I Am Comic
2010 3.7 stars 87 mins Documentary Rated: R
Going way beyond the funny, filmmaker Jordan Brady crafts an eye-opening portrait of the life of a professional comedian, shadowing retired comic Ritch Shydner as he bravely returns to the stand-up stage after more than a decade out of the spotlight. With the aid of candid interviews, backstage footage and performance clips, the film also rounds up advice from many popular comedians on what makes modern audiences laugh. |
10 Things I Hate About You
2009 3.9 stars 230 mins Television
Sparks fly when the Stratford sisters -- feisty, independent Kat (Lindsey Shaw) and preening beauty Bianca (Meaghan Jette Martin) -- start a new year at Padua High, where conniving cheerleaders and a labyrinthine social hierarchy are just the beginning of their troubles. Ethan Peck co-stars as brooding hunk Patrick Verona in the debut season of this family sitcom inspired by the movie of the same name. |
10 Things I Hate About You: Vol. 1: Disc 1
2009 138 mins Television
This disc includes the following episodes: "Pilot," "I Want You To Want Me," "Won't Get Fooled Again," "Don't Give A Damn About My Bad Reputation," "Don't Give Up" and "You Can't Always Get What You Want." |
10 Things I Hate About You: Vol. 1: Disc 2
2009 92 mins Television
This disc includes the following episodes: "Light My Fire," "Dance Little Sister," "(You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party)" and "Don't Leave Me Like This." |
Senior Skip Day
2008 3.0 stars 83 mins Comedy Rated: UR
After Adam (Gary Lundy) accidentally reveals the location of the senior skip day party to Principal Dickwalder (Larry Miller), he immediately becomes the most hated guy at school. Now, the only way for Adam to redeem himself is to throw an incredible bash himself. If Adam can find booze, hot women and a gigantic gravity bong, he just might be able to repair his pitiful social life. Lea Thompson and Tara Reid co-star in this raunchy teen comedy. |
The Other End of the Line
2008 3.4 stars 106 mins Romance Rated: PG-13
Though she works half a world away in Mumbai, India, a credit card company operator passes herself off as American to callers. When she falls in love with a New York man over the phone, she agrees to meet him in person. They arrange for a rendezvous in San Francisco, where she keeps the truth about her identity a provocative secret. Shriya and Jesse Metcalfe ("Desperate Housewives") star in this charming romantic comedy. |
Bee Movie
2007 3.5 stars 90 mins Children & Family Rated: PG
Jerry Seinfeld stars in this animated comedy as recent college grad Barry B. Benson, a worker bee stuck in a dead-end job making honey who files a lawsuit against humans when he learns they've been stealing bees' nectar all along. Co-written by Seinfeld, the film features an all-star voice cast, including Renée Zellweger, John Goodman, Matthew Broderick and Chris Rock, as well as "Seinfeld" alumni Michael Richards and Patrick Warburton. |
The Final Season
2007 3.6 stars 119 mins Drama Rated: PG
The tiny town of Norway, Iowa, loves baseball -- particularly the games played by the local high school team, the Tigers. So when authorities decide the town is too small for its own school, the residents are devastated. Sean Astin stars as the rookie coach who must lead the Tigers to victory for one last season in this touching drama based on a true story. Powers Boothe, Rachael Leigh Cook, Michael Angarano, Larry Miller and Tom Arnold co-star. |
Blonde Ambition
2007 2.9 stars 93 mins Comedy Rated: PG-13
When a blond bumpkin (Jessica Simpson) discovers that her boyfriend's been cheating on her in Manhattan, she strikes out on her own as a big-city career girl. Little does she know that a pair of corporate villains (Penelope Ann Miller and Andy Dick) is using her as a pawn in their evil scheme for success. Luke Wilson, Willie Nelson and Rachael Leigh Cook also star in this Working Girl-style romantic comedy. |
National Lampoon's Bag Boy
2007 3.0 stars 93 mins Comedy Rated: R
To gain the respect of his hometown and win the heart of his dream girl, grocery store clerk Phil (Paul Campbell) starts training for the international competitive bagging championships, one of the most prestigious events in the supermarket world. A thoroughly entertaining sports comedy of a different stripe, the film also stars Brooke Shields, Dennis Farina, Larry Miller, Robert Hoffman and Marika Dominczyk. |
Bee Movie: Bonus Material
2007 3.0 stars 85 mins Children & Family Rated: NR
