Posts Tagged ‘buddy-comedy’

Wild Wild West (1999)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Comedy | Sci-Fi | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Will Smith | Kevin Kline | Kenneth Branagh | Salma Hayek | M. Emmet Walsh | Ted Levine | Frédérique Feder | Musetta Vander | Sofia Eng | Ling Bai | Garcelle Beauvais | Mike H. McGaughy | Jerry Wills | Rodney A. Grant | Buck Taylor
Directors: Barry Sonnenfeld
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Jim West is a guns-a-blazing former Civil War hero. Artemus Gordon is an inventive U.S. Marshal who excels in disguise. When the United States is threatened by psychotic Confederate Arliss Loveless, President Ulysses Grant teams the duo up to bring him to justice. On a hazard-packed train journey from Washington to Utah, West and Gordon must combine their skills to best Loveless and his diabolical machines.

Metro (1997)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Eddie Murphy | Kim Miyori | Art Evans | James Carpenter | Michael Rapaport | Donal Logue | Jeni Chua | Dick Bright | David Michael Silverman | Denis Arndt | Frank Sommerville | Malou Nubla | Carmen Ejogo | Nino Degennaro | Michael Wincott
Directors: Thomas Carter
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Roper, a hostage negotiator catches a murderous bank robber after a blown heist. The bank robber escapes and immediately goes after the man who put him behind bars. The ending is played out with Roper and his partner McCall attempting to rescue Roper’s kidnapped girlfriend. A major element in the plot is the relationship between Roper and his girlfriend.

Outrageous Fortune (1987)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Shelley Long | Bette Midler | Peter Coyote | Robert Prosky | John Schuck | George Carlin | Anthony Heald | Ji-Tu Cumbuka | Florence Stanley | Jerry Zaks | John DiSanti | Diana Bellamy | Gary Morgan | Christopher McDonald | J.W. Smith
Directors: Arthur Hiller
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Lauren and Sandy are total opposites who end up in the same acting class and who don’t know they are sharing a lover. When he disappears under mysterious circumstances they refuse to believe that he is dead and are the only ones who are searching for him across several states. Ending up in the western US., they discover he had other interests as they find their lives in danger.

All About the Benjamins (2002)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Comedy | Crime | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Ice Cube | Mike Epps | Tommy Flanagan | Carmen Chaplin | Eva Mendes | Valarie Rae Miller | Anthony Giaimo | Jeff Chase | Roger Guenveur Smith | Gino Salvano | Tony Ward | Dominic Chianese Jr. | Anthony Michael Hall | Antoni Corone | Bob Carter
Directors: Kevin Bray
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A bounty hunter is on the trail of a conman who skipped bail. The two wind up in a deserted warehouse where they witness a diamond scam in action, caught in the midst they put their differences aside to team up and detain the looters.

Red Heat (1988)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Comedy | Crime | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger | James Belushi | Peter Boyle | Ed O'Ross | Laurence Fishburne | Gina Gershon | Richard Bright | J.W. Smith | Brent Jennings | Gretchen Palmer | Pruitt Taylor Vince | Michael G. Hagerty | Brion James | Gloria Delaney | Peter Jason
Directors: Walter Hill
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Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a Russian policeman sent after a Russian drug dealer who has escaped to the United States and is awaiting extradition in Chicago. Jim Belushi plays his temporary partner on the Chicago police. When the drug dealer escapes, the two police must overcome their differences in order to recapture him.

Showtime (2002)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Mos Def | Robert De Niro | Rachael Harris | Eddie Murphy | Zaid Farid | Alex Borstein | Holly Mandel | Marshall Manesh | Nestor Serrano | T.J. Cross | James Roday | Joel Hurt Jones | Chris Harrison | Perri Peltz | Amy Powell
Directors: Tom Dey
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LAPD Detective Sergeant Mitch Preston cares only about doing his job and nailing crooks. LAPD Patrol Officer Trey Sellars joined the force as a day job until his acting career took off. During an undercover drug buy Mitch was working that Trey botched by calling in for backup and drawing media attention, Mitch’s partner is shot with a very exotic 12-gauge automatic weapon; Mitch then shoots the video camera out of the hands of a reporter filming the action when the cameraman refused to shut it down. Faced with a $10 million lawsuit, the department agrees to let producer Chase Renzi film Mitch’s investigation for a new reality TV show, and constantly tries to make everything more “viewer friendly” by changing everything about Mitch’s life to fit the stereotypical view of police officers—and partners him with Trey.

