2006 Movies : Comedy

With Jeremy Piven • Daryl Hannah • Jami Gertz • Garry Marshall • Doris Roberts • Scott Marshall • A.D. Oppenheim • David Scharf • Mark Zakarin

After attending a neighbor's over the top Bar Mitzvah celebration, high-powered Hollywood agent Adam Fiedler, played by Jeremy Piven is determined to pull out all the stops, and have the most extravagant celebration ever seen, for his shy, insecure son Benjamin.

With Chris Pine • Lindsay Lohan • Missi Pyle • Chris Carmack • Faizon Love • Bree Turner • Samaire Armstrong • Donald Petrie • Jonathan Bernstein • James Greer • Arnold Rifkin • Joseph M. Caracciolo • Ellen H. Swhwartz • Marjorie Shik • I. Marlene King • Mark Blackwell

In this comedy, Lindsay Lohan plays Ashley, a young professional just out of college. She also happens to be the luckiest woman in the world, who has lived a super-charmed life and has always taken her good luck for granted. When she kisses a handsome stranger (played by Chris Pine) at a costume party, Ashley accidentally swaps her good fortune for his horribly bad luck, and her charmed life turns into a living hell.

With Bruce Willis • Steve Carell • Eugene Levy • Nick Nolte • Avril Lavigne • Catherine O'Hara • William Shatner • Tim Johnson • Bonnie Arnold • Christian Kubsch • Michael Fry • T. Lewis

In the animated film, "Over the Hedge", Bruce Willis will voice the mischievous con-artist raccoon R.J., and Garry Shandling will be the voice of the sensitive turtle named Verne. When R.J., Verne and their woodland friends find a suburban housing development encroaching on their forest home, Verne's first instinct is to retreat into his shell and leave, but the ever-opportunistic R.J. sees a treasure trove to be had from his unsuspecting new neighbors. Together, Verne and R.J. form an unlikely friendship as they learn to co-exist with—and even exploit—this strange new world called suburbia.

With Marlon Wayans • Kerry Washington • Tracy Morgan • Keenen Ivory Wayans • Shawn Wayans • John Witherspoon

A man anxious to be a father mistakes an extremely short-statured, baby-faced criminal on the run as his newly adopted son.

With Martin Freeman • Alison Steadman • Ian Flooks • Jessica Stevenson • Jimmy Carr • Stephen Mangan • Felicity Montagu • Debbie Isitt • Ian Benson • Claudia Lewis

A sharp and affectionate comedy featuring an ensemble of UK comedic talents, "Confetti " follows three couples as they duke it out to win a bridal magazine contest for "Most Original Wedding of the Year." The talented cast -- which includes Martin Freemam, Jessica Stevenson, Stephen Mangan, Felicity Montagu, award-winning comedian Jimmy Carr in his first screen performance and Alison Steadman -- was afforded total creative freedom within the confines of a carefully crafted story frame. To prepare, the cast took part in weeks of intense workshops where they began the process of developing and inhabiting their unique roles.

With Steve Carell • Toni Collette • Alan Arkin • Greg Kinnear • Paul Dano • Abigail Breslin • Jeb Brody • Jonathan Dayton • Michael Beugg • Erik David • Valerie Faris • David Friendly • Michael Arndt

The Hoover family treks from Albuquerque to the Little Miss Sunshine pageant in Redondo Beach, California, to fulfill the deepest wish of 7-year-old Olive, an ordinary little girl with big dreams. Along the way the family must deal with crushed dreams, heartbreaks, and a broken-down VW bus, leading up to the surreal Little Miss Sunshine competition itself. On their travels through this bizarre landscape, the Hoovers learn to trust and support each other along the path of life, no matter what the challenge.

With Jennifer Aniston • Vince Vaughn • Justin Long • Jon Favreau • Joey Lauren Adams • Jeremy Garelick • Cole Hauser • Vincent D'Onofrio • John Michael Higgins • Ann-Margret • Peyton Reed • Scott Stuber • Judy Davis • Peter Billingsley • Mary Parent • Jay Lavender • Stuart Besser

Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston star in "The Break-Up", which starts where most romantic comedies end: after boy and girl have met, fallen in love, moved in to start their happily-ever-after...and right when they wind up driving each other crazy.

Pushed to the breaking-up point after their latest "why can't you do this one little thing for me?" argument, art dealer Brooke (Aniston) calls it quits with her boyfriend, Gary (Vaughn), who hosts bus tours of Chicago. What follows is a series of remedies, war tactics, overtures and underminings suggested by the former couple's friends, confidantes and the occasional total stranger. When neither ex is willing to move out of the condo they used to share, the only solution is to continue living as hostile roommates until somebody caves.