The bonus material for this box office hit includes live action trailers, meet Barry B. Benson featurette, We Got the Bee music video, DreaWorks Animation Video Jukebox, two set-top games, and cast information. |
Keeping Up with the Steins
2006 3.0 stars 99 mins Comedy Rated: PG-13
Jeremy Piven and Jami Gertz star as parents who plan an over-the-top bar mitzvah for their 13-year-old son, while the boy struggles with his own shyness and his desire to see his father and grandfather reconcile. Directed by Scott Marshall, who deftly mocks Hollywood excess, this sharp but loving satire of materialism took home the Best Feature award at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival. Doris Roberts, Larry Miller and newcomer Daryl Sabara co-star. |
National Lampoon's Bagboy
2006 2.8 stars 93 mins Comedy Rated: PG-13
To gain the respect of his hometown and win the heart of his dream girl, grocery store clerk Phil (Paul Campbell) starts training for the international competitive bagging championships, one of the most prestigious events in the supermarket world. A thoroughly entertaining sports comedy of a different stripe, the film also stars Brooke Shields, Dennis Farina, Larry Miller, Robert Hoffman and Marika Dominczyk. |
Life of the Party
2005 2.6 stars 87 mins Drama Rated: NR
After surviving a car crash, 30-something Michael (Eion Bailey) faces another shocking event: an intervention staged by concerned friends. Michael's drinking is out of control and his wife (Ellen Pompeo) is set to leave him. But the intervention hardly goes as planned, disintegrating instead into an emotionally charged free-for-all. Will Michael face the music and get the chance to mend his tattered relationships with his friends and family? |
Final Approach
2004 2.7 stars 92 mins Children & Family Rated: NR
While enjoying a cross-country flight for a field trip, 10-year-old Ricky (Jordan Garrett) senses that something's about to go down -- and it could just be the plane! With the help of his pint-sized cohorts, Ricky foils a group of would-be hijackers, only to discover that the jet's only pilot has collapsed. But thanks to Ricky's high scores on his at-home computer flight simulator, landing from 30,000 feet should be a snap! |
A Mighty Wind
Satirist in extremis Christopher Guest aims his mockumentary lens at 1960s folk musicians -- specifically, the earnest Folksmen (portrayed by erstwhile Spinal Tappers Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer), the too-perky New Main Street Singers and former lovebirds Mitch & Mickey. As the three acts prepare to reunite for a tribute concert, music and emotions run high. This Grammy winner is a parody in the tradition of Best in Show and Waiting for Guffman. |
Best of the Improv: Vol. 5
2003 2.3 stars 51 mins Comedy Rated: NR
Filmed live at Los Angeles's legendary Improv Club, this collection features some of the best classic comedy routines from today's biggest stars. Long known as one of the top places to catch comedians poised for stardom, the club has hosted more hilarity than one volume can hold. This fifth volume in the series includes sets by Ellen DeGeneres, D.L. Hughley, Richard Belzer, Will Durst, Larry Miller and many others. |
What's the Worst That Could Happen?
2001 3.2 stars 98 mins Comedy Rated: PG-13
Wealthy Max Fairbanks (Danny DeVito) wakes one night to find Kevin Caffery (Martin Lawrence) robbing his house. Max swipes Kevin's lucky ring and claims it as his own when he reports the crime. Afraid he can't pull off another job without his lucky charm, the thief starts an escalating war with the billionaire to get it back. John Leguizamo, Glenne Headly and Bernie Mac co-star in this hilarious adaptation of Donald Westlake's novel. |
Max Keeble's Big Move
2001 3.3 stars 86 mins Children & Family Rated: PG
Undersized nerdnick Max Keeble (Alex D. Linz) is the butt of jokes at school and the fall guy for a passel of playground bullies (no surprise, with a name like that!). But when he learns he's moving to Chicago with his family, it's a heaven-sent opportunity for retaliatory payback. After standing up to the bullies, Max finds the move is a false alarm and that the Keeble clan's staying put. Duh-oh! |
The Nutty Professor II: The Klumps
2000 3.1 stars 107 mins Comedy Rated: PG-13
Get ready for some big laughs: America's favorite portly professor, Sherman Klump (Eddie Murphy), is back … and getting married to teaching colleague Denise Gaines (Janet Jackson). Unfortunately, destructive doppelganger Buddy Love is back, too. And he's after a revolutionary youth serum the professor has squirreled away in the family home, guarded by the entire Klump clan. Question is, has Buddy met his match? |
