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Genre "Urban Comedy" Movies (showing 1 to 40 from 40 total)

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A Night at the Roxbury (1998) Genre: Comedy, Urban Comedy, Buddy Film. Director: John Fortenberry, Peter Markle. Actors: Will Ferrell, Chris Kattan, Molly Shannon, Dan Hedaya, Richard Grieco, Loni Anderson, Elisa Donovan, Gigi Rice, Lochlyn Munro, Dwayne Hickman, Meredith Scott Lynn, Mark McKinney, Colin Quinn, Michael Clarke Duncan, Chazz Palminteri. Storyline: This comedy extends and embellishes characters introduced on Saturday Night Live by regulars Will Ferrell and Chris Kattan in their sketch series of two head-bobbing losers who go on the town, looking for action, when they hear the What Is Love? disco tune. Looking cool, brothers Steve (Ferrell) and Doug Butabi (Kattan) always fail to pick up women in their hapless nightclub jaunts. In Beverly Hil ...

And Then Came Love (2007) Genre: Comedy, Romantic Comedy, Urban Comedy. Director: Richard Schenkman. Actors: Vanessa Williams, Kevin Daniels, Michael Boatman, Jeremy Gumbs, Eartha Kitt, Stephen Spinella, Eileen Alana, Ben Vereen. Storyline: By conceiving a child via artificial insemination, hip, modern and thoroughly independent magazine writer Julie Davidson (Vanessa Williams) managed to trim the messy nuptial relationship strings so often attached to starting a family. Imagine her shock, then, when her now-six-year-old son, Jason, demonstrates his growing need for a paternal role model by misbehaving in school. Thus begins Richard ...

Annie Hall (1977) Genre: Comedy, Romantic Comedy, Urban Comedy, Sophisticated Comedy, Comedy of Manners. Director: Woody Allen. Actors: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts, Carol Kane, Paul Simon, Colleen Dewhurst, Janet Margolin, Shelley Duvall, Christopher Walken, Donald Symington, Mordecai Lawner, Joan Newman, Jonathan Munk, Ruth Volner, Martin Rosenblatt, Gary Allen, Hy Ansel, Michael Aronin, Walter Bernstein, Laurie Bird, Mary Boylan, William Callaway, Dick Cavett, Beverly D'Angelo, Humphrey Davis, Stanley de Santis, John Doumanian, Lucy Lee Flippin, Chris Gampel, John Glover, Jeff Goldblum, Shelley Hack, Arthur Haggerty, Johnny Haymer, Russell Horton, John Dennis Johnston, Christine Jones, Michael Karm, Alan Landers, Mark Lenard, Charles Levin, Helen Ludlam, James MacKrell, Bob Maroff, Jim McKrell, Gary Mule Deer, Roger Newman, Rashel Novikoff, Vince O'Brien, Albert M. Ottenheimer, Rick Petrucelli, Lou Picetti, Veronica Radburn, Bernie Styles, Paula Trueman, Loretta Tupper, Tracey Walter, Sigourney Weaver. Storyline: Woody Allen's romantic comedy of the Me Decade follows the up and down relationship of two mismatched New York neurotics. Jewish comedy writer Alvy Singer (Allen) ponders the modern quest for love and his past romance with tightly-wound WASP singer Annie Hall (Diane Keaton, née Diane Hall). The twice-divorced Alvy knows that it's not easy to find a mate when the options include pretentious New Yor ...

Barbershop (2002) Genre: Comedy, Ensemble Film, Urban Comedy, Workplace Comedy. Director: Tim Story. Actors: Ice Cube, Anthony Anderson, Cedric the Entertainer, Sean Patrick Thomas, Eve, Troy Garity, Michael Ealy, Leonard Earl Howze, Keith David, Jazsmin Lewis, Lahmard Tate, Tom Wright, Kwame Amoaku, Naomi Young Armstrong, Rhonda Bobo, Woody Bolar, Parvesh Cheena, Lorenzo Clemons, Deon Cole, Saralynne Crittenden, DeRay Davis, Scott Dent, Cerall Duncan, Sonya Eddy, Cliff Frazier, Tiffany S. Gaji, Janina Gavankar, Jason Winston George, Dana Min Goodman, Willie B. Goodson, Vince Green, Maestro Harrell, Jam, Llou Johnson, Dev Kennedy, Eric Lane, Satya Lee, Cassandra Lewis, Cynthia Maddox, Toyiah Marquis, Chester Clay McSwain, Malik S. Middleton, Kevin Morrow, Olumiji Olawumi, Matt Orlando, Jasmine Randle, Leon S. Rogers Jr., Jalen Rose, Pat "Soul" Scaggs, J. David Shanks, Mark Simmons, Steven Simoncic, Eddie Bo Smith, Jr., Ray Thompson, Marshall Titus, Frank Townsend, Norm Van Lier, Laura E. Walls, Teara Hill Willborn, Ebboney Wilson, Montina Woods, Marcia Wright, Carl Wright. Storyline: Calvin (Ice Cube) never wanted to take over the family business, a barbershop on the south side of Chicago. Disgusted with the shop's crime-ridden neighborhood, and caught up in his moneymaking schemes, one morning Calvin decides to sell the shop to the shady Lester (Keith David). Chastised by his pregnant wife, Jennifer (Jazsmin Lewis), for his rash decision, Calvin spends the day cutting heads a ...

