam Rodriguez, Tyler Perry
Director(s): Tyler Perry
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Genres: Comedy Drama, Feature
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Funny People
Release Date: 11/24/2009
Judd Apatow casts his former real-life roommate Adam Sandler as George Simmons, a comic superstar who learns in the movie's opening scene that he suffers from a rare blood disorder that will likely kill him within a year. This news gives him the impulse to go back out and work on his standup, something he hasn't done in years thanks to the massive success of his movie career. At a club, he meets struggling standup Ira Wright (Seth Rogen), takes a shine to him, and hires the young man both to write jo ...
Actor(s): Adam Sandler, Seth Rogen, Leslie Mann
Director(s): Judd Apatow
MPAA Rating: NR
Genres: Comedy Drama, Feature
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Adventureland
Release Date: 08/25/2009
Inspired by writer/director Greg Mottola's own true-life job-from-hell experience, Adventureland stars The Education of Charlie Banks' Jesse Eisenberg as an uptight recent college graduate who discovers that he'll have to get a degrading minimum-wage job at a local amusement park instead of spending his summer drinking German beer, visiting world-class museums, and flirting with cute French girls. It's the summer of 1987, and James Brennan (Eisenberg) has just graduated from college. James is all set ...
Actor(s): Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, Martin Starr
Director(s): Greg Mottola
MPAA Rating: R
Genres: Comedy Drama, Feature
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Sunshine Cleaning
Release Date: 08/25/2009
A thirtysomething single mother whose boundless potential was squandered through a series of failed relationships and a misguided effort to help her younger sister succeed in life finds the fruits of her labors finally coming together in director Christine Jeffs' dark family comedy. Back in high school, the future looked pretty bright for Rose Lorkowski (Amy Adams); not only was she the cheerleading captain, but she was also dating the star quarterback. Flash forward a little over a decade, and Rose ...
Actor(s): Amy Adams, Emily Blunt, Alan Arkin
Director(s): Christine Jeffs
MPAA Rating: R
Genres: Comedy Drama, Feature
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Tyler Perry's Madea Goes to Jail
Release Date: 06/16/2009
Tyler Perry transitions another one of his hit plays to the big screen with this adaptation of Madea Goes to Jail. The successful filmmaker stars once again as the mischief-prone older woman whose exploits this time lead her to jail, where she befriends and reforms a prostitute named Candy (The Cosby Show's Keshia Knight Pulliam). ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide ...
Actor(s): Tyler Perry, Keshia Knight Pulliam, Derek Luke
Director(s): Tyler Perry
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Genres: Comedy Drama, Feature
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Smother
Release Date: 05/05/2009
When an everyday thirtysomething is fired from his job, his unemployment woes are soon compounded as the ticking of his wife's maternal clock reaches a deafening pitch, and his overbearing mother announces plans to move in with the struggling couple. Dax Shepard, Liv Tyler, and Diane Keaton star in a film directed by Vince Di Meglio, co-scripted by Di Meglio and Tim Rasmussen, and produced by Rasmussen, Bill Johnson, and Jay Roach. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide ...
Actor(s): Diane Keaton, Dax Shepard, Liv Tyler
Director(s): Vince Di Meglio
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Genres: Comedy Drama, Feature
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Lie to Me
Release Date: 03/24/2009
Director/co-screenwriter John Stuart Muller throws melodrama to the wind with this lively comedy concerning the quirks of modern romance, and the complications that come when an outwardly loving couple realizes that there's more to life than monogamy can offer them. Appearances would suggest that published novelist Mason (Steve Sandvoss) and twenty-something fashion designer Samantha (Courtney Ford) are the perfect couple, but a closer look at the state of their relationship reveals that there may be ...
Actor(s): Brandon Routh, Steve Sandvoss, Courtney Ford
Director(s): John Stewart Muller
MPAA Rating: G
Genres: Comedy Drama, Feature
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