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Subgenre: | comedy of mannersscrewball comedy |
Themes: | dysfunctional familypregnancyjealousy |
Mood: | affection |
Locations: | airportlos angeles californiaairplanesmall town |
Characters: | single fathercousin cousin relationshipsheriffinterracial relationshipthiefbrother sister relationshipbrother brother relationshipafrican americanfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Period: | 1980s |
Story: | flat screen televisionbarbecued ribslost luggageanimal matinganimal sexblack stereotypeanniversary partybig mancoming homecrapscompetitivenessobstacle courseafrican american protagonistcar dealername change β¦softballskunkfamily gatheringbroken engagementwoman punching a mantalk show hostamerican southstrong manfat womangrudgeman punching a womandietawkwardnessgeorgiawagervegannarcissismhomecomingcomma in titlebarbecuevegetariangrandfatherstupidityembarrassmentwomanizerblack americanpremarital sexgrandmotherscene during end creditsspeechspankingsnakeaccidentfour word titlename in titleorphanbrawlshowerdancingcharacter name in titlefightbondageflashbackdogsex (See All) |
Having given permission to male nurse Greg Focker to marry his daughter, ex-CIA man Jack Byrnes and his wife travel to Miami to Greg's parents, who this time around are Mr. and Mrs. Focker, who are as different from them as can be. As asked in the first movie, what sort of people name their son Gayl β¦ord M. Focker? (Read More)
Themes: | dysfunctional familypregnancy |
Locations: | airportairplane |
Characters: | mother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | animal matinggrandfatherembarrassmentpremarital sexgrandmotherscene during end creditsshowerdancingcharacter name in titledog |
Hunky NY lawyer Jeff Daly finally got engaged to fickle Sarah Huttinger, who presents him to her Pasadena family, who all soon take to him, for her sister's wedding to Scott. But Jeff's clever counting makes Sarah realize her dad Earl isn't her biological father. Once movie clues from family indicat β¦e as suspect successful author Beau Burroughs, she insists on meeting him. Only like her mother and grandmother, she has a one night-stand with Beau, which may well cost her Jeff. (Read More)
Themes: | dysfunctional familypregnancy |
Locations: | airportlos angeles californiaairplane |
Characters: | family relationships |
Story: | premarital sexgrandmotherscene during end creditsspeechshowerdancingdog |
Fatherless John Farley's youth frustration, even trauma, like many his school kids' in his Nebraska small town home, was the constant abuse and humiliation in sadistic Jasper Woodcock's gym class. After college, doting son John became a motivational bestseller author and returns during a book signin β¦g tour to receive the backwater's highest honor. To John's horror, his devoted mother Beverly announces her plans to marry the hated coach and he's to be celebrated on the same event as John. Only ridiculous fatso Nedderman and his strange brother try to help Farley stop Woodcock, but that keeps backfiring. (Read More)
Subgenre: | screwball comedy |
Locations: | airplanesmall town |
Characters: | father son relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | broken engagementgrudgepremarital sexscene during end creditscharacter name in titleflashback |
After causing a loss of almost one billion dollars in his company, the shoe designer Drew Baylor decides to commit suicide. However, in the exact moment of his act of despair, he receives a phone call from his sister telling him that his beloved father had just died in Elizabethtown, and he should b β¦ring him back since his mother had problem with the relatives of his father. He travels in an empty red eye flight and meets the attendant Claire Colburn, who changes his view and perspective of life. (Read More)
Themes: | dysfunctional family |
Locations: | airportairplanesmall town |
Characters: | cousin cousin relationshipbrother sister relationshipafrican americanfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | coming homehomecomingdancingdogflashback |
The story of the Buckman family and friends, attempting to bring up their children. They suffer/enjoy all the events that occur: estranged relatives, the "black sheep" of the family, the eccentrics, the skeletons in the closet, and the rebellious teenagers.