Broadway Danny Rose (1984) Genre: Comedy, Comedy of Errors, Showbiz Comedy, Urban Comedy. Director: Woody Allen. Actors: Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Nick Apollo Forte, Milton Berle, Sandy Baron, Corbett Monica, Jackie Gayle, Morty Gunty, Will Jordan, Howard Storm, Jack Rollins, Craig Vandenburgh, Herb Reynolds, Danny Aiello, George Axler, Michael Badalucco, Belle Berger, Sheila Bond, Edwin Bordo, Peter Castellotti, Howard Cosell, Gina de Angelis, John Doumanian, Joe Franklin, Paul Greco, Mark Hardwick, David Kieserman, Ronald Maccone, William Paulson, Carl Pistilli, Frank Renzulli, Sandy Richman, Camille Saviola, Maurice Shrog, Leo Steiner, Gilda Tortorello, Tony Turco, Sid Winter, Diane Zolten. Storyline: A smaller, amusing comedy from writer/director Woody Allen, Broadway Danny Rose begins with a bunch of show business vets sitting around a table at New York's Carnegie Deli and reminiscing about the legendary titular character, a loser of an agent who would represent anyone, including blind xylophonists, piano-playing birds, and has-been crooners with drinking problems. Allen plays Rose as a befud ...

Coyote Ugly (2000) Genre: Comedy Drama, Urban Comedy, Urban Drama, Coming-of-Age. Director: David McNally. Actors: Piper Perabo, Adam Garcia, Maria Bello, John Goodman, Melanie Lynskey, Izabella Miko, Bridget Moynahan, Tyra Banks, Del Pentacost, Michael Weston, LeAnn Rimes, Johnny Knoxville, Chris Wylde. Storyline: An aspiring musician becomes one of the most famous bartenders in New York in this high-spirited comedy-drama. Small-town girl Violet Sanford (Piper Perabo) dreams of making a name for herself as a singer and songwriter, so she moves to New York City in hopes of landing her big break. Needing to support herself until stardom rolls around, she takes a job as a barmaid at a new nightspot called Coyo ...

Crocodile Dundee (1986) Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Adventure Comedy, Urban Comedy. Director: Peter Faiman. Actors: Paul Hogan, Linda Kozlowski, John Meillon, Mark Blum, Michael Lombard, David Gulpilil, Irving Metzman, Maggie Blinco, Steve Rackman, Anne Francine, Paul Greco, Paula Herold, Reginald VelJohnson, Graham "Grace" Walker. Storyline: Accustomed to a simple life in the Australian Outback, a legendary crocodile hunter has trouble adjusting to his new surroundings when an American journalist brings him to New York City. This Australian comedy delivers exactly what one would expect: plenty of fish-out-of-water gags about the hunter's reactions to the absurdity of modern urban life. Though he initially seems rather naive, Paul Hoga ...

Downtown 81 (2000) Genre: Comedy Drama, Urban Comedy. Director: Edo Bertoglio. Actors: Jean-Michel Basquiat, Anna Schroeder, Marshall Chess, Danny Rosen, Lisa Rosen, Steve Mass, Saul Williams, Fab Five Freddy, Deborah Harry, Kid Creole & The Coconuts, Tuxedomoon. Storyline: Originally shot in 1980-81, this film, directed by Edo Bertoglio, is a rare real-life snapshot of ultra-hip subculture of post-punk era Manhattan. Starring renowned artist Jean Michel Basquiat (who died in 1988 at age 27) and featuring such early Village hipsters as Melle Mel, John Lurie, and Lydia Lunch, the film is a bizarre elliptical urban fairytale. The film opens with Jean (Basquiat) in the ...

Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) Genre: Comedy, Teen Movie, Coming-of-Age, Urban Comedy. Director: John Hughes. Actors: Matthew Broderick, Alan Ruck, Mia Sara, Jeffrey Jones, Jennifer Grey, Cindy Pickett, Lyman Ward, Edie McClurg, Charlie Sheen, Del Close, Virginia Capers, Richard Edson, Larry "Flash" Jenkins, Jason Robert Alderman, Louie Anderson, Lisa Bellard, Stephanie Blake, Scott Coffey, Joey Garfield, Robert Kim, Edward LeBeau, Paul Manzanero, Robert McKibbon, Debra Montague, Polly Augusta Noonan, Bob Parkinson, Max Perlich, Dee Dee Rescher, Richard Rohrbough, Anne Ryan, Eric Saiet, Jonathan Schmock, Dave Silvestri, Dick Sollenberger, Tom Spratley, Ben Stein, Kristy Swanson, Joey Viera, Miranda Whittle. Storyline: Teenaged Ferris Bueller (Matthew Broderick) is a legend in his own time thanks to his uncanny skill at cutting classes and getting away with it. Intending to make one last grand duck-out before graduation, Ferris calls in sick, "borrows" a Ferrari, and embarks on a one-day bacchanal through the streets of Chicago. Dogging Ferris' trail at every turn is high-school principal Rooney (Jeffr ...

