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Five minutes into The Wedding Planner, I suspected the film was in trouble. Ten minutes later, I knew it was in trouble. There's only one thing that can sink a movie so fast - bad writing. Even excruciating acting takes longer. Romantic comedie...
U.S. Release Date: 2001-01-26
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: ROMANCE/COMEDY
Director: Adam Shankman
Cast: Jennifer Lopez, Matthew McConaughey, Justin Chambers, ...
On the surface, Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins is just another Martin Lawrence comedy, filled with slapstick, crude sexual shenanigans, and cruelty to animals. But, looking a little deeper, one discovers a surprisingly dark undercurrent. There's a p...
U.S. Release Date: 2008-02-08
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Malcolm D. Lee
Cast: Martin Lawrence, Joy Bryant, Mo'Nique, ...
What might have been… Those four words tell the sad story of too many films, and Welcome to Mooseport is one of them. It starts out with a terrific premise, ripe with the potential for the kind of political satire we haven't seen on the big scr...
U.S. Release Date: 2004-02-20
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Mature Themes, Sexual Situations, Nudity)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Donald Petrie
Cast: Gene Hackman, Ray Romano, Marcia Gay Harden, ...
In his nearly 50 years of movie-making, Steven Spielberg has traveled along many different roads but West Side Story represents his first musical. A remake that draws on both of its classic inspirations – the 1961 Oscar-winning movie (directed by...
U.S. Release Date: 2021-12-10
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: Musical
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Ansel Elgort, Rachel Zegler, Ariana DeBose, ...
What Happens in Vegas takes the "thin line between love and hate" approach to the romantic comedy. It's a time honored tradition: the characters begin as antagonists but end up madly in love. Along the way, sparks fly. In this case, director Tom ...
U.S. Release Date: 2008-05-09
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: ROMANTIC COMEDY
Director: Tom Vaughan
Cast: Cameron Diaz, Ashton Kutcher, Rob Corddry, ...
"Men and women can't be friends because the sex part always gets in the way." - Harry Burns (Billy Crystal), When Harry Met Sally That memorable line, penned by Nora Ephron and spoken by Billy Crystal, has become the template for more than one p...
U.S. Release Date: 2014-08-08
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Sexual Content, Profanity, Partial Nudity)
Genre: ROMANCE/COMEDY
Director: Michael Dowse
Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Zoe Kazan, Megan Park, ...
The key to enjoying What Women Want - a feather-light trifle that will probably find favor at the box office - is not considering the age-old question of what might have been. The underlying premise - a male chauvinist suddenly gaining access to w...
U.S. Release Date: 2000-12-15
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Sexual Content, Profanity)
Genre: ROMANCE/COMEDY
Director: Nancy Meyers
Cast: Mel Gibson, Helen Hunt, Marisa Tomei, ...
Some might wonder why it has taken so long for comedic icons Woody Allen and Larry David to work together. Their brands of humor - relying more on wit than stupidity - are similar and both inhabit the same geographical and philosophical orbits. A...
U.S. Release Date: 2009-06-19
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Sexual Situations, Nudity)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Woody Allen
Cast: Larry David, Evan Rachel Wood, Patricia Clarkson, ...
Spoiler Alert: This movie contains spoilers for those who haven't seen the 1979 movie or the trailer for the 2006 version (which gives away what I'm going to reveal). Something went terribly wrong during the production of When a Stranger Calls...
U.S. Release Date: 2006-02-03
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence)
Genre: HORROR
Director: Simon West
Cast: Camilla Belle, Tommy Flanagan, Derek de Lint, ...
At first glance, When Did You Last See Your Father? might seem like another movies about sons and fathers. In a sense, it is, but it goes a little deeper. When Did You Last See Your Father? is about sons and how they see their fathers. I once rea...
U.S. Release Date: 2008-06-06
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Sexual Situations, Profanity, Nudity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Anand Tucker
Cast: Colin Firth, Jim Broadbent, Juliet Stevenson, ...