2006 Movies : Comedy

With Sook-Yin Lee • Tim Perell • Howard Gertler • Wouter Barendrecht • Paul Dawson • Lindsay Beamish • PJ DeBoy • Raphael Barker • Jay Brannan • Peter Stickles • Justin Bond • John Cameron Mitchell • Jeff Sackman • Michael J. Werner

Written and directed by John Cameron Mitchell, "Shortbus" explores the lives of several characters living in present-day New York as they navigate the comic and tragic intersections between love and sex. Male and female, straight and gay, the characters find one and other -- and eventually find themselves -- when they all converge at a weekly underground salon called "Shortbus," a mad nexus of art, music, politics, and polysexual carnality.

With Kate Winslet • Patrick Wilson • Ty Simpkins • Jennifer Connelly • Jackie Earle Haley • Scott Rudin • Todd Field • Raymond J. Barry • Phyllis Somerville • Sadie Goldstein • Gregg Edelman • Noah Emmerich • Albert Berger • Ron Yerxa • Tom Perrotta

A suburban town is full of perfect parents who are fully devoted to rearing their children for Harvard futures and keeping them safe from predators. The adults escape the excruciatingly bore-fests their lives have become via Internet porn and extramarital affairs. A stay-at-home mom has an affair with an ex-jock stay-at-home dad who rebels against his wife's wishes that he become a big-bucks lawyer.

With Dane Cook • Dax Shepard • Efren Ramirez • Jessica Simpson • Andrew Panay • Williams • Greg Coolidge • Peter Abrams • John Sacchi • Robert L. Levy • Joe Simpson • Brian Volk-Weiss • Barry • Mike Paseorneck

For customers of Super Club, the largest high-volume, bulk-discount retailer in the country, membership has its privileges. For workers at the cavernous store, the most coveted honor is the "Employee of the Month" award, and having one's photo immortalized on the wall of fame in the staff lounge. Enter Zack Bradley (Dane Cook) and Vince Downey (Dax Shepard), two ultra competitive Super Club workers whose ten years of employment have resulted in drastically different career paths. While Vince—with the aid of his trusty sidekick Jorge (Efren Ramirez)—has advanced to become head cashier and winner of 17 consecutive "E of M" awards, Zack is the ultimate slacker whose scruffy appearance and laid back attitude has made him popular with his colleagues, but kept him stuck in the lowly ranks of the store's box boys. The duo's longtime rivalry comes to a bitter head when Amy (Jessica Simpson) – a beautiful new cashier with a reputation of only dating "Employee of the Month" winners—transfers to the store, immediately becoming the object of both Zack and Vince's affection and often comical gamesmanship.

While Vince instantly impresses Amy with his crowd pleasing, flamboyant style behind his checkstand register, Zack's feeble attempts to charm his beautiful new co-worker quickly backfire against him. With the race to win Amy's affections slipping away, Zack determines his only chance rests in winning the store's next "Employee of the Month" award. A battle to the end, "Employee of the Month" shows that the only failure in life is when one fails to try.

With Casey Affleck • Zach Braff • Blythe Danner • Tom Wilkinson • Tony Goldwyn • David Hydn-Jones • Tom Rosenberg • Gary Lucchesi • Rachel Bilson • Eric Christian Olsen • Paul Haggis • Lauren Lee Smith • Marley Shelton • Jacinda Barrett • Michael Weston • Andre Lamal

A remake of the 2001 Italian film "L'Ultimo bacio", the story concerns a couple who live together and could be undone by questions of whether they are meant to be together.

With Christopher Walken • Robin Williams • Barry Levinson • Jeff Goldblum • Laura Linney • Lewis Black

Robin Williams will play a Jon Stewart-like host of a latenight political talkshow who runs for president to make noise on the campaign trail. The stunt backfires after a series of unusual circumstances leads him to victory.