Comedy Movies 2003 List

With David Spade • Alyssa Milano • Corey Feldman • Jack Giarruputo • Mary McCormack • Sascha Knopft • Doris Roberts • Jon Lovitz • Craig Bierko • Jenna Boyd • Fred Wolf • Sam Weisman • Tom McNulty

TV child star of the '70s, Dickie Roberts is now 35 and parking cars. Craving to regain the spotlight, he auditions for a role of a normal guy, but the director quickly sees he is anything but normal. Desperate to win the part, Dickie hires a family to help him replay his childhood and assume the identity of an average, everyday kid. Several folk who are also involved in Dickie's special world include: Sidney, Dickie's longtime friend and agent; Cyndi, his on-again, off-again girlfriend; Peggy, Dickie's real mother; George, Dickie's adopted father figure; and Grace, his adopted mother figure.

With Tom Sternberg • Diane Lane • Raoul Bova • Lindsay Duncan • Audrey Wells • Kate Walsh • Dan Bucatinsky • Vince Riotta • Giulia Steigerwalt • Laura Fattori • Frances Mayes

Frances Mayes (Diane Lane) is a 35-year-old San Francisco writer whose perfect life has just taken an unexpected detour. Her recent divorce has left her with terminal writer's block and extremely depressed, and her best friend, Patti (Sandra Oh), is beginning to think she might never recover. "Dr. Patti's" Rx: 10 days in Tuscany. And it's there that, on a whim, Frances purchases a villa named Bramasole - literally, "something that yearns for the sun." The home needs much restoration, but what better place for a new beginning than the home of the Renaissance? As she flings herself into her new life at the villa in the lush and beautiful Italian countryside, Frances makes new friends among her neighbors, but in the quiet moments, she is fearful that her ambitions for her new life - and a new family - may not be realized... until a chance encounter in Rome throws Frances into the arms of an intriguing Protobello antiquities dealer named Marcello (Raoul Bova). Can this be what she dreamed of? Can love last with Marcello? Will her new life flower under the Tuscan sun?

With James DeBello • Cerina Vincent • Robert Harris • Giuseppe Andrew • Eli Roth • Rider Strong • Jordan Ladd • Joey Kern • Richard Boone • Matthew Helms • Brandon Johnson

College is finally over and five friends escape to a remote log cabin in the woods to enjoy some last days of decadence before entering the working world. Merriment and good times sour when a delirious stranger covered in bloody sores crashes their party. Shots are fired and the lunatic flees into the woods, but it's too late for our five friends: contact was already made. Soon one member of the circle gets ill and her skin starts to bubble and burn as a trail of oozing sores ravages her flesh. The group's compassion quickly turns to repulsion and terror as their friend deteriorates before their eyes.

With Adrien Brody • Vera Farmiga • Milla Jovovich • Jared Harris • Ron Leibman • Joanne Bayes • Jessica Walter • Illeana Douglas • Mirabella Pisani • Adam LeFevre • Helen Hanft • Richmond Hoxie • Lou Martini Jr. • Gabor Morea • Edward Hibbert • Greg Pritikin

Set in suburbia, the Greg Pritikin-directed film centers on socially challenged Steven (Adrien Brody), who quits his job to pursue a life-long dream of becoming a ventriloquist. Ignored at home by his father (Ron Leibman), mother (Jessica Walter) and embittered sister (Illeana Douglas), Steven begins to find his voice with the help of a wisecracking dummy.

With Josh Lucas • Robert Duvall • Michael Caine • Kyra Sedgwick • Haley Joel Osment • Nicky Katt • Tim McCanlies • Corey Sienega • David Kirschner • Scott Ross

"Secondhand Lions" follows the comedic adventures of an introverted 14 year-old boy (Haley Joel Osment) who reluctantly finds himself spending the summer with a pair of cranky, eccentric great-uncles (Michael Caine and Robert Duvall). At first appalled by their gruff uncaring manner, over time he becomes enthralled with his uncles as the exotic tales and remembrances of their own youthful exploits introduce the boy to a world of imagination and wonder and re-ignites the old men's spirits.

With Ginette Reno • Claudia Ferri • Luke Kirby • Tim Post • Paul Sorvino • Peter Miller • Pierrette Robitaille • Mary Walsh • Shaun Balbar • James Berlingieri • Richard Jutras • Diane Lavallee • Sophie Lorain • Dino Tavarone • Emile Goudreault

They're all Italian living in Montreal, but they could be from any large city in the western world with an Italian community. Angelo is a travel agent trying to become a television writer in his late twenties. Nino is a well-respected law enforcement officer, also in his thirties. Maria and Gino, Angelo's parents, emigrated in the 1950's and married after their arrival in "the new world". Maria and Gino's world is shattered when their son decides to get a place of his own. They are relieved however when Angelo's childhood buddy Nino decides to move in with their son. Their relief is short lived as they find out that Nino and Angelo are more than just roomates-they're lovers!

