2024-09-24
A pint-size con artist (Alisan Porter) worms her way into the heart of a cynical lawyer (Kelly Lynch). Bill: James Belushi. Walker: John Getz. Oxbar: Fred Dalton Thompson. Albert: Branscombe Richmond. Written and directed by John Hughes.
Tyler Perry wrote and stars in this lively mix of domestic drama, romance and blistering comedy. When her rich husband divorces her, a woman tries to piece together her life with help from her sassy, gun-toting granny (Perry, in drag). Perry also plays two other characters and based the script on his stage play.
Twenty-two-year-old slacker Scott Pilgrim meets Ramona Flowers, the girl of his dreams, and learns that in order to win her heart he'll have to defeat her seven evil exes in a series of video-game-styled battles.
Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew" gets a face-lift in this amusing adaptation set in a Seattle high school, where popular Bianca Stratford (Larisa Oleynik) is forbidden to date until her older sister Katarina (Julia Stiles) finds a beau. This doesn't please some of the boys at school, who decide to bribe a student to go out with Katarina. Heath Ledger, Larry Miller.
A pre-Spartacus prequel about life in the House of Batiatus. In the opener, a younger Batiatus is placed in command of his father's gladiator-training school, which leads him to use one of the most accomplished fighters to curry favor with a nobleman whom he hopes will finance the construction of a new arena.
Failed actor Henry Pollard returns to work at Party Down catering. He meets his fellow employees, led by his old coworker Ron, a clean-living team leader with big dreams.
At a college conservatives event, students aim to give the Party Down team advice on success. As the event goes on, it turns out the students may not be so bright.
A Montreal DJ pines for a lost love as a single mother in 1960s Paris struggles to raise a son with Down syndrome in this poignant tale of magical realism.
A man reeling from the disappearance of his younger brother begins a relationship with a bipolar woman. The two damaged souls try to overcome their pain together in this moving romantic drama.
A socially awkward home-schooled kid forces his way into public-school against his suffocating but loving mother's wishes.
A child, missing her best friend, is consoled by her aunt, who tells her the story of a little girl befriended by an enchanted reindeer.
(Nelly and Simon: Mission Yeti) 1956. Nelly, novice private eye, and Simon, research scientist, cross the Himalayas to prove the existence of the Yeti.
Despite literally having feet of clay, a bumbling inventor and his silent canine best friend stand up to a menacing, marauding beast laying waste to the vegetable patches in their English village. A giddy stop-motion animation gem that continues the sublimely marvelous misadventures of Nick Park's lovable duo. Park co-directed with Steve Box, and together they co-wrote the script with Bob Baker an
An ambitious teen (Jared Abrahamson) tries to overcome his tumultuous home life with a mentally unstable mother (Kim Delaney) and fulfill his dream of attending Harvard. In order to keep his education plans on track, he attempts to find a family who will take him in so he can stay in a certain school district. Based on a true story. Directed by Mark Jean.