Themes: | dysfunctional familypregnancy |
Mood: | affection |
Characters: | brother sister relationshipbrother brother relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | grandfatherembarrassmentgrandmother |
Melanie Carmichael, an up and rising fashion designer in New York, has gotten almost everything she wished for since she was little. She has a great career and the JFK-like fiancee of New York City. But when he proposes to her, she doesn't forget about her family back down South. More importantly, h β¦er husband back there, who refuses to divorce her ever since she sent divorce papers seven years ago. To set matters straight, she decides to go to the south quick and make him sign the papers. When things don't turn out the way she planned them, she realizes that what she had before in the south was far more perfect than the life she had in New York City. (Read More)
Themes: | dysfunctional family |
Locations: | airportsmall town |
Characters: | cousin cousin relationshipsheriffafrican americanmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | name changehomecomingembarrassmentscene during end creditsdancingdogflashback |
A happy young couple, Sarah and Tom marry against the wishes of Sarah's friends and family and go to Europe for their honeymoon. Unfortunately for them, Sarah's parents send Sarah's ex-boyfriend Peter Prentis to break up the happy marriage.
Subgenre: | screwball comedy |
Themes: | jealousy |
Locations: | airportlos angeles californiaairplane |
Story: | embarrassmentpremarital sexdancingflashbackdog |
Themes: | pregnancyjealousy |
Characters: | brother brother relationshipafrican americanmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | embarrassmentwomanizerblack americanscene during end creditsfour word titledancingsexdogfightflashback |
Borat Sagdiyev is a TV reporter of a popular show in Kazakhstan as Kazakhstan's sixth most famous man and a leading journalist. He is sent from his home to America by his government to make a documentary about American society and culture. Borat takes a course in New York City to understand American β¦ humor. While watching Baywatch on TV, Borat discovers how beautiful their women are in the form of C. J. Parker, who was played by actress Pamela Anderson who hails from Malibu, California. He decides to go on a cross-country road trip to California in a quest to make her his wife and take her back to his country. On his journey Borat and his producer encounter a country full of strange and wonderful Americans, real people in real chaotic situations with hysterical consequences. (Read More)
Locations: | airportlos angeles californiaairplanesmall town |
Characters: | sheriffbrother sister relationshipbrother brother relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | american southawkwardnessstupidityembarrassmentsnakedancing |
Muriel finds life in Porpoise Spit, Australia dull and spends her days alone in her room listening to Abba music and dreaming of her wedding day. Slight problem, Muriel has never had a date. Then she steals some money to go on a tropical vacation, meets a wacky friend, changes her name to Mariel, an β¦d turns her world upside down. (Read More)
Themes: | dysfunctional family |
Characters: | cousin cousin relationshipthiefbrother sister relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | name changeembarrassmentname in titledancingcharacter name in titlefightsex |
Scarlett is a woman who can deal with a nation at war, Atlanta burning, the Union Army carrying off everything from her beloved Tara, the carpetbaggers who arrive after the war. Scarlett is beautiful. She has vitality. But Ashley, the man she has wanted for so long, is going to marry his placid cous β¦in, Melanie. Mammy warns Scarlett to behave herself at the party at Twelve Oaks. There is a new man there that day, the day the Civil War begins. Rhett Butler. Scarlett does not know he is in the room when she pleads with Ashley to choose her instead of Melanie. (Read More)
Themes: | pregnancyjealousy |
Characters: | cousin cousin relationshipthiefbrother sister relationshipbrother brother relationshipafrican americanfamily relationships |
Story: | georgianarcissismhomecomingbarbecueblack americanfour word titledancingfightdog |
"Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking your Juice in the Hood" is a parody of several U.S. films about being in the 'Hood', for instance "Boyz n the Hood", "South Central", "Menace II Society", "Higher Learning" and "Juice". We follow Ashtray as he returns to the place he grew up in and β¦meet his father and his basket-case friends. Crazy stuff happens. For example, Ashtray is older than his father and his best friend Loc Dog's grandmother is a trigger-happy old lady who blames her eccentric-looking kid for not being tough enough. (Read More)
