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Comedy full length DVD movies
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The action takes place in the 17th century in the Caribbean Sea. Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley), a beautiful young daughter of a governor, gets a mysterious golden medallion. The skull medallion brings misfortune upon Elisabeth and her childhood friend Will Turner (Orlando Bloom) as it is cursed by the pirates of the Caribbean Sea. Captain Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush) and his horde of undead pirates doomed to the eternal crucifixion have been guarding the Aztec treasures for many years. The medallion they have lost is the thing they need to get rid of an ancient damnation. Owing to the disappearance of the medallion, the skeletal pirates have to attack the city of Port Royal and kidnap Elisabeth to get it back. The roguish yet courageous Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp), along with Will Turner, assembles a crew to rescue Ms. Swann and take vengeance on the detestable pirates. They hijack a ship from the British Navy and set out on an extremely adventurous quest that makes the blood curdle and shivers run up and down the spine. |
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The Stone of Destiny retells the fascinating and true story of four young Glaswegian students who, in 1951, outwitted the British authorities in their successful attempt to take back the Stone of Scone - a beloved symbol of Scottish pride, back to its country of origin. |
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When the will of Victor Frankenstein, the famous scientist who attempted to reanimate dead bodies, is opened, his grandson, Frederick, who's become a skilled neurosurgeon and teacher and has cut most ties with his family name due to his grandfather's experiments, is given the castle where all the experiments were made. Upon his arrival, Frederick finds and reads through his grandfather's book about his theories and experiments and discovers that they might in fact work. Assisted by Igor, the grandson of the Igor who assisted Victor Frankenstein, and Inga, an attractive lab assistant, he successfully reanimates a body which soon escapes and creates havoc... |
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Shaun is having many problems in life. His long-time girlfriend has dumped him due to their almost-daily expedition to Shaun's favorite pub, the Winchester. His temporary management job isn't going well at Foree Electronics, with his subordinates not even giving him the time of day. His deadbeat flatmates, Pete and Ed, are at each others' throats. And, oh yeah, London is overrun with multitudes of zombies. In the midst of this, he must save himself, Ed, his ex, his mom, and his precious record collection. There is a time when a hero must rise...from his couch. |
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On the lonely roads of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, two men forge an improbable friendship that will change both of their lives forever. Solo is a Senegalese cab driver working to provide a better life for his young family. William is a tough Southern good ol' boy with a lifetime of regrets. One man's American dream is just beginning, while the other's is quickly winding down. But despite their differences, both men soon realize they need each other more than either is willing to admit. Through this unlikely but unforgettable friendship, GOODBYE SOLO deftly explores the passing of a generation as well as the rapidly changing face of America. |
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A concert special originally produced for HBO, BREAKING THE RULES virtually launched Sam Kinison's too brief career. Within 48 hours after this special aired, Kinson had a record deal, a role in Rodney Dangerfield's BACK TO SCHOOL, and was on his way to stardom. A former Pentecostal preacher, Kinison's diatribes on women, homosexuals, and the religious right earned him a legion of fans that included Ozzy Osbourne, Motley Crue, Guns N' Roses, as well as other top musical of the era, who also appeared with him in his music videos. |
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It's Christmas time and there's only one thing on Ralphie Parker's Christmas list this year: a Red Ryder Carbine Action 200-Shot, Range Model Air Rifle, but many obstacles stand in the way of his dream because every adult that he confronts keeps telling him he'll shoot his eye out. Meanwhile The Old Man just got a major award (a lamp shaped like a woman's leg), and Mom is making sure The Old Man doesn't come near her turkey, Ralphie's friend gets his tongue stuck to a flag pole, and Ralphie utters the f-word infront of his father. Christmas is drawing nearer and Ralphie visits Santa at the department store in hopes of asking him for his dream gift. Will he receive it? Let's hope so. |
| The Ladykillers
[1955,
UK]
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| Meet "The Unholy Five"...The Most Befuddled Set of Assorted Thugs That Ever Fouled Up a Million Dollar Bank Robbery!! |