But somewhere between protesting the pool table in the living room, the dirty clothes stacked in the kitchen cupboards and the sports played at sleep-killing volume in the middle of night, Brooke begins to realize that what she may be really fighting for isn't so much the place but the person.

With John Lasseter • George Carlin • Owen Wilson • Michael Keaton • Bonnie Hunt • Richard Petty • John Ratzenberger • Larry the Cable Guy • Cheech Marin • Tony Shalhoub • Jenifer Lewis • Paul Newman • Paul Dooley • Michael Wallis • Darla K. Anderson

After taking moviegoers magically into the realm of toys, bugs, monsters, fish, and superheroes, the masterful storytellers and technical wizards at Pixar Animation Studios and Academy Award-winning director John Lasseter, hit the road with a fast-paced comedy adventure set inside the world of cars. Lightning McQueen (voice of Owen Wilson), a hotshot rookie race car driven to succeed, discovers that life is about the journey, not the finish line, when he finds himself unexpectedly detoured in the sleepy Route 66 town of Radiator Springs. On route across the country to the big Piston Cup Championship in California to compete against two seasoned pros, McQueen gets to know the town's offbeat characters –including Sally (a snazzy 2002 Porsche voiced by Bonnie Hunt), Doc Hudson (a 1951 Hudson Hornet with a mysterious past, voiced by Paul Newman), and Mater (a rusty but trusty tow truck voiced by Larry the Cable Guy) – who help him realize that there are more important things than trophies, fame and sponsorship. The all-star vocal cast also includes free-wheeling performances by racing legend Richard Petty and. Fueled with plenty of humor, action, heartfelt drama, and amazing new technical feats, "Cars" is a high octane delight for moviegoers of all ages.

With Alba Molinero • Teresa Pelegri • Guillermo Toledo • Maria Botto • Marián Aguilera • Marion Martin • Dominic Harari

Leni (Marián Aguilera) arrives home to introduce her fiancé Rafi (Guillermo Toledo) to her Jewish family for the first time. Her mother Gloria (Norma Aleandro), her promiscuous sister Tania (Maria Botto), Tania's contrary 8 year old daughter Paula, her recently orthodox brother David and her blind grandfather Dudu. Everything goes wonderfully until the lovers reveal that Rafi is Palestinian. With his future mother-in-law Gloria unhinged by the news, Rafi tries to ingratiate himself by helping in the kitchen. To make matters worse he accidentally drops the soup he was meant to defrost out the seventh floor window, hitting a pedestrian below. Rafi sneaks downstairs to check on the body and retrieve the soup. Having seen the victim, Rafi rushes upstairs not knowing what to do! As he returns to the kitchen he notices a family portrait of Leni's father, which bears a very close resemblance to the corpse lying outside.

With Virginia Madsen • Tommy Lee Jones • Lindsay Lohan • Meryl Streep • Woody Harrelson • Maya Rudolph • John C. Reilly • Lily Tomlin • Kevin Kline • Lyle Lovett • Garrison Keillor • Robert Altman

The movie is a celebrity version of Garrison Keillor's radio show. It adds a slight story of the radio show ending as a new owner (Tommy Lee Jones) has bought the Fitzgerald theater that the show broadcasts from and is going to tear it down. Another fantasy element is thrown in as an angel (Virginia Madsen) stalks the theater to take one of the performers. Keillor plays the lead character, coincidentally called GK. Lily Tomlin and Meryl Streep play the singing Johnson Sisters, with Lindsay Lohan as a suicide-obsessed daughter of Streep. Woody Harrelson and John C. Reilly are hilarious as the slightly off-color singing cowboy duo, Dusty & Lefty. Kevin Kline is a security guard who tells the story. Maya Rudolph also appears as a pregnant stage coordinator. Contains some mild sexually-oriented jokes.

With Jack Black • Mike White • Efren Ramirez • Carla Jimenez • Ana de la Reguera • Jared Hess • Troy Gentile • David Klawans • Julia Pistor • Damon Ross

In this true life inspired story, Jack Black will play a Mexican priest who moonlights as a masked Lucha Libre wrestler in order to save an orphanage destined for closure. All the while, the priest must keep his identity hidden from the wrestling community and the church.

With James Marsden • James Brolin • Sam Elliott • Jaime King • John Leguizamo • Steve Coogan • Selma Blair • Rebecca Romijn-Stamos

A man (Steve Coogan) runs an "alibi service," which provides cheating spouses with excuses to keep their significant others in the dark about their extra-marital activities. When one of his clients gets into a jam, the man hires a woman (Rebecca Romijn-Stamos) to help, but he soon falls for her.