Characters: | cousin cousin relationshipafrican americanfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | woman punching a manman punching a womanstupiditygrandmotherflashback |
Ted was a geek in high school, who was going to go to the prom with one of the most popular girls in school, Mary. The prom date never happened, because Ted had a very unusual accident. Thirteen years later he realizes he is still in love with Mary, so he hires a private investigator to track her do β¦wn. That investigator discovers he too may be in love with Mary, so he gives Ted some false information to keep him away from her. But soon Ted finds himself back into Mary's life, as we watch one funny scene after another. (Read More)
Subgenre: | screwball comedy |
Characters: | interracial relationship |
Period: | 1980s |
Story: | stupidityaccidentcharacter name in titleflashbackdog |
Kym Buchman has been in drug rehab for nine months, during which time she has been clean. She is released temporarily from the facility to attend her sister Rachel Buchman's wedding. During her release, Kym is staying at the family home, where the wedding is taking place. As such, it is like Grand C β¦entral Station for the duration of Kym's stay, which may not be the most conducive situation for her in constantly being exposed to the watching eyes of those who know and don't yet know her, but know of her situation. The reunion with her family members starts off well enough, but issues around Kym's release from rehab quickly surface. Kym and Rachel's father, Paul Buchman, wants to make sure that Kym is all right at all times, which to Kym feels instead like he doesn't trust her. Rachel slowly begins to resent Kym's situation taking over what is supposed to be the happiest day of her life, some of which is directed by Kym, some of which isn't. One person present but largely not included in the last minute wedding planning work is Kym and Rachel's mother, Abby, from who Paul is divorced. The two have since married other people. Outwardly, Abby has been nurturing of Kym throughout her life. However, what is one of the key moments in Kym's drug induced life, and in their collective family's lives, may profoundly affect the wedding. Beyond how Kym's presence affects the wedding, the goings-on of the family during Kym's short stay may either bring them closer together or tear them apaβ¦ (Read More)
Themes: | dysfunctional familypregnancy |
Characters: | interracial relationshipthiefbrother sister relationshipafrican americanfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | barbecueblack americanscene during end creditsspeechdancingcharacter name in titlefightsexdog |
Gloria (Anne Hathaway) is an out-of-work girl who, after getting kicked out of her apartment by her boyfriend, is forced to leave her life in New York and move back to her hometown. When news reports surface that a giant creature is destroying Seoul, South Korea, Gloria gradually comes to the realiz β¦ation that she is somehow connected to this far-off phenomenon. As events begin to spin out of control, Gloria must determine why her seemingly insignificant existence has such a colossal effect on the fate of the world. (Read More)
Themes: | jealousy |
Locations: | airportairplanesmall town |
Story: | woman punching a manman punching a womanpremarital sexbrawldancingflashbackfight |
The Ultimate Western Spoof. A town where everyone seems to be named Johnson is in the way of the railroad. In order to grab their land, Hedley Lemar ('Harvey Korman' (qv)), a politically connected nasty person, sends in his henchmen to make the town unlivable. After the sheriff is killed, the town d β¦emands a new sheriff from the Governor ('Mel Brooks' (qv)). Hedley convinces him to send the town the first Black sheriff ('Cleavon Little' (qv)) in the west. Bart is a sophisticated urbanite who will have some difficulty winning over the townspeople. (Read More)
Locations: | los angeles californiasmall town |
Characters: | sheriffinterracial relationshipafrican american |
Story: | stupidityblack americanbrawldancingflashback |
Jim Levenstein has finally found the courage to ask his girlfriend, Michelle Flaherty to marry him. She agrees to get married, but the problems don't stop there for Jim. Now along with Paul Finch and Kevin Myers, Jim must plan the wedding. Unfortunately Steve Stifler is in town and won't let the wed β¦ding go past without having some fun himself, which includes setting up a secret bachelor party. (Read More)
Locations: | airportsmall town |
Characters: | father son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | stupiditypremarital sexgrandmotherspankingdancingbondagedogsex |
