2005 Movies : Comedy

With Blake Lively • Bradley Whitford • America Ferrera • Denise Di Novi • Kira Davis • Amber Tamblyn • Ken Kwapis • Leslie Morgenstein • Ann Brashares • Nancy Travis • Alexis Bledel • Jenna Boyd • Broderick Johnson • Alison Greenspan • Debra Martin Chase • Delia Ephron • Andrew A. Kosove

Based on Ann Brashares' best-selling novel about a special 16th summer in the lives of four lifelong friends. The film stars Alexis Bledel, Amber Tamblyn, America Ferrara and Blake Lively as four 16-year-old best friends who are separated for the first time. On a last shopping trip together, the girls find a pair of thrift-shop jeans that fits each of them perfectly and they decide to use these "magic" pants as a way of keeping in touch over the months ahead, each girl wearing the jeans for a week to see what luck they bring her before sending them on to the next. Though miles apart, the four friends still experience life, love and loss together in a summer they'll never forget.

With Steve Bendelack • Jeremy Dyson • Mark Gatiss • Paul Hays-Marshall • Bruno Langley • Steve Pemberton • Reece Shearsmith

Due to a bizarre turn of events the fictional world of Royston Vasey is facing annihilation and the only way for its strange inhabitants to avert this disaster, is for them to somehow find their way into the real world and confront their creators. Based in a combination of present day Soho in London and 17th Century Britain, the residents must overcome a series of peculiar events to return their beloved village to safety.

With Gabrielle Union • Mike Epps • John Leguizamo • Regina Hall • Cedric the Entertainer • John Schultz • Danny Jacobson • Jon Polito • Eric Stoltz • Anne Pitoniak • Bernard Deegan • Don Rhymer • Barry W. Blaustein • David Sheffield • Saladin K. Patterson

New York City bus driver Ralph Kramden and his feisty wife Alice, struggle to make ends meet. Despite Ralph's many get-rich-quick schemes/motivational speaker tape series, they've managed to save some money and, along with their best friends Ed and Trixie Norton, they seem to have almost enough money for a down payment on a Brooklyn duplex. However, when Ralph decides to try to impress Alice by making up what he's lost and augmenting their savings with another of his crazy schemes, he winds up losing all their money and his marriage to boot—and it takes all his determination and love for Alice to get things on track again.

With Hilary Duff • Marc Platt • Susan Duff • Dawn Wolfrom • Chris Noth • Heather Locklear • Heather Robinson • Vanessa Lengies • Carson Kressley • Ben Feldman • Mike O'Malley • Mark Rosman • Gina Wendkos • Michael McQuown

In "The Perfect Man", teenager Holly Hamilton (Hilary Duff) is tired of moving every time her single mom Jean (Heather Locklear) has another personal meltdown involving yet another second-rate guy. To distract her mother from her latest bad choice, Holly conceives the perfect plan for the perfect man...an imaginary secret admirer who will romance Jean and boost her shaky self-esteem. When the virtual relationship takes off, Holly finds herself having to produce the suitor, borrowing her friend's charming and handsome Uncle Ben (Chris Noth) as the face behind the e-mails, notes and gifts. Holly must resort to increasingly desperate measures to keep the ruse alive and protect her mom's newfound happiness. . . almost missing the real perfect man when he does come along.

With Nicole Kidman • Will Ferrell • Kristin Chenoweth • Michael Caine • Jason Schwartzman • Shirley MacLaine • Lucy Fisher • Douglas Wick • Jim Turner • Joan Plowright • Todd Stashwick • Nora Ephron • Delia Ephron

Just when his career hits an all-time low, a conceited and frustrated movie star, Jack Wyatt, gets one last shot when he's cast to do a remake of a cult TV series, Bewitched, playing the lead role of 'Darren'. In search of his leading lady, 'Samantha', the competitive, insecure Wyatt makes it pretty clear to his producers that his co-star needs to be an unknown, so as not to steal his thunder. Finally, after weeks of searching, he finds the perfect witch in the shy Isabel Bigelow, but he has no idea just how 'perfect' she really is. So, as the script for the popular show is being re-tooled to, instead, center around Darren's character, the actor Wyatt soon discovers that his increasingly annoyed new leading lady, Isabel—who begins to wreak havoc on set—is an actual witch, who can truly cast spells.

With Justin Long • Michael Keaton • Matt Dillon • Cheryl Hines • Thomas Lennon • Robert Ben Garant • Lindsay Lohan • Breckin Meyer • Robert Simonds • Angela Robinson

Start your engines! Herbie, the most beloved car star of them all, is back and Lindsay Lohan's got him in Disney's all new revved-up comedy adventure, "Herbie: Fully Loaded". Lohan stars as Maggie Peyton, the new owner of Number 53—the free-wheelin' Volkswagen bug with a mind of its own—who puts the car through its paces on the road to becoming a NASCAR competitor. Herbie's got some new tricks under his hood as he takes audiences for an action-packed spin in this high-speed comedy. With an all-star cast along for a wild ride, this comedy puts Herbie to the test—on-road, off-road, on the track and into the record books.