With Kate Beckinsale • Christopher Walken • Steven Koren • Sean Astin • Juan Jose Campanella • David Hasselhoff • Neal H. Moritz • Jack Giarraputo • Henry Winkler • Allen Covert • Frank Coraci • Peter Dante • Blake Heron • Steve Papadopoulos • Mark O'Keefe • Tim Herlihy

A workaholic architect, who has been overlooking his family in favor of his career, comes across a universal remote that allows him to perform TiVo-like functions on his life, such as pausing events or fast-forwarding over them. When the remote begins creating its own memory and choosing what to fast-forward over, the man sees how much of his personal life has passed him by and realizes the importance of spending more time with his family.

With Jennifer Love Hewitt • Bill Murray • Billy Connolly • Breckin Meyer • Lucy Davis • Tim Hill • Tim Curry • Bob Hoskins • Ian Abercrombie • John Davis • Michele Imperato • Neil A. Machlis • Joel Cohen

America's favorite feline, Garfield, follows his owner, Jon, to England. The U.K. may never recover, as Garfield is mistaken for a look-alike, regal cat who has inherited a castle. Garfield savors the royal treatment afforded by his loyal "subjects," but his "reign" is in jeopardy. The nefarious Lord Dargis is determined to do away with Garfield, so he can turn the castle into a resort.

With Penelope Cruz • Lola Duenas • Carmen Maura • Blanca Portillo • Yohana Cobo • Pedro Almodovar • Esther Garcia

Set in Spain, this female-centered generational story involves a grandmother, her daughter and granddaughter.

With Anne Hathaway • Emily Blunt • Meryl Streep • Stanley Tucci • Simon Baker • David Frankel • Wendy Finerman • Tracie Thoms • Alexie Gilmore • Adrian Grenier • Michael Kuroiwa • Rebecca Mader • Keith Patterson • Eric Seltzer • Rich Sommer • Daniel Sunjata • Giselle Bundchen • Aline Brosh McKenna

Based on the best-selling novel, "The Devil Wears Prada" stars two-time Academy Award winner Meryl Streep as high-powered fashion magazine editor Miranda Priestly, and Anne Hathaway, as Miranda's new assistant – a small-town girl trying to survive her impossibly demanding new boss.

With Stuart Gordon • William H. Macy • Bai Ling • Joe Mantegna • Dylan Walsh • Tom Sizemore • Julia Stiles • Rebecca Pidgeon • Maria Conchita Alonzo • David Mamet

New York City resident Edmond Burke (William H. Macy) encounters a fortuneteller, whose predictions throw him for a loop and lead him to abandon his previous life, wandering into the dark side of the city.

With Kate Hudson • Owen Wilson • Michael Douglas • Aaron Kaplan • Matt Dillon • Sean Perrone • Michael Fottrell • Michael LeSieur • Anthony Russo • Joe Russo • Scott Stuber • Mary Parent

Carl and Molly Peterson (Matt Dillon and Kate Hudson) are just starting their new life together—complete with a cute house, boring neighbors, stable jobs and the routines of newlywed existence. There's just one unfortunate hitch in their perfectly constructed new world... And his name's Dupree.

Randy Dupree (Owen Wilson), Carl's oldest friend and perpetual bachelor, has found himself with nowhere to go after being fired. Carl yanks his jobless/homeless pal out of the bar he's living in and invites him to temporarily crash on the couch—that's just what friends do.

At first, Carl is quite pleased to have his good buddy as a permanent couch guest, while Molly bears the brunt of Dupree's immature antics. But, as Carl becomes buried in his grown-up job, he finds it harder and harder to juggle Dupree and his responsibilities as a husband. To make matters worse, Dupree uses his ample spare time to become a great companion for Molly. Even her dad (Michael Douglas) and the neighbors are falling for his carefree wisdom and charm—frustrating Carl to no end.

Soon, everyone (but Carl) begins to root for Dupree to stick around. But as Dupree starts to become a fixture in the Peterson's home, three becomes not just a crowd...but a full- blown, hilarious catastrophe.

With Uma Thurman • Anna Faris • Rainn Wilson • Luke Wilson • Eddie Izzard • Gavin Polone • Ivan Reitman • Don Payne

Everyone's had a painful parting of the ways with a romantic partner. We pick up the pieces and move on. But for one New York guy, it's not going to be so easy. When he breaks up with his girlfriend, he discovers his ex is actually the reluctant superhero, G-Girl. A scorned woman, she unleashes her super powers to humiliate and torment him. "My Super Ex-Girlfriend" stars Uma Thurman as Jenny Johnson, aka G-Girl and Luke Wilson as Matt Saunders, her beleaguered boyfriend. Anna Faris is Hannah, Matt's co-worker. Rainn Wilson is Vaughn, Matt's best friend and Eddie Izzard is Professor Bedlam, G-Girl's arch nemesis.

