Genre "Showbiz Comedy" Movies
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| 1. 13 Moons (year: 2002) |
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The director of such off-beat independent films as In the Soup, director Alexandre Rockwell once again teams with that film's star to deliver this Los ...
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| 2. 200 Motels (year: 1971) |
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Less a movie than a purposely crude series of musical vignettes and inside jokes for die-hard fans, Frank Zappa informs viewers in the opening scene t ...
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| 3. A Hard Day's Night (year: 1964) |
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During the first worldwide flush of Beatlemania in 1964, United Artists wanted to ship out a movie with The Beatles before their vogue was over. Worki ...
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| 4. Airheads (year: 1994) |
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Airheads is a variation on Dog Day Afternoon, as well as a comic look at the trials and tribulations of both the music business and Generation X. A ha ...
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| 5. America's Sweethearts (year: 2001) |
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Studio mogul Joe Roth returns to his roots as a director with this romantic comedy co-written by Billy Crystal and starring Roth's longtime friend Jul ...
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| 6. American Dreamz (year: 2006) |
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The President of the United States (Dennis Quaid) seems to be having a nervous breakdown after picking up a newspaper for the first time in four years ...
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| 7. Americanizing Shelley (year: 2007) |
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Hollywood meets Bollywood in director Lorraine Senna's Pygmalion-like tale of a Tinseltown hanger-on who attempts to transform a Himalayan village bel ...
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| 8. Barton Fink (year: 1991) |
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The title character, played by John Turturro, is a Broadway playwright, based on Clifford Odets, lured to Hollywood with the promise of untold riches ...
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| 9. Big Fat Liar (year: 2002) |
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Former co-stars of the TV sitcom Head of the Class teamed up to write the story and script for this teen comedy. When junior high-school student Jason ...
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| 10. Broadway Danny Rose (year: 1984) |
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A smaller, amusing comedy from writer/director Woody Allen, Broadway Danny Rose begins with a bunch of show business vets sitting around a table at Ne ...
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| 11. Casi Divas (year: 2008) |
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Mexican director Issa López's showbusiness-themed farce Casi Divas (Road to Fame) follows the nutty adventures of four aspiring actresses clamoring fo ...
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| 12. Cosi (year: 1996) |
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In this Australian comedy, adapted by Louis Nowra from his own play and updated from a '70s to a '90s setting, a Sydney slacker gets the chance to sta ...
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| 13. Dead Silence (year: 1990) |
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| 14. Death to Smoochy (year: 2002) |
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Danny DeVito steps behind the camera for this darkly funny satire that combines elements of Barney and Friends with the real-life Pee-Wee Herman scand ...
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| 15. El Grito En El Cielo (year: 1998) |
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Writer-directors Felix Sabroso and Dunia Ayaso made this Spanish comedy-drama with an "inside television" angle. TV host Miranda Vega (Maria ...
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| 16. Galaxy Quest (year: 1999) |
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A team of intrepid adventurers travels through the outer reaches of the galaxy, each week finding excitement and adventure on Galaxy Quest! Or at leas ...
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| 17. My Geisha (year: 1962) |
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In this romantic comedy, a popular actress disguises herself as a Japanese geisha to land a part in a film directed by her husband. Shirley MacLaine s ...
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| 18. Notting Hill (year: 1999) |
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Can a beautiful and internationally famous American actress find happiness with a frumpy British bookstore clerk? She can — at least for a w ...
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| 19. Paris When It Sizzles (year: 1964) |
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Richard Quine directs George Axelrod's acerbic script (adapted from Julien Duvivier's La Fête à Henriette) in this romantic comedy that reunites Willi ...
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| 20. Postcards from the Edge (year: 1990) |
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Mike Nichols lends some comic structure to Carrie Fisher's best-selling confessional novel concerning a woman's struggles with drug addiction and moth ...
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| 21. Rhinestone (year: 1984) |
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After a big-time country singer (Dolly Parton) brags that she can turn anybody in to a country-singin' star, she's out to prove she can live up to her ...
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| 22. Road to Nashville (year: 1967) |
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Doodles Weaver finally gets a break at the Hollywood studio he works for; the big boss J.B. (Richard Arlen) sends him to Nashville to round up talent ...
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| 23. Shock Treatment (year: 1981) |
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The sequel to the cult classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show, this film follows the further adventures of Brad (Cliff De Young) and Janet (Jessica Har ...
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| 24. Showbiz (year: 2007) |
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| 25. Spice World (year: 1998) |
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Bob Spiers (director of TV's Absolutely Fabulous) directed this feature-film debut of the five Spice Girls — Posh Spice, Sporty Spice, Scary ...
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| 26. The Producers (year: 1968) |
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| 27. This Is Spinal Tap (year: 1984) |
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Largely improvised by director Rob Reiner and his cast, This Is Spinal Tap looks and sounds like a "real" documentary, with Michael McKean, ...
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| 28. Tiptoes (year: 1927) |
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| 29. Tootsie (year: 1982) |
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Michael Dorsey (Dustin Hoffman), a brilliant but troublesome New York actor, has managed to alienate every producer on both coasts. Michael's agent Ge ...
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| 30. Waiting for Guffman (year: 1996) |
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The city of Blaine, Missouri is celebrating its sesquicentennial, and what better reason could there be to put on a show? Corky St. Claire (Christophe ...
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| 31. White Christmas (year: 1954) |
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White Christmas, Paramount's belated follow-up to the 1942 hit Holiday Inn, was the studio's first VistaVision production. A veritable warehouse full ...
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