From the producers of “The 40-Year-Old Virgin” and “Knocked Up” comes a comic look at one guy’s arduous quest to grow up and get over the heartbreak of being dumped — if he can only make himself start “Forgetting Sarah Marshall.” Struggling musician Peter Bretter (Jason Segel, “How I Met Your Mother”) has spent six…
Category: Romantic Comedies
Four Christmases (2008)
When upscale, happily unmarried San Francisco couple Kate and Brad find themselves socked in by fog on Christmas morning, their exotic vacation plans morph into the family-centric holiday they had, until now, gleefully avoided. Out of obligation–and unable to escape–they trudge to not one, not two, but four relative-choked festivities, increasingly mortified to find childhood…
Happy-Go-Lucky (2008)
Poppy is a thirty-year old Primary School teacher in contemporary North London. She has great friends, a job she loves and a full life. The movie watches her confront the harsh realities of life and deal with them head-on, never losing her sense of humour. Sally Hawkins and Eddie Marsan star in director Mike Leigh’s…
The Hottie & The Nottie (2008)
Nate Cooper (Joel David Moore) has been smitten with Cristabel Abbott (Paris Hilton) since he first laid eyes on her at the impressionable age of six. But before he could try and snuggle up to her at nap time, or maybe send her a valentine, his family moved away. In the intervening years there have…
The House Bunny (2008)
Tagline: For the girls of ZETA house college life was no party, until Shelley showed up. In Columbia Pictures’ comedy The House Bunny, Anna Faris charms as Shelley Darlingson, a Playboy Bunny who teaches an awkward sorority about the opposite sex – only to learn that what boys really like is what’s on the inside….
How About You (2008)
How About You is an Irish film directed by Anthony Byrne. The film is based on a short story sometimes published as “How About You” and sometimes published as “The Hard Core” in a collection of short stories titled “This Year It Will Be Different” by Maeve Binchy. It tells the story of a young…