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Genre "Absurd Comedy" Movies (showing 1 to 30 from 30 total)

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A Hard Day's Night (1964) Genre: Musical, Comedy, Rock Musical, Ensemble Film, Absurd Comedy, Showbiz Comedy. Director: Richard Lester. Actors: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Wilfrid Brambell, Norman Rossington, Victor Spinetti, John Junkin, Anna Quayle, Richard Vernon, Deryck Guyler, Bridget Armstrong, Roger Avon, The Beatles, Lionel Blair, John Bluthal, Rosemarie Frankland, Kenneth Haigh, Claire Kelly, David Langton, Jane Lumb, Eddie Malin, Derek Nimmo, Margaret Nolan, Robin Ray, Alison Seebohm, Marianne Stone, Michael Trubshawe. Storyline: During the first worldwide flush of Beatlemania in 1964, United Artists wanted to ship out a movie with The Beatles before their vogue was over. Working within a tight $500,000 budget, director Richard Lester turned out A Hard Day's Night in a fast 6 1/2 weeks; the picture was in the theatres three months after shooting commenced. Using a variety of techniques cribbed from Hollywood slapstick come ...

Airplane! (1980) Genre: Comedy, Absurd Comedy, Parody/Spoof, Ensemble Film. Director: Jim Abrahams, Jerry Zucker, David Zucker. Actors: Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, Leslie Nielsen, Robert Stack, Lorna Patterson, Stephen Stucker, Jim Abrahams, Frank Ashmore, Jonathan Banks, Craig Berenson, Barbara Billingsley, Lee Bryant, Joyce Bulifant, Allison Caine, Mae E. Campbell, Ted Chapman, Norman Alexander Gibbs, Marcy Goldman, Rossie Harris, Maurice Hill, David Hollander, James Hong, Howard Honig, Gregory Itzin, Howard Jarvis, Michael Laurence, David Leisure, Barbara Mallory, Maureen McGovern, Nora Meerbaum, Mary Mercier, Ethel Merman, Ann Nelson, John O'Leary, Cyril O'Reilly, Conrad Palmisano, Nicholas Pryor, Michelle Stacy, Robert Starr, Barbara Stuart, Kenneth Tobey, William Tregoe, Herb Voland, Jill Whelan, Al White, Jason Wingreen, Louise Yaffe, Charlotte Zucker, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker. Storyline: This spoof of the Airport series of disaster movies relies on ridiculous sight gags, groan-inducing dialogue, and deadpan acting — a comedy style that would be imitated for the next 20 years. Airplane! pulls out all the clichés as alcoholic pilot Ted Striker (Robert Hays), who's developed a fear of flying due to wartime trauma, boards a jumbo jet in an attempt to woo back his stewardess ...

And Now for Something Completely Different (1971) Genre: Comedy, Absurd Comedy, Satire, Farce. Director: Terry Gilliam, Ian MacNaughton. Actors: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Carol Cleveland, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, Monty Python, Connie Booth, Michael Palin. Storyline: Monty Python's And Now For Something Completely Different was first released in the US in 1973, but didn't really take off as a midnight-movie fixture until after the Monty Python's Flying Circus TV series began making the PBS rounds. Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin and Terry Gilliam are the Pythonites in attendance, together with semiregulars Carol Cleveland and ...

Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters (2007) Genre: Comedy, Absurd Comedy, Sci-Fi Comedy. Director: Dave Willis, Matt Maiellaro. Actors: Dana Snyder, Carey Means, Andy Merrill, Mike Schatz, Fred Armisen, Bruce Campbell, George Lowe, MC Chris, Chris Kattan, Neil Peart, Tina Fey, Matt Maiellaro, Dave Willis, C. Martin Croker. Storyline: Meatwad, Frylock, and Master Shake team up for their biggest adventure yet in this animated feature that finds the popular Adult Swim trio pursued by an immortal piece of exercise equipment that poses a severe threat to the balance of galactic peace. Despite their best efforts to elude the malevolent body-shaper, the super-sized friends are soon horrified to discover that the Plutonians have joine ...

Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002) Genre: Comedy, Spy Comedy, Parody/Spoof, Absurd Comedy. Director: Jay Roach. Actors: Beyoncé Knowles, Seth Green, Robert Wagner, Michael York, Mindy Sterling, Verne Troyer, Michael Caine, Katie Couric, Danny DeVito, Heather Graham, Clint Howard, Carrie Ann Inaba, Quincy Jones, Mike Myers, Gwyneth Paltrow, Fred Savage, Kevin Spacey, Britney Spears. Storyline: Mike Myers' phenomenally successful spy spoof gains a few more characters, a slew of celebrity cameos, and even more free-associative laughs in this third installment of the popular franchise. Austin Powers in Goldmember continues the exploits of the swinging-'60s leftover, who, as the film opens, is busy critiquing a big-budget Hollywood production of his life story, replete with a 20-million-dol ...

Bananas (1971) Genre: Comedy, Absurd Comedy, Slapstick, Political Satire. Director: Woody Allen. Actors: Woody Allen, Louise Lasser, Carlos Montalban, Natividad Abascal, Jacobo Morales, Miguel Angel Suarez, Stanley Ackerman, Axel Anderson, Hy Anzell, Jack Axelrod, Conrad Bain, Eddie Barth, John Braden, Dick Callinan, Beeson Carroll, Ted Chapman, Howard Cosell, Dagne Crane, Ed Crowley, Baron DeBeer, Robert Dudley, Don Dunphy, Rene Enriquez, Norman Evans, Princess Fatosh, Dorothi Fox, Dan Frazer, Allen Garfield, Martha Greenhouse, Roger Grimsby, Marilyn Hengst, Arthur Hughes, Bob O'Connell, David Oniz, David Ortiz, Eulogio Peraza, Tigre Perez, Charlotte Rae, Nicholas Saunders, Sylvester Stallone. Storyline: One of Woody Allen's earlier, more slapstick-oriented efforts, Bananas tells the story of Fielding Mellish (Allen), a neurotic New Yorker who follows the object of his affections, Nancy (Louise Lasser), to the fictional Central American country of San Marcos, where she is involved in a revolution. Nancy wants nothing to do with Fielding, but he soon becomes a guest of the country's dictator (Carlo ...

Beerfest (2006) Genre: Comedy, Absurd Comedy, Sports Comedy. Director: Jay Chandrasekhar. Actors: Jay Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan, Steve Lemme, Paul Soter, Erik Stolhanske, Will Forte, Ralf Moeller, Mo'nique, Eric Christian Olsen, Jürgen Prochnow, Cloris Leachman, M.C. Gainey, Cameron Scher, Owain Yeoman, Tom Tate, Allan Graf, Chris Moss, Bjorn Johnson, Collin Thornton, Pab Schwendimann, Philippe Brenninkmeyer, Jessica Williams, Steven Michael Quezada, Aaron Hendry, Michael Yurchak, Nat Faxon, Gunther Schlierkamp, Blanchard Ryan, Isaac Kappy, Robert Washington, Leanna Kristen, Audrey Marie Anderson, Megan Robinson, Arron Shiver, Justin Ocksrider, Amber Hay, Galen Hutchison, James Roday, Anna Lane, Candace Smith, Brittney Higgins, Sarah Figoten, Marc Mouchet, Simona Fusco Stratten, James Grace, Tom Carver, Ben Zeller, Ivan Brutsche, Sabrina Javor, Rohit Sang, Richard Perello, Gary Kanin. Storyline: Two guys used to drinking beer for fun suddenly become fierce competitors in a sort of Lager Olympics in this over-the-top comedy. Todd Wolfhouse (Erik Stolhanske) and his brother Jan (Paul Soter) are from a German-American family but have never visited the Old Country until their grandfather dies and they fly to Germany to scatter his ashes. Todd and Jan arrive during the annual Oktoberfest celeb ...

Breakfast of Champions (1999) Genre: Comedy Drama, Absurd Comedy, Satire, Tragi-comedy. Director: Alan Rudolph. Actors: Bruce Willis, Albert Finney, Nick Nolte, Barbara Hershey, Glenne Headly, Lukas Haas, Omar Epps, Buck Henry, Vicki Lewis, Ken Campbell, Jake Johannsen, Will Patton, Chip Zien, Owen Wilson, Alison Eastwood, Shawnee Smith, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.. Storyline: In a small American town called Midland City, Dwayne Hoover (Bruce Willis) — a loyal father, a successful car dealer, and a respected member of the community —lives with his wife Celia (Barbara Hershey), who's addicted to pills and TV shows, and his son Bunny (Lukas Haas), who is a weakling. What's more, his best friend and employee Harry Le Sabre (Nick Nolte) is a paranoid red ...