10 Things I Hate About You
1999 3.8 stars 97 mins Comedy Rated: PG-13
After learning that Bianca Stratford (Larisa Oleynik) is forbidden to date until man-hating older sister Kat (Julia Stiles) finds a beau, Bianca's would-be boyfriend hatches a plan: Pay moody school rebel Patrick Verona (Heath Ledger) to escort the churlish Kat around town. Larry Miller plays the siblings' overprotective dad in this witty farce that transplants William Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew" to a contemporary Seattle high school. |
The Big Tease
1999 3.2 stars 87 mins Comedy Rated: R
Thinking he's competing in Los Angeles' hot Platinum Scissors contest, Scottish hairstylist Crawford (Craig Ferguson) leaves Glasgow with a film crew to capture the event. When he learns he's a mere audience member, Crawford must find a way to become the mane event. Abhorrent Norwegian Stig (David Rasche) is his stiff-as-gel competition. Drew Carey and others make cameo appearances in this hysterical mockumentary. |
Dilbert: The Complete Series: Disc 1
1999 94 mins Television Rated: R
This disc includes the following episodes: "The Name," "The Competition," "The Prototype," "The Takeover," "Testing," "Elbonian Trip" and "Little People." |
Dilbert: The Complete Series: Disc 2
1999 94 mins Television Rated: R
This disc includes the following episodes: "The Knack," "Y2K," "Charity," "Holiday," "The Infomercial" and "Tower of Babel." |
Dilbert: The Complete Series: Disc 3
1999 176 mins Television Rated: R
This disc includes the following episodes: "The Gift," "The Shroud of Wally," "Art," "The Trial," "The Dupey," "The Security Guard," "The Merger" and "Hunger." |
Dilbert: The Complete Series: Disc 4
1999 198 mins Television Rated: R
This disc includes the following episodes: "The Off-Site Meeting," "The Assistant," "The Return," "The Virtual Employee," "The Pregnancy," "The Delivery," "Company Picnic," "The Fact" and "Ethics." |
Dilbert: The Complete Series
1999 3.4 stars 373 mins Television Rated: R
Dilbert -- the office drone from Scott Adams's comic strip whose pain was felt by workers everywhere -- comes to life (and is voiced by Daniel Stern) in this animated series. With his sarcastic sidekick Dogbert (Chris Elliott), he endures day after day with the Pointy-Haired Boss (Larry Miller), colleagues Alice (Kathy Griffin), Wally (Gordon Hunt), Catbert (Jason Alexander) and more. And then there's Dilmom (Jackie Hoffman). … |
Pros & Cons
1999 2.8 stars 104 mins Comedy Rated: R
Two ordinary Joes (played by Tommy Davidson and Larry Miller, who also wrote the script) wind up in jail for a crime they didn't commit in this deft comedy. Desperate to escape, they hatch a plan to adopt different identities, but they aren't sure they have the wherewithal to get the job done. The alternative's even worse, however, so they jump into the fray, causing a ruckus in prison in their attempts to finally -- and permanently -- get away. |
Dilbert: Ssn 1: The Name
1999 Television Rated: UR
The beloved comic-strip hero of cubicle-dwellers everywhere comes to life as Daniel Stern voices an animated Dilbert in his first onscreen adventure. When Dilbert is put in charge of a pointless project, he turns to Dogbert for much-needed advice. |
Dilbert: Ssn 1: Y2K
1999 Television Rated: NR
With the new millennium fast approaching, Dilbert is tasked with solving the company's impending "Y2K problem" -- the complete crash of Black Betty, the corporate mainframe. Unfortunately, no one remembers how to access her. |
Dilbert: Ssn 1: The Knack
1999 Television Rated: G
After an ill-advised sip from a manager's coffee mug, Dilbert loses his life-long "knack" for engineering. In full denial, he launches a project so disastrous that it plunges all of mankind back into the Dark Ages. |
Dilbert: Ssn 1: Little People
1999 Television Rated: G
Dilbert discovers that someone has been messing around in his cubicle -- rearranging his things, accessing his computers and stealing his dry-erase markers. But he's shocked to learn that the culprits are a group of "downsized" engineers. |
Dilbert: Ssn 1: Tower of Babel
1999 Television Rated: G
As a flu virus rips through the workplace, the bug begins to mutate -- but so do its unsuspecting victims. Up to his neck in mutant co-workers, Dilbert realizes that the only possible protection is an office with its own door. |
Dilbert: Ssn 1: Elbonian Trip
