2009 Movies : Comedy

With Jason Bateman • Ted Field • Jonah Hill • Jennifer Garner • Rob Lowe • Ricky Gervais • Tina Fey • Christopher Guest • Patrick Stewart • Terry Dougas • Lynda Obst • Sue Baden-Powell • Jeffrey Tambor • Matt Robinson • Oly Obst

From Ricky Gervais, the award-winning creator and star of the original BBC series "The Office" and HBO's "Extras," comes the new romantic comedy "The Invention of Lying," which takes place in an alternate reality where lying--even the concept of a lie--does not exist. Everyone--from politicians to advertisers to the man and woman on the street--speaks the truth and nothing but the truth with no thought of the consequences. But when a down-on-his-luck loser named Mark suddenly develops the ability to lie, he finds that dishonesty has its rewards. In a world where every word is assumed to be the absolute truth, Mark easily lies his way to fame and fortune. But lies have a way of spreading, and Mark begins to realize that things are getting a little out of control when some of his tallest tales are being taken as, well, gospel. With the entire world now hanging on his every word, there is only one thing Mark has not been able to lie his way into: the heart of the woman he loves.

With Emma Stone • Woody Harrelson • Rhett Reese • Jesse Eisenberg • Abigail Breslin • Gavin Polone • Paul Wernick • Ruben Fleischer

Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg) has made a habit of running from what scares him. Tallahassee (Woody Harrelson) doesn't have fears. If he did, he'd kick their ever-living ass. In a world overrun by zombies, these two are perfectly evolved survivors. But now, they're about to stare down the most terrifying prospect of all: each other.

With Drew Barrymore • Ellen Page • Kristen Wiig • Juliette Lewis • Marcia Gay Harden • Barry Mendel • Shauna Cross • Zoe Bell • Nathan Kahane • Nancy Juvonen • Peter Douglas • Kirsten Kiwi Smith

The directorial debut of Drew Barrymore, stars Ellen Page as Bliss, a rebellious Texas teen who throws in her small town beauty pageant crown for the rowdy world of roller derby. Marcia Gay Harden plays Bliss’ disapproving mother, while Kristen Wiig and Juliette Lewis play roller-derby stars.

With Michael Stuhlbarg • Richard Kind • Joel Coen • Ethan Coen • Tim Bevan • Eric Fellner • Peter Breitmayer • Fred Melamed • Andrew Lentz • Aaron Wolff • Sari Lennick • Jessica McManus • Brent Braunschweig • David Kang • Benji Portnoe • Jack Swiler • Ari Hoptman • Robert Graf

The new film from Academy Award-winning writer/directors Joel and Ethan Coen. The film is the story of an ordinary man’s search for clarity in a universe where Jefferson Airplane is on the radio and “F-Troop” is on TV. It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik (Michael Stuhlbarg), a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been informed by his wife Judith (Sari Lennick) that she is leaving him. She has fallen in love with one of his more pompous colleagues, Sy Ableman (Fred Melamed), who seems to her a more substantial person than the feckless Larry. Larry’s unemployable brother Arthur (Richard Kind) is sleeping on the couch, his son Danny (Aaron Wolf) is a discipline problem and a shirker at Hebrew school, and his daughter Sarah (Jessica McManus) is filching money from his wallet in order to save up for a nose job. While his wife and Sy Ableman blithely make new domestic arrangements, and his brother becomes more and more of a burden, an anonymous hostile letter-writer is trying to sabotage Larry’s chances for tenure at the university. Also, a graduate student seems to be trying to bribe him for a passing grade while at the same time threatening to sue him for defamation. Plus, the beautiful woman next door torments him by sunbathing nude. Struggling for equilibrium, Larry seeks advice from three different rabbis. Can anyone help him cope with his afflictions and become a righteous person – a mensch – a serious man?

With Jason Bateman • Vince Vaughn • Jon Favreau • Kristen Bell • Scott Stuber • Faizon Love • Jean Reno • Peter Billingsley • Kristin Davis • Victoria Vaughn • Guy Riede

Four couples go to a tropical island resort. While one couple is there to work on their marriage, the others are there to play but soon discover that participation in the resort's couples therapy is not optional.

