Movies with music written by John Swihart
For a Good Time, Call... offers an enjoyable, if ultimately forgettable, 90 minutes. A fusion of the suddenly popular "girls behaving badly" subgenre with the female version of the so-called "bromance," it offers plenty of laughs and goodwill. Unfo...
U.S. Release Date: 2012-08-31
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Content, Drugs)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Jamie Travis
Cast: Lauren Anne Miller, Ari Graynor, Justin Long, ...
Napoleon Dynamite should be required therapy for anyone with a self-image problem. No matter how much of a loser a person believes himself to be, he couldn't possibly be in worse shape than the protagonist of Jared Hess' wickedly funny high school...
U.S. Release Date: 2004-06-11
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Sexual Content)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Jared Hess
Cast: Jon Heder, Efren Ramirez, Jon Gries, ...
Spoiler Alert: To the extent that the term "spoiler" can be applied to something this formulaic, I suppose I ought to warn readers that I talk in general terms about how the movie ends. What do you get when you mix A Christmas Carol with a subst...
U.S. Release Date: 2009-01-30
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Profanity)
Genre: COMEDY/ROMANCE
Director: Jonas Elmer
Cast: Renee Zellweger, Harry Connick Jr., Siobhan Fallon Hogan, ...
We have reached the Season of Natalie Portman. With no fewer than six movies due to be released within a six-month period (Black Swan, The Other Woman, No Strings Attached, Hersher, Your Highness, Thor), a confirmed Golden Globe nomination (and pro...
U.S. Release Date: 2011-02-04
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Don Roos
Cast: Natalie Portman, Scott Cohen, Charlie Tahan, ...
From the beginning, it's apparent that there's something "off" about Youth in Revolt. It's not that the film is fatally flawed, but the tone is uneven, the satire is blunt, the comedy rarely generates more than feeble laughs, and the lead characte...
U.S. Release Date: 2010-01-08
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Content, Drugs)
Genre: ROMANCE/COMEDY
Director: Michael Arteta
Cast: Michael Cera, Ray Liotta, Steve Buscemi, ...