First Sunday (2008) Genre: Comedy, Crime Comedy, Urban Comedy, Religious Comedy. Director: David E. Talbert. Actors: Ice Cube, Katt Williams, Tracy Morgan, Loretta Devine, Michael Beach, Keith David, Regina Hall, Malinda Williams, Chi McBride, Olivia Cole, Tiffany Pollard, Rickey Smiley. Storyline: Gospel-minded playwright David E. Talbert produces, writes, and directs this urban crime comedy concerning a pair of criminals who take a group of church parishioners hostage while attempting to rob the holy house, only to find their captives slowly convincing them to repent and give up their lawless lifestyles. Durell (Ice Cube) and LeeJohn (Tracy Morgan) are two best friends with a special knack ...

Friday (1995) Genre: Comedy, Urban Comedy, Slapstick, Buddy Film. Director: F. Gary Gray. Actors: Ice Cube, Chris Tucker, Nia Long, Tom "Tiny" Lister, Jr., John Witherspoon, Anna Maria Horsford, Kathleen Bradley, Tony Cox, Anthony Johnson, Regina King, Faizon Love, Bernie Mac, Angela Means, LaWanda Page, Paula Jai Parker, Reynaldo Rey, Vickilyn Reynolds, Ronn Riser, Yvette Wilson. Storyline: Hard-core rapper Ice Cube, after appearing in such hard-hitting films as Boyz 'N the Hood and Higher Learning, played his first comic role in this picture he co-wrote with frequent musical collaborator DJ Pooh. Craig (Ice Cube) manages to get fired on his day off (though he claims it's through no fault of his own) and spends the day hanging out with his buddy Smokey (Chris Tucker) and trying to av ...

Friday After Next (2002) Genre: Comedy, Urban Comedy, Slapstick, Buddy Film. Director: Marcus Raboy. Actors: K.D. Aubert, Terry Crews, Don "DC" Curry, Bebe Drake, Starletta DuPois, Mike Epps, Reggie Gaskins, Anna Maria Horsford, Ice Cube, Maz Jobrani, Joel McKinnon Miller, Clifton Powell, Rickey Smiley, Sommore, Katt Williams, John Witherspoon. Storyline: The gang from Friday and Next Friday are back in this urban comedy, in which Craig (Ice Cube) and Day-Day (Mike Epps) have finally moved out of their respective parents' homes and gotten an apartment together. However, a bogus neighborhood Santa Claus (Rickey Smiley) decides to help Craig and Day-Day share the wealth by robbing their apartment, and when he rips off their stereo, he also makes off ...

High Fidelity (2000) Genre: Comedy Drama, Romantic Comedy, Comedy of Manners, Urban Comedy, Workplace Comedy. Director: Stephen Frears. Actors: John Cusack, Iben Hjejle, Jack Black, Todd Louiso, Lisa Bonet, Joan Cusack, Sara Gilbert, Joelle Carter, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Chris Rehmann, Tim Robbins, Bruce Springsteen, Lili Taylor, Natasha Gregson Wagner, Ben Carr, Drake Bell. Storyline: A man discovers that there's more to love than a good mixed tape in this dramatic comedy about music and relationships. Rob (John Cusack), an obsessive record collector in his mid-thirties, is struggling to reconcile his adolescent enthusiasm for pop music with adult responsibilities and a more mature outlook. He runs a record shop with his friends Barry (Jack Black) and Dick (Todd Louiso), who ar ...

Hitch (2005) Genre: Romance, Comedy, Urban Comedy, Romantic Comedy. Director: Andy Tennant. Actors: Will Smith, Eva Mendes, Kevin James, Amber Valletta, Julie Ann Emery, Michael Rapaport, Adam Arkin, Jeffrey Donovan, Robinne Lee, Maulik Pancholy, Paula Patton. Storyline: A man who teaches dateless wonders how to become irresistible to women learns just how hard it can be to do it yourself in this romantic comedy. When a guy in New York City wants to make the right impression with a certain lady, Alex "Hitch" Hitchens (Will Smith) is the man he calls. Hitch has made a career out of coordinating a man's first three dates so that they'll show him to his bes ...

Hugo Pool (1997) Genre: Romance, Comedy Drama, Urban Comedy, Ensemble Film. Director: Robert Downey, Sr.. Actors: Alyssa Milano, Patrick Dempsey, Cathy Moriarty, Robert Downey, Jr., Richard Lewis, Malcolm McDowell, Sean Penn. Storyline: Cult figure Robert Downey, Sr. directed this offbeat comedy set in the eccentric environs of Los Angeles. Hugo Dugay (Alyssa Milano) is a young woman who makes her living cleaning swimming pools when she isn't busy looking after her mother Minerva (Cathy Moriarty), who's hooked on gambling, and her father Henry (Malcolm McDowell), who's hooked on alcohol and a number of drugs. One day, Hugo finds ...

