Comedy Movies 2012 List

With Miles Teller • Alexis Knapp • Todd Phillips • Joel Silver • Steve Richards • Michael Bacall • Oliver Cooper • Alex Heineman • Andrew Rona • Matt Drake • Jonathan Daniel Brown • Dax Flame • Nichole O'Connor • Thomas Mann • Scott Budnick • Nima Nourizadeh • Kirby Bliss Blanton • Jillian Reynolds

Three seemingly anonymous high school seniors attempt to make a name for themselves by throwing a party that no one will forget, but nothing could prepare them for what the party becomes.

With Will Ferrell • Zach Galifianakis • Adam McKay • John C. Reilly • Jeff Goldblum • Will Forte • Robert Loggia • William Atherton • Tim Heidecker • Kevin Messick • Todd Wagner • Ben Cosgrove • Eric Wareheim

Tim and Eric are given a billion dollars to make a movie, but squander every dime and the sinister Schlaaang corporation is pissed. Their lives at stake, the guys skip town in search of a way to pay the money back.

With Jiang Wen

In 1920s China, a notorious bandit chief Zhang descends upon a remote provincial town posing as its new mayor.

With Robert De Niro • Julianne Moore • Paul Dano • Olivia Thirlby • Lili Taylor • Victor Rasuk • Chris Weitz • Paul Weitz • Michael Costigan • Andrew Miano

A man's estranged con-man father's self-destruction eventually drives him onto the streets and ultimately into the homeless shelter where his son works.

With Gianni Di Gregorio

In The Salt of Life, Gianni Di Gianni plays a middle-aged retiree who has become invisible to all distaff Romans, regardless of age or relation. He contends with an aristocratic, spendthrift mother (played by Valeria de Franciscis); a wife who is more patronizing friend than romantic partner; a daughter (played by Di Gregorio's daughter Teresa) with a slacker boyfriend whom Gianni unwillingly befriends; and a wild young neighbor who sees him merely as her dog walker. Watching his "codger" friends snare beautiful younger women on the sun-kissed cobblestones of Trastevere, Gianni tries his polite, utterly gracious best to generate some kind of extracurricular love life--with both hilarious and poignant results.

With Taika Waititi

The year is 1984, and on the rural East Coast of New Zealand Thriller is changing kids lives.

With Nicolas Cage • Eddie Murphy • Allison Janney • Kerry Washington • Cliff Curtis • Clark Duke • Alain Chabat • Brian Robbins • Stephanie Danan • Norm Golightly • Sharla Summpter Bridgett • Steve Koren • Jane Bartelme

Eddie Murphy is Jack McCall, a fast-talking literary agent, who can close any deal, any time, any way. He has set his sights on New Age guru Dr. Sinja (Cliff Curtis) for his own selfish purposes. But Dr. Sinja is on to him, and Jack’s life comes unglued after a magical Bodhi tree mysteriously appears in his backyard. With every word Jack speaks, a leaf falls from the tree and he realizes that when the last leaf falls, both he and the tree are toast. Words have never failed Jack McCall, but now he’s got to stop talking and conjure up some outrageous ways to communicate or he’s a goner.

With Gianni Di Gregorio

In The Salt of Life, Gianni Di Gianni plays a middle-aged retiree who has become invisible to all distaff Romans, regardless of age or relation. He contends with an aristocratic, spendthrift mother (played by Valeria de Franciscis); a wife who is more patronizing friend than romantic partner; a daughter (played by Di Gregorio's daughter Teresa) with a slacker boyfriend whom Gianni unwillingly befriends; and a wild young neighbor who sees him merely as her dog walker. Watching his "codger" friends snare beautiful younger women on the sun-kissed cobblestones of Trastevere, Gianni tries his polite, utterly gracious best to generate some kind of extracurricular love life--with both hilarious and poignant results.

With Emily Blunt • Ewan McGregor • Kristin Scott Thomas • Amr Waked • Paul Webster • Simon Beaufoy • Steven Garrett • Lasse Hallstrom

When Britain's leading fisheries expert (Ewan McGregor) is approached by a consultant (Emily Blunt) to help realize a sheikh's (Amr Waked) vision of bringing the sport of fly-fishing to the desert, he immediately thinks the project is both absurd and unachievable. But when the Prime Minister's overzealous press secretary (Kristin Scott Thomas) latches on to it as a "good will" story, this unlikely team will put it all on the line and embark on an upstream journey of faith and fish to prove the impossible, possible.

With Megan Fox • Anne Hathaway • Jon Hamm • Kristen Wiig • Adam Scott • Jake Kasdan • Jennifer Westfeldt • Mike Nichols

The project revolves around a pair of thirtysomething best friends who observe the toll that having kids has taken on the couples they know and resolve to bypass that stress by having a child and then date other people. Adam Scott and Jennifer Westfeldt will play the lead couple; Kristen Wiig and Jon Hamm will play another. Megan Fox will play a girl who Scott begins to date.

With Ola Simonsson • Johannes Stjärne Nilsson

Police officer Amadeus Warnebring was born into a musical family with a long history of famous musicians. Ironically, he hates music. His life is thrown into chaos when a band of crazy musicians decides to perform a musical apocalypse using the city as their orchestra... Reluctantly, Warnebring embarks on his first musical investigation...

