Comedy Movies 2012 List

With Jamie Blackley • Sara Sugarman • Jim Cooper • Phil Daniels • Perry Benson • Julia Ford • Keith Allen • Alexa Davies

Aging rock group use a young fresh faced punk band to front new recordings to fool the music industry.

With Eugene Levy • Seann William Scott • Alyson Hannigan • Jennifer Coolidge • Mena Suvari • Shannon Elizabeth • Craig Perry • Tara Reid • Katrina Bowden • Jason Biggs • Chris Klein • Eddie Kaye Thomas • Hayden Schlossberg • Chris Weitz • Thomas Ian Nicholas • Dania Ramirez • Jon Hurwitz • Paul Weitz • Warren Zide • Adam Herz • Chris Moore • Chuck Hittinger

Jim, Michelle and friends reunite for their high school reunion.

With Adam Brody • Greta Gerwig • Billy Magnussen • Analeigh Tipton • Whit Stillman

The movie revolves around a group of style-obsessed college girls who take in a new student (Gerwig) and teach her their misguided ways of helping people at their grungy university. The crux of the story is focused on the relationship between Gerwig's character and a suitor (Brody), whom the girls are taken with but have doubts over his intentions.

With Sam Jaeger

After getting turned down by a photography agency, Thom finds his landlord throwing all of his belongings out into the hallway. With no job prospects and no place to sleep, Thom must turn to his recurring last resort: driving his illegal taxicab around the streets of New York. Fortunately for him, Claire Barrow isn't having a good day, either. First she comes home to find her husband flirting with his new secretary, then discovers her estranged father has suffered a heart attack in California. In a frenzy, Claire runs out into the night and hails what she assumes to be a cab. What she gets instead is Thom. With her life in ruins, Claire decides on a whim to pay Thom to drive her out to California. With nothing in New York to call his own, Thom reluctantly agrees.

With Mario Van Peebles

Five friends deal with romance, money, prom, college, sex, bullies, facebook, fitting in, standing out, and finding themselves.

With Nanni Moretti • Michel Piccoli

Follows the story of Melville, a cardinal who suddenly finds himself elected as the next Pope. Never the front runner and completely caught off guard, he panics as he's presented to the faithful in St. Peter's Square. To prevent a world wide crisis, the Vatican's spokesman calls in an unlikely psychiatrist who is neither religious or all that committed, played by Moretti, to find out what is wrong with the new Pope. As the world nervously waits outside, inside the therapist tries to find a solution. But Cardinal Melville is adamant: he does not want the job, or at least needs time to think it over. What follows is a marvelous insight into the concept of a human being existing behind the title of God's representative on Earth.

With Sofia Vergara • Bobby Farrelly • Jennifer Hudson • Peter Farrelly • Chris Diamantopoulos • Jane Lynch • Bradley Thomas • Robert Benjamin • Will Sasso • Stephen Collins • Sean P. Hayes • Mike Cerrone • Earl Benjamin • Luke Ryan • Charlie Wessler • Larry David

Left on a nun’s doorstep, Larry, Curly and Moe grow up finger-poking and woo-woo-wooing their way to uncharted levels of knuckleheaded misadventure. Out to save their childhood home, only The Three Stooges could become embroiled in an oddball murder plot…while also stumbling into starring in a phenomenally successful TV reality show.

With Philippe Falardeau

Bachir Lazhar has emigrated from his native Algeria to Canada, where he is awaiting approval of his asylum application. When he is hired as a substitute teacher at a French-Canadian school, Bachir finds that he is often ill-equipped to deal with his new students and their shock over their previous teacher’s death.

With Dane Cook • Josh Hutcherson • David Kang • Spencer Locke • Joseph Kahn • Mark Palermo • Mary-Ann Tanedo • Richard Weager • Bob Abramoff • Shanley Caswell

The film follows a group of teens who struggle to survive their senior year of high school when a slasher-movie killer seemingly comes to life.

With Krysten Ritter • Kate Bosworth • Rachel Bilson • David J. Phillips • Kat Coiro • Corbin Timbrook • Justin Levine

Two best friends fight to maintain normalcy in their lives after one of the friends gets pregnant and has a baby.

With Jannicke Systad Jacobsen

In Skoddeheimen, Norway, 15-year-old Alma is consumed by her hormones and fantasies that range from sweetly romantic images of Artur, the boyfriend she yearns for, to daydreams about practically everybody she lays eyes on.

With Kevin Hart • Gabrielle Union • Kelly Rowland • Regina Hall • Meagan Good • Steve Harvey • Rob Hardy • Sherri Shepherd • Will Packer • Michael Ealy • Chris Brown • Romany Malco • Tim Story • David A. Newman • Jerry Ferrara • Wendy Williams • Keith Merryman • Rushion McDonald • Terrence Jenkins

Based on Steve Harvey’s best-selling book, Think Like a Man follows four interconnected and diverse men whose love lives are shaken up after the ladies they are pursuing buy Harvey’s book and start taking his advice to heart. When the band of brothers realize they have been betrayed by one of their own, they conspire using the book’s insider information to turn the tables and teach the women a lesson of their own.

