1990sCarrey plays Stanley Ipkiss, a meek bank clerk in Edge City who finds an ancient Norse mask that, when worn, transforms him into a green-faced, zoot-suited cartoon character with reality-bending powers. The film is a Tex Avery cartoon translated into…
ComedyRush Hour is the buddy cop trilogy that made Jackie Chan a Hollywood leading man and Chris Tucker an A-list comedy actor for a brief window of his career. Brett Ratner directed all three films.
AmnesiaOverboard is one of the strangest romantic comedies ever made and one of the most popular. Garry Marshall directed the 1987 original.
ChildhoodFreaky Friday is the body-swap premise Disney has now adapted four times across nearly fifty years. Mary Rodgers wrote the 1972 novel.
2000sThe 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…
2010sJim Field Smith directed in his feature debut. The film made approximately fifty million dollars worldwide on a twenty million dollar budget.
2010sFriends with Benefits is one of two romantic comedies released in 2011 with the same premise. Mila Kunis plays Jamie, a corporate.
2010sMost 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…
2010sBad 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.
2000sMiss 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.
2000sIn 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.
2000sA Knight's Tale is what happens when a writer-director decides to make a medieval film while refusing to take medieval films seriously. Brian Helgeland wrote and directed.
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