Posts Tagged ‘comedy-of-manners’

Emma (1996)

Thursday, April 24th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Gwyneth Paltrow | James Cosmo | Greta Scacchi | Alan Cumming | Denys Hawthorne | Sophie Thompson | Jeremy Northam | Toni Collette | Kathleen Byron | Phyllida Law | Edward Woodall | Brett Miley | Brian Capron | Karen Westwood | Paul Williamson
Directors: Douglas McGrath
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Emma is a very beautiful young woman who decides to devote her life in finding the right mate for the people around her. But, her cause will come to contestation when she will find love in the face of a much sought after man.

The Road to Wellville (1994)

Friday, March 28th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Anthony Hopkins | Bridget Fonda | Matthew Broderick | John Cusack | Dana Carvey | Michael Lerner | Colm Meaney | John Neville | Lara Flynn Boyle | Traci Lind | Camryn Manheim | Roy Brocksmith | Norbert Weisser | Monica Parker | Jacob Reynolds
Directors: Alan Parker
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In Welville, at Battle Creek, eccentric rich Dr. John Harvey Kellogg (a historical figure) runs a stylish health farm for the wealthy, an idea ahead of his time, based on extreme vegetarianism, neither sex, masturbation or even sensual stimulation, but laughing therapy and purging the ‘polluted’ body, mainly by exercises, often in open air, vicious diet, his invention corn flakes, laxatives, anal yogurt cure, enemas and brutal mechanical cleansing. Eleanor Lightbody drags her sickly, incredulous husband Will along to the therapy; the couple is almost immediately separated and getting horny for more available members of the opposite sex. Kellogs stubbornly willful adopted son (among over 30 kids) George is a filthy embarrassment, paid off just to stay away. Charles Ossining panics when arriving in Battle Creek he finds his aunt’s fortune made him partner in the empty shell- health food company Per-fo, not the planned corn-flakes factory; however with a former Welville-employee and George’s name they hope to get rich from their own cornflakes brand. When an electric therapy goes fatally wrong and several other patients die, Will’s incredulous reluctance turns to panic…

Trading Places (1983)

Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Denholm Elliott | Dan Aykroyd | Maurice Woods | Richard D. Fisher Jr. | Jim Gallagher | Anthony DiSabatino | Bonnie Behrend | Sunnie Merrill | James Newell | Mary St. John | Bonnie Tremena | David Schwartz | Ralph Bellamy | Don Ameche | Tom Degidon
Directors: John Landis
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Louis Winthorpe III is a successful Philadelphia commodity broker with mansion, manservant and girlfriend to match. Billy Ray Valentine is a hustling beggar. Winthorpe’s employers, the elderly Duke brothers, make a bet that by switching the lifestyle of the two Billy Ray will make good and their man will take to a life of crime. Suddenly Louis finds himself uncomprehendingly with no job, no home and only a new acquaintance, glamorous hooker Ophelia, prepared to help him. So at least in one way things could actually be worse.

Pride & Prejudice (2005)

Saturday, October 20th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: France | UK
Actors: Keira Knightley | Talulah Riley | Rosamund Pike | Jena Malone | Carey Mulligan | Donald Sutherland | Brenda Blethyn | Claudie Blakley | Sylvester Morand | Simon Woods | Kelly Reilly | Matthew MacFadyen | Pip Torrens | Janet Whiteside | Sinead Matthews
Directors: Joe Wright
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The story is based on Jane Austen’s novel about five sisters - Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Kitty and Lydia Bennet - in Georgian England. Their lives are turned upside down when a wealthy young man (Mr. Bingley) and his best friend (Mr. Darcy) arrive in their neighborhood.

Divorce, Le (2003)

Thursday, August 23rd, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: France | USA
Actors: Kate Hudson | Jean-Marie Lhomme | Naomi Watts | Esmée Buchet-Deàk | Jean-Jacques Pivert | Melvil Poupaud | Catherine Samie | Samuel Labarthe | Leslie Caron | Thierry Lhermitte | Nathalie Richard | Samuel Gruen | Peter Wyckoff | Sandrel Lonnoy | Glenn Close
Directors: James Ivory
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French vs. American social customs and behaviors are observed in a story about an American visiting her Frenchman-wed sister in Paris.