Comedy Movies 2004 List

With Will Ferrell • Steve Carell • Vince Vaughn • Paul Rudd • Adam McKay • Maya Rudolph • Judd Apatow • Christina Applegate • David Koechner • Fred Willard • Kevin Corrigan • Tara Subkoff • Chris Parnell • Chuck D

Will Ferrell stars as Ron Burgandy, the top-rated anchorman in San Diego in the '70s. When feminism marches into the newsroom in the form of ambitious newswoman Veronica Corningstone (Christina Applegate), Ron is willing to play along at first-as long as Veronica stays in her place, covering cat fashion shows, cooking, and other "female" interests. But when Veronica refuses to settle for being eye candy and steps behind the news desk, it's more than a battle between two perfectly coiffed anchor-persons...it's war.

With Steve Carell • Brie Larson • Sara Paxton • Bob Cooper • Sean Faris • Alexa Vega • Mika Boorem • Kallie Flynn Childress • Joe Nussbaum • Charles Weinstock • Elisa Bell

In the summer before their freshman year in high school, Julie (Alexa Vega) has a slumber party with her best friends, Hannah, Yancy, and Farrah - and they end up having the adventure of their lives. In attempt to cast off their less-than-cool reputations once and for all, Julie and her friends enter into an all-night scavenger hunt against their "popular girl" rivals. Hijacking dad's car, sneaking into clubs, evading Julie's mother, and even a first kiss - anything is possible at Julie's "Sleepover".

With Hilary Duff • Regina King • Jennifer Coolidge • Dylan Sellers • Lin Shaye • Julie Gonzalo • Hunt Lowry • Cliff Werber • Leigh Dunlap • Mark Rosman • Ilyssa Goodman

In this twisted and hilarious update of the classic fairy tale, high school senior Sam Montgomery (Hilary Duff) lives at the beck and call of her self-obsessed step-mother Fiona (Jennifer Coolidge) and her sinfully wicked step-sisters. Sam finds her less-than-sparkling social life wonderfully complicated when she meets her prince charming online. But when her anonymous cyber soul mate turns out to be her high school's uber-popular quaterback Austin Ames (Chad Michael Murray), Sam makes a mad dash back to reality, leaving her cell phone behind just before the clock strikes midnight. Fearing rejection if her secret is revealed, Sam dodges Austin's efforts to discover the identity of his princess. Will Sam let fear hold her back or will she find the courage to be herself and claim the life she's always wanted? Her chance at happily ever after depends on it.

With Pooja Kumar • Bharati Achrekar • Sireesha Katragadda • Anjan Srivastava • Reef Karim • Raj Nidimoru • Krishna DK • Anupam Mittal

A persistent cell phone ring connects four crisscrossing stories of Indian Americans in this light-hearted movie set in the post Information Technology boom: two long-distance buddies who share every waking thought; two parents who delight in arguing with each other and are getting to know their future daughter-in-law Jenni, and their son who is juggling all of them; jobless roommates who can't fathom their friend's obsession for a girl back in India; and a newlywed, forced-to-stay-at-home girl who creates a fascinating world for herself within her home. Everything is conneted in this warm, quirky comedy that says the world is really, really small.

With Jimi Mistry • Kyle MacLachlan • Kristen Holden-Ried • Suleka Mathew • Ian Iqbal Rashid • Jennifer Kawaja • Martin Pope • Julia Sereny

A comic clash of cultures, values and sexuality, Touch of Pink is a romantic comedy featuring Alim (Jimi Mistry), a young South Asian-Canadian, now living in London, who is so caught up in the romance, style and dreams of the old movies that he thinks he's living with the spirit of Cary Grant (Kyle MacLachlan). But Alim's ideal life in London with lover Giles (Kristen Holden-Ried) begins to unravel when his mother Nuru (Suleka Mathew) shows up. She's come to London to find Alim a proper Ismaili-Muslim girlfriend and to convince him to come home to Canada and join the family for his cousin's spectacular wedding. Once in Toronto, Alim's different worlds begin to collide and he has to choose between his fantasy life with Cary and the earthier pleasures of real life.

With Ben Kingsley • Michael McCullers • Sophia Myles • Tim Bevan • Eric Fellner • Lex Shrapnel • Bill Paxton • Philip Winchester • Anthony Edwards • Ben Torgeson • Jonathan Frakes • Ron Cook • Dominic Colenso • Mark Huffam • William Osborne

Set in the year 2065, this is the story of ex-astronaut and USAF Colonel Jeff Tracy and his five sons who form a rescue team called International Rescue that uses a fleet of vehicles, from rockets to boats, to race into action whenever their unique services are required. Helping the Tracys are Brains, a technological genius who invented the amazing rockets used by International Rescue; Jeff's assistant Kyrano and his daughter Tin-Tin; the lovely Lady Penelope, and her driver, Parker. In this adventure, Tracy Island is attacked by an evil mastermind, Aristotle Spode, AKA The Hood, who wants to use the International Rescue vehicles to commit acts of crime. The emphasis of the story will be on Alan, the youngest of the clan, who will have to rescue his father and brothers from Spode's villainous clutches, with the help of two of his friends.

With Ryan Reynolds • Greg Shapiro • Luis Guzman • John Cho • Neil Patrick Harris • Kal Penn • David Krumholtz • Jamie Kennedy • Christopher Meloni • Fred Willard • Steve Braun • Eddie Kaye Thomas • Bobby Lee • Hayden Schlossberg • Dov Tiefenbach • Gary Anthony Williams • J. Miles Dale • Anthony Anderson • Ethan Embry • Dan Bochart • Brooke D'Orsay • Paula Garcés • Jon Hurwitz • Kate Kelton • Siu Ta • Robert Tinkler • Danny Leiner • Nathan Kahane • Carsten Lorenz

Two likeable underdogs, Harold and Kumar, set out on a Friday night quest to satisfy their craving for White Castle hamburgers and end up on an epic journey of deep thoughts, deeper inhaling and a wild road trip as un-PC as it gets.

With Anthony Mackie • Kerry Washington • Spike Lee • Ellen Barkin • Monica Bellucci • Brian Dennehy • Sarita Choudhury • Ossie Davis • Jim Brown

Harvard, MBA-educated biotech executive John Henry "Jack" Armstrong (Anthony Mackie) gets fired when he informs on his bosses and initiates an investigation into their business dealings by the Securities & Exchange Commission. Branded a whistle-blower and therefore unemployable, Jack desperately needs to make a living. When his former girlfriend Fatima (Kerry Washington), a high powered businesswoman and now a lesbian, offers him cash to impregnate her and her new girlfriend Alex (Dania Ramirez), Jack is persuaded by the chance to make "easy" money. Word spreads and soon Jack is in the baby-making business at $10,000 a tryst. Lesbians with a desire for motherhood and the cash to spare are lining up to seek his services. But, between the attempts by his former employers to frame him for securities fraud and his dubious fathering activities, Jack finds his life, all at once, becoming very complicated.