I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With (2006) Genre: Comedy, Romantic Comedy, Urban Comedy. Director: Jeff Garlin. Actors: Jeff Garlin, Sarah Silverman, Bonnie Hunt, David Pasquesi, Mina Kolb, Richard Kind, Amy Sedaris, Gina Gershon, Wallace Langham, Joey Slotnick, Phyllis Smith, Dan Castellaneta, Paul Mazursky. Storyline: Jeff Garlin, best known for his role as Larry David's manager on Curb Your Enthusiasm, has directed standup comedy specials for Jon Stewart and Denis Leary, and makes his feature-film debut with his own adaptation of his one-man stage show, I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With. Garlin stars as James, an overweight, depressed actor who does improv at Second City. James lives with his mother (Mina Kolb ...

Juwanna Mann (2002) Genre: Comedy, Sports Comedy, Urban Comedy, Farce. Director: Jesse Vaughan. Actors: Miguel A. Nuñez, Vivica A. Fox, Kevin Pollak, Tommy Davidson, Kim Wayans, Jennifer Lewis, Ginuwine, Annie Corley, Tammi Reiss, Heather Quella, Kenny Albert, Tyrone "Mugsy" Bogues, Itoro Coleman, Reginald Coles III, Judy Simpson Cook, Cynthia Cooper, Angela Cossey, Jaclyn Dahm, Erica Dahm, Nicole Dahm, Deanna Davis, Vlade Divac, Omar J. Dorsey, Michael Drake, Deborah Calloway Duke, J. Don Ferguson, Roy Firestone, Kevin Frazier, Mert Hatfield, Bonnie Johnson, Pearl Jones, Andrew Kenny, Lance Krall, Jay Leno, Lil' Kim, Terry Loughlin, Carol Mitchell, Dikembe Mutombo, Chris Myers, Ric Reitz, Eddie Rouse Jr., Katy Steding, Mark Allan Stewart, Elliott Street, Everett Summers, Rasheed Wallace, Brittani Warrick, Teresa Weatherspoon, Jeanne Zelasko. Storyline: It's Big Momma's House on the three-point line in this broad farce, which marks the leading man/woman debut of longtime character actor Miguel A. Nunez. Nunez stars as Jamal Jefferies, a hotheaded pro basketball player whose on-court antics and quick temper get him booted from the league altogether. Faster than you can say Dennis Rodman, Jamal has transformed himself into the busty Juwanna Mann in ...

Last Night (1998) Genre: Comedy Drama, Urban Comedy, Sci-Fi Disaster Film, Black Comedy. Director: Don McKellar. Actors: Don McKellar, Sandra Oh, Callum Keith Rennie, Sarah Polley, David Cronenberg, Tracy Wright, Geneviève Bujold, Roberta Maxwell, Robin Gammell, Trent McMullen, Karen Glave, Jackie Burroughs, Charmion King-Pinsent. Storyline: Don McKellar wrote and directed this comedy-drama about the last night of the world, part of the 12-film Arte series of movies about the Millennium. Set in Toronto, Patrick (McKellar) endures a faux Christmas celebration with his family while Sandra (Sandra Oh) tries to get across town to commit suicide with her husband, a gas company employee Duncan (David Cronenberg). Meanwhile, Craig (Callum K ...

Manhattan (1979) Genre: Comedy Drama, Urban Comedy, Comedy of Manners, Sophisticated Comedy, Romantic Comedy. Director: Woody Allen. Actors: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Michael Murphy, Mariel Hemingway, Meryl Streep, Anne Byrne, Karen Ludwig, Michael O'Donoghue, Victor Truro, Tisa Farrow, Helen Hanft, Bella Abzug, Kenny Vance, Charles Levin, David Rasche, Damion Sheller, Wallace Shawn, Frances Conroy, Bill Anthony, John Doumanian, Ray Serra, Karen Allen, Mark Linn-Baker, Gary Weis. Storyline: On the heels of Annie Hall, the Oscar-winning romantic comedy that rocketed Woody Allen to the front ranks of American filmmakers, Manhattan continued Allen's romantic obsessions in a slightly darker, more pessimistic vein. Allen stars as Isaac Davis, a TV comedy writer sick of the pap he is forced to churn out and harboring dreams of being the great American novelist. His love life is in barbed-w ...

New York Stories (1989) Genre: Comedy Drama, Satire, Urban Comedy, Fantasy Comedy. Director: Woody Allen, Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese. Actors: Nick Nolte, Rosanna Arquette, Heather McComb, Patrick O'Neal, Jesse Borrego, Talia Shire, Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Peter Gabriel, Illeana Douglas, Mae Questel, Julie Kavner, Steve Buscemi, Giancarlo Giannini, Paul Herman, James Keane, Don Novello, Selim Tlili, Carmine Coppola, Carole Bouquet, Marvin Chatinover, Jessie Keosian, George Schindler, Bridgit Ryan, Edward I. Koch, Annie-Joe, Victor Argo, Brigitte Bako, Mark Boone, Jr., Adrien Brody, Thelma Carpenter, David Cryer, Larry David, Kirsten Dunst, Chris Elliott, Paul Geier, Nancy Giles, Helen Hanft, Deborah Harry, Michael Higgins, Samantha Larkin, Jodi Long, Tom Mardirosian, Bill Moor, Paul Mougey, Jenny Nichols, Richard Price, George Rafferty, Michael Rizzo, Martin Rosenblatt, Mike Starr, Ira Wheeler. Storyline: The omnibus film New York Stories is the product of three powerhouse filmmakers. The film is divided into three stories, each exploring a different aspect of life in the Big Apple. Life Lessons, directed by Martin Scorcese, is a Dostoevsky-like tale of the rarefied Art World, with Nick Nolte as a self-indulgent abstractionist who loves Rosanna Arquette, but can't bring himself to lie to her about ...