With Alice Eve • Kelly MacDonald • David Tennant • Neil Jaworski • Maureen Beattie • Federico Castelluccio • Sally Phillips • Sheree Folkson

When the world's media descend on the remote Scottish island where a Hollywood actress is attempting to get married, a local girl is hired as a decoy bride to put the paparazzi off the scent.

With Jason Reitman • Susan Sarandon • Mark Duplass • Judy Greer • Jay Duplass • Ed Helms • Jason Segel • Helen Estabrook

On his way to the store to buy wood glue, Jeff looks for signs from the universe to determine his path. However, a series of comedic and unexpected events leads him to cross paths with his family in the strangest of locations and circumstances. Jeff just may find the meaning of his life... and if he's lucky, pick up the wood glue as well.

With Will Ferrell • Adam McKay • Diego Luna • Gael García Bernal • Emilio Diez Barroso • Matt Piedmont • Kevin Messick • Darlene Caamano Loquet • Jessica Elbaum

Armando Alvarez (Will Ferrell) has lived and worked on his father's ranch in Mexico his entire life. As the ranch faces financial strains, Armando's younger brother Raul (Diego Luna) shows up with his new fiancee, Sonia (Genesis Rodriguez) and pledges to settle all his father's debts. It seems that Raul's success as an international businessman means the ranch's troubles are over, but when Armando falls for Sonia, and Raul's business dealings turn out to be less than legit, the Alvarez family finds themselves in a full-out war with Mexico's most feared drug lord, the mighty Onza (Gael Garcia Bernal).

With Audrey Tautou • Francois Damiens • David Foenkinos • Stephane Foenkinos

Audrey Tautou is Nathalie, a beautiful, happy, and successful Parisian business executive who finds herself suddenly widowed after a three-year marriage to her soul mate. To cope with her loss, she buries herself and her emotions in her work to the dismay of her friends, family and co-workers. One day, inexplicably, her zest for life and love is rekindled by a most unlikely source, her seemingly unexceptional, gauche, and average looking office subordinate, Markus (Francois Damiens). At first stunned by Nathalie's unexpected attention, Markus comes to gradually believe in her feelings and shifts into romantic high gear. As their relationship goes from awkward to genuinely loving, Nathalie and Markus will have to overcome a host of obstacles including everyone else's judgmental perceptions as well as their own self-doubts.

With Timothy Spall • Rhona Mitra • James Callis • Loo Brealey • Yoav Factor • Blake Harrison

An uptight lawyer, Lenny Rubins, (Timothy Spall), has to put his dream retirement on hold when his ailing mother (Honor Blackman) emotionally blackmails him into reuniting his estranged children for a holiday gathering. They may be peas from the same pod, but in Lenny's eyes, his grown-up children are certainly not even from the same planet: a ruthless control-freak and hard-nosed capitalist (James Callis), an outspoken, argumentative eco-warrior committed to the cause (Rhona Mitra), an outer-worldly Buddhist Monk; and to cap it all, a bible bashing born-again Rabbi! While they might quarrel, fight, and perhaps even be starting a war in Africa, they are still family.

With Laverne Cox • Susan Seidelman • Jaime Tirelli • Priscilla Lopez • Leah Pipes • E.J. Bonilla

Set against the backdrop of competitive ballroom dancing, Musical Chairs is about Armando a Bronx-bred Latino who aspires to be a dancer but whose only way in is as handyman at a Manhattan dance studio, and Mia, an Upper East Side princess who is the studio's star performer.

With Tom Hiddleston • Rachel Weisz • Simon Russell Beale • Terance Davies

A woman leaves her husband, a high court judge, and falls in love with a pilot traumatized from the war.

With Brie Larson • Lucy Liu • Michael C. Hall • Chris Messina • Sarah Shahi • Peter Fonda • Michael Knowles • Rhea Perlman

Tells the story of 35-year-old Morris Bliss (Michael C. Hall), who is clamped firmly in the jaws of New York City inertia. He wants to travel but has no money; he needs a job but has no prospects; and he still shares an apartment with his widowed father (Peter Fonda), who treats Morris with a mix of disdain and exasperation. When he finds himself juggling a bizarre relationship with the sexually precocious 18-year-old daughter (Brie Larson) of a former classmate and the advances of his very forward neighbor (Lucy Liu), Morris realizes that even though his life is unraveling, it's also opening up in ways that are long overdue.

With Eugene Levy • Seann William Scott • Jay Baruchel • Liev Schreiber • Don Carmody • David Gross • Evan Goldberg • Jesse Shapira • Alison Pill • Michael Dowse • Marc-Andre Grondin

The story centers on Doug Glatt, a bouncer (Seann William Scott) who has been touched by the fist of God. Upon discovering both his right hook and skates, he joins a downtrodden hockey team and inspires them into new heights. Jay Baruchel is Glatt's best friend. Alison Pill plays the female lead role of while Marc-Andre Grondin plays a French-Canadian star hockey player.

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.