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Current Category Comedy > M to Q - COMEDY

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MAD CITY
In one of his strongest performances, John Travolta plays Sam Baily, a museum security guard who holds visitors hostage in an attempt to win back his job when he falls foul of museum cutbacks. Dustin Hoffman co-stars as Max Brackett, a local news reporter who seizes the hostage situation as a chance to revive his flagging career and get back into the big time. Within minutes he is broadcasting live, within hours the entire nation is watching with baited breath. A timely, poignant examination of the role that the media plays in day to day lives in contemporary America, director Costa Gavras' Mad City is truly engaging in its search for and manipulation of the truth. Unrelenting, the film will make the viewer re-examine the way they watch the news on television.
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MAD MONEY
Bridget Cardigan is shocked to learn that she is on the verge of losing her home and comfortable upper middle class lifestyle when her husband Don is downsized from his job of 30 years. Don has been looking for a job for a whole year with no luck. Armed only with a decades old English Lit degree and years as a dedicated mother and corporate wife, Bridget is forced into the unfamiliar labor market with no job skills. Finally, she takes the only position she can find as a janitor at the Federal Reserve Bank in Kansas City.
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MADE IN AMERICA (NTSC)
Love, marriage, family. That's the usual sequence - but not for Sarah (Whoopi Goldberg) and Hal (Ted Danson). They're the parents of bright, college-bound Zora (Nia Long) - even though Sarah and Hal never met!
Goldberg (Sister Act, Ghost) and Danson (Three Men and a Baby, Cheers) put a wild new spin on family values in Made in America, a romantic comedy directed by Richard Benjamin (My Favorite Year). Curious Zora and her pal Tea Cake (future Independence Day and Men in Black star Will Smith) learn that her real father is anonymous sperm-bank donor - and car salesman - Hal, whose cornball commercials ("Hal's Your Pal!") blanket cable TV.
Running time - 110 minutes Rated - M
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MADE OF HONOUR
Released 24 September 2008. Order now to secure your copy at this special price
He'll do anything to get the groom out of the picture.
For Tom, life is good: he's sexy and successful and knows he can always rely on his best friend Hannah.
When Hannah goes to Scotland on a six week business trip, Tom is stunned to realise how empty his life is without her. He resolves that when she gets back, he'll ask Hannah to marry him but is floored when he finds that she has become engaged to a handsome and wealthy Scotsman and plans to move overseas.
When Hannah asks Tom to be her maid of honour, he reluctantly agrees to fill the role but only so he can attempt to woo Hannah and stop the wedding before it's too late.
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MAGICIANS
From the hottest new British comedians Mitchell and Webb and the creators of the award-winning 'Peep Show' comes Magicians - a hilarious new British comedy set in the world of stage magic. Lifelong friends Harry and Karl (David Mitchell and Robert Webb) are the greatest magic double act in the country. But after a guillotine illusion goes horribly and spectacularly wrong, their friendship and their careers are finished. Now, down on his luck and out of cash, Harry sets his sights on the prize money of the prestigious 'International Magic Shield' tournament. But to win he will have to compete against the world's oddest (and saddest) magicians - including his deadly rival Karl, performing under the guise of ridiculous psychic 'The Mindmonger'. Can new tricks and a new assistant (Jessica Stevenson from 'Confetti' and 'Spaced') help Harry to triumph over his underhanded opponents and his disastrous past.
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MAID IN MANHATTAN
JENNIFER LOPEZ becomes the new Cinderella of Hollywood with her biggest hit yet an enormously enjoyable* romantic comedy thats PRETTY WOMAN meets WORKING GIRL* .Sassy single mum Marisa Ventura (LOPEZ) lives in the Bronx with her 10-year-old son, works at an exclusive Manhattan hotel and wishes for a better life. When a twist of fate and a case of mistaken identity introduces Marisa to debonair would-be Senator Chris Marshall (RALPH FIENNES from RED DRAGON), it looks like all of her dreams can finally come truebut can love bridge the gap between their two very different worlds and provide a happy ending?
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MAIN EVENT - GLOVE STORY
An executive awakens one morning to find that her accountant has stolen all her money and fled the country. The only asset she has left is a boxer she purchased as a tax write-off. The executive then goads the boxer into re-starting his career.
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MAIN EVENT / WHATS UP DOC (BARBRA STREISAND CLASSICS)
What's Up, Doc?: Attempting to get a grant to study the musical quality of igneous rocks, a researcher has his life turned upside down by a complete stranger. What's Up, Doc? joyously recaptures the bubbly style of screw ball comedies and firmly establishes Barbra Streisand and Ryan O'Neal as a romantic duo uniquely endearing in screen history. Included are a daffy luggage mix-up plot, dippy dialogue exchanges, a marvellous example of the art of hotel room demolition and one of the funniest chase sequences ever, all over San Francisco. What's Up, Doc? is no idle question. Among comedy movies, it's the top.