1999 Television Rated: PG
On a trip to the third-world country where the Gruntmaster 6000 will be manufactured, Dilbert and the gang are subjected to dismal factory conditions as the dominant right-handers viciously exploit the unfortunate lefties. |
Dilbert: Ssn 1: Testing
1999 Television Rated: R
Legendary product-tester Bob Bastard puts the Gruntmaster 6000 through its paces, a process that includes everything from trial by fire to trial by asteroid. Still, nobody's sure whether the new product is up to task. Can Dogbert save the day? |
Dilbert: Ssn 1: The Takeover
1999 Television Rated: NR
Dilbert and Wally accidentally stumble upon a scheme that wins them a controlling stake in the company. Now a member of the board, Dilbert has big dreams of creating a happier, healthier working environment. But is his plan doomed to fail? |
Dilbert: Ssn 1: The Prototype
1999 Television Rated: NR
While Dilbert, Wally and Alice toil diligently on their prototype for the Gruntmaster 6000, they face stiff competition -- and a fate worse than death -- from another engineering team headed by the ruthless Lena. |
Dilbert: Ssn 1: The Competition
1999 Television Rated: UR
Wrongly suspected of leaking trade secrets, Dilbert is promptly fired but is just as quickly snatched up by his company's number-one rival. He sets out to destroy the competition from the inside -- though not necessarily on purpose. |
Dilbert: Ssn 1: The Infomercial
1999 Television Rated: PG-13
Ever the innovator, the Pointy-Haired Boss selects a hapless family of Texas rednecks to test the Gruntmaster 6000 before it's ready. Can a panicked Dilbert track down his product before it destroys the universe? |
Dilbert: Ssn 1: Holiday
1999 Television Rated: G
With so many holidays to celebrate, Dilbert feels like he can't get any work done. But Dogbert has the perfect solution -- he lobbies Congress to combine all the holidays into one. Of course, National Dogbert Day is great, but only if you're Dogbert. |
Dilbert: Ssn 1: Charity
1999 Television Rated: NR
Everyone's feeling charitable around the office, although most of Dilbert's co-workers would rather receive than give. The hypocrisy leads Dilbert to make a speech at a charity banquet, but he doesn't get the response he was hoping for. |
Dilbert: Season 2
1999 3.6 stars Television
From office picnics to off-site meetings, cubicle real estate to storefront HMOs, no subject goes unmocked in Season 2 of the animated series depicting the struggles of Dilbert the engineer (voiced by Daniel Stern) versus the corporate world. Dilbert does the bidding of his boss (Larry Miller) while giving him the runaround but invariably is snagged in his own schemes; only intellectually superior canine Dogbert (Chris Elliott) can bail him out. |
Dilbert: The Dupey
1999 22 mins Television
The company has been creating a buzz in the marketplace about something called a "Dupey." Dilbert is put in charge of creating this new sensation. He is successful in the task, but the resulting creation evolves and takes on a life of its own. |
Dilbert: The Trial
1999 22 mins Television
Dilbert is the only one in the company with a life so boring that his blood is safe for donating, so they take a few pints. One of the pints is thrown out the window and is used to put Dilbert in jail for the murder of a group of Nobel Prize winners. |
Dilbert: The Off-Site Meeting
1999 22 mins Television
Dilbert's already noisy neighbors compound things when they get an elephant. They also have a habitat built for the elephant, which is a large tree house that is located directly over Dilbert's roof. |
Dilbert: Hunger
1999 22 mins Television
Dilbert is working a new food source called the "tomeato" that may end world hunger. Marketing dismisses the idea, but Dilbert sells them on the idea of trying the product in what he believes is the famine-ridden country of Elbonia. |
Dilbert: The Merger
1999 22 mins Television
The Pointy-Haired Boss is convinced their company needs to merge with another company to help them spend their excess money and, as a bonus, gain some "synergy." Dogbert is hired as a consultant to help them seek a company that they can merge with. |
Dilbert: The Security Guard
1999 22 mins Television
Dilbert and the building security guard get into a discussion that results in them betting that they could do each other's job for a day. Each does a credible job in the other's position, but Dilbert's chance to win the bet is put in jeopardy. |
Dilbert: Ethics
1999 22 mins Television
