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Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Sally Milz is a sketch writer for The Night Owls, the late night live comedy show that airs each Saturday. With a couple of heartbreaks under her belt, she's long abandoned the search for love, settling instead for the occasional hook-up, career success, and a close relationship with her stepfather to round out a satisfying life. But when Sally's friend and fellow writer Danny Horst begins dating Annabel, a glamorous actress who guest-hosted the...
2) Lady Bird
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The adventures of a young woman living in Northern California for a year.
"As warm as it is smart - and it is very smart - "Lady Bird" marks actor/screenwriter Greta Gerwig's superb debut as a solo director and yet another astonishing performance by star Saoirse Ronan."--Los Angeles Times
"One of the best films of the year. In telling her own coming of age story, Gerwig proves herself a blazing talent and Ronan and Metcalf should have Oscar calling....
Publisher
Music Box
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Swedish
Description
Ove is the block's grumpy old man who enforces strict neighborhood rules and whom every body avoids. One ordinary day a new family is moving in next door to Ove and accidentally backs into his mailbox. Turns out there is an unexpected friendship that blooms out of it.
4) Hoot
Publisher
New Line Home Video
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Based on the best selling book, Hoot is an adventure story about a boy and his classmates who take on crooked politicians and bumbling cops in the hope of saving endangered, burrowing owls threatened by construction. Songs by Jimmy Buffett.
"...fun family film..."--Atlanta Journal-Constitution
"...rewarding entertainment the whole family can enjoy."--Filmcritic.com
"The movie has a sense of purpose to match its sense of humor."--Newark Star-Ledger...
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A woman struggling with insecurity wakes from a fall believing she is the most beautiful and capable woman on the planet. Her new confidence empowers her to live fearlessly, but what happens when she realizes her appearance never changed?
"Schumer is the movie, shamelessly comic... but also willing to take us straight into the character's pain. I Feel Pretty may go down as her signature picture."--San Francisco Chronicle
"There's a definite satisfaction...
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
What do you do when you go to your boss's beach house for the weekend and find that your boss is already there...but he's dead? You spend the weekend creating the illusion that he's alive, of course!
"Engagingly wacky and deliciously dark!"--Hollywood Reporter
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
A Greek woman falls in love with a non-Greek and struggles to get her family to accept him while she comes to terms with her heritage and cultural identity before their upcoming nuptials.
"An unabashedly confectionery ethnic comedy-romance...lightweight crowd pleaser...Recommended."--Video Librarian
"The beauty of the piece is that it counts heart as important as humor."--Detroit News
"There is so much goodwill here, you are charmed as much as...
9) Game Night
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A group of friends who meet regularly for game nights find themselves trying to solve a murder mystery.
"Mark Perez has written one of the tightest comedy scripts to make it to be the big screen in ages."--Village Voice
"McAdams, whose comedic skills have gone unsung for way too long, is dizzy fun. The whole movie is, actually..."--Entertainment Weekly
11) Going in Style
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Lifelong buddies Willie, Joe and Al, decide to buck retirement and step off the straight and narrow for the first time in their lives when their pension fund becomes a corporate casualty. To pay the bills and come through for their loved ones, the three risk it all by embarking on a daring bid to knock off the very bank that absconded with their money.
"No one was actually asking for a remake of the 1979 comedy about a trio of senior citizens who...
12) The Farewell
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Chinese-born, U.S.-raised Billi reluctantly returns to Changchun to find that, although the whole family knows their beloved matriarch, Nai-Nai, has been given mere weeks to live, everyone has decided not to tell Nai Nai herself. To assure her happiness, they gather under the joyful guise of an expedited wedding, uniting family members scattered among new homes abroad. As Billi navigates a minefield of family expectations and proprieties, she finds...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
In the wake of the sexual revolution and the rise of the women's movement, the 1973 tennis match between women's world champion Billie Jean King and ex-men's-champ and serial hustler Bobby Riggs became one of the most watched televised sports events of all time, reaching 90 million viewers around the world. As the rivalry between King and Riggs kicked into high gear, off-court each was fighting more personal and complex battles.
"While Battle of...
14) Jackass Forever
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
After eleven years, the Jackass crew is back for their final adventure.
16) Beginners
Publisher
Focus Features
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
About how funny and transformative life can be. When graphic designer Oliver meets free-spirited Anna shortly after his father has passed away, Oliver realizes just how much of a beginner he is when it comes to long-lasting romantic love. Memories of his father, who, following the death of his wife of 45 years, came out of the closet at age 75 to live a full, energized, and wonderfully tumultuous gay life, encourage Oliver to open himself up to the...
17) War Dogs
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Two friends in their early twenties living in Miami Beach during the Iraq War exploit a little-known government initiative that allows small businesses to bid on US military contracts. Starting small, they begin raking in big money and are living the high life. But the pair gets in over their heads when they land a 300 million dollar deal to arm the Afghan military.
"War Dogs is that rare contemporary comedy that knows how to make a laugh stick in...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Collecting material from half a century in comedy, a chronologically arranged selection of favorite skits and memories by the iconic funnyman includes selections from his original "Catch a Rising Star" performance.
"Since his first performance at the legendary New York nightclub "Catch a Rising Star" as a twenty-one-year-old college student in fall of 1975, Jerry Seinfeld has written his own material and saved everything. "Whenever I came up with...
Publisher
Blueprint Pictures
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Based on a stranger than fiction true story, this ferociously funny mystery follows two neighbors: deeply conservative Edith Swan and foul-mouthed Rose Gooding. When Edith begins to receive wicked letters full of hilarious profanities, Rose is charged with the crime. However, as the towns women begin to investigate themselves, they suspect that something is amiss.