Dumb and Dumber (1994) Genre: Comedy, Buddy Film, Absurd Comedy, Gross-Out Comedy. Director: Peter Farrelly. Actors: Jim Carrey, Jeff Daniels, Lauren Holly, Teri Garr, Karen Duffy, Mike Starr, Charles Rocket, Victoria Rowell, Cam Neely, Felton Perry, Clint Allen, Joe Baker, Helen Boll, Hank Brandt, Cecile Krevoy, Mark Levine, Hillary Matthews, Rob Moran, Connie Sawyer, Lin Shaye, Harland Williams. Storyline: Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels play the title roles (though viewers may find themselves debating which is which) in this genially low-brow comedy. Lloyd Christmas (Jim Carrey) and Harry Dunne (Jeff Daniels) are two intellectually-challenged best friends who share an apartment so messy that gangsters aren't sure how to trash the place; the guys also have a certain problem (not difficult to understand) ...

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) Genre: Comedy, Avant-garde / Experimental, Absurd Comedy, Black Comedy, Buddy Film, Road Movie. Director: Terry Gilliam. Actors: Johnny Depp, Benicio Del Toro, Craig Bierko, Ellen Barkin, Gary Busey, Cameron Diaz, Flea, Mark Harmon, Katherine Helmond, Michael Jeter, Penn Jillette, Lyle Lovett, Tobey Maguire, Christina Ricci, Harry Dean Stanton, Tim Thomerson, Richard Riehle. Storyline: Terry Gilliam (Brazil, Twelve Monkeys, The Fisher King) directed this colorful, stylized, pseudo-psychedelic $21-million adaptation of the 1971 Hunter S. Thompson classic, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey into the Heart of the American Dream, about stoned sportswriter Raoul Duke, Thompson's alter ego, on a wild drug-crazed road trip, a paranoid plummet into the belly of the beast, ...

Freddy Got Fingered (2001) Genre: Comedy, Absurd Comedy, Gross-Out Comedy. Director: Tom Green. Actors: Tom Green, Rip Torn, Marisa Coughlan, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Harland Williams, Anthony Michael Hall, Julie Hagerty, Drew Barrymore, Allan H. Gray. Storyline: Television star Tom Green makes his directorial debut with this gross-out comedy. Green stars as Gord Brody, a 28-year-old slacker who aspires to be an animator of Hollywood cartoons. After his dreams of working for studio mogul Dave Davidson (Anthony Michael Hall) temporarily wash out, along with his thankless job at a cheese factory, Gord returns home to live with his parents, Jim (Rip Torn) and ...

I Heart Huckabees (2004) Genre: Comedy, Absurd Comedy, Ensemble Film. Director: David O. Russell. Actors: Jason Schwartzman, Isabelle Huppert, Dustin Hoffman, Lily Tomlin, Jude Law, Mark Wahlberg, Naomi Watts, Angela Grillo, Richard Appel, Keith Barrett, Saige Ryan Campbell, Adam Clinton, Kimberly Cutter, Pablo Davanzo, Ger Duany, Kevin Dunn, Jeannie Epper-Kimack, Antonio Evans, Isla Fisher, Ashley A. Fondrevay, Matthew Grillo-Russell, Janet Grillo, Bob Gunton, Altagracia Guzman, Lisa Guzman, Denis Hayes, Tippi Hedren, Benny Hernandez, Jonah Hill, Jake Hoffman, Darlene Hunt, Kaied Hussan, Julie Ann Johnson, Robert Lambert, Kamala Lopez-Dawson, James J. Mccoy, George Meyer, Jake Muxworthy, Matthew Muzio, Benjamin Nurick, Shawn Michael Patrick, John Rothman, Chuck Saftler, Jerry Schumacher, Maria Semple, Talia Shire, Jean Smart, Saïd Taghmaoui, Shania Twain, Patrick Walsh, Scott Wannberg, Sydney Zarp. Storyline: Five years after achieving commercial and critical success with his film Three Kings, director and screenwriter David O. Russell returns to the more idiosyncratic territory of his earlier work with this intelligent and offbeat comedy. Bernard and Vivian Jaffe (Dustin Hoffman and Lily Tomlin) are a married couple who run an existential detective agency where they sift through the lives of their cli ...

