78-year-old balloon salesman Carl Fredricksen finally fulfills his lifelong dream of a great adventure when he ties thousands of balloons to his house and flies away to the wilds of South America. But he discovers all too late that his biggest nightmare has stowed away on the trip: an overly optimistic 9-year-old Wilderness Explorer named…
Category: Comedies
Up in the Air (2009)
From Jason Reitman, the Oscar-nominated director of Juno, comes Up in the Air, the timely odyssey of Ryan Bingham (Oscar winner George Clooney), a corporate downsizer and consummate modern business traveler who, after years of staying happily airborne, suddenly finds himself ready to make a real connection. Ryan has long been contented with his unencumbered…
Weather Girl (2009)
Tagline: Partly cloudy with a 90% chance of total meltdown. After learning her boyfriend (Mark Harmon) cheated on her with his co-host (Kaitlin Olson), a Seattle morning show weather girl (Tricia O’Kelley) freaks out on-air and is fired. Forced to move in with her little brother (Ryan Devlin) and deal with his best friend (Patrick…
Whatever Works (2009)
Whatever Works is a film written and directed by the prolific film maker Woody Allen. This film stars Evan Rachel Wood, Patricia Clarkson, Kristen Johnston, Larry David, Ed Begley, Jr., Michael McKean, and Henry Cavill. Wood plays the naïve young wife of Larry David’s Ebenezer Scrooge-like character. The film is a dark comedy starring Larry…
World’s Greatest Dad (2009)
Tagline: Lance Clayton is about to get everything he deserves. A thoughtful but outrageous comedy from Bobcat Goldthwait, “World’s Greatest Dad” is a story about a man that learns the things you want most may not be the things that make you happy, and that being lonely is not necessarily the same as being alone….
Zombieland (2009)
Zombieland is an American zombie comedy film directed by Ruben Fleischer from a screenplay written by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick. The film stars Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Emma Stone, and Abigail Breslin as survivors of a zombie apocalypse. Together, they take an extended road trip across Southwestern United States in an attempt to find…