The Main Event: An executive awakens one morning to find that her accountant has stolen all her money and fled the country. The only asset she has left is a boxer she purchased as a tax write off. The executive then goads the boxer into re-starting his career.
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MAJOR PAYNE
He's looking for a few good men. or a few guys old enough to shave.
Major Benson Winifred Payne is being discharged from the Marines. Payne is a killin' machine, but the wars of the world are no longer fought on the battlefield. A career Marine, he has no idea what to do as a civilian, so his commander finds him a job - commanding officer of a local school's JROTC program, a bunch or ragtag losers with no hope. Using such teaching tools as live grenades and real bullets, Payne starts to instill the corp with some hope. But when Payne is recalled to fight in Bosnia, will he leave the corp who has just started the believe in him, or will he find out that killin ain't much of a livin.
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MALIBU'S MOST WANTED
All that Brad (Jamie Kennedy) - make that B-Rad - wants is to roll with his Malibu homeys and bust rhyme as the greatest rapper ever to survive the 'Burbs. But everyone knows a kid from the Left Coast's poshest bling-bling beach is no playa. And Brad's dad Bill Gluckman (Ryan O'Neal), a candidate for governor, knows B-Rad's lack of chillin' is killin' his campaign.
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MALLRATS (SPECIAL EDITION)
From Kevin Smith, the acclaimed director of Clerks, comes this outrageous story of two loafers, Jeremy London (The Babysitter) and Jason Lee, who spend way too much time hanging out in the mall.
When Brodie (Lee) is dumped by his girlfriend, Shannen Doherty (Heathers, Girls Just Wanna Have Fun), he retreats to the mall with his friend T.S. (London), whose girlfriend has also left him.
Between broading and visits to the food court, the unmotivated twosome decide to win their girlfriends back with the help of the ultimate delinquents, Silent Bob (Kevin Smith) and Jay (Jason Mewes), whose continuing adventures take the word "nuisance" to a whole new level.
Running time - 91 minutes Rated - MA
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MALLRATS / BASEKETBALL / DAZED AND CONFUSED / REALITY BITES / BILL AND TEDS EXCELLENT ADVENTURE
Mallrats: T.S. and Brodie are two high school friends, both of whom are dumped by their respective girlfriends on the same day. Needing to get away, they do what they always do...go to the mall and hang out. Meeting up with punk troublemakers Jay and Silent Bob (played by director Kevin Smith), they collectively hatch a plan to wreak mall havoc and win their loves back. Battling security guards, Asshole store attendants and their girlfriends fathers, these four have a series of unbelievable moments and discover some amazing things, such as whether Superman could have babies with anyone bar Superwoman, what is really behind those Optical Illusion Pictures. Invo Smith's film is filled with sophomoric and scatological humour, hip alternative music, and pop cultural icons ranging from video games and film (Star Wars and Batman) to comics (including Stan The Man Lee, as himself).
BASEketball: From the director of Naked Gun comes a side splitting spoof of professional sports. Starring Trey Parker and Matt Stone (South Park), as two guys who invent a game played in their driveway that quickly becomes a national obsession and catapults them into the spotlight, Baseketball is a hilarious comedy about being number one.
Dazed and Confused: Its the last day of school before summer vacation 1976. Its been three years since Watergate, oil prices have hit an all time high and the sixties are well and truly over. Fortunately there are quick fixes for everything that bothers you at seventeen. Sex is still safe; drugs are not dangerous yet and booze is just having fun. And the music, well, the music just keeps getting higher and higher... Writer/director Richard Linklaters Dazed and Confused is the story of Pink, Mitch, Jodie and their friends starting life after school with the coolest all nighter of all time.
Reality Bites: It's graduation day, 1994, and Lelaina Pierce is taking her first, bold step into the final frontier - reality. Unfortunately, her future seems to have moved away without leaving a forwarding address. Wynona Rydera and Ethan Hawke star with Janeane Garofalo and Steve Zahn as a circle of friends, who, facing some hard facts about life and love after college, are mapping out their own offbeat survival guide for the 1990s. Ben Stiller makes his feature directing debut with Reality Bites, a fresh, irreverant romantic comedy about life and love for post-Baby-Boomers.