Nacho Libre (2006) Genre: Comedy, Absurd Comedy, Buddy Film, Sports Comedy. Director: Jared Hess. Actors: Jack Black, Héctor Jimenez, Ana de la Reguera, Richard Montoya, Darius Rose, Moisés Arias, Diego Eduardo Gomez, Carlos Maycotte, Cesar Gonzalez, Rafael Montalvo, Juilo Sandoval, Ventura 'Tigre Hispano' Lahoz, Felipe Jesús, Hernández 'Terror Chino', Enrique Munoz, Carla Jimenez, Augustín 'Rigo' Rey, Ricardo 'Caballero de la Muerte' Castillo, Troy Gentile, Donald Chambers, Julio Escalero, Peter Stormare, Armando 'Mucha Crema' Gaytan, Rafael González López, Antonio Salazar Gómez, Albert M. Madrid, Lauro Chartrand, Filberto Estrella Calderón, Gerson Virgen López, Leobardo Magadan, Jorge Valdez García, Craig Williams, Brett Chan, Mike Ching, Abelardo 'El Pandita' Hernádez, Emiliano 'Dalia Negra' Quiroga, Luis García Randón, Armando Tapia, Carlos César Caballero, Feliciano Ramos Mendoza, Carlos Acosta 'El Mimo' Barroso, Ignacio González 'Iñaqui Goci' Carmarena, Alfonso 'Pompin' Ramirez, Miguel Angel Bonequi Trujillo, Aaron Yamir Ramírez Esobar, Rodolfo García Merino, María González, René Campero, Lisa Owen, Cristobal Puente, Zenaido Avendaño, Rosenda Hernádez, Joaquín Luis Jiménez, Ismael García y su Trio, Dominick Kurek. Storyline: Jared Hess (of Napoleon Dynamite fame) directs this bizarre comedy starring Jack Black as Nacho, a young man who works as a cook in the Mexican monastery where he was raised. When the institution faces a financial crisis, Nacho decides that he must come to the aid of the house of God (as well as the beautiful young nun who has recently joined the order) by competing in the local Lucha Libre tourna ...

Napoleon Dynamite (2004) Genre: Comedy, Absurd Comedy, Coming-of-Age. Director: Jared Hess. Actors: Jon Heder, Jon Gries, Aaron Ruell, Efren Ramirez, Tina Majorino, Diedrich Bader, Haylie Duff, Trevor Snarr, Shondrella Avery, Carmen Brady, Ellen Dubin, Emily Kennard, Sandy Martin, Brian Petersen. Storyline: The directorial debut of filmmaker Jared Hess, who also co-wrote the screenplay, Napoleon Dynamite is a quirky, offbeat comedy set in the small Idaho town of Preston. Jon Heder stars in the titular role, a carrot-topped oddball with a decidedly eccentric family that includes his llama-loving, dune-buggy enthusiast grandmother. The story centers on the local high school's race for class president. ...

National Lampoon's Vacation (1983) Genre: Comedy, Road Movie, Absurd Comedy, Farce. Director: Harold Ramis. Actors: Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Anthony Michael Hall, Imogene Coca, Randy Quaid, Dana Barron, John Candy, Eddie Bracken, Christie Brinkley, Jeannie Dimter Barton, Gerry Black, Nathan Cook, John Diehl, Brian Doyle-Murray, Randolph Dreyfuss, Miriam Flynn, Fritz Ford, Denny Freeman, Christopher Jackson, Mickey Jones, James Keach, Jane Krakowski, Eugene Levy, Frank McRae, John P. Navin, Jr., Scott Perry, Tessa Richarde, James Staley, Michael Talbott. Storyline: Far superior to its sequels, National Lampoon's Vacation chronicles the trials and tribulations of the Griswolds (Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Dana Barron, and Anthony Michael Hall) as they trek cross-country in search of fun and recreation at the mythical WallyWorld theme park. Along the way, they get lost in East St. Louis (in what some may consider a racist scene involving black youths stripp ...