With Colin Firth • Juno Temple • Lena Headey • Rupert Everett • Stephen Fry • Mischa Barton • Barnaby Thompson • Piers Ashworth • Oliver Parker

St Trinian’s, the infamous school for ‘young ladies’ is once again facing dire financial crisis! The bank are threatening headmistress Camilla Fritton with closure. Her unorthodox doctrine of free expression and self empowerment is also under threat from new Education Minister Geoffrey Thwaits, an old flame of Camilla’s who is determined to bring discipline and order to the anarchic school.

In true St Trinian style the girls are in a league of their own; smart, fearless and determined to defend the school they love to the end. They need to unite the warring girl gang cliques and come up with the cash fast to save the school.

With Adrian Grenier • Michael McKean • Jane Lynch • Ari Gold • Christopher Woodrow • Andrea Sperling • Gill Holland

In his quest to become the world's greatest air-drummer, a small-town mine-worker must overcome obstacles and ridicule to save the day.

With Keanu Reeves • Julianne Moore • Robin Wright • Rebecca Miller • Maggie Gyllenhaal • Monica Bellucci • Alan Arkin • Wynona Ryder

An adventurous trip through Pippa Lee's past and present, as a methamphetamine-addicted mother whose husband leaves her for a younger woman. Pippa indulges in an array of erotic adventures while heading toward a quiet nervous breakdown.

With Michael Jai White • Miguel Nunez • Arsenio Hall • Scott Sanders • Jenny Wiener Steingart • Jon Steingart

Black Dynamite: a gun-toting, nunchuck-wielding, ladies man and soul brother. When "The Man" murders his brother, pumps heroin into local orphanages, and floods the ghetto with adulterated malt liquor, Black Dynamite is the one hero willing to fight all the way from the blood-soaked city streets to the hallowed halls of the Honky House.

With Ice Cube • Mike Epps • Terry Crews • Tamala Jones • Marcus Raboy • Matt Alvarez • Darris Love • Julio Oscar Mechoso • Juanita Jennings • Aloma Wright

Two music promoters get the chance to book a top-tier hip-hop artist into a midsized California venue. The pair are ill equipped for such a task and everything goes wrong.

With Adrian Grenier • Michael McKean • Jane Lynch • Ari Gold • Christopher Woodrow • Andrea Sperling • Gill Holland

In his quest to become the world's greatest air-drummer, a small-town mine-worker must overcome obstacles and ridicule to save the day.

With Diora Baird • Kenan Thompson • Steve Howey • Leslie Nielsen • Bo Zenga

The action takes place on Halloween night, when a videostore clerk, Stan Helsing, must reluctantly save a town from the six most-feared monsters in cinematic history.

With Uma Thurman • Minnie Driver • Anthony Edwards • Katherine Dieckmann

"Motherhood" is a bittersweet comedy that distills the dilemmas of the maternal state (marriage, work, self, and not necessarily in that order) into the trials and tribulations of one pivotal day. "Motherhood" forms a genre of one – no other movie has dedicated itself in quite this way to probing exactly what it takes to be a mother, with both wry humor and an acute sense of authenticity.

With Adrian Grenier • Michael McKean • Jane Lynch • Ari Gold • Christopher Woodrow • Andrea Sperling • Gill Holland

In his quest to become the world's greatest air-drummer, a small-town mine-worker must overcome obstacles and ridicule to save the day.

With Sam Rockwell • Michael Angarano • Jemaine Clement • Jared Hess • Jerusha Hess

Benjamin, home-schooled by his eccentric mother, is a loveable loner whose passion for writing leads him on an offbeat and hilarious journey as his story gets ripped off by the legendary novelist Ronald Chevalier and then is adapted into a disastrous movie by the small town's most prolific homespun filmmaker.

With Andrzej Krakowski

A young Hollywood player is drawn into a remote place looking for a quick deal and instead finds a sanctuary, a community, and ultimately himself.