Movies in the Comedy/Drama genre
When the focus is on comedy, Joy Ride hits and misses with gusto and some of its most outrageous gags deliver big laughs. The problem is that co-creator/director Adele Lim has delusions of crafting a dramatic foundation for the humor and the since...
U.S. Home Release Date: 2023-09-12
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Situations, Drugs, Nudity)
Genre: Comedy/Drama
Director: Adele Lim
Cast: Ashley Park, Sherry Cola, Stephanie Hsu, ...
Like David Lynch, Miranda July populates her films with quirky characters and her narratives peel back the veneer of normalcy to show what’s underneath. That’s where the similarities end, however. While Lynch gravitates toward darkness and...
U.S. Release Date: 2020-09-25
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: Comedy/Drama
Director: Miranda July
Cast: Evan Rachel Wood, Debra Winger, Richard Jenkins, ...
It’s clear that director Judd Apatow is comfortable collaborating with stand-up comedians on projects that contain at least some autobiographical details. The King of Staten Island represents his third such film, following in the wake of Fun...
U.S. Release Date: 2020-06-12
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Content, Drugs, Violence)
Genre: Comedy/Drama
Director: Judd Apatow
Cast: Pete Davidson, Marisa Tomei, Bill Burr, ...
Obvious Stand By Me references aside, The Kings of Summer comes across as little more than a TV sitcom with enough swear words included to earn it an "R" rating. There's a little John Hughes vibe here, too: the adults are all idiots and the kids ar...
U.S. Release Date: 2013-05-31
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity)
Genre: COMEDY/DRAMA
Director: Jordan Vogt-Roberts
Cast: Nick Robinson, Gabriel Basso, Moises Arias, ...
If Richard Curtis watches Last Christmas, he will likely do so with a smile on his face. In approach, tone, and intent, this is very much like the kind of film Curtis makes and bears more than a passing resemblance to his unlikely now-classic ...
U.S. Release Date: 2019-11-08
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: Comedy/Drama
Director: Paul Feig
Cast: Emilia Clarke, Henry Golding, Emma Thompson, ...
It takes a deft hand to fashion a feel-good movie with plenty of laughs and an upbeat ending out of a story that includes drug addiction, a suicide attempt, a death, Nietzsche, and Proust. Despite treading through a minefield of tone shifts, co-di...
U.S. Release Date: 2006-08-04
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Drugs)
Genre: COMEDY/DRAMA
Director: Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris
Cast: Greg Kinnear, Toni Collette, Steve Carell, ...
Love Actually doesn't have a cynical frame in its celluloid. It's for all those romantics who think there aren't enough happy endings. Richard Curtis' movie dips so deep into the well of feel-good sentiment that it will threaten to send some audi...
U.S. Release Date: 2003-11-07
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Situations, Nudity, Profanity)
Genre: ROMANTIC COMEDY/DRAMA
Director: Richard Curtis
Cast: Hugh Grant, Billy Bob Thornton, Emma Thompson, ...
Working at his current pace, Woody Allen delivers one film per year. Unfortunately, it has been decades since Allen's endeavors have been consistently good. In fact, even as far back as the 1990s, quality movies have been more the exception than th...
U.S. Release Date: 2014-07-18
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: COMEDY/DRAMA
Director: Woody Allen
Cast: Colin Firth, Emma Stone, Simon McBurney, ...
There are three kinds of Woody Allen movies: the comedies, the dramas, and the hybrids. Manhattan, which many critics believe to be Allen's most complete motion picture, belongs solidly in the third category - it has plenty of humorous lines (some...
U.S. Release Date: 1979-03-14
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: COMEDY/DRAMA
Director: Woody Allen
Cast: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Michael Murphy, ...
Despite clocking in at a skinny 84 minutes, Mistress America overstays its welcome. Directed by Noah Baumbach and co-written by Baumbach and ex-mumblecore goddess Greta Gerwig, the film is characterized by long passages of self-conscious dialogue tha...
U.S. Release Date: 2015-08-21
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: Comedy/Drama
Director: Noah Baumbach
Cast: Lola Kirke, Greta Gerwig, Matthew Shear