Next Friday (2000) Genre: Comedy, Urban Comedy. Director: Steve Carr. Actors: Ice Cube, Mike Epps, Justin Pierce, John Witherspoon, Don "DC" Curry, Jacob Vargas, Lobo Sebastian, Rolando Molina, Lisa Rodriguez, Tom "Tiny" Lister, Jr., Kym E. Whitley, Amy Hill, Tamala Jones, Lady of Rage, Sticky Fingaz, Clifton Powell. Storyline: In this sequel to the urban comedy Friday, rap music star Ice Cube returns as Craig Jones, a streetwise man from South Central Los Angeles who has a knack for getting into trouble. This time out, Craig is still trying to outsmart neighborhood bully Debo (Tommy "Tiny" Lister Jr.); after Craig gets the better of Debo in a fist fight, Debo is determined to flatten Craig in a rematch. Lookin ...

Notting Hill (1999) Genre: Romance, Romantic Comedy, Urban Comedy, Showbiz Comedy. Director: Roger Michell. Actors: Julia Roberts, Hugh Grant, Hugh Bonneville, Emma Chambers, James Dreyfus, Rhys Ifans, Tim McInnerny, Gina McKee, Richard McCabe, Dylan Moran, Roger Frost, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Lorelei King, John Shrapnel, Clarke Peters, Arturo Venegas, Mischa Barton, Henry Goodman, Melissa Wilson, Emma Bernard, Sam West, Ann Beach, Alec Baldwin, Emily Mortimer. Storyline: Can a beautiful and internationally famous American actress find happiness with a frumpy British bookstore clerk? She can — at least for a while, it seems — in Notting Hill. William Thacker (played by Hugh Grant) is a bookseller at a shop in the Notting Hill district in West London, who shares a house with an eccentric Welsh friend, Spike (Rhys Ifans). One day, William is mindi ...

Roger Dodger (2002) Genre: Comedy Drama, Comedy of Manners, Sex Comedy, Urban Comedy. Director: Dylan Kidd. Actors: Campbell Scott, Jesse Eisenberg, Isabella Rossellini, Elizabeth Berkley, Jennifer Beals, Ben Shenkman, Mina Badie, Chris Stack, Morena Baccarin. Storyline: Writer/director Dylan Kidd got a chance to make his script for Roger Dodger into a feature film when he boldly approached Campbell Scott in a café in Greenwich Village and made his pitch. Eventually, Scott would agree to executive produce and star in the film, and was responsible for bringing Jennifer Beals and Isabella Rossellini onboard. Scott stars as the eponymous Roger, a successful New York ...

Sex and the City (2008) Genre: Comedy, Urban Comedy, Sex Comedy. Director: Michael Patrick King. Actors: Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis, Cynthia Nixon, Chris Noth, Candice Bergen, Jennifer Hudson, David Eigenberg, Evan Handler, Jason Lewis, Mario Cantone, Lynn Cohen, Willie Garson, Madeleine Lee Gilford. Storyline: The hit cable series Sex and the City catwalks its way onto the big screen in this feature-film continuation that fans all over have been clamoring for. Sarah Jessica Parker returns once again as Carrie Bradshaw, the style-maven journalist whose romantic exploits were the key focus of the show. Also reprising their roles are Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis, and Cynthia Nixon, with the series' executiv ...

Singles (1992) Genre: Comedy Drama, Romantic Comedy, Ensemble Film, Urban Comedy, Comedy of Manners. Director: Cameron Crowe. Actors: Bridget Fonda, Campbell Scott, Kyra Sedgwick, Sheila Kelley, Jim True, Matt Dillon, Bill Pullman, James LeGros, Devon Raymond, Camilo Gallardo, Ally Walker, Eric Stoltz, Jeremy Piven, Tom Skerritt, Bill Smille, Jeff Ament, Bernard Bentley, Tim Burton, Art Cahn, Wayne Cody, Chris Cornell, Cameron Crowe, Alice Marie Crowe, Pat di Nizio, Marion Dougherty, Thomas A. Doyle, Jerome Ehlers, Nina Escudero, Dana Eskelson, Tom Francis, Michael Gardner, Paul Giamatti, Joan Giammarco, Stone Gossard, Sandra P. Grant, Lara Harris, Mykol Hazsen, Jim Hechim, Amy Hill, Peter Horton, Heather Hughes, Daniel Johnson, Jane Jones, Karen Denice LaVoie, Matt Magnano, Christopher Kennedy Masterson, Debi Mazar, Xavier McDaniel, Chuck McQuary, "Crazy Steve" Olsen, Michael Parker, Bruce Pavitt, Alicia Roper, Stephen Rutledge, Jaffar Smith, Michael Su, Randy Thompson, Eddie Vedder, Dan Wartman, Johnny S.B. Willis, Jerry Ziesmer. Storyline: Set amidst the burgeoning Seattle alternative music scene of the early '90s, Singles follows a group of twentysomethings as they try to find love and try to come to terms with their passage into adulthood. Arranged as an episodic comedy, the film follows a group of friends who live in the same apartment building and hang out at the same coffee shop. The central couple is Steve Dunne (Campbell Scot ...