Because they've come under scrutiny for unethical business practices, the company sends the employees for mandatory ethics training. Of course, the major ethics violators -- management -- doesn't have to attend. |
Dilbert: The Fact
1999 22 mins Television
Dogbert "writes" a new book, Chronic Cubicle Syndrome: If You Think You've Got It, You've Got It, which becomes a best-seller. The Pointy-Haired Boss sees this as a market opportunity for the company to come up with a new product. |
Dilbert: Company Picnic
1999 22 mins Television
It's time for the company picnic and the annual softball game between the Marketing Gurus and the Crapulets from engineering. Dogbert is brought in as their player-coach and Dilbert is designated as pitcher. |
Dilbert: The Delivery
1999 22 mins Television
Dilbert reviews the results of his ultrasound and demands a second opinion. He discovers he is not going to get any benefits. So he tries to sell his story to make money to cover his benefits. |
Dilbert: The Pregnancy
1999 22 mins Television
Dilbert creates a model rocket that he sends into space to search for intelligent life. The rocket collects alien DNA, as well as samples of hillbilly, robot, cow and engineer DNA. The rocket then deposits the results of its search in Dilbert. |
Dilbert: The Virtual Employee
1999 22 mins Television
The engineers hear that there is an unused cube to be had. They lay claim to it before marketing can get a hold of it. To ensure that they don't lose this precious commodity, they quickly create a new employee named Todd as the cube's occupant. |
Dilbert: The Return
1999 22 mins Television
Dilbert buys a computer over the Internet. He has it sent to work, but the package that the boss signs for is not what Dilbert ordered. Dilbert tries to complain, but finds out that his own company provides the support for the complaint line. |
Dilbert: The Assistant
1999 22 mins Television
Dilbert meets an former co-worker who, despite being an incompetent engineer, has made it big working for another company. As a result, the engineers find out there are other opportunities out there. |
Dilbert: The Prototype
1999 22 mins Television
While Dilbert, Wally and Alice toil diligently on their prototype for the Gruntmaster 6000, they face stiff competition -- and a fate worse than death -- from another engineering team headed by the ruthless Lena. |
Dilbert: The Competition
1999 21 mins Television
Wrongly suspected of leaking trade secrets, Dilbert is promptly fired but is just as quickly snatched up by his company's number-one rival. He sets out to destroy the competition from the inside -- though not necessarily on purpose. |
Dilbert: Art
1999 22 mins Television
The Pointy-Haired Boss looks to the world of art as an opportunity to exploit. Dilbert is assigned the task of creating art. His research indicates that the public would like to see a blue duck, so he creates one on his computer. |
Dilbert: Testing
1999 22 mins Television
Legendary product-tester Bob Bastard puts the Gruntmaster 6000 through its paces, a process that includes everything from trial by fire to trial by asteroid. Still, nobody's sure whether the new product is up to task. Can Dogbert save the day? |
Dilbert: The Takeover
1999 22 mins Television
Dilbert and Wally accidentally stumble upon a scheme that wins them a controlling stake in the company. Now a member of the board, Dilbert has big dreams of creating a happier, healthier working environment. But is his plan doomed to fail? |
Dilbert: The Name
1999 21 mins Television
The beloved comic-strip hero of cubicle-dwellers everywhere comes to life as Daniel Stern voices an animated Dilbert in his first onscreen adventure. When Dilbert is put in charge of a pointless project, he turns to Dogbert for much-needed advice. |
Dilbert: Holiday
1999 22 mins Television
With so many holidays to celebrate, Dilbert feels like he can't get any work done. But Dogbert has the perfect solution -- he lobbies Congress to combine all the holidays into one. Of course, National Dogbert Day is great, but only if you're Dogbert. |
Dilbert: The Gift
1999 22 mins Television
Dilbert searches for a birthday gift for his mother. In desperation, he confronts his greatest fear, going to the mall. The mall holds bad memories for Dilbert, because as a child he went to the mall with his father, only to be left abandoned. |
Dilbert: Charity
1999 22 mins Television
Everyone's feeling charitable around the office, although most of Dilbert's co-workers would rather receive than give. The hypocrisy leads Dilbert to make a speech at a charity banquet, but he doesn't get the response he was hoping for. |