Punch-Drunk Love (2002) Genre: Romance, Comedy Drama, Romantic Comedy, Absurd Comedy. Director: Paul Thomas Anderson. Actors: Adam Sandler, Emily Watson, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Luis Guzman, Mary Lynn Rajskub. Storyline: Adam Sandler and Emily Watson star in Punch-Drunk Love, an odd romantic comedy from gifted young director Paul Thomas Anderson. Sandler plays Barry Egan, a shy sad-sack with a great deal of repressed anger that occasionally bursts forth in sudden violent outrages, who falls in love with Lena Leonard (Emily Watson), a co-worker of one of Barry's seven sisters. After calling a phone-sex line, Barry ...

Scary Movie 3 (2003) Genre: Comedy, Absurd Comedy, Slapstick, Horror Comedy, Parody/Spoof, Gross-Out Comedy. Director: David Zucker. Actors: Anna Faris, Anthony Anderson, Leslie Nielsen, Camryn Manheim, Simon Rex, George Carlin, Queen Latifah, Eddie Griffin, Denise Richards, Regina Hall, Charlie Sheen, Drew Mikusha, Jianna Ballard, Pamela Anderson, Jenny McCarthy, Marny Eng, Jeremy Piven, Carson Ward, Elaine Klimaszewski, Diane Klimaszewski, Simon Cowell, Fat Joe, D.L. Hughley, Ja Rule, Master P, Macy Gray, Redman, Raekwon, RZA, U-God, Peter Boyle, William Forsythe, Darrell Hammond, Method Man, Tim Stack. Storyline: While star Anna Faris returns for the third film in the Scary Movie series, the power behind the camera has shifted from the Wayans brothers to one of the Zucker brothers. The Zucker in question is David Zucker, and he's brought along his partner in movie-parody crime, Leslie Nielsen. This time around, aim is taken at such horror blockbusters as Signs and The Ring, while films of other genres, inc ...

Scary Movie 4 (2006) Genre: Comedy, Parody/Spoof, Gross-Out Comedy, Absurd Comedy, Horror Comedy. Director: David Zucker. Actors: Anna Faris, Regina Hall, Craig Bierko, Simon Rex, Anthony Anderson, Carmen Electra, Phil McGraw, Leslie Nielsen, Shaquille O'Neal, Cloris Leachman, Beau Mirchoff, Bill Pullman, Chris Elliott, Molly Shannon, Michael Madsen, Kevin Hart, Conchita Campbell, Chris Williams, Charlie Sheen, Alonzo Bodden, Dave Attell, D-Ray, Chingy, Lil' Jon, YoungBloodZ, Fabolous, James Earl Jones, Kendra Wilkinson. Storyline: Spoof series torch-bearer and Airplane! mastermind David Zucker steps back into the captain's chair for yet another round of cinematic shenanigans in the latest installment of the Scary Movie franchise, this time mocking such frightful blockbusters as Saw, War of the Worlds, The Village, and The Grudge. An alien invasion threatens to wipe out the entire human race, but not if Cindy Campbell (Anna ...

Spaceballs (1987) Genre: Comedy, Science Fiction, Parody/Spoof, Sci-Fi Comedy, Absurd Comedy. Director: Mel Brooks. Actors: Mel Brooks, John Candy, Rick Moranis, Bill Pullman, Daphne Zuniga, John Hurt, Dick Van Patten, George Wyner, Michael Winslow, Joan Rivers, Lorene Yarnell, Sal Viscuso, Ronny Graham, Jim J. Bullock, Leslie Bevis, Jim Jackman, Denise Gallup, Sandy Helberg, Jack Riley, Tom Dreeson, Rudy de Luca, Deanna Booher, Dom DeLuise, Gail Barle, Mitchell Bock, Tony Cox, Rick Ducommun, Earl Finn, Ed Gale, Arturo Gil, Tony Griffin, Henry Kaiser, Jeff MacGregor, Ira Miller, Bryan O'Byrne, Ken Olfson, Michael Pniewski, Robert Prescott, Tim Russ, Rhonda Shear, Felix Silla, Johnny Silver, Brenda Strong, Tommy Swerdlow, Stephen Tobolowsky, Wayne Wilson, Dey Young. Storyline: A space bum helps rescue a princess from an evil overlord with the help of a benevolent elder in this Star Wars send-up written and directed by Mel Brooks. Lone Starr (Bill Pullman) and his half-man, half-dog co-pilot, Barf the Mawg (John Candy), are content to scour the galaxy living the easy life. But they reluctantly come to the rescue when Druish Princess Vespa (Daphne Zuniga) is threatened by ...