Six Degrees of Separation (1993) Genre: Comedy Drama, Comedy of Manners, Urban Comedy, Sophisticated Comedy. Director: Fred Schepisi. Actors: Stockard Channing, Will Smith, Donald Sutherland, Ian McKellen, Mary Beth Hurt, Bruce Davison, Richard Masur, Anthony Michael Hall, Heather Graham, Eric Thal, Anthony Rapp, Oz Perkins, Catherine Kellner, Jeffrey Abrams, Kelly Bishop, Maggie Burke, Kitty Carlisle Hart, Adele Chatfield-Taylor, Ellen Chenoweth, John Cunningham, Peter Duchin, Nancy Duerr, Margaret Eginton, Edmond Genest, Richmond Hoxie, Madhur Jaffrey, Mitch Kolpan, Brian McConnachie, Ann McDonough, Maeve McGuire, Lou Milione, Frank O'Brien, Vince O'Brien, Joe Pentangelo, Jose Rabelo, John Rowe, Paul Schmidt, Vasek Simek, Sam Stoneburner, Margaret Thomson, David Tice, Robert Trumbull, Daniel Von Bargen, Richard Whiting. Storyline: Two socialites find their view of the world changed when a young man takes advantage of their preconceptions in this thoughtful comedy-drama. Flan and Ouisa Kittredge (Donald Sutherland and Stockard Channing) are a married couple who have built highly successful careers as art dealers catering to Manhattan's upper crust. The Kittredges are entertaining friends one evening when a young black man na ...

Soul Plane (2004) Genre: Comedy, Urban Comedy, Slapstick. Director: Jessy Terrero. Actors: Kevin Hart, Tom Arnold, Method Man, Snoop Dogg, K.D. Aubert, Godfrey, Brian Hooks, D.L. Hughley, Arielle Kebbel, Loni Love, Mo'nique, Dwayne Adway, Angell Conwell, Godfrey Danchimah, Yolanda Gill, Ryan Pinkston, Missi Pyle, Sommore, Sofía Vergara, John Witherspoon. Storyline: After an excruciatingly humiliating in-flight experience that culminated in a messy breakup and the untimely death of a dog, Nashawn Wade (Kevin Hart) sues the airline for all it's worth. This turns out to be a more than profitable move on his part; the lawsuit brings him a settlement in the hefty amount of 600 million dollars. Eager to prevent his experience from happening to another — ...

Sudden Manhattan (1996) Genre: Comedy, Mystery, Comedy Thriller, Urban Comedy. Director: Adrienne Shelly. Actors: Adrienne Shelly, Tim Guinee, Roger Rees, Louise Lasser, Hynden Walch, Chuck Montgomery. Storyline: In the bizarre style of director Hal Hartley, for whom she performed in The Unbelievable Truth and Trust, actress Adrienne Shelly's debut as a director and screenwriter is a story about a group of young Manhattanites trying desperately to figure out what life is all about. Donna (Shelly) is a restless, jobless young woman with a lover, Adam (Tim Guinee) who is not only impotent but more interested ...

The Acid House (1998) Genre: Comedy Drama, Black Comedy, Urban Comedy, Coming-of-Age, Sex Comedy. Director: Paul McGuigan. Actors: Stephen McCole, Garry Sweeney, Jenny McCrindle, Morgan Simpson, Simon Weir, Iaian Andrew, Marnie Kidd, Alison Peebles, Irvine Welsh, Joanne Riley, Pat Stanton, Sarah Gudgeon, Alex Howden, Katie Echlin, Annie Louise Ross, William "Giggs" McGuigan, Dennis O'Connor, John Gardner, Kevin McKidd, Michelle Gomez, Tam Dean Burn, Barbara Rafferty, Stephen Docherty, Gary McCormack, Scott Imrie, Ronnie McCann, Niall Greig Furlton, William Blair, Cas Harkins, Ewen Bremner, Martin Clunes, Jemma Redgrave, Arlene Cockburn, Jane Stabler, Maurice Roeves, Doug Eadie, Andrea McKenna, Malcolm Shields, Billy McElhaney, Stewart Preston, Ricky Callan. Storyline: This adaptation of three stories from Irvine Welsh's short-story collection of the same name reunites Annie Louise Ross, Kevin McKidd, and Ewen Bremner from the author's previous cinematic success, Trainspotting, which was also set in the author's native North Edinburgh. In the Kafka-esque "The Granton Star Cause," a lazy amateur footballer (Stephen McCole) has a very, very bad day that ...

