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Comedic actress Nora Dunn has frequently played acerbic character roles in films and TV as foils to generally likeable leads. She was a regular cast member on Saturday Night Live from 1985 to 1990, when she left due to the controversial episode with... more
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National Lampoon's Pucked (2006)
Cast: Cary Elwes   
Tags: Comedy Sports Comedy 
Length: 86min
Credit cards and women on skates prove to be a dangerous mixture in this comedy. Frank Hopper (Jon Bon Jovi) is a former lawyer whose career has hit the skids, and he currently lives off the largesse of his more successful sister, Leona (Nora Dunn)....

Cast: Julianne Moore Frances Fisher   
Tags: Romantic Comedy Screwball Comedy Comedy Romance 
Length: 89min
Though equally respected in their field, divorce lawyers Audrey Woods (Julianne Moore) and Daniel Rafferty (Pierce Brosnan) are opposites inside and out of the courtroom. Audrey is meticulous and by the book, while Daniel relies on personality and...

Cast: Courteney Cox Arquette   
Tags: Psychological Thriller Mystery Drama Psychological Drama 
Length: 73min
From a script by first-time screenwriter Benjamin Brand, filmmaker Greg Harrison helmed this fantastical, psychological drama, the follow-up to his 2000 Independent Spirit-award nominated debut, Groove. Courteney Cox Arquette (TV's Friends) stars as...

Cast: Spike Jonze George Clooney Ice Cube   
Tags: Comedy Drama Military Comedy War Anti-War Film War Adventure 
Length: 115min
Three stars team up for this unusual look at America's role in the war against Iraq. In 1991, as the Gulf War winds to a close, three American servicemen find themselves happy to have achieved victory but wondering about the ultimate importance of...

Air Bud: Golden Receiver (1998)
Tags: Family-Oriented Comedy Sports Comedy Family Comedy Animal Picture 
Length: 90min
In this family canine comedy, a sequel to Air Bud (1997), Josh Framm (Kevin Zegers) finds it a problem when his widowed mother, Jackie (Cynthia Stevenson), starts seeing the community's new veterinarian, Patrick Sullivan (Gregory Harrison). Sullivan...

Cast: Charles Durning Cameron Diaz Mark Harmon Bill Paxton Annabeth Gish Ron Eldard Jason Alexander  
Tags: Satire Crime Black Comedy Crime Comedy Comedy 
Length: 94min
If you met Adolph Hitler when he was just a struggling cartoonist, wouldn't you have done the world a big favor by murdering him? That philosophical question provides the linchpin of this black comedy. Jude (Cameron Diaz), Pete (Ron Eldard), Paulie...

Cast: David Strathairn Alfre Woodard John Sayles Vondie Curtis-Hall   
Tags: Ensemble Film Psychological Drama Comedy of Manners Comedy Drama 
Length: 136min
With his trademark emphasis on character development and dialogue, writer/director John Sayles tells the story of May-Alice Culhane (Mary McDonnell), a New York soap opera actress left paralyzed by a car accident. As the film opens, she lies in a...

Cast: Jennifer Jason Leigh Alec Baldwin   
Tags: Post-Noir (Modern Noir) Crime Drama Police Detective Film Crime 
Length: 100min
Based on the late Charles Willeford's series of hard-boiled crime novels featuring Miami cop Hoke Moseley, the Jonathan Demme-produced Miami Blues opens with the prison release of Frederick Frenger Jr. (Alec Baldwin), a deranged killer who has barely...


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