Strange Brew (1983) Genre: Comedy, Farce, Satire, Absurd Comedy. Director: Rick Moranis, Dave Thomas. Actors: Dave Thomas, Rick Moranis, Max von Sydow, Paul Dooley, Lynne Griffin, Angus MacInnes, Tom Harvey, Douglas Campbell, Brian McConnachie, Len Doncheff, Jill Frappier, David Beard, Thick Wilson, Mel Blanc, Glenn Beck, Tom Bell, J. Winston Carroll, David Clement, Dora Dainton, Diane Douglass, Roger Dunn, Denis Forest, Dick Grant, Eric House, Ron James, John Kelly, Sid Lynas, David Rigby, John Stoneham. Storyline: Purporting to be loosely based on Hamlet, Strange Brew is about an evil braumeister at the Elsinore Brewery who has discovered an additive that when guzzled in beer, allows the drinkers to be easily controlled. Braumeister Smith (Max von Sydow) has a plan to take over the world with his new brew, and only the Great White hosers of the North, Bob and Doug McKenzie (Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas) &am ...

Strangers With Candy (2005) Genre: Comedy, Parody/Spoof, Absurd Comedy. Director: Paul Dinello. Actors: Amy Sedaris, Deborah Rush, Carlo Alban, Maria Thayer, Paul Dinello, Stephen Colbert, Chris Pratt, Elisabeth Harnois, Joseph Cross, Greg Hollimon, Dan Hedaya, Matthew Broderick, David Pasquesi, Alexis Dziena, Ian Holm, Sarah Jessica Parker, Allison Janney, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Lian Moy, Jeremy Chu, Olivia Oguma, Hechter Ubarry, Delores Duffy, Michael Rivera, Evelyn McGee, Jonah Bobo, Timothy Hsu, Chris Larkin, Wallace Little, Chandra Wilson, Kristy Thomas, Tom Guiry, Calvin Robertson, Kristen Johnston, Justin Theroux. Storyline: The cult-favorite television series which offered a fun-house version of '70s "after-school specials" returns in this big-screen prequel to the show Strangers With Candy. Middle-aged ex-prostitute, former drug addict and all-around lowlife Jerri Blank (Amy Sedaris) emerges from prison at the age of 46 ready to start her life over again. Jerri arrives at her parents' home to discover that ...

Super Troopers (2001) Genre: Comedy, Police Comedy, Absurd Comedy, Farce, Slapstick. Director: Jay Chandrasekhar. Actors: Jay Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan, Steve Lemme, Paul Soter, Erik Stolhanske, Brian Cox, Daniel Von Bargen, Marisa Coughlan, Lynda Carter, John Bedford Lloyd, Jim Gaffigan. Storyline: A handful of state troopers are put in the uncomfortable position of having to actually enforce the law in this high-spirited comedy. Mac (Steve Lemme), Thorny (Jay Chandrasekhar), Foster (Paul Stoter), and Rabbit (Erik Stolhanske) are four Vermont state troopers whose dedication to duty is not exactly an inspiration to law enforcement officers everywhere. Stationed in a small town near the Canadi ...