The Devil Wears Prada (2006) Genre: Comedy Drama, Workplace Comedy, Urban Comedy. Director: David Frankel. Actors: Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, Stanley Tucci, Adrian Grenier, Tracie Thoms, Rich Sommer, Simon Baker, Daniel Sunjata, Jimena Hoyos, Rebecca Mader, Tibor Feldman, Stephanie Szostak, David Marshall Grant, James Naughton, Colleen Dengel, Suzanne Dengel, Eric Seltzer, Davide Callegati, Alexie Gilmore, Alyssa Sutherland, Ines Rivero, John Rothman, L.J. Ganser, George C. Wolfe, Gisele Bündchen, Paul Keany, James E. Cronin, Rori Cannon, Stan Newman, Heidi Klum, Valentino Garavani, Robert Verdi, Lindsay Brice, Bridget Hall, John Graham, Wells Dixon, Mamie Gummer, Valentino. Storyline: Lauren Weisberger's best-selling novel about a young woman who stumbles into the hectic worlds of high fashion and publishing comes to the big screen in this comedy. Andrea "Andy" Sachs (Anne Hathaway) is a bright young woman from the Midwest who has just graduated from college and wants to work as a magazine writer. Andy has applied for a job at "Runway," America's most presti ...

The Groomsmen (2006) Genre: Comedy Drama, Ensemble Film, Reunion Films, Urban Comedy. Director: Edward Burns. Actors: Edward Burns, Brittany Murphy, John Leguizamo, Jay Mohr, Matthew Lillard, Donal Logue, Heather Burns, Jessica Capshaw, John Mahoney. Storyline: Five longtime friends enjoy a few days of celebratory carousing as they try to forget their adult responsibilities in this slice-of-life comedy drama from director/writer/actor Edward Burns. Paulie (Burns) is a working-class guy from Long Island who has learned that his longtime girlfriend (Brittany Murphy) is pregnant, and he decides he should do the right thing and marry her. Paulie has asked se ...

The Guru (2002) Genre: Comedy, Satire, Urban Comedy. Director: Daisy von Scherler Mayer. Actors: Heather Graham, Marisa Tomei, Jimi Mistry, Michael McKean, Christine Baranski, Rob Morrow, Malachy McCourt, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Thomas McCarthy, Emil Marwa, Ronald Guttman. Storyline: A visitor from the mysterious East arrives in New York — not to offer the wisdom of the ages, but to make it big as a dancer in this "fish-out-of-water" comedy. Ramu Chandra Gupta (Jimi Mistry) grew up in India on a steady diet of movie musicals, particularly local Bollywood spectaculars and vintage American song-and-dance films. Ramu grew up with the dream of one day making it ...

The Lonely Guy (1984) Genre: Comedy, Romantic Comedy, Comedy of Manners, Urban Comedy. Director: Arthur Hiller. Actors: Steve Martin, Charles Grodin, Judith Ivey, Steve Lawrence, Robyn Douglass, Joyce Brothers, Randi Brough, Julie Payne, Sarah Abrell, Madison Arnold, Jade D. Bari, Dominic Barto, Martin Beck, Ed Beheler, Leslie Bevis, Hunt Block, Charles Bouvier, Candi Brough, Joanne Dalsass, Richard Delmonte, Lamya Derval, Charles de Vries, Badja Djola, Hugh Douglas, Matthew Faison, Jenny Gago, Andy Garcia, Jerry Grayson, Michael Greer, Daniel P. Hannafin, Karyn Harrison, Erica Hiller, Ken Hixon, Erik Holland, Rance Howard, Steven Hurwitz, Gloria Irizarry, Billy James, Tom Kubiak, Charlie Laiken, Marie Laurin, Alan Leach, Eb Lottimer, Jose Martinez, Nicholas Mele, Santos Morales, Kenneth O'Brien, Lena Pousette, Hardy Rawls, Roger Robinson, Georges Saurel, Stephanie Segal, Doug Smith, Beau Starr, Robina Suwol, Joan Sweeny, George Tyne, Helen Verbit, Leslie Wing. Storyline: In a comedy as flat as the cardboard cut-outs of movie stars that appear in one scene, Steve Martin plays Larry Hubbard, a wild and lonely guy who has been dumped by his girlfriend. Since misery loves company, he takes up with Warren, a fellow Lonely Guy (Charles Grodin), and eventually both Warren and Larry find some surprising companions, especially after Larry writes a best-selling Lonely Guy G ...

The Nanny Diaries (2007) Genre: Comedy, Workplace Comedy, Urban Comedy, Romantic Comedy. Director: Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini. Actors: Scarlett Johansson, Laura Linney, Paul Giamatti, Nicholas Reese Art, Alicia Keys, Chris Evans, Donna Murphy, Nathan Corddry, Judith Roberts. Storyline: Adapted from the bestselling novel, the whimsical, heartwarming comedy The Nanny Diaries concerns Annie Braddock (Scarlett Johansson), a recent college graduate from New Jersey whose nurse mother makes an unsuccessful bid to pressure her into a white-collared business career. Sidetracking this path for more colorful pursuits, Annie accepts a position as nanny and domestic servant for a wealthy cou ...

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 ...