Aurora and Emma are mother and daughter who march to different drummers. Beginning with Emma's marriage, Aurora shows how difficult and loving she can be. The movie covers several years of their lives as each finds different reasons to go on living and find joy. Aurora's interludes with Garrett Bree β¦dlove, retired astronaut and next door neighbor are quite striking. In the end, different people show their love in very different ways. (Read More)
Themes: | dysfunctional familypregnancyjealousy |
Locations: | airport |
Characters: | brother brother relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | womanizerpremarital sexsex |
When a man (Robbins) believes he has discovered that his wife is having an affair with his boss, it sets off a chain reaction of events. First he wanders into a ghetto where a robber (Lawrence) tries to take his money at gunpoint, but instead sets a wild ride from California to Arizona. The two even β¦tually become reluctant friends. Discussing robbery techniques, they decide to get back at the boss by robbing an office safe containing hundreds of thousands of dollars. Life is further complicated by another pair of robbers who chase the first two for infringing on their territory. (Read More)
Themes: | dysfunctional family |
Locations: | los angeles california |
Characters: | thieffather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | barbecuepremarital sexbrawldancingfightflashback |
Peter Klaven's world revolves around his real estate work and Zooey, his soon-to-be fiancee. After he pops the question, she calls her best friends and they go into wedding planning mode. Peter has no male friends and that poses problems: will he turn out to be a clingy guy, and who will be his best β¦ man? Zooey, her friends, and Peter's brother Robbie offer help that results in awkward moments. Then, at an open house Peter's hosting, he meets Sydney, an amiable, low-key guy. They trade business cards, and Peter calls him to meet for drinks. A friendship develops that's great at first but then threatens Peter's engagement and career. Can guys be friends and couples be in love? (Read More)
Themes: | jealousy |
Locations: | los angeles california |
Characters: | brother brother relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | awkwardnesscomma in titleembarrassmentscene during end creditsdogsexfight |
Four middle-aged men decide to take a road trip from Cincinnati to the Pacific in order to get away from their lives which are leading them nowhere. Taking their motorcycles, these "Wild Hogs" tear up the road and eventually stop in New Mexico for a drink not knowing that the bar belongs to the "Del β¦ Fuegos", a mean biker gang. When the Del Fuegos steal a bike that belongs to the Wild Hogs, the four men form a plan to steal their bike back. (Read More)
Locations: | small town |
Characters: | sheriffafrican americanfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | dietawkwardnessscene during end creditsfight |
Arthur is a spirited ten-year old whose parents are away looking for work, whose eccentric grandfather has been missing for several years, and who lives with his grandmother in a country house that, in two days, will be repossessed, torn down, and turned into a block of flats unless Arthur's grandfa β¦ther returns to sign some papers and pay off the family debt. Arthur discovers that the key to success lies in his own descent into the land of the Minimoys, creatures no larger than a tooth, whom his grandfather helped relocate to their garden. Somewhere among them is hidden a pile of rubies, too. Can Arthur be of stout heart and save the day? Romance beckons as well, and a villain lurks. (Read More)
Characters: | brother sister relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | grandfathergrandmotherspeechdancingcharacter name in titledog |
Jewish-American writer 'Jonathan Safran Foer' (qv) is a collector of his family's memorabilia, although most of the items, some which he takes without asking, would not be considered keepsakes by the average person. He places most of those items in individual Ziploc bags, and hangs them on his keeps β¦ake wall under the photograph of the person to who it is most associated. He has this compulsion in an effort to remember. He is able to tie a photograph that he receives from his grandmother, Sabine Foer, on her deathbed - it of his grandfather, Safran Foer, during the war in the Ukraine, and a young woman he will learn is named Augustine - back to a pendant he stole from his grandfather on his deathbed in 1989, the pendant of a glass encased grasshopper. Learning that Augustine somehow saved his grandfather's life leads to Jonathan going on a quest to find out the story at its source where the photograph was taken, in a now non-existent and probably largely forgotten town called Trachimbrod that was razed by the Nazis during the war, he armed only with his limited knowledge, the pendant, his grandfather's Star of David necklace, the photograph, tip "money", and an old and largely outdated map. Prior to arriving in the Ukraine, Jonathan prearranges the guide services of Odessa-based Heritage Tours, which specializes in helping Jewish expats discover their past. The company is owned and operated by three generations of the Alexander Perchov family, who generally think Jewish peopleβ¦ (Read More)