With Diane Keaton • Mark Duplass • Dianne Wiest • John Kelly • Richard Jenkins • Kevin Kline • Anthony Bregman • Sam Shepard • Lawrence Kasdan • Elisabeth Moss • Elizabeth Redleaf • Meg Kasdan • Christine Walker

In Darling Companion, Beth (Diane Keaton) saves a bedraggled lost dog from the side of the freeway on a wintry day in Denver. Struggling with her distracted, self-involved husband Joseph (Kevin Kline) and an empty nest at home, Beth forms a special bond with the rescued animal. When Joseph loses the dog after a wedding at their vacation home in the Rockies, the distraught Beth enlists the help of the few remaining guests and a mysterious young woman (Ayelet Zurer) in a frantic search. Each member of the search party is affected by the adventure, which takes them in unexpected directions – comic, harrowing, sometimes deeply emotional and ultimately towards love.

With Julia Roberts • Michael Sheen • Toni Collette • Sukee Chew • Philip Rose • Dennis Lee • Lisa Gillan

Henry James Hermin, a boy conceived in a petri-dish and raised by a loving, left-wing feminist, decides his mother’s love is not enough and begins to follow a trail of Post-It notes stuck around town hoping to find his biological father.

With Emily Blunt • Dakota Johnson • Chris Pratt • Judd Apatow • Mindy Kaling • Alison Brie • Shauna Robertson • Rhys Ifans • Jason Segel • Jacki Weaver • Lauren Weedman • David Paymer • Nick Stoller • Rodney Rothman

Beginning where most romantic comedies end, the new film from director Nicholas Stoller, producer Judd Apatow (Knocked Up, The 40-Year-Old Virgin) and Rodney Rothman (Get Him to the Greek) looks at what happens when an engaged couple, Jason Segel and Emily Blunt, keeps getting tripped up on the long walk down the aisle.

With Martin Freeman • Salma Hayek • Imelda Staunton • Brendan Gleeson • Hugh Grant • David Tennant • Peter Lord • Jeremy Piven • Ashley Jensen • Andy Riley • Julie Lockhart • Russell Tovey • David Sproxton • Carla Shelley • Kevin Cecil • Gideon Defoe • Jeff Newitt

Hugh Grant stars in his first animated role as the luxuriantly bearded Pirate Captain – a boundlessly enthusiastic, if somewhat less-than-successful, terror of the High Seas. With a rag-tag crew at his side (Martin Freeman, Brendan Gleeson, Russell Tovey, and Ashley Jensen), and seemingly blind to the impossible odds stacked against him, the Captain has one dream: to beat his bitter rivals Black Bellamy (Jeremy Piven) and Cutlass Liz (Salma Hayek) to the much coveted Pirate Of The Year Award. It’s a quest that takes our heroes from the shores of exotic Blood Island to the foggy streets of Victorian London. Along the way they battle a diabolical queen (Imelda Staunton) and team up with a haplessly smitten young scientist (David Tennant), but never lose sight of what a pirate loves best: adventure!

With Matthew McConaughey • Jack Black • Richard Linklater • Shirley MacLaine • Rip Torn • Liz Glotzer • Celine Rattray • Martin Shafer • Ginger Sledge

In the tiny, rural town of Carthage, TX, assistant funeral director Bernie Tiede (Jack Black) was one of the town’s most beloved residents. He taught Sunday school, sang in the church choir and was always willing to lend a helping hand. Everyone loved and appreciated Bernie, so it came as no surprise when he befriended Marjorie Nugent (Shirley MacLaine), an affluent widow who was as well known for her sour attitude as her fortune. Bernie frequently traveled with Marjorie and even managed her banking affairs. Marjorie quickly became fully dependent on Bernie and his generosity and Bernie struggled to meet her increasing demands. Bernie continued to handle her affairs, and the townspeople went months without seeing Marjorie. The people of Carthage were shocked when it was reported that Marjorie Nugent had been dead for some time, and Bernie Tiede was being charged with the murder.

With Bob Odenkirk • Topher Grace • Lucy Punch • Chris Messina • Malin Akerman • Jenna Fischer • Rich Sommer • Molly Hassell • Lee Kirk • Brent Stiefel

The Giant Mechanical Man is a comedic love story between Janice (Jenna Fischer), a woman in her 30’s who has yet to learn how to navigate adulthood, and Tim (Chris Messina), a devoted street performer who finds that his unique talents as a "living statue" don’t exactly pay the bills. Out of work and forced to move in with her overbearing sister (Malin Ackerman), Janice is on the receiving end of well-intentioned but misguided pressure to date an egotistical self-help guru (Topher Grace), who complicates her search for what her heart really desires.