Movies starring Kal Penn
Making an entertaining Christmas movie - at least one that can be enjoyed by anyone having gone through puberty - has become a lost art. I'm not referring to a title destined to take its place among the timeless classics, but merely something that ...
U.S. Release Date: 2011-11-05
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Content, Nudity, Drugs)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Todd Strauss-Schulson
Cast: Kal Penn, John Cho, Paula Garces, ...
When did this sort of movie stop being funny? Parodies with so-called "saturation humor" used to be reliable - rarely memorable but typically good for 90 minutes of enjoyable, disposable cinema. At some point, however, the jokes lost their zing, ...
U.S. Release Date: 2007-01-26
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Jason Friedberg, Aaron Seltzer
Cast: Kal Penn, Adam Campbell, Jennifer Coolidge, ...
Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay exists because it was cheap to make and has a devoted core audience, not because its predecessor, Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, was a blockbuster. The filmmakers, understanding what made the first...
U.S. Release Date: 2008-04-25
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Situations, Nudity, Drugs, Violence)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg
Cast: Kal Penn, John Cho, Neil Patrick Harris, ...
The Layover is an appalling movie – a reworked version of the essential plot elements of 2011’s Something Borrowed with everything worthwhile (and there wasn’t much to begin with) removed. The result is an unpleasant, unwatchable example...
U.S. Release Date: 2017-09-01
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Content, Drugs)
Genre: Comedy
Director: William H. Macy
Cast: Alexandra Daddario, Kate Upton, Matt Barr, ...
Here's a pleasant little romantic comedy that doesn't try too hard and has the virtue of doing a few things differently. Not that it breaks new ground, but there is a little more substance to the story than boy-meets-girl/boy-loses-girl/boy-gets-gi...
U.S. Release Date: 2005-04-22
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Sexual Situations, Nudity, Profanity)
Genre: ROMANCE/COMEDY
Director: Nigel Cole
Cast: Ashton Kutcher, Amanda Peet, Kathryn Hahn, ...
The Namesake is an affecting drama spanning two generations of an Indian American family and exploring the generational and cultural conflicts that arise as a result of their assimilation into society. By carefully developing her characters and al...
U.S. Release Date: 2007-03-09
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Sexual Situations, Nudity, Profanity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Mira Nair
Cast: Kal Penn, Tabu, Irfan Khan, ...
Has the COVID-19 pandemic brought out the best in horror filmmakers? 2022 has not been a good year for cinema, but it has been a very good year for horror. Smile represents the latest in an impressive roster of horror films that have pushed the en...
U.S. Home Release Date: 2022-12-13
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Gore, Disturbing Images, Profanity)
Genre: Horror
Director: Parker Finn
Cast: Sosie Bacon, Kyle Gallner, Robin Weigert, ...