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Allison Janney Movies
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Genres:
Comedy
Drama
Starring:
Shirley Henderson,
Michael K. Williams,
Roslyn Ruff,
Allison Janney,
Michael Lerner,
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First off, while I'm not a fan of everything Solondz has done, I
consider Happiness one of my all-time favorite films. Thus, I was
really looking forward to Life During Wartime, but after the film was
over, I ended up wishing that Solondz had just left Happiness alone. It
feels like a direct-to-video exploitation release, or maybe even an
especially polished but ultim...
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Genres:
Comedy
Drama
Romance
Starring:
John Krasinski,
Maya Rudolph,
Carmen Ejogo,
Catherine O'Hara,
Jeff Daniels,
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i just got back from a pre-screening of this in Dallas, and i must say
i really enjoyed it. it seems like the whole audience enjoyed it as
well, the theatre was often filled with laughter throughout this
wonderful film.i'm a fan of Sam Mendes' work, and his work excelled here in the realm
of comedy. John Krasinski and Maya Rudolph shared great chemistry as a
couple ex...
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Genres:
Comedy
Starring:
Missi Pyle,
Melissa McCarthy,
Josh Hopkins,
Octavia Spencer,
Jack Noseworthy,
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So first off I have to say that the other two comments on here don't
make a lick of sense. The one person talking about it being racist
obviously hasn't seen a single Tyler Perry movie. The other one
mentioned "Welcome To The Dollhouse". What an insult to a great movie.
No. This movie was indeed awful. It was either written by a cynical gay
with no filter or a straigh...
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Genres:
Comedy
Drama
Starring:
Ellen Page,
Michael Cera,
Jennifer Garner,
Jason Bateman,
Allison Janney,
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Look, I do get it. I fully appreciate that a film about a girl who gets
pregnant, has an early abortion, then manages to move on, would be a
pretty short movie. In fact, so short it wouldn't get made. No one
wants to know about reality. And certainly in 21st century North
America, no one wants to portray abortion as a viable option. Very,
very bad form currently.But when I ...
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Genres:
Comedy
Musical
Romance
Starring:
John Travolta,
Michelle Pfeiffer,
Christopher Walken,
Amanda Bynes,
James Marsden,
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I just saw Hairspray the movie at the 5th Avenue Theater in
Seattle--the same theater where Hairspray the musical premiered five
years ago. It could be that I am just dizzied by the dashing good looks
of Zac Efron, but the magic that was produced on stage by the original
Hairspray cast has transfered flawlessly to the big screen.I couldn't have asked for more. Nikki Blonsky pre...
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Genres:
Animation
Adventure
Comedy
Family
Starring:
Bruce Willis,
Garry Shandling,
Steve Carell,
Wanda Sykes,
William Shatner,
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Let me say up front, I had low expectations going into the film.
Although I like animation a lot, I wasn't too impressed with previous
Dreamworks attempts. I tend to regard cutesy previews with suspicion,
and was mostly just going along to have a potentially positive
movie-going experience with my family. Things got a little worse when
we arrived at the theatre, and both th...
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Genres:
Animation
Adventure
Comedy
Family
Starring:
Bruce Willis,
Garry Shandling,
Steve Carell,
Wanda Sykes,
William Shatner,
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Let me say up front, I had low expectations going into the film.
Although I like animation a lot, I wasn't too impressed with previous
Dreamworks attempts. I tend to regard cutesy previews with suspicion,
and was mostly just going along to have a potentially positive
movie-going experience with my family. Things got a little worse when
we arrived at the theatre, and both th...
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Genres:
Comedy
Romance
Starring:
Sam Rockwell,
Frances O'Connor,
Tom Wilkinson,
Brenda Blethyn,
Allison Janney,
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Following scriptwriter Julian Fellowes's Academy Award for Gosford Park
(2001), and its commercial success with a recreation of 1930s Britain,
he was able to initiate the third film version of Piccadilly Jim. In
itself, this was no small achievement, for the last P.G. Wodehouse
movie on the English big screen had been The Girl on the Boat forty
years before.The Piccadilly Jim t...
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Genres:
Drama
Starring:
Anthony LaPaglia,
Aaron Stanford,
Mark Webber,
Allison Janney,
Michelle Monaghan,
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Josh Sternfeld has done the unthinkable. He has elected to tell a story
merely by allowing the viewer to overhear the minimal dialogue of the
characters without supplying a linear plot or explanation of how a
little family fell apart.Landscaper Jim Winters (Anthony LaPaglia is a brilliant role) is the
single father of two sons - Gabe (Aaron Stanford) who is the older and
lookin...
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Genres:
Animation
Adventure
Comedy
Family
Starring:
Albert Brooks,
Ellen DeGeneres,
Alexander Gould,
Willem Dafoe,
Brad Garrett,
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I'll be totally honest and confirm to you that everything what they say
about this movie is true. It's a brilliantly animated masterpiece with lots
of humor that actually works and a plot that really brings tears to your
eyes from time to time. The modern artists of Pixar never cease to amaze the
audience in expanding their horizons. Finding Nemo is visually stunning and
you ca...