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A gang of five diverse oddball criminal types rent a two room apartment in an isolated house on a London cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow with three pet parrots. The group's mastermind, Professor Marcus, tells her a cover story that they are members of an amateur string quintet and would like to use the rooms to hone their musical skills. In reality, they are plotting to rob a bank and plan to use Mrs. Wilberforce's naiveté and her Victorian sensibilities to their advantage. |
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The movie tells the story of a love affair between two lonely Americans – Bob Harris (Bill Murray), a middle-aged movie actor burdened with his unloved wife and kids, and Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson), a young woman bored of her unloving husband. They meet in the Tokyo hotel and spend together an unforgettable weekend. Their love is not one of passion but rather one of emotional need. The relation is motivated by loneliness and melancholy. It’s probably a passing infatuation that provides long hoped-for comfort and companionship... |
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A calamity at Dante and Randall's shops sends them looking for new horizons - but they ultimately settle at Mooby's, a fictional fast-food restaurant. Free from his dead-end job (and lodged in a new one), Dante begins to break free of his rut, planning to move away with his clingy fiancé. Dante is ready to leave the horrors of minimum-wage New Jersey behind, but Randal - always the more hostile of the two - starts to become overwhelmed by his own rancor. |
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They are monsters but they are not scary at all, some of them are even sweet and funny. They live in the world behind our closet doors, in the city of Monstropolis. The city dwellers work for Monsters Inc., a gigantic corporation which specializes in scaring human kids and generating energy from their screams. The funniest thing is that even skilled scream-generators such as James P. "Sulley" Sullivan (John Goodman), a huge monster with blue fur and horns, and his bustling dude Mike Wazowski (Billy Crystal), a green one-eyed monster, are terrified of kids! And when a fearless little girl, Boo (Mary Gibbs), follows Sully into the factory, she turns the monster world topsy-turvy! |
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The movie describes a day in the life of two clerks in New jersey. Dante Hicks (Brian O'Halloran) called to work in his day off, and his daily problems starts: His girlfriend wants to leave him, his friend Randall (Jeff Anderson), a clerk of a video store next to him, make him ashamed constantly in front of his customers, his ex-girlfriend getting married, he need to go to a hockey game in the noon and none can replace him, he has to go to a friend's wake, he has to deal with annoying customers, a pair of drug dealers outside his store annoys him, etc. |
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Tobacco industry lobbyist Nick Naylor has a seemingly impossible task: promoting cigarette smoking in a time when the health hazards of the activity have become too plain to ignore. Nick, however, revels in his job, using argument and twisted logic to place, as often as not, his clients in the positions of either altruistic do-gooders or victims. Nick's son Joey needs to understand and respect his dad's philosophy, and Nick works hard to respond to that need without compromising his lack of values. When a beautiful news reporter betrays Nick's sexually-achieved trust, his world seems in danger of collapsing. But there's always one more coffin nail in Nick's pack. |
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For teenager Tracy Turnblad (Nikki Blonsky), school is a real yawn. She somehow tolerates her boring classes just to race home to catch her favorite dance show on TV. Despite her overweight, Tracy is obsessed with her dream of someday appearing on "The Corny Collins Show." When the chance to partake in the show arrives, the aspiring dancer immediately takes the auditions. To her great joy, Tracy lands a spot on the show and quickly pursues stardom. However, she must overcome many obstacles she faces on her path. |
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For many years the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, along with the town dwellers, has got rid of its toxic waste and garbage by discharging them into the lake. After the sinking of the barge the band "Green Day" (Billie Joe Armstrong, Tre Cool and Mike Dirnt) was performing on, Lisa Simpson (Yeardley Smith) convinces the locals to clean up the polluted lake. But when her muddle-headed father Homer (Dan Castellaneta) dumps an overflowing silo of "Pig Crap" in it, he involuntarily causes ecological catastrophe. Induced by the treacherous adviser from the EPA, Russ Cargill (Albert Brooks), President Arnold Schwarzenegger (Harry Shearer) orders to put a giant glass dome over Springfield. The Simpsons, however, manage to escape with a whole skin through a sinkhole in their baby Maggie's sandbox and they flee to Alaska. Having heard of the president’s villainous plan to destroy Springfield, Homer’s wife Marge (Julie Kavner) and his kids try to persuade him to return to the town but all to no avail. Therefore Marge, along with the kids, leaves Homer. But a meeting with a medicine woman (Tress MacNeille) drastically changes his outlook and Homer comes to the conclusion that he must defy the president, once known as Terminator, so as to save the home town, which is on a razor's edge, and reunite with his family.
