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?

With Jackie Chan • Arnold Schwarzenegger • Rob Schneider • Luke Wilson • Jim Broadbent • Johnny Knoxville • Owen Wilson • Steve Coogan • Kathy Bates • Karen Mok • Michael Weiss • John Cleese • Frank Coraci • Sammo Hung • Cecille de France • Ian McNiece • Wim Wenders • Richard Branson • David Benullo • David Goldstein

In this highly inventive take on Verne's classic, Passepartout (Jackie Chan) must make it to China in order to return a valuable jade Buddha that was stolen from his family's village. He seeks refuge with an eccentric London inventor, Phineas Fogg (Steve Coogan), who puts his reputation, fortune, and career on the line in a daring bet to make it around the world in eighty days. Joining them is Monique (Cecille De France), a young French artist who decides that a trip around the world would provide new inspiration. Opposing the group is Lord Kelvin (Jim Broadbent), who's wagered his position as head of the Royal Academy of Science against their journey's success. Their incredible adventure spans many colorful and exotic lands from historic London to Paris, Turkey, India, China, across the Great Seas, to a burgeoning United States, and more. Along the way, the group encounters an eclectic assortment of characters including Queen Victoria (Kathy Bates), a Scotland Yard Sergeant (John Cleese), a hot air balloon engineer (Richard Branson), a Turkish Prince (Arnold Schwarzenegger), an eccentric inventor (Rob Schneider), the Wright Brothers (Owen and Luke Wilson), and many other international star cameos.

With Tom Hanks • Stanley Tucci • Steven Spielberg • Jeff Nathanson • Diego Luna • Zoe Saldana • Catherine Zeta-Jones • Chi McBride • Kumar Pallana • Eddie Jones • Jude Ciccolella • Kevin Weisman • Sacha Gervasi

The story of Viktor Navorski (Tom Hanks), a visitor to New York from Eastern Europe, whose homeland erupts in a fiery coup while he is in the air en route to America. Stranded at Kennedy Airport with a passport from nowhere, he is unauthorized to actually enter the United States and must improvise his days and nights in the terminal's international transit lounge until the war at home is over. As the weeks and months stretch on, Viktor finds the compressed universe of the terminal to be a richly complex world of absurdity, generosity, ambition, amusement, status, serendipity and even romance with a beautiful flight attendant named Amelia (Catherine Zeta-Jones). But Viktor has long worn out his welcome with airport official Frank Dixon, who considers him a bureaucratic glitch, a problem he cannot control but wants desperately to erase.

With Jason Bateman • Ben Stiller • Vince Vaughn • Missi Pyle • Justin Long • Stephen Root • Alan Tudyk • Rawson Marshall Thurber • Mary McLaglen • William Shatner • Jesse Heiman • Rip Torn • Cayden Boyd • Julie Gonzalo • Chris Williams • Gary Cole • Christine Taylor • Vincent De Paul • Joel Moore • Brooke Burke • Tate Chalk • Jamal Duff • Priscilla Leona Horne • Al Kaplon • Brigitte Nielsen • Stuart Cornfeld • Rhoades Rader

A small local gym is threatened with extinction by a gleaming sports and fitness palace unless a group of social rejects can rise to victory in the ultimate dodge ball competition.

With Marlon Wayans • Keenen Ivory Wayans • Jaime King • Shawn Wayans • Busy Philipps • Ward • Anne Dudek • Keenan Ivory Wayans • Rick Alvarez • Lee R Mayes

Two ambitious, but unlucky, black FBI agents, Kevin and Marcus, go deep undercover as white high society debutantes, and infiltrate the sophisticated world of the Hamptons to investigate a kidnapping ring.