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"In the summer of 1980, a group of authority-defying comedy geniuses from Saturday Night Live, the Second City improv troupe, and the National Lampoon magazine created the funniest sports movie ever made. Maybe the funniest movie ever made, period. This timeless snobs-versus-slobs story of working-class kids and the white-collar buffoons who make them carry their golf bags in the hot summer sun has sex, drugs, and one very memorable candy bar. But...
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"Musical comedy about a young man, Danny, who opens a nightclub, much to the chagrin of his rich father. Hoping to force his son into taking up the family business, the father arranges for the club to be shut down, but can't break the news to the son himself, so he pays a struggling singer $50 to go to the club and clue him in. However, she forgets all about this once Danny finds out she's a singer and gives her a regular gig at his club. Soon the...
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Bing Crosby plays press agent, Tony Marvin, whose job at a pineapple company is to turn Hawaii into pure paradise. Tony is escorting a beauty contest winner (Shirley Ross) and her friend (Marth Raye) on a tour of the islands. Tony must go to outrageous lengths to convince the women to stay, or risk a public relations disaster.
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"Screwball sparks fly when Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn let loose in one of the fastest and funniest films ever made--a high-wire act of invention that took American screen comedy to new heights of absurdity. Hoping to procure a million-dollar investment from a wealthy society matron for his museum, a hapless paleontologist (Grant) finds himself entangled with a dizzy heiress (Hepburn) as the manic misadventures pile up--a missing dinosaur bone,...
9) Warren
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After giving up on making it in the Chicago improv scene, a young comedian fatefully reconnects with the former love of his life one fall night while working at a coffee shop in his hometown. Afraid of growing old and alone like his divorced father, Warren must choose between winning her back or finding the courage to go after his dreams a second time.
11) Road to Bali
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Hope and Crosby play a pair of vaudeville performers in competition for Lamour. She must be some gal, because they pursue her all the way to the South Seas island of Bali. There they must contend with all sorts of jungle perils.
12) Summer fling
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A crowd pleasing comedy which shows that growing up in one offbeat family isn't always easy, but it is always funny. It's June, and Frankie is sure he's blown his exams and his one chance at getting into college. He thus pursues this summer's major goals: planning the ultimate beach party and getting better acquainted with the babes on the beach.
13) The brothers
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Four smart, successful and sexy men take on love, sex, friendship and two of life's most terrifying prospects - honesty and commitment. The "brothers" are lifelong friends who have banded together to weather love's innate terrors and occasional triumphs in this comic yet painfully true exploration of the battle between the sexes
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Louis C.K. is a master at creating an atmosphere of fearless honesty onstage that would seem brutal if it were not so completely relatable and suffocatingly hilarious. His exploitation of life after 40 lays to waste politically correct images of marriage, children, sex and race with stories that we have all lived and thoughts we have all had-- but would rarely admit to.
15) Boys and girls
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Stuffy Ryan and free-spirited Jennifer can't stand each other the first few times they meet, then they become friends and fall in love.
16) Blazing saddles
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A spoof of every cliché in the western film genre, telling the story of a black sheriff who is sent to clean up a frontier town, with unpredictable results.
17) Hellzapoppin'
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"Playing incompetent nitwits, Ole and Chic hire a producer to make a musical show at a fancy estate. What follows are non-stop zany gags and jokes when the producer takes on extracurricular activities by falling in love with the estate's wealthy girl. However he's encumbered by the girl's fiancé. A wild love triangle ensues, complicated by Chic's sister because a penniless Russian aristocrat mistakes her for the wealthy girl. Based on the hit...
19) In person
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Noted psychiatrist Dr. Aaron Sylvester has Hollywood star Carol Corliss as a patient. The beautiful blonde has developed such a phobia toward the large crowds of her adoring fans that she goes around disguised as a buck-toothed, horn-rimmed, homely brunette or wears a veil over her face to mask her identity. The doctor prescribes a vacation to a mountain lake cabin as part of her cure and asks young outdoorsman Emory Muir to accompany her and act...
20) Elsa & Fred
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The story of two people who, at the end of the road, discover that it's never too late to love. After losing his wife, Fred feels disturbed, confused and alone, so his daughter helps move him into a small apartment where he meets Elsa. From that moment on, everything changes. Elsa bursts into Fred's life like a whirlwind, determined to teach him that the time he has left to live, be it more or less, is precious and that he should enjoy it as he pleases....
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