With Beyonce Knowles • Cuba Gooding Jr. • Mike Epps • Steve Harvey • Dave Sheridan • Jonathan Lynn • Melba Moore • Wendell Pierce • Faith Evans • Rue McClanahan • LaTanya Richardson • Angie Stone

When slick-talking New York City advertising executive Darrin Fox travels back to his small hometown in Georgia to claim the inheritance his aunt Sally left him, he finds he must fulfill her last wish before he can collect -- create a gospel choir and lead it to success. But with a town full of tin ears and a shortage of singers, Darrin is about ready to give up and head back to the city where he belongs…until he runs into Lilly. A beautiful nightclub singer with a voice that could rock the competition at the annual Gospel Explosion, Lilly is just the miracle Darrin is looking for... if he can persuade her to sing.

With Katie Holmes • Patricia Clarkson • Isiah Whitlock • Alison Pill • Derek Luke • Peter Hedges • Oliver Platt • Alice Drummond • John Gallagher Jr. • Sisqo • Sean P. Hayes • Lillias White • Susan Bruce • Gary Winick • John Lyons • Alexis Alexanian • Holly Becker

April Burns (Katie Holmes) is a 21-year-old wild child with a very big problem. Against her better judgment, she's invited her straightlaced family for Thanksgiving dinner. Her boyfriend, Bobby, wants to help, but she banishes him from the apartment while she attempts to cook the meal. To make matters worse, she then discovers that her oven doesn't work. So, while April is forced to ask her eccentric neighbors for help in cooking her fifteen pound turkey, the Burns Family begins a reluctant journey from suburban Pennsylvania toward New York City's Lower East Side. April's Dad, Jim Burns (Oliver Platt) tries to convince the family that the day will be beautiful. Her mom, Joy (Patricia Clarkson) has her doubts and freely voices them. April's teenage sister and brother are squeezed between Grandma Dottie and a bag of snacks in the back seat as the Burns' family car hurtles toward Manhattan and what will most likely be certain disaster.

With Glenn Close • Danny DeVito • Christina Ricci • Jimmy Fallon • Woody Allen • Jason Biggs

The story of a struggling artist (Woody Allen) who has an affair with a much, much younger woman (Christina Ricci), which breaks the heart of her boyfriend (Jason Biggs), and raises the ire of her shotgun-wielding father (Dammu DeVito).

With Daniel Roebuck • Campbell • Ella Joyce • Larry Pennell • Ossie Davis • Reggie Bannister • Gigi Fast Elk Porter • Bob Ivy • Heidi Marnhout • Daniel Schweiger • Harrison Young • Don Coscarelli

Based on the Bram Stoker Award nominee short story by acclaimed author Joe R. Lansdale, "Bubba Ho-tep" tells the "true" story of what really did become of Elvis. We find the King (Campbell) as an elderly resident in an East Texas rest home, who switched identities with an Elvis impersonator years before his "death", then missed his chance to switch back. Elvis teams up with Jack (Davis), a fellow nursing home resident who thinks that he is actually President John F. Kennedy, and the two valiant old codgers sally forth to battle an evil Egyptian entity who has chosen their long-term care facility as his happy hunting grounds...

With Heather Graham • Colin Firth • Minnie Driver • Mary Steenburgen • Oliver Platt • Mark Herman

In this romantic comedy, British artist Colin Ware (Colin Firth) discovers that his fiance, Vera (Minnie Driver), the love of his life, is going to marry another man. Distraught and despondent, he gets on a plane for America and ends up in the tiny town of Hope in New England. At first, Colin is depressed, but he soon finds more than a shoulder to cry on when his innkeepers introduce him to Mandy (Heather Graham), a beautiful nurse. All's going well and Colin has almost forgotten his old flame until Vera suddenly shows up with a surprise of her own. "Hope Springs" is about finding happiness where you least expect it.

With Ben Stiller • Drew Barrymore • Danny DeVito • Maya Rudolph • Wallace Shawn • Justin Theroux • Amber Valletta • Tim Maculan • Robert Wisdom • James Remar • Harvey Fierstein • Eileen Essell • Sheryl Klein • Swoosie Kurtz

Set in the competitive world of New York City real estate, a couple (Drew Barrymore and Ben Stiller), whose dream home is a converted duplex apartment in the perfect neighborhood, decide to kill the sweet little old lady (Eileen Essell) who's currently living there, or else they'll never get to buy it...

With Dwayne Johnson • Christopher Walken • Rosario Dawson • Seann William Scott • Peter Berg • Jon Gries • Ewen Bremner • Kevin Misher • Ernie Reyes Jr. • Marc Abraham • Karen Glasser • Kario Salem • R.J. Stewart

When Travis (Seann William Scott), the son of an underworld kingpin, disappears in the Amazon in search of a priceless artifact, Beck (The Rock), the kingpin's retrieval expert, is sent to get him. Despite their hostility - and their love for the same woman (Rosario Dawson) - the two must eventually join forces to fight the evil head (Christopher Walken) of a gold-mining corporation who is after the same treasure.

With Cameron Richardson • Tatyana Ali • Tony Denman • Courtney Gains • Boti Bliss • Chris Owen • Danielle Fishel • Edwn Hodge • Jennifer Lyons • Patrick Renna • Randy Spelling

A college student living with his little brother in a dorm hires Dominique, a prostitute, so that his younger sibling can finally lose his virginity. Hilarity of the highest order (read: pratfalls) ensues when a foreign exchange student also named Dominque is mistaken for the prostitute.