Themes: | pregnancy |
Locations: | airportairplane |
Characters: | brother brother relationshipafrican americanfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | vegetariangrandfatherblack americangrandmotherdancingflashbacksexdog |
Walter Goodfellow, the vicar for the small English country parish of Little Wallop, has allowed his marriage to Gloria go stale, and he is so detached from his family that he has not taken notice that his 17-year-old daughter Holly is going through a succession of relationships with unsuitable boyfr β¦iends, and his son Petey fears going to school owing to being bullied. Out of desperation for affection, Gloria begins to fall for the advances of Lance, an American golf pro who is giving her "private" lessons. The problems upsetting the family start to fade away after Grace Hawkins, the new housekeeper, arrives and starts tending to matters as an older, and rather darkly mysterious version of Mary Poppins. (Read More)
Themes: | dysfunctional familypregnancy |
Mood: | affection |
Locations: | small town |
Characters: | brother sister relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | womanizerspeechdogfightsex |
Charlie is a Rhode Island state trooper with a multiple personalities. He is otherwise mild-mannered and non confrontational until somebody or something pushes him a little too far. That's when his maniacal alter-ego, Hank, takes over. Charlie is assigned on a routine mission to return alleged fugit β¦ive Irene back to upstate New York, but they wind up on the run from corrupt police officers. And their escape would be a lot simpler on everybody involved if Hank didn't keep stepping in at the most inopportune times.... (Read More)
Locations: | airplane |
Characters: | interracial relationshipafrican americanfather son relationship |
Period: | 1980s |
Story: | barbecuestupidityshowercharacter name in titleflashbackdog |
Hard-partying brothers Mike (Adam Devine) and Dave (Zac Efron) place an online ad to find the perfect dates (Anna Kendrick, Aubrey Plaza) for their sister's Hawaiian wedding. Hoping for a wild getaway, the boys instead find themselves outsmarted and out-partied by the uncontrollable duo.
Characters: | cousin cousin relationshipinterracial relationshipbrother sister relationshipbrother brother relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | talk show hostspeechaccidentname in titlecharacter name in titlefight |
Marshall, Texas, described by James Farmer, Jr. as "the last city to surrender after the Civil War," is home to Wiley College, where, in 1935-36, inspired by the Harlem Renaissance and his clandestine work as a union organizer, Professor Melvin Tolson coaches the debate team to a nearly-undefeated s β¦eason that sees the first debate between U.S. students from white and Negro colleges and ends with an invitation to face Harvard University's national champions. The team of four, which includes a female student and a very young James Farmer, is tested in a crucible heated by Jim Crow, sexism, a lynch mob, an arrest and near riot, a love affair, jealousy, and a national radio audience. (Read More)
Themes: | jealousy |
Characters: | sheriffbrother sister relationshipbrother brother relationshipafrican americanfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | african american protagonistblack americandancingdogsexfight |
A pop singer has been receiving threatening notes, and her manager hires a bodyguard known for his good work. The bodyguard ruffles the singer's feathers and most of her entourage by tightening security more than they feel is necessary. The bodyguard is haunted by the fact that he was on Reagan's se β¦cret service staff but wasn't there to prevent the attack by Hinckley. Eventually the bodyguard and the singer start an affair, and she begins to believe his precautions are necessary when the stalker strikes close to home. (Read More)
Themes: | jealousy |
Locations: | los angeles californiaairplane |
Characters: | interracial relationshipafrican americanmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | embarrassmentpremarital sexbrawldancingfightdog |
Sean Thornton has returned from America to reclaim his homestead and escape his past. Sean's eye is caught by Mary Kate Danaher, a beautiful but poor maiden, and younger sister of ill-tempered "Red" Will Danaher. The riotous relationship that forms between Sean and Mary Kate, punctuated by Will's pu β¦gnacious attempts to keep them apart, form the main plot, with Sean's past as the dark undercurrent. (Read More)
