Farce
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Uncle Kent II
In a desperate search to create a follow-up to Joe Swanberg's 2011 film UNCLE KENT, Kent Osborne travels to a comic book convention in San Diego where he loses his mind and confronts the end of the world. Reuniting in the GREMLINS 2 of "Indie" sequels, Joe Swanberg, Jennifer Prediger and Tipper...Watch Movie
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Hellaware
HELLAWARE gently satirizes the world of high-brow art through the eyes of a wannabe photographer who becomes consumed by the bright lights of mainstream success. Jaded by the "incestuous, New York, socialite shit" that sells at prominent art galleries, Nate embarks on a quest for a more authentic...Watch Movie
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The Hawks and the Sparrows
THE HAWKS AND THE SPARROWS, a wildly comic fable, stars the beloved stone faced clown Toto as an Italian everyman, and Ninetto Davoli as his good-natured but empty headed son. Pasolini uses a comic crow, which philosophizes amusingly and pointedly about the passing scene as a...Watch Movie
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Not Now Darling
Based on Ray Cooney's record-breaking stage farce, NOT NOW DARLING follows the misadventures of insatiable womanizer Gilbert Bodley, the boss of an exclusive West End fur salon. In order to give up his mistress Janie an expensive mink coat without upsetting her jealous husband, Gilbert agrees to...Watch Movie
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The Man Who Could Work Miracles
Roland Young stars in H.G. Wells' light-hearted comedy about what happens when some bored celestials decide to give "an ordinary little fellow" the power to work miracles just to see what he will do with it. George, a draper's assistant, is suddenly endowed with the mystical...Watch Movie
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Puckoon
When an Irish Free State is set up in the 1920s, the border is drawn right through the middle of the village of Puckoon, through the middle of the pub and the churchyard. Based on Spike Milligan's much-loved novel, PUCKOON digs at the stupidity of the military and religion in this typically...Watch Movie
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Palmer's Pick-Up
From Talia Shire in drag to disco diva Grace Jones as a conjoined twin, Christopher Coppola's absurdist comedy is full of unexpected surprises. Robert Carradine and Richard Hillman play the owner-operators of a hauling business who think it's their lucky day when they get a...Watch Movie
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Things Happen at Night
Adapted from a classic West End farce, THINGS HAPPEN AT NIGHT features a classic cast of British comedy stars trying to banish a mischievous, poltergeist spirit from a stately home. Wilfred Prescott enlists the help of an eccentric psychic researcher to purge the spirit from...Watch Movie
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Some Girls Never Learn
Chicago DIY filmmaker Jerzy Rose's first feature combines a narrative structure with the colorful surrealism of his short films. An idiosyncratic comedy involving a deep-sea diver who has discovered the leg bone of Amelia Earhart a gauche part-time science teacher (and...Watch Movie
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The Greatest Man in the World
Only the off-beat humor of writing great, James Thurber could bring to life a “hero” like Jack Smurch, played by Brad Davis (MIDNIGHT EXPRESS). Fortified with only a gallon of gin and a salami, Smurch bests even Lindbergh with the first non-stop, around-the-world flight....Watch Movie
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One Wild Oat
Humphrey Proudfoot is a class-conscious solicitor whose daughter falls in love with the son of a disreputable greyhound owner Alfred Gilbey who lives in the same apartment building. After Humphrey fails to convince his daughter not to marry the young Gilbey, he decides to employ a private...Watch Movie
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Bowled Over
Sure, bowling is all fun and games, except for the pins. Marco Buschman, in a giant soft-sculpture costume, plays the last one standing as a hostile ball hurtles down the lane. His attempts to avoid the inevitable only brings tragedy. This absurdist live-action miniature is, according to Dutch...Watch Movie
