Comedy

One of the greatest comedy teams reached new entertainment heights in this beloved film that mixes Martin and Lewis trademark hilarity with a heart-tugging story of friendship. Dean Martin stars as Bill Miller, a struggling, 1930s vaudeville singers whose small act could use a bi...gtime boost. Help arrives in the form of fall-down funny comic Ted Rogers (Jerry Lewis). Teamed together, Miller and Rogers climb to the top of the showbiz heap, but as their success grows, so does Millers ego. When Miller suddenly fires Rogers, he figures hes bound for stardom; what he gets is a tough lesson in what it means to be a class act and the realization that his ex-partner wasn't just a stooge he was a star.
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Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane brings his boundary-pushing brand of humour to the big screen for the first time as writer, director and voice star of Ted. In the live action/CG-animated comedy, he tells the story of John Bennett (Mark Wahlberg), a grown man who much deal w...ith the cherished teddy bear who came to life as the result of a childhood wish... and has refused to leave his side ever since.
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Lawyer Steve Floods (Dean Martin) gambling habit is beginning to get on the nerves of his wife Melanie (Lana Turner). To keep the money in the family, Melanie talks Steves law partner Clint (Eddie Albert) into acting as his bookie. Not only does this plan not work, but it also ro...uses the ire of Runyonesque gangster Tony Gagouts (Walter Matthau). In the cutest of the films cute twist, Melanie saves herself and her husband by solving Gagouts financial and domestic problems.A minor but efficiently assembled star comedy, Who's Got the Action benefits from tasty production values and a knockout supporting cast, including Paul Ford, John McGiver, Nita Talbot, Ned Glass, and fabled pin-up girl June Wilkinson.
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A South Auckland petrol station is the setting for this independent drama about graveyard shift worker Tania (Sophie Henderson, also the film's writer and based on her one-woman stageplay), whose long nights are spent chipping away at the savings she needs to leave with her littl...e brother in search of their father. Raised Maori, Tania's bonds to her whanau underpin a life spent caring for her ailing mother during the day and preparing to take her brother Piwakawaka overseas. But as he leaves to pick kiwifruit and Tania is stuck at the gas station with a slack manager and an eagle-eyed regional supervisor, it seems she's not able to look after her family to the same extent. A product of the NZ Film Commission's Escalator scheme, this low-budget feature, shot in just 20 days, brings Henderson's piece to the big screen courtesy of first-time director Curtis Vowell
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Nerdy college student Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg) has survived the plague that has turned mankind into flesh-devouring zombies because he's scared of just about everything. Gun-toting, Twinkie-loving Tallahassee (Woody Harrelson) has no fears. Together, they are about to stare dow...n their most horrifying challenge yet: each other's company. Emma Stone and Abigail Breslin co-star in this double-hitting, head-smashing comedy.
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