Shanghai Noon (2000)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Curtis Armstrong | Jackie Chan | Owen Wilson | Lucy Liu | Brandon Merrill | Roger Yuan | Xander Berkeley | Rongguang Yu | Ya Hi Cui | Eric Chen | Jason Connery | Walton Goggins | Adrien Dorval | Rafael Báez | Stacy Grant | Kate Luyben
Directors: Tom Dey
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A 19th century Western. Chon Wang is a clumsy Imperial Guard to the Emperor of China. When Princess Pei Pei is kidnapped from the Forbidden City, Wang feels personally responsible and insists on joining the guards sent to rescue the Princess, who has been whisked away to the United States. In Nevada and hot on the trail of the kidnappers, Wang is separated from the group and soon finds himself an unlikely partner with Roy O’Bannon, a small time robber with delusions of grandeur. Together, the two forge onto one misadventure after another.

True Lies (1994)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Romance | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Charlton Heston | Arnold Schwarzenegger | Jamie Lee Curtis | Tom Arnold | Bill Paxton | Tia Carrere | Art Malik | Eliza Dushku | Grant Heslov | Marshall Manesh | Dieter Rauter | Jane Morris | Katsy Chappell | Crystina Wyler | Ofer Samra
Directors: James Cameron | James Allen
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Special agent Harry Tasker gets out of the water outside a heavily guarded mansion, takes off his wetsuit, and there is a dinner jacket underneath. Harry strolls into a swanky party. Harry meets with Juno Skinner, steals some computer files, and escapes in a blaze of gunfire. He’s picked up by his partner, Albert “Gib” Gibson, and they return to the United States. Harry goes home to his wife Helen. Helen doesn’t know what Harry does because he pretends to be a computer salesman. Their 14-year-old daughter Dana is a sullen teenager, and Helen is so bored by the routine of her life that she’s on the verge of having an affair with used-car salesman Simon, who claims to be a spy. Harry is hot on the trail of a group of terrorists led by Salim Abu Aziz. Aziz and his men are smuggling nuclear weapons into the USA in pieces of Persian art, and Aziz plans to hold the country hostage in the name of the Crimson Jihad. Harry’s also out to save his marriage when he discovers Helen with Simon, who still claims to be a spy. Harry uses the Agency’s resources to give Helen a taste of the real thing. Harry blackmails Helen into seducing an enemy agent — Harry himself — in a hotel room, but their tryst is interrupted by Aziz’s men, who kidnap them and take them to one of the Florida Keys, where they’re preparing to detonate their nuclear bomb. Harry escapes and rescues Helen, and then they discover that Aziz has gone to Miami and kidnapped Dana. Harry uses a harrier jet to get to Miami, where he sets out to rescue Dana.

Bad Boys II (2003)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Martin Lawrence | Will Smith | Jordi Mollà | Gabrielle Union | Peter Stormare | Theresa Randle | Joe Pantoliano | Michael Shannon | Jon Seda | Yolanda Vazquez | Jason Manuel Olazabal | Otto Sanchez | Henry Rollins | Antoni Corone | Gary Nickens
Directors: Michael Bay
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Narcotics cops Mike Lowrey (Smith) and Marcus Bennett (Lawrence) head up a task force investigating the flow of ecstasy into Miami. Their search leads to a dangerous kingpin, whose plan to control the city’s drug traffic has touched off an underground war. Meanwhile, things get sexy between Mike and Syd (Union), Marcus’s sister.

Men in Black II (2002)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Comedy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Tommy Lee Jones | Will Smith | Rip Torn | Lara Flynn Boyle | Johnny Knoxville | Rosario Dawson | Tony Shalhoub | Patrick Warburton | Jack Kehler | David Cross | Colombe Jacobsen-Derstine | Peter Spellos | Michael Rivkin | Michael Bailey Smith | Lenny Venito
Directors: Barry Sonnenfeld
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It has been four years since the alien-seeking agents averted an intergalactic disaster of epic proportions. Kay has since returned to the comforts of civilian life while Jay continues to work for the Men in Black, the highly funded yet unofficial government agency that regulates all things alien on earth. While investigating a seemingly routine crime, Jay uncovers a diabolical plot masterminded by Serleena, an evil Kylothian monster who disguises herself as a sexy lingerie model. It’s a race against the clock as Jay must convince Kay—who not only has no memory of his time spent with the agency, but is also the only person alive who has the expertise to save the galaxy—to reunite with the MIB before Earth is destroyed completely.