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Genres:
Animation
Adventure
Comedy
Family
Starring:
Albert Brooks,
Ellen DeGeneres,
Alexander Gould,
Willem Dafoe,
Brad Garrett,
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I'll be totally honest and confirm to you that everything what they say
about this movie is true. It's a brilliantly animated masterpiece with lots
of humor that actually works and a plot that really brings tears to your
eyes from time to time. The modern artists of Pixar never cease to amaze the
audience in expanding their horizons. Finding Nemo is visually stunning and
you ca...
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Genres:
Comedy
Drama
Romance
Starring:
Mandy Moore,
Allison Janney,
Trent Ford,
Alexandra Holden,
Dylan Baker,
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I almost considered passing up watching this one, but I'm glad I didn't.
This movie has all the hallmarks of a bad afterschool special, actually four
or five of them smashed together. But just when you think it's about to fall
off a cliff of cliches, something unexpectedly intelligent happens. Just
when it's about to turn into a tear-jerker, the director puts her camera,
almost...
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Genres:
Drama
Starring:
Kevin Spacey,
Annette Bening,
Thora Birch,
Wes Bentley,
Mena Suvari,
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Of the 250+ films I've seen and rated on IMDb, only one other
(Schindler's List) is as good as American Beauty. A film like this not
only entertains while you're in the theater but also drops subtle
questions in your head about the nature of human behavior and the gulf
between fantasy and reality. After watching this movie, viewers will
think long and hard about their own lives...
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Genres:
Comedy
Romance
Starring:
Heath Ledger,
Julia Stiles,
Joseph Gordon-Levitt,
Larisa Oleynik,
David Krumholtz,
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I wanted to see this movie when it first came out but never did. I
didn't get a copy until a week ago and finally watched it with my
girlfriend. I have to admit, I've seen it five times in the past week.
A lot of teen movies have very basic or clich...
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Genres:
Comedy
Starring:
Kirsten Dunst,
Ellen Barkin,
Allison Janney,
Denise Richards,
Kirstie Alley,
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Drop Dead Gorgeous is a film about a teenage beauty pageant. As you
might expect; it features plenty of young girls in skimpy outfits,
dancing, singing and all that crap. However, unlike a lot of films of
the same ilk; here, hidden behind a facade of teen beauty and all the
other trademarks of the teen comedy genre, is an intelligently written,
witty and very dark satire on the...
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Genres:
Action
Adventure
Romance
Starring:
Harrison Ford,
Anne Heche,
David Schwimmer,
Jacqueline Obradors,
Temuera Morrison,
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A crusty pilot-for-hire is trapped on a tropical island with a fashion
magazine executive. I might have avoided this had it been anywhere else
but
the "action" part of the video rental store. There was enough action in
it
so as not to disappoint the action fan too much, but there is a certain
amount of romance too. The executive has left behind a brand new husband
on...
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Genres:
Comedy
Drama
Romance
Starring:
Paul Rudd,
Kali Rocha,
Jennifer Aniston,
Lena Cardwell,
Natalie B. Kikkenborg,
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Finally a truly great film from a star of TV's Friends.
Jennifer Aniston is fantastic as a single woman who becomes pregnant and
wants to raise the child with her roommate George, who is gay.
Unfortunately
for her, she ends up falling in love with him. This sets up what is a
nonstandard ending to a romance movie, but the payoff is satisfying enough
that you aren't in the le...
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Genres:
Biography
Comedy
Drama
Starring:
Howard Stern,
Robin Quivers,
Mary McCormack,
Fred Norris,
Paul Giamatti,
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The true story of Howard Stern's "rise" from schoolboy nerd to leading DJ in
the USA. This is adapted from his book and is a whirlwind ride through 30
years, with the main focus being on his career at small stations and his big
break at NBC. The fact that it is from Stern himself means that the story
focuses on his good sides and tends to brush over the more difficult issues
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Genres:
Comedy
Crime
Drama
Starring:
Cher,
Chazz Palminteri,
Ryan O'Neal,
Paul Mazursky,
Amber Smith,
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"Faithful" is a worth-watching film, somewhere between comedy and drama, but
not tragicomedy. It stars Cher as a rich but rejected wife who wants to take
her life on her 20th anniversary. But then a hitman hired by her husband
gets into her house. He ties her to a chair and they start to talk - as it's
an adaption of a play - and slowly Cher's wish to live on is growing. The
di...
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Genres:
Drama
Family
Fantasy
Starring:
Richard Attenborough,
Elizabeth Perkins,
Dylan McDermott,
J.T. Walsh,
James Remar,
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I can't see why a retelling of a really good story gets panned. It
stayed true to the original concept, that believing in something good,
even if it only comes once a year, can make us better. If I may
reference another Christmas classic of which there have been several
worthy interpretations, "Scrooge" (1951), the young Scrooge says to the
young Marley upon their meeting, "I b...
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