Themes: | dysfunctional family |
Locations: | small town |
Characters: | brother sister relationship |
Story: | grudgewagerbrawlflashbackfight |
Scott Pilgrim plays in a band which aspires to success. He dates Knives Chau, a high-school girl five years younger, and he hasn't recovered from being dumped by his former girlfriend, now a success with her own band. When Scott falls for Ramona Flowers, he has trouble breaking up with Knives and tr β¦ies to romance Ramona. As if juggling two women wasn't enough, Ramona comes with baggage: seven ex-lovers, with each of whom Scott must do battle to the death in order to win Ramona. (Read More)
Themes: | jealousy |
Characters: | interracial relationshipbrother sister relationship |
Story: | woman punching a manman punching a womanveganvegetarianbrawlcharacter name in titleflashbackfight |
When an adorable baby boy is added to the Addams household, Wednesday and Pugsley do not hate the baby, they just aren't necessarily excited about his existence. Ok, yeah they do hate the baby. So Wednesday and Pugsley must get rid of the new addition one way or another. Meanwhile a new nanny is add β¦ed to the household who overtakes Fester. The Addams must stop the nanny, but how? (Read More)
Subgenre: | screwball comedy |
Themes: | dysfunctional familypregnancyjealousy |
Characters: | brother sister relationshipbrother brother relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | grandmotherdancingcharacter name in title |
Zack and Miri are two lifelong platonic friends who make an adult film to pay the rent of their apartment. With their friend Delaney, the couple set out for auditionees for their porn film, but in the process of filming, they realize they feel more for each other than they had before.
Subgenre: | screwball comedy |
Themes: | jealousy |
Story: | black stereotypeawkwardnessscene during end creditsshowerdancingcharacter name in titledog |
American Maxwell Smart works for a Government spy agency in an administrative capacity. When the agency's head office is attacked, the Chief decides to assign Maxwell as a spy and partners him with sexy Agent 99, much to her chagrin. The duo nevertheless set off to combat their attackers by first pa β¦rachuting off an airplane and landing in Russian territory - followed closely by an over seven feet tall, 400 pound goon, known simply as Dalip. The duo, handicapped by Maxwell's antics, will eventually have their identities compromised, and may be chalked up as casualties, while back in America their attackers have already planted a bomb that is set-up to explode in a concert. (Read More)
Locations: | los angeles californiaairplane |
Story: | big manstrong manbrawldancingcharacter name in titleflashbackfightdog |
Annie (Kristen Wiig), is a maid of honor whose life unravels as she leads her best friend, Lillian (Maya Rudolph), and a group of colorful bridesmaids (Rose Byrne, Melissa McCarthy, Wendi McLendon-Covey and Ellie Kemper) on a wild ride down the road to matrimony. Annie's life is a mess. But when she β¦ finds out her lifetime best friend is engaged, she simply must serve as Lillian's maid of honor. Though lovelorn and broke, Annie bluffs her way through the expensive and bizarre rituals. With one chance to get it perfect, she'll show Lillian and her bridesmaids just how far you'll go for someone you love. (Read More)
Themes: | jealousy |
Locations: | airportairplane |
Characters: | cousin cousin relationship |
Story: | grudgeawkwardnessembarrassmentscene during end creditsspeechfight |
Juggling some angry Russians, the British Mi5, his impossibly leggy wife and an international terrorist, debonair art dealer and part time rogue Charlie Mortdecai must traverse the globe armed only with his good looks and special charm in a race to recover a stolen painting rumored to contain the co β¦de to a lost bank account filled with Nazi gold. (Read More)
Subgenre: | screwball comedy |
Locations: | airportlos angeles californiaairplane |
Characters: | thief |
Story: | awkwardnessstupiditywomanizerbrawldancingcharacter name in titlefightflashbacksexdog |
Andrew Largeman is a semi-successful television actor who plays a intellectually disabled quarterback. His somewhat controlling and psychiatrist father has led Andrew ("Large") to believe that his mother's wheelchair bound life was his fault. Andrew decides to lay off the drugs that his father and h β¦is doctor made him believe that he needed, and began to see life for what it is. He began to feel the pain he had longed for, and began to have a genuine relationship with a girl who had some problems of her own. (Read More)
Themes: | dysfunctional family |
Locations: | airportlos angeles california |
Characters: | cousin cousin relationshipbrother sister relationshipafrican americanfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | homecomingblack americandancingsexdog |
