Movies in the Comedy/Drama genre
Much Ado about Nothing is Kenneth Branagh's adaptation of one of Shakespeare's better-known comedies. Centered around two romances - Hero (Kate Beckinsale) and Claudio (Robert Sean Leonard), and Benedick (Kenneth Branagh) and Beatrice (Emma Thomps...
U.S. Release Date: 1993-05-07
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Nudity, Mature Themes)
Genre: COMEDY/DRAMA
Director: Kenneth Branagh
Cast: Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson, Denzel Washington, ...
For a filmmaker like Joss Whedon, known world-wide for playing with huge budgets in genre entertainment, the choice to bring to the screen one of Shakespeare's most popular comedies using a low-budget, "experimental" style might seem an odd choice....
U.S. Release Date: 2013-06-07
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Sexual Content)
Genre: COMEDY/DRAMA
Director: Joss Whedon
Cast: Amy Acker, Alexis Denisof, Nathan Fillion, ...
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, ...
Rob Reiner has had an amazing string of hits. His resume dotted with such critical and popular successes as This is Spinal Tap, The Sure Thing, When Harry Met Sally, Misery, and A Few Good Men, Reiner has transformed his Meathead image into that o...
U.S. Release Date: 1994-07-22
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: COMEDY/DRAMA
Director: Rob Reiner
Cast: Elijah Wood, Bruce Willis, Jon Lovitz, ...
Not Okay can be a lot of different things to a lot of different people. It touches on a wide variety of hot-button issues. A few are addressed with subtlety and others with sledgehammer forcefulness. Some, as one might reasonably expect, are incis...
U.S. Release Date: 2022-07-29
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Content, Drugs)
Genre: Comedy/Drama
Director: Quinn Shephard
Cast: Zoey Deutch, Dylan O’Brien, Embeth Davidtz, ...
O Brother, Where Art Thou? is essentially Homer's "The Odyssey" by way of the Coen Brothers with an assist from Preston Sturges (the title comes from the Sturges film, Sullivan's Travels). Or, to put it another way, it's a period piece road movie ...
U.S. Release Date: 2000-12-22
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Violence)
Genre: COMEDY/DRAMA
Director: Joel Coen
Cast: George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson, ...
In an attempt to say something positive about an otherwise disappointing movie, I’ll admit that it has a pretty good soundtrack, especially if ‘70s songs are your thing. As a pure comedy, Paint doesn’t work – it has a poor laugh-to-running...
U.S. Release Date: 2023-04-07
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Sexual Content, Drugs)
Genre: Comedy/Drama
Director: Brit McAdams
Cast: Owen Wilson, Ciara Renee, Michaela Watkins, ...
With his third directorial effort, Kenneth Branagh (who has already done the Shakespearean Henry V and the noir thriller Dead Again) sets his sights a smaller sort of picture. Peter's Friends is a slice-of-life movie that illustrates the reunion o...
U.S. Release Date: 1992-12-25
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Situations, Nudity)
Genre: COMEDY/DRAMA
Director: Kenneth Branagh
Cast: Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson, Hugh Laurie, ...
It would be possible to write pages and pages comparing and contrasting the reality of Bill Clinton's 1992 Presidential campaign with the fictional one of Jack Stanton, the candidate in Primary Colors. Likewise, it would be equally possible to dev...
U.S. Release Date: 1998-03-20
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: COMEDY/DRAMA
Director: Mike Nichols
Cast: John Travolta, Emma Thompson, Adrian Lester, ...
Pushing Tin, from acclaimed British director Mike Newell (Four Weddings and a Funeral, Enchanted April), is the latest example of a movie that wastes a strong cast on a lame script. The film, billed as a dramatic comedy about the lives of air traf...
U.S. Release Date: 1999-04-23
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Situations, Nudity)
Genre: COMEDY/DRAMA
Director: Mike Newell
Cast: John Cusack, Billy Bob Thornton, Cate Blanchett, ...