Movies with cinematographer Daryn Okada
American Pie remains a touchstone of '90s comedies in particular and raunchy teen sex comedies in general. Viewed today, it has retained an element of its initial breezy freshness, although a progression of envelope-pushing comedies have made it ea...
U.S. Release Date: 2012-04-06
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Content, Nudity, Drugs)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg
Cast: Jason Biggs, Ali Cobrin, Jay Harrington, ...
It has become a time-honored tradition that stars of Saturday Night Live, upon graduating from the no-longer-funny late night show, elect to spread their wings and strive for cinematic greatness. With a few notable exceptions, most have crashed an...
U.S. Release Date: 2008-04-25
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Michael McCullers
Cast: Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Greg Kinnear, ...
About the most positive comment I can offer about Dr. Dolittle 2 is that it's not as painful to endure as its 1998 predecessor, Dr. Dolittle. Unlike the earlier Eddie Murphy effort about the M.D. who can talk with animals, the second installment m...
U.S. Release Date: 2001-06-22
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Profanity)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Steve Carr
Cast: Eddie Murphy, Kristen Wilson, Jeffrey Jones, ...
What happens when Hollywood marries Charles Dickens, that wacky 19th century romantic comedy scribe, to Matthew McConaughey, that wacky naked bongo drum player? To begin with, great expectations should be curbed. The result is not as good as it sho...
U.S. Release Date: 2009-05-01
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Sexual Situations, Profanity)
Genre: COMEDY/ROMANCE
Director: Mark Waters
Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Noureen DeWulf, Emma Stone, ...
Has it really been twenty years since John Carpenter's low-budget chiller, Halloween, hit the nation's screens and paved the way for a decade's worth of bloody slasher movies? To date, the original Halloween has been one of the few entries into ...
U.S. Release Date: 1998-08-05
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: HORROR
Director: Steve Miner
Cast: Jamie Lee Curtis, Janet Leigh, Nancy Stephens, ...
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, ...
With Just Like Heaven, director Mark Waters (Mean Girls) wants to have his cake and eat it to. That's not necessarily a bad thing, until you consider that the recipe used for this confection is missing a few ingredients and the final product is ha...
U.S. Release Date: 2005-09-16
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Sexual Situations, Nudity)
Genre: ROMANCE/COMEDY
Director: Mark Waters
Cast: Reese Witherspoon, Mark Ruffalo, Donal Logue, ...
Although Mean Girls is likely to be frequently compared to Heathers, and perhaps occasionally to Election, the movie it most strongly reminds me of is 1999's Jawbreaker. All four of these films offer a darkly satirical perspective of high school a...
U.S. Release Date: 2004-04-30
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Mark S. Waters
Cast: Lindsay Lohan, Tina Fey, Lizzy Caplan, ...
Gerard Depardieu's interpretation of Cyrano De Bergerac was a definitive character in modern cinema, not to mention a jewel in the crown of his career. In fact, he was so impressive in that role that the producers of the comedy My Father the H...
U.S. Release Date: 1994-02-04
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Profanity)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Steve Miner
Cast: Gerard Depardieu, Katherine Heigl, Dalton James, ...