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Genre "Screwball Comedy" Movies
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| 2. Clue (year: 1985) |
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In this spoof of McCarthy-era paranoia and 1950s wholesomeness, the characters and plot are drawn from the popular Parker Brothers board game of the s ...
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| 3. Crimewave (year: 1985) |
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In a slapstick spoof of hitmen and crime stories, the head of a security systems company (Hamid Dana) is bumped off by two gonzo exterminators (Brion ...
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| 4. Flirting With Disaster (year: 1996) |
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In this satirical comedy, Mel Coplin (Ben Stiller) has a beautiful wife, Nancy (Patricia Arquette), and a four-month old son, and on the surface his l ...
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| 5. Harvey (year: 1950) |
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| 6. His Girl Friday (year: 1940) |
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The second screen version of the Ben Hecht/Charles MacArthur play The Front Page, His Girl Friday changed hard-driving newspaper reporter Hildy Johnso ...
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| 7. How to Be a Player (year: 1997) |
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A man who's devoted his life to running around on his woman finally meets his match in this comedy. Dray Jackson (Bill Bellamy) is a ladies' man par e ...
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| 8. It Happened One Night (year: 1934) |
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Frank Capra's seminal screwball comedy, which won all five major Academy Awards for 1934, is still as breezy and beguiling today. Claudette Colbert pl ...
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| 9. Laws of Attraction (year: 2004) |
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Though equally respected in their field, divorce lawyers Audrey Woods (Julianne Moore) and Daniel Rafferty (Pierce Brosnan) are opposites inside and o ...
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| 10. Le Pari (year: 1997) |
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In this French comedy, sisters Murielle (Isabella Ferron) and Victoria (Isabel Otero) are married to men who hate each other — high-school t ...
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| 11. Made in America (year: 1993) |
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Richard Benjamin directed this farce that plays like "Guess Who's Coming for Insemination?" Whoopi Goldberg stars as Sarah Matthews, who run ...
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| 12. Mumford (year: 1999) |
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Lawrence Kasdan wrote and directed this comedy about a young psychologist named Mumford (Loren Dean), who arrives in a small town and sets up a practi ...
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| 13. The Big Lebowski (year: 1998) |
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The plot of this Raymond Chandler-esque comedy crime caper from the Coen Brothers (Joel Coen and Ethan Coen) pivots around a case of mistaken identity ...
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| 14. The Couch Trip (year: 1988) |
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Michael Ritchie's The Couch Trip follows a long line of Hollywood films (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Disorderly Orderly) in which the psychos ...
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| 15. The Philadelphia Story (year: 1940) |
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We open on Philadelphia socialite C.K. Dexter Haven (Cary Grant) as he's being tossed out of his palatial home by his wife, Tracy Lord (Katharine Hepb ...
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| 16. Two Much (year: 1995) |
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This Spanish-American production stars Antonio Banderas and Melanie Griffith, whose romance on the set helped the film set box-office records in Spain ...
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| 17. Unfaithfully Yours (year: 1948) |
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Preston Sturges' Unfaithfully Yours is a typically witty and wild screwball comedy starring Rex Harrison as a symphony conductor named Alfred de Carte ...
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| 18. You Can't Take It with You (year: 1938) |
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Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman's whimsical Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway play You Can't Take It With You was transformed into a paean to populism b ...
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