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A hilarious spoof documentary chronicles the ups and downs of the British heavy metal band Spinal Tap that tried to make it big in the United States 17 years ago. Once famous and now almost forgotten, the group, comprised of lead singer David St. Hubbins (Michael McLean), co-lead guitarist Nigel Tufnel (Christopher Guest), and bassist Derek Smalls (Harry Shearer), returns to the U.S.A. for a concert tour in support of their 12th album 'Smell the Glove'. |
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A mentally challenged, middle-aged man named Chance (Peter Sellers) has spent all his life working as a gardener in the townhouse of a wealthy old man in Washington. When the owner dies, Chance is kicked out of the house. Knowing of the outside world only from maid Louise (Ruth Attaway) and television, he makes his first uncertain steps in the unfamiliar world and unexpectedly finds himself struck by a limousine owned by an influential and wealthy industrialist, Ben Rand (Melvyn Douglas). His wife Eve (Shirley MacLaine) invites Chance to their estate to convalesce and have dinner. Well-dressed and neat, the former gardener is mistaken for a man of means and his simple and serious utterances about gardening, which sound like metaphoric economic and political predictions, impress Ben so favorably that he decides to take Chance under his wing. He is soon introduced to US President (Jack Warden) and eventually rises to a powerful position in Washington society. |
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This touching comedy drama tells the story of two terminally ill men given only several months to live. While sharing a room in a cancer ward, blue-collar mechanic Carter Chambers (Morgan Freeman) and millionaire Edward Cole (Jack Nicholson) decide to live their last days to the fullest and make a "bucket list" of things they want to do before they kick the bucket. Escaping from hospital, the newly made friends embark on an adventurous journey which includes seeing the wonders of the world, race car driving, sky diving, going on a safari in Africa and playing poker in Monte Carlo. |
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Based on the cult-hit animated television series The Family Guy, this feature-length comedy movie centers on the dysfunctional Griffins family consisting of Peter (voiced by Seth MacFarlane), the unintelligent, bumbling patriarch of the family; his loving and patient wife Lois (voiced by Alex Borstein); his oldest kid Meg (voiced by Mila Kunis), a nerdy student unpopular in high school; his middle kid, backward Chris (voiced by Seth Green); Stewie (voiced by Seth MacFarlane), the youngest and smartest kid who is bent on world domination, and Brian (voiced by Seth MacFarlane), a melancholic talking dog. The movie follows Stewie and Brian as they embark on an incredible journey in search of Stewie's real father. Their adventure leads to a shocking discovery. Meanwhile, Peter is spotted by a TV producer and given the opportunity to host his own show "You Know What Really Grinds My Gears?" Peter immediately becomes so popular that Tom Tucker, a newscaster at Quahog 5, begins to feel envious of his success and tries the darndest to get rid of him. |
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Andrew Largeman shuffled through life in a lithium-induced coma until his mother's death inspired a vacation from the pills to see what might happen. A moderately successful TV actor living in Los Angeles, "Large" hasn't been home to the Garden State in nine years. But even with 3,000 miles between them, he's been unable to escape his domineering father Gideon and the silencing effect he's had on his son from afar. Stunned to find himself in his hometown after such a long absence, Large finds old acquaintances around every corner living quite unique lives as gravediggers, fast food knights and the panderers of pyramid schemes. Meanwhile, at home, he does his best to avoid a long-simmering but inevitable confrontation with his father. By a twist of fate, Large meets Sam, a girl who is everything he isn't. A blast of color, hope and quirks, Sam becomes a sidekick who refuses to ride in his sidecar. Her warmth and fearlessness give Large the courage to open his heart to the joy and pain of the infinite abyss that is life. |
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