Three best friends get together and bury a box, making a pact to open it at midnight at their high school graduation. In the small town in Georgia that they live in, things soon change. One is little miss perfect, one is an engaged prom queen, and the other is a pregnant outcast. On the night of the β¦ir graduation, they open the box and they strike up a conversation. Suddenly, one brings up the topic of her going to Los Angeles for a record contract audition. They all decide to go together and they leave. With a little money, they set out on the road with a guy named Ben. When one of them tells the other a rumor that he might be a homicidal maniac, they are all scared of him. When they reach Los Angeles, Lucy (Britney Spears) falls in love with Ben and against her father's wishes, she stays and she goes to the audition. (Read More)
Themes: | pregnancy |
Locations: | los angeles californiasmall town |
Characters: | single fatherinterracial relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | broken engagementpremarital sexdancing |
In a castle high on top of a hill lives an inventor's greatest creation - Edward, a near-complete person. The creator died before he could finish Edward's hands; instead, he is left with metal scissors for hands. Since then, he has lived alone, until a kind lady called Peg discovers him and welcomes β¦ him into her home. At first, everyone welcomes him into the community, but soon things begin to take a change for the worse. (Read More)
Themes: | dysfunctional familyjealousy |
Characters: | brother sister relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | talk show hostbarbecuecharacter name in titleflashbackdogfight |
Ryan Bingham is a corporate downsizing expert whose cherished life on the road is threatened just as he is on the cusp of reaching ten million frequent flyer miles and just after he's met the frequent-traveler woman of his dreams.
Locations: | airportairplane |
Characters: | brother sister relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | homecomingspeechfour word titledancingdog |
MI6's top assassin (Mark Strong) has a brother. Unfortunately for him, he's a football hooligan (Sacha Baron Cohen) from the town of Grimsby. Nobby has everything a man from the poor English fishing town of Grimsby could want - 9 children and the most attractive girlfriend in northern England (Rebel β¦ Wilson). There's only one thing missing in his life: his little brother, Sebastian. After they were adopted by different families as children, Nobby spent 28 years searching for him. Upon hearing of his location, Nobby sets off to reunite with his brother, unaware that not only is his brother an MI6 agent, but he's just uncovered a plot that puts the world in danger. On the run and wrongfully accused, Sebastian realizes that if he is going to save the world, he will need the help of its biggest idiot. (Read More)
Themes: | dysfunctional family |
Locations: | airplanesmall town |
Characters: | brother sister relationshipbrother brother relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | animal sexstupidityscene during end creditsorphanbrawlcharacter name in titlefightdogflashback |
Louis Winthorpe is a businessman who works for commodities brokerage firm of Duke and Duke owned by the brothers Mortimer and Randolph Duke. Now they bicker over the most trivial of matters and what they are bickering about is whether it's a person's environment or heredity that determines how well β¦they will do in life. When Winthorpe bumps into Billy Ray Valentine, a street hustler and assumes he is trying to rob him, he has him arrested. Upon seeing how different the two men are, the brothers decide to make a wager as to what would happen if Winthorpe loses his job, his home and is shunned by everyone he knows and if Valentine was given Winthorpe's job. So they proceed to have Winthorpe arrested and to be placed in a compromising position in front of his girlfriend. So all he has to rely on is the hooker who was hired to ruin him. (Read More)
Subgenre: | comedy of manners |
Characters: | interracial relationshipbrother brother relationship |
Period: | 1980s |
Story: | african american protagonistbroken engagementwager |
A year after the accidental death of their father, three brothers -- each suffering from depression - meet for a train trip across India. Francis, the eldest, has organized it. The brothers argue, sulk, resent each other, and fight. The youngest, Jack, estranged from his girlfriend, is attracted to β¦one of the train's attendants. Peter has left his pregnant wife at home, and he buys a venomous snake. After a few days, Francis discloses their surprising and disconcerting destination. Amid foreign surroundings, can the brothers sort out their differences? A funeral, a meditation, a hilltop ritual, and the Bengal Lancer figure in the reconciliation. (Read More)