Dilbert: Tower of Babel
1999 22 mins Television
As a flu virus rips through the workplace, the bug begins to mutate -- but so do its unsuspecting victims. Up to his neck in mutant co-workers, Dilbert realizes that the only possible protection is an office with its own door. |
Dilbert: The Infomercial
1999 22 mins Television
Ever the innovator, the Pointy-Haired Boss selects a hapless family of Texas rednecks to test the Gruntmaster 6000 before it's ready. Can a panicked Dilbert track down his product before it destroys the universe? |
Dilbert: Little People
1999 22 mins Television
Dilbert discovers that someone has been messing around in his cubicle -- rearranging his things, accessing his computers and stealing his dry-erase markers. But he's shocked to learn that the culprits are a group of "downsized" engineers. |
Dilbert: Elbonian Trip
1999 22 mins Television
On a trip to the third-world country where the Gruntmaster 6000 will be manufactured, Dilbert and the gang are subjected to dismal factory conditions as the dominant right-handers viciously exploit the unfortunate lefties. |
Dilbert: The Shroud of Wally
1999 22 mins Television
Dilbert has a near-death experience and tries to get his benefits reinstated. He also searches for the meaning of it all: Is the afterlife really just another cubicle? Meanwhile, a group of multilevel marketing students begin to worship Wally. |
Dilbert: Y2K
1999 22 mins Television
With the new millennium fast approaching, Dilbert is tasked with solving the company's impending "Y2K problem" -- the complete crash of Black Betty, the corporate mainframe. Unfortunately, no one remembers how to access her. |
Dilbert: The Knack
1999 22 mins Television
After an ill-advised sip from a manager's coffee mug, Dilbert loses his life-long "knack" for engineering. In full denial, he launches a project so disastrous that it plunges all of mankind back into the Dark Ages. |
Chairman of the Board
Edison (Scott Thompson, aka "Carrot Top"), a Venice Beach surfer boy/gadget inventor, has been trying to sell his wacky creations between catching waves, but he hasn't had much luck. That changes when he meets Armand McMillan (Jack Warden), who owns a Fortune 500 corporation. McMillan is so taken with Edison that he wills the young man his company. Now the only question is, can McMillan's family hang-10 with Edison? |
Carnival of Souls
1998 2.2 stars 86 mins Thrillers Rated: R
As a child, Alex Grant (Bobbie Phillips) witnessed deranged circus clown Louis Seagram (Larry Miller) rape and murder her mother. Although Seagram was eventually put behind bars for the crime, Grant still experiences nightmares about the creepy clown. Will these dreams become a reality when the circus returns to town, and Seagram returns with it looking for revenge? This thriller is based on the 1962 cult classic. |
For Richer or Poorer
1997 3.4 stars 116 mins Comedy Rated: PG-13
New York society couple Brad and Caroline Sexton (Tim Allen and Kirstie Alley) find themselves targets of an IRS investigation. Running from the law, they discover a safe haven in the Amish community of Intercourse, Pa. Posing as long-lost relatives of local farmer Samuel Yoder (Jay O. Sanders), the Sextons must give up their glamorous ways in order to escape IRS agent Derek Lester (Larry Miller) in director Bryan Spicer's romantic comedy. |
Waiting for Guffman
Community theater gets spit-roasted in this blistering mockumentary penned by (and starring) Christopher Guest, who plays the ultra-fey Corky St. Clair, a local theater impresario who takes his directing duties a little too close to heart. With Blaine, Mo.'s 150th anniversary looming, St. Clair mounts a mediocre musical tribute to the town. But his hopes of taking the production to Broadway hinge on the attendance of a very important guest. |
Dear God
1996 3.2 stars 112 mins Comedy Rated: PG
Con man Tom Turner (Greg Kinnear) is sentenced to employment in the dead letter department of the post office to avoid a prison stretch. Ever the opportunist, Turner plunders valuables from undeliverable mail and discarded letters. But now he's in for a surprise. When he mistakenly sends money (meant for his bookie) to the address of a letter intended for "God," Turner becomes an improbable hero to the entire city. |
The Nutty Professor