With Jeff Goldblum • Kevin Spacey • Alec Baldwin • Luke Wilson • Carrie-Anne Moss • Nikki Reed • Nick Guthe

A rebellious girl (Nikki Reed) joins an escort service, only to discover that her stepfather (Alec Baldwin) is a client.

With Rosario Dawson • Kevin Smith • Jason Mewes • Brian O'Halloran • Jeff Anderson • Scott Mosier

Ten years ago best friends Dante Hicks and Randal Graves were New Jersey mini-mall clerks still slacking off together in their early 20s. Now working in the fast-food universe, Dante and Randal have managed to maintain, and even hone, their in-your-face attitudes, agile skill with vulgarities and unbridled love of screwing the customers. But they're also faced with such shocking prospects as marriage, leaving Jersey and finding real careers. Dante and Randal invade the world of Mooby's fast food restaurant, where the slogan is "I'm Eating It." Behind the counter, where the only other employees are an uber-nerd and an entirely too sexy manager, Dante and Randal are free to offend anybody and everybody who so much as orders fries in their inimitably irreverent way. But, even as riotous debates rage between them over such burning matters as George Lucas v. Peter Jackson v. Jesus, change is on the horizon. When Dante announces that he's going to leave Jersey forever and marry Emma Bunting, Randal plots a going-away party so shocking it will draw the police, the fire department and potential protests from PETA, while altering their lives forever.

With Brittany Snow • Jenny McCarthy • Sophia Bush • Michael Birnbaum • Karen Lunder • Ashanti Douglas • Bob Cooper • Jesse Metcalfe • Penn Badgley • Betty Thomas • Jeff Lowell

When three popular girls from different cliques discover they've all been dating the school stud, they band together to seek revenge. Despite the jerk's charm and ever-growing popularity, the girls cleverly scheme with the help of the inconspicuous new girl in town, to soil his reputation and break his heart.

With Scarlett Johansson • Hugh Jackman • Woody Allen • Ian McShane • Kevin McNally • James Nesbitt • Jody Halse • Robyn Kerr

A student journalist, for a college paper, visiting friends in contemporary London happens upon the scoop of a lifetime. Along the investigative trail, she finds magic, murder, mystery - and perhaps love, with a British aristocrat.

With Sacha Baron Cohen • Judd Apatow • Adam McKay • Will Ferrell • Michael Clarke Duncan • Gary Cole • Leslie Bibb • John C. Reilly • Jimmy Miller

"Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby" tells the story of NASCAR stock car racing sensation Ricky Bobby (Ferrell) whose "win at all costs" approach has made him a national hero. He and his loyal racing partner and childhood friend Cal Naughton Jr. (Reilly), are a fearless duo—dubbed "Shake" and "Bake" with the ability to finish so many races in the #1 and #2 positions, with Cal always in second place. When a gay French Formula One driver, Jean Girard (Cohen), challenges "Shake" and "Bake" for the supremacy of NASCAR, Ricky Bobby must face his own demons and fight Girard for the right to be known as racing's top driver.

With Kevin James • Danny Glover • Sam Elliott • Steve Oedekerk • Wanda Sykes • Albie Hecht • Andie MacDowell • Courteney Cox-Arquette • Julia Pistor • Paul Marshal

From Steve Oedekerk and Nickelodeon Movies, creators of "Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius", and filmed entirely in CGI comes this hilarious look at what really happens in a barnyard when the farmer's back is turned. "The Barnyard" is a lighthearted tale centering around Otis (voiced by Kevin James), a carefree party cow, who enjoys singing, dancing and playing tricks on humans. Unlike his father Ben (voiced by Sam Elliott), the respected patriarch of the farm, and Miles, the wise old mule (voiced by Danny Glover), Otis is unconcerned about keeping the animals' humanlike talents a secret. But when suddenly put in the position of responsibility, the "udderly" irresponsible cow finds the courage to be a leader.

With Aaron Eckhart • Olivia Wilde • Nora Zehetner • Helena Bonham Carter • Brianna Brown • Hans Canosa • Ram Bergman • Brian Geraghty • Thomas Lennon • Kerry Barden • Gabrielle Zevin • Kwesi Collisson

Years after their divorce, an ex-couple (Aaron Eckhart, Helena Bonham Carter) reunite at a wedding.