Superhero Movie (2008) Genre: Comedy, Parody/Spoof, Comic-Book Superhero Film, Absurd Comedy. Director: Craig Mazin. Actors: Drake Bell, Sara Paxton, Christopher McDonald, Kevin Hart, Brent Spiner, Jeffrey Tambor, Ryan Hansen, Robert Hays, Marion Ross, Robert Joy, Pamela Anderson, Leslie Nielsen, Dan Castellaneta, Keith David, Simon Rex, Kurt Fuller, Jenica Bergere, Tracy Morgan, Regina Hall, Miles Fisher, John Hall, Craig Bierko, John Getz, Charlene Tilton, Lil' Kim. Storyline: After spoofing disaster films in Airplane!, police shows in The Naked Gun, and Hollywood horrors in Scary Movie 3 and 4, producer David Zucker sets his satirical sights on the superhero genre with this anarchic comedy lampooning everything from Spider-Man to X-Men and Superman Returns. Shortly after being bitten by a genetically altered dragonfly, high-school outcast Rick Riker (Drake Bell) begins ...

The Blues Brothers (1980) Genre: Comedy, Adventure Comedy, Action Comedy, Rock Musical, Buddy Film, Absurd Comedy. Director: John Landis. Actors: John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, James Brown, John Candy, Ray Charles, Carrie Fisher, Cab Calloway, Aretha Franklin, Henry Gibson, John Lee Hooker, Murphy Dunne, Steve Cropper, Donald "Duck" Dunn, Willie "Too Big" Hall, Tom Malone, Frank Oz, Kathleen Freeman, Steven Williams, Charles Napier, Twiggy, Stephen Bishop, Shotgun Britton, Blair Burrows, Jack Callahan, Joe Cirillo, Cindy Fisher, Toni Fleming, Ralph Foody, Andrew Goodman, Sean Hayden, Dean Hill, Walter Horton, Gary Houston, Elizabeth Hoy, Chaka Khan, John Landis, Steve Lawrence, Lou Marini, Norman Matlock, Stan Mazin, Gary McLarty, Jeff Morris, Matt Murphy, Jack Orend, Lou Perry, Ben Piazza, Paul Reubens, John Ring, Rosie Schuster, Joe Walsh, De'Voreaux White. Storyline: Expanding on their Saturday Night Live characters, John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd star as Jake and Elwood Blues, two white boys with black soul. Sporting cool shades and look-alike suits, Jake and Elwood are dispatched on a "mission from God" by their former teacher, Sister Mary Stigmata (Kathleen Freeman). Said mission is to raise $5000 to save an orphanage. In the course of their zany ad ...

The Brothers Solomon (2007) Genre: Comedy, Absurd Comedy, Farce. Director: Bob Odenkirk. Actors: Will Arnett, Will Forte, Chi McBride, Kristen Wiig, Malin Akerman, Lee Majors, Stephanie Courtney, Jenna Fischer, Casey Wilson. Storyline: Mr. Show alumnus Bob Odenkirk directed — and SNL vet Will Forte scripted — this gleefully raunchy tale of two socially backward but kind-hearted adult brothers, Dean and John Solomon (Forte and Will Arnett), who had the misfortune to be home-schooled by their father at a remote Arctic outpost. Destined to be perpetually single, their moronic, klutzy attempts at meeting new wome ...

The Jerk (1979) Genre: Comedy, Absurd Comedy. Director: Carl Reiner. Actors: Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters, Catlin Adams, Mabel King, Dick Anthony Williams, Bill Macy, M. Emmet Walsh, Dick O'Neill, Maurice Evans, Helena Carroll, Jackie Mason, Carl Reiner, Lillian Adams, Alston Ahern, Domingo Ambriz, Kimberly Cameron, Alfred Dennis, Debbie Evans, Richard Foronjy, Carl Gottlieb, David Landsberg, Fred Lerner, Joe Lynn, Elizabeth Macey, Ken Magee, Maurice Marsac, Brownie McGee, Lenny Montana, Clete Roberts, Pepe Serna, Trinidad Silva, Sonny Terry, Frances Williams, Ren Woods. Storyline: Carl Reiner directs Steve Martin (who co-wrote the script with Carl Gottlieb) in this gag-laden comedy about an idiotic white man, raised by a poor family of black sharecroppers, who doesn't realize he's not black. Navin R. Johnson (Steve Martin) is told the horrible truth when he finds himself instinctively tapping his feet to an easy listening tune on the radio, instead of a low-down blues. His ...

