Search for Best
The previews for Muriel's Wedding liken this latest Australian import to two of its predecessors, Strictly Ballroom and The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. These are inaccurate, not to mention misleading, comparisons. Those expe...
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: COMEDY/DRAMA
Director: P.J. Hogan
Cast: Toni Collette, Rachel Griffiths, Bill Hunter, ...
Romantic comedies are fantasies. They invite us to fall in love with the main characters as they fall in love with each other. That's difficult to accomplish when viewers find themselves actively disliking those characters. How is it possible to...
U.S. Release Date: 2008-09-19
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Situations, Nudity)
Genre: ROMANCE/COMEDY
Director: Howard Deutch
Cast: Dane Cook, Kate Hudson, Jason Biggs, ...
My Best Friend's Wedding is the estrogen alternative to the vast quantity of testosterone being pumped out by the other major June releases: Con Air, Speed 2, Batman and Robin, and Face/Off. As the summer's centerpiece romantic comedy, My Best ...
U.S. Release Date: 1997-05-20
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: ROMANTIC COMEDY
Director: P.J. Hogan
Cast: Julia Roberts, Dermot Mulroney, Cameron Diaz, ...
It has always fascinated me how one person's work of comic genius can be another's bat guano. What impulses are there that tell our brains something is worth laughing at, and why are there dramatic differences in what intelligent people find funny? ...
When assessing the small motion picture sub-genre of the "fantasy comedy," it's necessary to acknowledge that the impregnable pinnacle is occupied by Rob Reiner's The Princess Bride, a classic whose prominence may never be challenged. Your Highnes...
U.S. Release Date: 2011-04-08
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity,Sexual Content, Nudity, Drugs)
Genre: FANTASY/COMEDY
Director: David Gordon Green
Cast: Danny McBride, James Franco, Rasmus Hardiker, ...