2005 Movies : Comedy

With Martin Short • Elizabeth Perkins • Linda Cardellini • John Michael Higgins • Janeane Garofalo • Corey Pearson • Carlos Jacott • DeRay Davis • Jan Hooks • Aries Spears • Vadim Jean

Jiminy Glick (Martin Short), an entertainment critic for a television station in Butte, Montana, arrives at the Toronto Film Festival, a complete unknown, intent on finding fame among the rich, famous and fabulous. His dreams of becoming the most celebrated and renowned star interviewer are realized when he is granted an exclusive with elusive young megastar Ben DiCarlo (Corey Pearson). This catapults Jiminy from obscurity to being the most talked about guy in town. Filmmakers and studio executives want to schmooze him and every actor wants to be interviewed by him, including fading Hollywood star Miranda Coolidge (Elizabeth Perkins). When Miranda is later found dead in Jiminy's bed, he thinks he is to blame and suddenly gets embroiled in a murder mystery whodunit complete with sex, scandal, rappers and glamorous celebrities.

With Jennifer Lopez • Richard Brener • Adam Scott • Michael Vartan • Jane Fonda • Robert Luketic • Richard LaGravenese • Anya Kochoff

Charlotte "Charlie" Honeywell (Jennifer Lopez) is a professional dog walker who has a hard time finding any good men to date, with her social life mostly composed of continually disastrous blind dates. Her dreams seem to come true, however, when she meets Kevin, the perfect guy... until she meets his mother (Jane Fonda), who thinks no girl is good enough for Kevin, and *especialy* not Charlie. With her mother-in-law trying to sabotage the relationship, can Charlie's dream of a perfect wedding and marriage ever happen?

With Josh Hutcherson • Will Ferrell • Robert Duvall • Charles Roven • Marco Schnabel • Jimmy Miller • Kate Walsh • Steven Anthony Lawrence • Steve Rudnick • Leon Benvenuti

Will Ferrell stars as Phil Weston, an everage Joe who's had to put up all his life with his overly competitive father, Buck (Robert Duvall). When Phil decides to coach his 10-year old son's soccer team, he goes head-to-head for the league championship against Buck, who coaches his own young son on the preeminent team of the league. Old scores come into play as Phil and Buck find themselves going to extreme measures to win the championship trophy.

With Joe Pantoliano • Jennifer Tilly • Barbara Barrie • Peter Gerety • Boyd Gaines • Bronson Pinchot • Matthew Arkin • Polly Draper • Paulina Porizkova • Eric Weber

Elliot Kelman (Joe Pantoliano) is a failed publishing executive who can't get back into the business. He supports himself selling suits at the local mall and relies on hand-outs from his mother, ex-wife, and son. He also self-publishes a weekly newsletter on the perils of self-delusion. Afraid his writings will be rejected, he hires a high school kid to post them on supermarket bulletin boards and stuff them under windshields in his New Jersey hometown. After he meets the sexy Carole (Jennifer Tilly) and his newsletter begins to find an audience, things start looking up for Elliott. However, the return home of his oldest friend Richard (Boyd Gaines), a prominent movie producer, and the only one of his friend's to have found success, brings Elliot's feelings of inadequacy and squandered potential back to the surface. With Richard in town, the competitive tensions rise, and once Carole takes an interest in his friend, Elliot must confront his envy of Richard's success and his disenchantment with his own failure.

With Sacha Baron Cohen • Ben Stiller • Gwen Stefani • Chris Rock • David Schwimmer • Karey Kirkpatrick • Tom McGrath • Jada Pinkett • Teresa Cheng • Andy Richter • Mark Burton • Eric Darnell • Mireille Soria • Billy Frolick

Four zoo animals are shipped back to their homeland by an animal rights group that feels they belong in the wild. When the ship capsizes, the animals find themselves stranded in Madagascar. Having had humans care for them their entire life, they know nothing about survival and must work together with the locals to help them fit in.

With Chris Rock • William Fichtner • Burt Reynolds • Nelly • Nicholas Turturro • David Gale • Albert S. Ruddy • James Cromwell • Cloris Leachman • Brian Bosworth • Michael Irvin • Bill Romanowski • Peter Segal • Van Toffler • Sheldon Turner • Tracy Keenan Wynn

Pro quarterback Paul Crewe and former college champion and coach Nate Scarboro are doing time in the same prison. Asked to put together a team of inmates to take on the guards, Crewe enlists the help of Scarboro to coach the inmates to victory in a football game fixed to turn out quite the other way.

With Will Smith • James Lassiter • Lynn Chen • Jessica Hecht • Richard Chang • Joan Chen • Michelle Krusiec • Brittany Perrineau • Brian Yang • Alice Wu • Teddy Zee

A romantic comedy-of-manners where the single mother of a young Chinese-American woman arrives on her doorstep unannounced... and pregnant.