The Naked Gun (1988) Genre: Comedy, Absurd Comedy, Parody/Spoof, Slapstick, Police Comedy. Director: David Zucker. Actors: Leslie Nielsen, George Kennedy, Priscilla Presley, Ricardo Montalban, O.J. Simpson, Nancy Marchand, Melvin Allen, Fredric Arnold, Robert Arthur, Brett Bartlett, Susan Beaubian, Raye Birk, Susan Breslau, Joyce Brothers, Jeannette Charles, Tom Dugan, Dick Enberg, Chuck Fick, Winifred Freedman, Charles Gherardi, Curt Gowdy, Joe Grifasi, Doris Hess, Mark Holton, John Houseman, Prince Hughes, Reggie Jackson, Ronald G. Joseph, David Katz, Christopher Keene, Leslie Maier, Tim McCarver, Ken Minyard, Edwina Moore, Dennis Packer, Jim Palmer, Hank Robinson, Tiny Ron, Rick Seaman, Jim Smith, Brinke Stevens, Lawrence Tierney, Sydney Urshan, Dick Vitale, Ed Williams, Don Woodard, Nicholas Worth, Jeff Wright, Weird Al Yankovic, Charlotte Zucker, Burton Zucker. Storyline: We know we're in a 1988 film when we're invited to laugh at O.J. Simpson in an opening slapstick sequence. We can also pinpoint the year of production when hard-nosed cop Frank Drebin (Leslie Nielsen), during a scuffle with the world's leading dictators, wipes the wine-colored birthmark off the head of Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev. Those wacky ZAZ boys — David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, ...

The Onion Movie (2008) Genre: Comedy, Parody/Spoof, Absurd Comedy. Director: James Kleiner. Actors: Len Cariou, Daniel Dae Kim, Larissa Laskin, Abigail Mavity, Sarah McElligott, Steven Seagal, Amir Talai. Storyline: America's most popular satirical newspaper makes the leap from the printed page to the silver screen in this political comedy that explores what happens when journalistic integrity is compromised by corporate sensibility. Onion News anchorman Norm Archer (Len Cariou) is s principled journalist, so when he's asked to bend to the will of his corporate overlords he decides to strike back with a fury ...

The Ten (2007) Genre: Comedy, Absurd Comedy, Religious Comedy, Satire. Director: David Wain. Actors: Paul Rudd, Famke Janssen, Gretchen Mol, Winona Ryder, Jessica Alba, Adam Brody, Rob Corddry, Justin Theroux, Liev Schreiber, Oliver Platt, Ken Marino, Kerri Kenney-Silver, A.D. Miles, Thomas Lennon, Joe Lo Truglio, Mather Zickel, Michael Ziegfield, Jason Sudeikis, Ron Silver, Bobby Cannavale, Cedric Sanders, Arlen Escarpeta, Jason Antoon, Reed Birney, Michael Ian Black, Janeane Garofalo, Jerry Grayson, Zandy Hartig, Rashida Jones, Charlie McDermott, Zak Orth, Joe Passaro, Michael Showalter, John Tormey, David Wain. Storyline: Much of the group responsible for MTV's The State - including director/actor David Wain and performers Ken Marino, Kerri Kinney-Silver and Joe Lo Truglio - reunite for this outrageous, irreverent and raunchy sketch comedy, which skewers the Ten Commandments. In the framing sequences, comedian Paul Rudd (who collaborated with much of the cast on Wet Hot American Summer and The Baxter) stands on a b ...

Themroc (1973) Genre: Comedy, Avant-garde / Experimental, Surrealist Film, Absurd Comedy, Satire, Urban Comedy. Director: Claude Faraldo. Actors: Michel Piccoli, Béatrice Romand, Jeanne Herviale, Marilù Tolo, Stephane Bouy, Francesca Romana Coluzzi, Francois Dyrek, Michel Fortin, Henri Guybet, Jean Herbert, Miou-Miou, Roger Riffard. Storyline: This extraordinary romp uses no language whatever, except gestures and grunts. When a salt crystal is dropped into a solution of water that contains all the salt it can handle, something extraordinary happens: the swift formation of large crystals of salt from the apparently clear water. When Thesroc (Michel Piccoli) rebels against the dull conformity of his life with flamboyant anarchistic splend ...

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