Bill & Teds Excellent Adventure: Bill and Ted have spent so much time forming their rock band, The Wyld Stallyns,that they are flunking history. And when Ted's dad threatens to send him away to military school, Bill and Ted realize it could mean the most heinous end of The Stallyns! Luckly, a guide from the future, Rufus, has come to them with a most bodacious solution, a time traversing phone booth to take them into the past to learn about the world from some of historys most influential personalities. Their journey through time turns out to be a blast...but will they learn enough to pass their class
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MAMAS BOY
You Have to Fight For The Right to Never Grow Up
A twenty nine year old slacker who lives with his mum realises his sweet set up is threatened when she hears wedding bells with her self help guru beau
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MAMBO ITALIANO
"Mambo Italiano"..follow the rhythm, join in the sexy Latin dance and watch the characters as they burst onto the screen. Maria and Gino's world is shattered when their son decides to get a place of his own..but Nino and Angelo are more than just roomates - they're (gasp) lovers! All hell breaks loose. The boys must be shown the right path to acceptable behaviour. The battlefiled is cleared, and "tutta la famiglia" goes to war!
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MAN ABOUT TOWN
Sometimes its not about getting the deal. Its about getting a life.
Top Hollywood talent agent, Jack Giamoro (Ben Affleck) seems to have it all: a successful career, money, and a beautiful wife. But he still feels like something is missing, and so he takes a journal writing class to explore his feelings. But when Jack learns his wife, Nina (Rebecca Romijn) is cheating on him with his most important client his perfect life quickly starts to unravel.
Things get even worse when Jacks journal which contains secrets that could ruin him personally and professionally is stolen by ambitious journalist, Barbi (Bai Ling). Jack must fight back to hold onto everything he has fought so hard to win and in doing so he finally achieves the self insight he was looking for and he realises that only through family can he really find lasting happiness.
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MAN OF LA MANCHA, THE
Academy Award® winners* Peter O’Toole and Sophia Loren are magnificent in this “lavishly produced” (LA Herald-Examiner) and “beautifully acted” (The New York Times) epic masterpiece. Featuring an Oscar®-nominated** score with the classic “The Impossible Dream,” this “original and daring” (Films & Filming) musical is an experience not to be missed! Jailed during the Spanish Inquisition for offending the church, author Miguel de Cervantes (O’Toole) is forced to act out one of his manuscripts for the entertainment of fellow inmates. Cervantes delivers a rapturous performance as the legendary Don Quixote, the chivalrous knight whose choice to see life as it should be, not as it is, takes him into battles with an imaginary foe and into romance with the beautiful Dulcinea (Loren). *O’Toole: Honorary Award (2002); Loren: Actress, Two Women (1961), Honorary Award (1990) **1972
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MAN OF THE HOUSE
When favourite funnyman Chevy Chase (National Lampoon's Vacation) moves in with his fiancée and her mischievous son, he's anything but the MAN OF THE HOUSE in this outrageously funny comedy! Life is good for attorney Jack Sturges (Chase). He's engaged to a gorgeous woman (sexy Farrah Fawcett) and is looking forward to a happy new life as a stepfather. But eleven-year-old Ben (Jonathan Taylor Thomas, TV's Home Improvement) has other plans for the newcomer. He's determined to scare him off by subjecting him to a hilariously frustrating test of endurance at an Indian summer camp. Calamity and chaos prevail as well as some valuable lifetime lessons about trust and love in this irresistible crowd-pleaser audiences everywhere will enjoy!
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MAN OF THE HOUSE (2005)
When five perky cheerleaders witness the murder of a drug bust informant, they require `round-the-clock surveillance to keep from being the next victims. Enter tough-as-nails Texas Ranger Lt. Roland Sharp (Tommy Lee Jones), who masquerades as their assistant coach and camps out in their campus digs. But these feisty foxes just want to have fun, and the buttoned-down Sharp learns it`s no easy task to keep the uncontrollable co-eds in line and out of harm`s way. Cedric the Entertainer joins this spirited cast in a comedy that busts out with high energy, pride, and the joy of a Texas Ranger getting in touch with his feminine side.
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MAN WHO KNEW TO LITTLE (NTSC)
Wallace Ritchie, an American vacationer in London, doesn't know that the bullets are real and the truth serum true. He thinks the intrigue erupting around him is part of an audience-participation theatre event. Yet the world's fate depends on this gullible goofus who can't even spell CIA. Bill Murray is Ritchie, the naive spy who comes in very bold in The Man Who Knew Too Little. He can't believe how believable the make-believe is. But as Ritchie's funny experiences with a femme fatale (Joanne Whalley), a corpse, highway pursuits (lesson #1: drive on the left), assassins and a bomb prove, variety isn't just the spice of life. It's the life of spies.