With Blake Lively • Jonah Hill • Justin Long • Columbus Short • Jack Gaines • Lewis Black • Mark Derwin • Maria Thayer • Tom Shadyac • Steve Pink • Michael Bostick • Adam Cooper • Bill Collage • Mark Perez • Louis Friedman

High school senior Bartleby "B" Gaines (Justin Long) is on his way to scoring eight out of eight rejection letters from colleges--which isn't going to go over big with Mom and Dad. At least he's not alone in the exclusion. Several of his crew of outcast friends are in the same, college-less boat. So...how does a guy facing a bleak career please his parents and get noticed by dream girl Monica (Blake Lively)?

Simple. Open his own university.

B and his band of misfit freshmen take "liberal" arts literally when they fool their parents and peers and create the esteemed South Harmon Institute of Technology. They clean up an abandoned psychiatric facility, employ a buddy's brilliant?but subversive—uncle (Lewis Black) as the dean and create a fake web site as their campus calling card. Bam! South Harmon, the alternative school of higher learning, is born.

Just as they are settling in, B and company realize they've done their jobs too well. Dozens of other college rejects show up for classes at this less-than-lofty institute. Under the scornful eyes of the privileged students from the neighboring college, B and his friends forge ahead with maintaining a fake, functioning university. Their efforts to explore alternative education result in a battle between the South Harmon co-eds and the "sister" school snobs.

With his future in the balance, it's going to take more than just sleight of hand to keep B out of jail as he strives to get the girl, impress his parents and just become... "Accepted".

With Mark Morgan • Lukas Haas • David Faigenblum • Susan Duff • John Quaintance • Hilary Duff • Anjelica Huston • Haylie Duff • Colleen Camp • Maria Conchita Alonso • Brent Spiner • Obba Babatunde • Martha Coolidge • Michael Mendelsohn • Guy Oseary • Eve LaDue • Milton Kim • Susan Jansen • Amy Rardin • Jessica O'Toole

Two celebutante cosmetics heiresses (Haylie and Hilary Duff) lose their fortune in a corporate scandal and launch an investigation to expose the culprit.

With Kevin Heffernan • Paul Soter • Will Forte • Steve Lemme • Erik Stolhanske • Mo'Nique • Cloris Leachman • Bill Gerber • Richard Perello

When American brothers Todd and Jan Wolfhouse (Eric Stolhanske and Paul Soter) travel to Germany to spread their grandfather's ashes at Oktoberfest, they stumble upon a super-secret, centuries old, underground beer games competition—Beerfest—the secret Olympics of beer drinking. The brothers receive a less than warm welcome from their German cousins, the Von Wolfhausens, who humiliate Todd and Jan, slander their relatives, and finally cast them out of the event. Vowing to return in a year to defend their country and their family's honor, the Wolfhouse boys assemble a ragtag dream team of beer drinkers and gamers: Barry Badrinath (Jay Chandrasekhar), the consummate skills player with a dark past; Phil Krundle (Kevin Hefferman) AKA "Landfill," the one-man chugging machine; and Steve "Fink" Finklestein (Steve Lemme), the lab tech with a Masters degree in All Things Beer. This Magnificent Five train relentlessly, using their hearts, minds and livers to drink faster, smarter and harder than they ever have before. But first they must battle their own demons... as well as a bunch of big, blond, German jerks who want to destroy the team before they can even make it back to Munich. Revenge, like beer, is best served cold.

With Ron Howard • Tom Cavanagh • Brian Grazer • Mark Johnson • Luke Benward • Adam Hicks • Ty Panitz • Hallie Kate Eisenberg • Bob Dolman • Philip Steuer

"How to Eat Fried Worms" tells the story of Billy, an eleven-year-old who inadvertently challenges the town bully on his first day at a new school. To save face and earn the respect of his new classmates, Billy agrees to a bet that will determine his fate at the school-whether or not he can eat ten worms in one day. As the pressure mounts, he must summon heroic strength to keep his five-year-old brother from blabbing, his weak stomach from betraying him, and his big mouth from getting him into more trouble than he's already in.

With Elisha Cuthbert • Camilla Belle • Ryan Aiken • Abdi Nazemian • Edie Falco • Martin Donovan • Shawn Ashmore • Shannon Marie Woodward • Katy Mixon • Daniel Buckley • Josh Carlson • Cole Dabney • Celester Collier • Thomas Geredine • David Gallagher • Kevin Kwok • Micah Schraft

Sent to live with a foster family, Dot, a deaf orphan girl, soon realizes that all is not copacetic in her new, seemingly average home.