Comedy Movies 2004 List

With Mads Mikkelsen • Nikolaj Lie Kaas • Aksel Erhardtsen • Bodil Jørgensen • Hanne Løvendahl • Nicolas Bro • Line Kruse • Ole Thestrup • Lily Weiding • Camilla Bendix • Anders Thomas Jensen

Svend and Bjarne work for a butcher in a small Danish town. Fed up with their boss' arrogance, they decide to start their own butcher shop. After dismal beginnings, an unfortunate accident happens which coincides with a large order of meat. One hasty decision leads to another and soon the business thrives. In the meantime, Bjarne has to deal with his twin brother who has been in coma for years following a gruesome car accident.

With Jim Carrey • Jude Law • Luis Guzman • Meryl Streep • Timothy Spall • Emily Browning • Jennifer Coolidge • Cedric the Entertainer • Walter F. Parkes • Liam Aiken • Brad Silberling • Laurie MacDonald • Robert Gordon

Based on the bestselling book series by Daniel Handler, the "Snicket" saga revolves around a pint-sized trio of orphans named Sunny, Klaus and Violet who find themselves fobbed off on a series of odd people, including Lemony Snicket, who narrates each of what has grown to a series of eight books since Handler debuted the first title in 1999. The recurring bad guy is a distant family relative named Count Olaf, who initially takes in the kids but clearly is trying to separate them from a family inheritance.

With Sarah Steele • James L. Brooks • Paz Vega • Tea Leoni • Allen Covert • Cloris Leachman • Matt Battaglia • Richard Sakai • Julie Ansell

In "Spanglish", the beautifully observed comedy/drama from acclaimed multiple Oscar-winning writer/director/producer James L. Brooks ("As Good As It Gets", "Terms of Endearment"), Flor (Paz Vega), a beautiful, native Mexican woman becomes the housekeeper for the affluent, yet troubled, Clasky family (headed by Adam Sandler and Téa Leoni). The result is a wittily perceptive collision of cultures and values, and a refreshingly honest look at such life-altering commitments as marriage, parenting and devotion to family.

With Robert De Niro • Ben Stiller • Dustin Hoffman • Blythe Danner • Jay Roach • Jane Rosenthal • Teri Polo • Nancy Tenebaum • Tim Rasmussen • Vince DiMeglio • Jim Herzfeld

Now that Greg Focker is in with his soon-to-be in-laws, Jack and Dina Byrnes, it looks like smooth sailing for him and his fiancée, Pam. But that's before Pam's parents meet Greg's parents, Bernie and Roz Focker. The hyper-relaxed Fockers and the tightly-wound Byrneses are woefully mismatched from the start, and no matter how hard Greg and Pam try, there is just no bringing their families together.

With John Davis • Raven-Symone • Lowell Ganz • Kenan Thompson • Jeremy Suarez • Kyla Pratt • Omarion Granberry • Keith Robinson • Jermaine Williams • Aaron Frazier • Joel Zwick • Bill Cosby • Charles Kipps

Live-action version of the Saturday morning television cartoon (1972-85) following the misadventures of a group of adolescent boys growing up in a Philadelphia neighborhood, focusing on an obese boy named Albert and his friends Rudy, Mushmouth, Bill, Dumb Donald, Russell, and Weird Harold. Fat Albert pulls his pals into trouble when they fall out of their TV world into the real world, where Fat Albert tries to help a young girl, Doris, make friends. However, the simple life of the group is interrupted when Fat Albert falls for Doris' older sister, Lauri, sparking his friends to worry that their leader may never want to return to his cartoon world.

With Willem Dafoe • Peter Stormare • Bill Murray • Owen Wilson • Wes Anderson • Anjelica Huston • Noah Baumbach • Jeff Goldblum • Scott Rudin • Barry Mendel • Bud Cort • Wallace Wolodarsky

Internationally famous oceanographer Steve Zissou (Bill Murray) and his crew—Team Zissou—set sail on an expedition to hunt down the mysterious, elusive, possibly non-existant Jaguar Shark that killed Zissou's partner during the documentary filming of their latest adventure. They are joined on their voyage by a young airline co-pilot who may or may not be Zissou's son (Owen Wilson), a beautiful journalist (Cate Blanchett) assigned to write a profile of Zissou, and Zissou's estranged wife and co-producer, Eleanor (Anjelica Huston). They face overwhelming complications including pirates, kidnapping, and bankruptcy.

With Scarlett Johansson • John Travolta • George Furla • Bob Yari • Brooke Allen • Warren Blosjo • Shainee Gabel • David Lancaster • Paul Miller • R. Paul Miller • Brad Krevoy • Deborah Kara Unger • Clayne Crawford • John Penotti • Tim Williams • John M Penotti

Upon hearing of her mother's death, jaded teenage loner Purslane Hominy Will (Scarlett Johansson) returns to New Orleans for the first time in years, ready to reclaim her childhood home. Expecting to find her late mother's house abandoned, Pursy is shocked to discover that it is inhabited by two of her mother's friends: Bobby Long (John Travolta), a former literature professor, and his young protégé, Lawson Pines (Gabriel Macht). These broken men, whose lives took a wrong turn years before, have been firmly rooted in the dilapidated house for years, encouraged only by Lawson's faltering ambitions to write a novel about Bobby Long's life. Having no intention of leaving, Pursy, Bobby Long and Lawson are all forced to live together. Yet as time passes, their tenuous, makeshift arrangement unearths a series of buried personal secrets that challenges their bonds, and reveals just how inextricably their lives are intertwined.