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Yes Man (2008)

Carrey plays Carl Allen, a Bank of America loan officer in Los Angeles whose life has shrunk into avoidance after his divorce. The premise is the structure.

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Miss Congeniality (2000)

Miss Congeniality is the Sandra Bullock comedy where she plays an FBI agent who has to go undercover in a beauty pageant. Marc Lawrence wrote, with revisions by Katie Ford and Caryn Lucas.

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Bad Teacher (2011)

Bad Teacher is the R-rated comedy where Cameron Diaz plays a public middle school teacher who hates her students. Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky wrote, both veterans of the American version of The Office.

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The Bounty Hunter (2010)

Most of the film is Milo hauling Nicole around New York and Atlantic City in handcuffs while she keeps trying to investigate the murder story that got her in trouble in the first place. The film has aged into a…

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Legally Blonde (2001)

Legally Blonde is one of the best comedies of the early 2000s and the film that defined Reese Witherspoon's career for the next decade. Witherspoon plays Elle Woods, a sorority president and fashion merchandising major at CULA who follows her…

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The Proposal (2009)

The Proposal is the best Sandra Bullock romantic comedy of her late career and one of the most commercially successful rom-coms of its decade. Sandra Bullock plays Margaret Tate, a Canadian editor at a New York publishing house who is…

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In Bruges (2008)

In Bruges is Martin McDonagh's first feature and one of the great films of its decade. Colin Farrell plays Ray, an Irish hitman who has just botched his first job and accidentally killed a child.

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1917 (2019)

1917 is the best war film of the last twenty years. The whole movie is built to look like one unbroken.

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