Three Can Play That Game (2008) Genre: Comedy, Urban Comedy, Romantic Comedy. Director: Samad Davis. Actors: Vivica A. Fox, Jason George, Tony Rock, Jazsmin Lewis, Terri J. Vaughn, Kellita Smith. Storyline: Shante Smith reprises her role from Two Can Play at That Game for this sequel that finds the popular relationship expert who draws on her knowledge of the male psyche to help females accomplish their relationship goals. Vivica A. Fox, Jason George, and Jazsmin Lewis co-star.

Trick (1999) Genre: Romance, Comedy, Gay & Lesbian Films, Romantic Comedy, Sex Comedy, Urban Comedy. Director: Jim Fall. Actors: Christian Campbell, John Paul Pitoc, Tori Spelling, Steve Hayes, Kevin Chamberlin, Brad Beyer, Lorri Bagley, Kate Flannery. Storyline: A shy musical comedy composer searches in vain for someplace to bed down with a sexy go-go dancer in this sweet-natured romantic comedy set in Manhattan. College student Gabriel (Christian Campbell) wants to compose musical comedies; Katherine (Tori Spelling), his muse and confidante, wants to star in his productions. In the meantime, she's rehearsing an all-female version of Salomé set in a women ...

When Harry Met Sally (1989) Genre: Romance, Comedy, Romantic Comedy, Urban Comedy. Director: Rob Reiner. Actors: Billy Crystal, Meg Ryan, Carrie Fisher, Bruno Kirby, Steven Ford, Lisa Jane Persky, Michelle Nicastro, Kuno Sponholz, Charles Dugan, Connie Sawyer, Katherine Squire, Al Christy, Bernie Hern, Frances Chaney, Donna Hardy, Jane Chung, John Arceri, Robert Alan Beuth, David Burdick, Peter Day, Kyle Heffner, Janet Hirshenson, Joseph Hunt, Jane Jenkins, Stacey Katzin, Harley Jane Kozak, Kimberley LaMarque, Franc Luz, Gretchen Palmer, Peter Pan, Tracy Reiner, Estelle Reiner, Kevin Rooney, Aldo Rossi, Joe Viviani, Rose Wright. Storyline: Rob Reiner's romantic comedy When Harry Met Sally stars Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan as the title pair. The film opens with the two strangers, both newly graduated from the University of Chicago, share a car trip from Chicago to New York, where they are both going to make their way. During the trip, they discuss aspects of their characters and their lives, eventually deciding it is impossible for me ...

White Men Can't Jump (1992) Genre: Comedy, Buddy Film, Urban Comedy, Sports Comedy. Director: Ron Shelton. Actors: Woody Harrelson, Wesley Snipes, Rosie Perez, Tyra Ferrell, Cylk Cozart, Kadeem Hardison, Ernest Harden Jr., John Marshall Jones, Marques Johnson, David Roberson, Kevin Benton, Richard James Baker, Ronald Beals, Bill Caplan, Eloy Casados, Lanei Chapman, Sonny Craver, Pete Duffy, Donald Fullilove, John Gilbert, Amy Golden, Fred P. Gregory, Lester Hawkins, Chick Hearn, Bill Henderson, Jon Hendricks, Zandra Hill, Mark Hill, Carl E. Hodge, Donna Howell, John Jones, Eric Kizziee, Stu Lantz, Gary Lazar, Reggie Leon, Chalmer Maddox, Allan Malamud, Duane Martin, Ruben Martinez, David Maxwell, Jeanne McCarthy, Lisa McDowell, Carl A. McGee, Joe Metcalf, Leroy Michaux, Nigel Miguel, Gary Moeller, Mahcoe Moore, Irene Nettles, Leonard A. Oakland, Daniel Porto, Louis Price, Reynaldo Rey, Jake "The Snake" Roberts, Frank Rossi, John Charles Sheehan, Jeanette Srubar, Sarah Stavrou, Victoria Thomas, Jeffrey Todd, Alex Trebek, Dion B. Vines, Torri Whitehead, Freeman Williams. Storyline: Ron Shelton (Bull Durham) wrote and directed the basketball-oriented seriocomedy White Men Can't Jump. Woody Harrelson plays Billy Hoyle, a white con artist who hustles basketball games with black players, lulling his victims into the misguided notion that white men can't match up with black hoopsters. One of his victims, African-American Sidney Deane (Wesley Snipes), becomes Hoyle's "agent,& ...

You've Got Mail (1998) Genre: Comedy, Romantic Comedy, Urban Comedy, Workplace Comedy. Director: Nora Ephron. Actors: Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Parker Posey, Greg Kinnear, Jean Stapleton, Steve Zahn, Dave Chappelle, Dabney Coleman, John Randolph, Heather Burns, Reiko Aylesworth, Chris Messina, Hallee Hirsh, Michael Palin. Storyline: Sleepless in Seattle director Nora Ephron originally made a name for herself as the writer of romantic comedies such as Heartburn and When Harry Met Sally. She continues the genre with You've Got Mail, marking her second collaboration with actors Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan. The story brings romance and courtship into the electronic age of the World Wide Web via e-mail and chat rooms. Joe Fox (Hanks) a ...

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