A 1990s spin on a classic, director Tom Shadyac's Oscar-nominated comedy follows portly professor Sherman Klump (Eddie Murphy, who plays seven characters in the film) as he bumbles through attempts at romance. Humiliated while trying to impress grad student Carla Purty (Jada Pinkett), Sherman takes a massive dose of his new weight-loss potion. Too bad the potion has bugs: The svelte Sherman proves to be an insufferable jerk. |
The Favor
1994 2.8 stars 96 mins Romance Rated: R
Despite being a happily married mother of two, Kathy (Harley Jane Kozak) has always wondered what it would've been like to sleep with her high school sweetheart, Tom (Ken Wahl). Her solution: send her best friend, Emily (Elizabeth McGovern), to seduce him and report back with all the juicy details. This romantic comedy also stars Bill Pullman as Kathy's husband and Brad Pitt as Emily's artist boyfriend. |
Dream Lover
1994 3.1 stars 104 mins Thrillers Rated: R
Despite an inauspicious meeting at a party, Ray Reardon (James Spader), a recently divorced architect, wins over and quickly marries Lena (Madchen Amick), a radiantly mysterious and alluring woman. One child later, it slowly dawns on Ray that he doesn't know much about Lena at all. Their life seems almost too perfect, and Ray begins to wonder exactly what kind of woman he married and what type of life he's agreed to lead. |
Undercover Blues
1993 3.4 stars 90 mins Comedy Rated: PG-13
After their baby daughter is born, husband and wife superspies Jeff (Dennis Quaid) and Jane Blue (Kathleen Turner) plan to quit the business so they can focus on their family. But when word of an arms deal surfaces, the couple jumps back into action -- with baby in tow. Before settling into domestic bliss, they'll take on a hot-tempered thug (Stanley Tucci) and a deadly Czech smuggler (Fiona Shaw) in this comedic crime caper. |
Mad About You: Season 2: Disc 1
1993 184 mins Television Rated: PG-13
This disc includes the following episodes: "Murray's Tale," "Bing, Bang, Boom," "Bedfellows," "Married to the Job," "So I Married a Hair Murderer," "The Unplanned Child," "Natural History," "Surprise." |
Mad About You: Season 2: Disc 2
1993 184 mins Television Rated: PG-13
This disc includes the following episodes: "A Pair of Hearts," "It's a Wrap," "Deconstructive Criticism," "Paul Is Dead," "Same Time Next Week," "The Late Show." "Virtual Reality," "Cold Feet." |
Mad About You: Season 2: Disc 3
1993 184 mins Television Rated: PG-13
This disc includes the following episodes: "Instant Karma," "The Tape," "Love Letters," "The Last Scampi," "Disorientation," "Storms We Cannot Weather," "Up All Night," "With This Ring ... (1)," "With This Ring ... (2)." |
Mad About You: Season 2
1993 3.5 stars 554 mins Television Rated: NR
New York City's favorite couple, Paul and Jamie Buchman (Paul Reiser and Helen Hunt), grapple with newly married life in this hilarious and heartwarming series. In the seven years the show was on the air (1992 to 1999), actors' careers were elevated, Emmy awards were won, and the chemistry between Reiser and Hunt remained positively electric. Season 2 brings with it all of the laughter and romance viewers came to expect from this gem of a show. |
Suburban Commando
1991 2.9 stars 90 mins Comedy Rated: PG
Midway between planets, Shep Ramsey's (Hulk Hogan) ship breaks down. As he waits for its repair, he rents a room in Charlie Wilcox's (Christopher Lloyd) house and endures -- and must get used to -- the everyday trivialities of life in suburbia. But when two villainous bounty hunters come to town and threaten this peaceful suburban life, Shep convinces Charlie to help him defeat the evildoers. |
Necessary Roughness
1991 3.4 stars 108 mins Comedy Rated: PG-13
Aging ex-quarterback Paul Blake (Scott Bakula) enrolls at Texas State University hoping to realize his dream of playing college ball. But as luck would have it, the school's pigskin program just got hogtied for rules violations, and all the veterans were booted. Undeterred, Blake helps organize a scrappy squad of replacements -- including a distaff placekicker -- and, to everyone's shock, the team's fortunes begin to pick up. |
Almost an Angel
1990 3.5 stars 98 mins Comedy Rated: PG
Terry Dean (Paul Hogan) is a small-time thief who's about to receive a lesson from above. Between bank robberies, Terry's knocked unconscious while rescuing a child from a car crash. That's when God (Charlton Heston) pays Terry a visit … and gives him a second chance. Believing he's an angel on probation, a chastened Terry sets out to do good, starting with a wheelchair-bound youth (Elias Koteas) and his selfless sister (Linda Kozlowski). |