Running time - 98 minutes Rated - PG
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MAN WHO SUED GOD
When Myers is told the lightening that struck and obliterated his fishing boat was an Act of God and not a penny shall he receive, he decides that this excuse is not good enough. And so he sues God. Steve Myers is the protagonistic in the feisty, frighteningly relevent romantic comedy THE MAN WHO SUED GOD. Billy Connolly stars as Steve Myers, bring humour as well as the kind of depth and realness to his charcacter with which he touched audiences around the world in Mrs Brown. Judy Davis is Anna Redmond, a well known but jaded media personality who inspires Steve to teach the insurance companies a lesson. THE MAN WHO SUED GOD is a film about the universal experience of hypocrisy and injustice fought by an ordinary person who takes on the corporate sharks.
Running Time: 102 minutes Rating: M15+
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MAN WITH THE SCREAMING BRAIN
Wealthy Industrialist William Cole has nothing in common with a poor cab driver, until now. Sharing one brain and one body they must work together to find the women who murdered them both.
Man with the Screaming Brain is a story of greed, betrayal and revenge in the big, bad city. William Cole winds up with part of his brain replaced by that of Yegor, a Bulgarian street hustler. The two couldn't be more different, but they share one thing both were killed by the same woman. Brought back to life by a mad scientist, William and Yegor form an unlikely partnership to track down their common nemesis
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MAN, THE
A case of mistaken identity teams together two seemingly opposite men, in a collision of two worlds...
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MANGO KISS
Mango Kiss is a fish out of water comedy about Lou, whose world is turned upside-down when she falls in love with her best friend Sassafras. Before Lou finds the courage to announce her desire to Sass, they move to San Francisco together to embark on their careers as queer performance artists. As the naive young adventurers stumble into an underground world of role playing and non-monogamous S & M loving dykes, a riotous and sexy comedy of errors ensures.
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MARGOT AT THE WEDDING
From Academy Award nominated writer/director Noah Baumbach (The Squid and the Whale) comes a daringly funny and bracingly honest exploration of the tender, absurd and sometimes excruciating relationship between siblings. "Played with an uncompromising fearlessness" by Academy Award winner Nicole Kidman and Golden Globe nominee Jennifer Jason Leigh, this nakedly honest film lays bare all aspects of the human comedy. Margot (Nicole Kidman), a savagely bright, razor tongued short story writer who creates chaos wherever she goes, sets off on a surprise journey to the wedding of her estranged and free spirited sister Pauline (Jennifer Jason Leigh). Margot, with her son Claude (Zane Pais) in tow, arrives with the force of a hurricane. From the minute she meets Pauline's fiancee the unemployed artist Malcolm (Jack Black) Margot starts to plant seeds of doubt about the union.
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MARIGOLD
Beautiful Hollywood B list actress Marigold Lexton (Ali Larter) arrives in India with no luggage and a bad attitude. Stranded in the resort town of Goa after the financing for her latest film project falls through, and with nobody willing to bail her out, Marigold finds herself cast in a Bollywood musical. However, there is one problem she can't dance. Enlisting the aid of the film's choreographer, Prem (Salman Khan), Marigold's life is transformed in the most unexpected ways by her experiences and adventures within the Indian film industry.
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MARRIED TO THE MOB
Angela de Marco has everything laundered money can buy. But when Tony 'The Tiger" Russo (Dean Stockwell) ices her husband Cucumber de Marco (Alec Baldwin) and decides to make a move on her, Angela makes a break to Manhattan, only to find that the FBI have a keen interest in her as well.
Running time - 100 minutes Rated - M
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MASH MOVIE - SPECIAL EDITION
Hailed as one of the best comedies ever made, the story focuses on army surgeons who develop a lunatic life-style in order to handle every day horrors encountered in a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital during the Korean War. Though highly skilled and deeply dedicated, this irreverent mob of madcaps is equally adept at making a shambles of army bureaucracy.
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MASK / SON OF MASK
The Mask: Jim Carrey (Ace Ventura Pet Detective, Dumb and Dumber) stars as mild mannered bank clerk Stanley Ipkiss, who discovers a mysterious ancient mask that brings his inner most desires to wild, screaming life! Now, together with his sidekick Milo, this wise cracking green tornado is taking Edge City over the top in this romantic action comedy that will leave you S-s-s-s-mokin'
Son Of The Mask: This newest film in the "Mask" series focuses on aspiring cartoonist Tim Avery (Kennedy) who's feeling reluctant to become a father when he finds that he has to take care of a baby with amazing abilities. Somehow, the baby has the powers of the Mask of Loki, a mythological object that transforms its user into a manic shape shifter alter ego
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