Themes: | pregnancy |
Locations: | airportairplane |
Characters: | brother brother relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | snakesexflashbackfight |
Characters: | father son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | competitivenesswagerbarbecuegrandfatherflashbackdog |
After many years of being separated from modeling and each other, Derek and Hansel are dragged back into the fashion world in Rome. After being humiliated on the runway by the people behind the scenes, Derek and Hansel decide to quit the business . . . until retired swimsuit model, Valentina, drags β¦them back in with questions about recent celebrity deaths. Soon after, Derek also realizes out that the son who was taken from him is in Rome, and is much dismayed to find that Derek, Jr. is fat. And smart. Regardless, Derek, Sr. continues his mission with Hansel, which leads them to the fashion-model legends of "Adam, Eve, and Steve", and the "Chosen One". Who is that person? Why do the models drink the Chosen One's blood? Will Derek's and Hansel's careers resume? (Read More)
Themes: | pregnancy |
Locations: | airport |
Characters: | father son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | narcissismstupiditysnakeaccidentname in titlecharacter name in titleflashbackfight |
When Dennis Cooverman gives the commencement speech at his graduation, his friend tells him to let it all out. So he proclaims his love for Beth Cooper the head cheerleader, and says things about everyone in the graduating class as well as some other people. Later Beth confronts him and he invites h β¦er to a graduation party at his house. And to his surprise she and two of her friends show up. But also some of the people he offended with his speech, who want to tear him apart. And one of them is Beth's boyfriend whom she just broke up with. So they all get in Beth's car and drive away. And what follows is a wild adventure. (Read More)
Story: | comma in titleembarrassmentspeechshowercharacter name in titleflashbackfight |
Locations: | small town |
Characters: | single fatherbrother sister relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | american southscene during end creditsdancingcharacter name in title |
Peter Colt, an English tennis player in his thirties whose ranking slipped from 11th to 119th in the world, considers he never really had to fight for anything as his wealthy but all but close family easily put him through studies and allowed him to pursue his tennis ambitions, bravely exchanges jok β¦es with his German sparring partner Dieter Prohl, in a similar position, but feels it's about time to admit he's getting too old to compete with fitter coming men (or boys) and intends, after a last Wimbledon, to take a job with the prestigious tennis club instead. Just then, by accident, he bumps into Lizzie Bradbury, the American rising star of female tennis, falls in love with her and finds her interest in him changes his entire perception, even gives him the strength to win again. But where will it lead them, especially when her overprotective father-manager Dennis Bradbury proves determined to nip their relationship in the bud, believing it detrimental to her career? (Read More)
Locations: | airport |
Characters: | brother brother relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | wagerbarbecuepremarital sexaccidentshowerdogfight |
Television made him famous, but his biggest hits happened off screen. "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind" is the story of a legendary showman's double life - television producer by day, CIA assassin by night. At the height of his TV career, Chuck Barris was recruited by the CIA and trained to become a β¦ covert operative. Or so Barris said. (Read More)
Themes: | pregnancy |
Locations: | los angeles californiaairplane |
Characters: | brother sister relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Period: | 1980s |
Story: | premarital sexshowerdancingflashbackdogfightsex |
More than a dozen Angelenos navigate Valentine's Day from early morning until midnight. Three couples awake together, but each relationship will sputter; are any worth saving? A grade-school boy wants flowers for his first true love; two high school seniors plan first-time sex at noon; a TV sports r β¦eporter gets the assignment to find romance in LA; a star quarterback contemplates his future; two strangers meet on a plane; grandparents, together for years, face a crisis; and, an "I Hate Valentine's Day" dinner beckons the lonely and the lied to. Can Cupid finish his work by midnight? (Read More)
Locations: | airportlos angeles californiaairplane |
Characters: | interracial relationshipafrican americanmother son relationship |
Story: | broken engagementdancingsexdog |