Biography: Kristen Wiig |

Initially known as one of the cast members of Saturday Night Live (she joined in 2005), comedian Kristen Wiig cemented her reputation as a schtickmeister with hilarious and memorable SNL characterizations of such personalities as Drew Barrymore,
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Cast: Jane Lynch Sigourney Weaver Jason Bateman   
Length: min
Two British buddies (Shaun of the Dead/Hot Fuzz's Simon Pegg and Nick Frost) head out on the road in search of Area 51 after attending a comic convention, only to encounter a cute little alien (voiced by Seth Rogen) along the way in this comedy from...

Cast: Julie Andrews Steve Carell   
Length: min
A man (voiced by Steve Carell) who's in the midst of making plans to steal the moon is sidetracked when he's put in charge of three orphans in this computer-generated 3-D animated film by directors Chris Renaud and Pierre Coffin. Jason Segel, Kristen...

Cast: Val Kilmer Ryan Phillippe   
Tags: Parody/Spoof Comedy 
Length: min
Another Saturday Night Live skit makes the transition to the big screen with this Rogue Pictures production. Will Forte returns as MacGruber, a comedic spin on the '80s TV character MacGyver. Kristen Wiig, Val Kilmer, and Ryan Phillippe co-star. ~...

Cast: Drew Barrymore Marcia Gay Harden Juliette Lewis   
Tags: Comedy Drama Teen Movie Coming-of-Age Sports Drama 
Length: 111min
Drew Barrymore makes her directorial debut with Whip It!, the story of an ex-beauty pageant contestant named Bliss (played by Juno's Ellen Page) who leaves her crowns behind after joining a roller-derby team. While her mother would prefer that Bliss...

Tags: Romantic Comedy Comedy Drama Period Film Teen Movie Coming-of-Age 
Length: 106min
Inspired by writer/director Greg Mottola's own true-life job-from-hell experience, Adventureland stars The Education of Charlie Banks' Jesse Eisenberg as an uptight recent college graduate who discovers that he'll have to get a degrading minimum-wage...

Cast: Ben Affleck J.K. Simmons Mike Judge   
Tags: Workplace Comedy Comedy 
Length: 90min
Jason Bateman, Mila Kunis, Ben Affleck, Kristen Wiig, Clifton Collins, and J.K. Simmons star in writer/director Mike Judge's comedy about a flower-extract plant owner contending with an ever-growing avalanche of personal and professional disasters. An...

Cast: Billy Crudup Paul Giamatti   
Tags: Comedy 
Length: 120min
A fast-talking rainmaker, his wealthy acquaintance, and an unemployed aerospace engineer forge an unusual partnership that hastens the deterioration of their relationships while forever altering the course of their lives in director Paul Schneider's...

Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007)
Cast: John C. Reilly Harold Ramis Jack Black Raymond J. Barry   
Tags: Musical Comedy Comedy Parody/Spoof 
Length: 96min
Judd Apatow and Jake Kasdan team up to take the swagger out of the traditional music iopic with this look at the troubled life of fictional music legend Dewey Cox (John C. Reilly). Apatow and Kasdan both write and produce, while Freaks and Geeks and...

Cast: Bob Odenkirk   
Tags: Farce Absurd Comedy Comedy 
Length: 93min
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...





























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