Comedy Movies 2004 List

With Jon Heder • Jon Gries • Efren Ramirez • Jared Hess • Aaron Ruell • Jeremy Coon • Haylie Duff • Tina Majorino • Sean Covel • Chris Wyatt • Jerusha Hess

From the rural town of Preston, Idaho, comes Napoleon Dynamite. With a red 'fro, his moon boots and illegal government ninja moves, he is a new kind of hero. His family consists of fragile brother Kip, who's seeking his soul mate in online chat rooms; Uncle Rico, who is stuck in his "glory" days of high school football; and Grandma, who enjoys going out to the dunes on her quad-runner. Napoleon spends his days drawing magical beasts, working on his computer hacking skills to impress the chicks, and begrudgingly feeding his grandma's pet llama. When his friend Pedro decides to run for class president, it is Napoleon to the rescue to help him triumph over adversity.

With Bill Murray • Alan Cumming • Brad Garrett • John Davis • Jimmy Kimmel • Jennifer Love Hewitt • Nick Cannon • Neil A. Machlis • Breckin Meyer • Peter Hewitt • John Kilkenny • Stephen Tobolowsky • David Eigenberg • vDebra Messing • Brian Manis • Michele Imperato • Joel Cohen • Alec Sokolow • Jim Davis

Life couldn't be sweeter for Garfield. Parked on a comfortable barcolounger in front of the TV, feasting on his favorite dish—lasagna—he's the master of his universe. That is, until his owner, Jon, takes in sweet but dimwitted pooch Odie, turning Garfield's perfect world upside down. Now, Garfield wants only one thing: Odie out of his home and life! But when the hapless pup disappears, Garfield, maybe for the first time in his life, feels responsible. With an uncharacteristic amount of energy and courage, Garfield manages to pull himself away from the TV, and spring into action. He's on a mission to save Odie....and get back to his beloved barcolounger!

With Macaulay Culkin • Mandy Moore • Eva Amurri • Jena Malone • Patrick Fugit • Michael Ohoven • Martin Donovan • Heather Matarazzo • Mary Louise Parker • Brian Dannelly • Michael Urban

"Good girl" Mary (Jena Malone) can't believe it when she gets pregnant by her newly-gay boyfriend. She also can't believe the actions of her popular, relentlessly devout best friend, Hilary Faye (Mandy Moore), who's looking after her wheelchair-bound brother Roland (Macaulay Culkin), attempting to convert adamantly Jewish Cassandra (Eva Amurri), and trying to snag cute newcomer Patrick (Patrick Fugit), a hip skateboarding missionary. By the time Mary's secret is revealed, Hilary Faye has gone to extremes to get the outsiders expelled from school, with spectacular results, and Mary is forced to decide what's worth believing in the first place. In this dark comedy, a young, talented cast comes together to get "Saved".

With Nicole Kidman • Glenn Close • Christopher Walken • Mike White • Matthew Broderick • Scott Rudin • Roger Bart • Bette Midler • Faith Hill • Donald De Line • Jon Lovitz • Lisa Masters • Frank Oz • Gabriel Grunfeld • Edgar J. Scherick • Paul Rudnick

Joanna (Nicole Kidman) and her husband (Matthew Broderick) move to the beautiful upper-class suburb of Stepford, where she soon starts to suspect something is strange and artificial about her new female neighbors. The wives living in the houses around them all seem to be too perfect, with bland, character-less personalities. Everyone that is, except her new friend Bobbie (Bette Midler), who as a cranky, sarcastic, non-exercising alcoholic still has some semblance of personality and independence. As Joanna and Bobbie investigate their neighbors further, they discover that there is indeed something artificial about them, something... robotic, the result of the husbands banding together to replace their human wives with cyborg copies who are subservient, sexually compliant and devoid of any distinguishing character traits. Will Joanna and Bobbie be the next ones replaced by perfect robotic clones?