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Catherine O'Hara
Catherine Anne O'Hara (born March 4, 1954) is a Canadian-American actress and comedienne. She is well known for her comedy work on SCTV, and her roles in the films After Hours, Beetlejuice, Home Alone, and The Nightmare Before Christmas; as well in the mockumentary films written and directed by...
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Best in Show
Best in Show is a 2000 mockumentary that follows five entrants in a prestigious dog show. The film focuses on the slightly surreal interactions among the various owners and handlers as they travel to the show and compete. Much of the dialogue was...
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A Mighty Wind
A Mighty Wind is a 2003 mockumentary about a folk music reunion concert and the three groups that must come together to perform on national television for the first time in years. The film was directed (and co-written) by Christopher Guest. The...
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Beetlejuice
Beetlejuice is a 1988 American comedy horror fantasy film directed by Tim Burton, produced by The Geffen Film Company and distributed by Warner Bros. The plot revolves around a recently dead young couple who become ghosts haunting their former home,...
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Brother Bear 2
Brother Bear 2 is a direct-to-video sequel to the animated feature Brother Bear and was released on DVD on August 29, 2006. Melissa Etheridge contributed three songs to the film. In the film, the adventures of bear brothers Kenai and Koda continue....
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Chicken Little
Chicken Little is a 2005 American computer animated sciene fiction-action family comedy film loosley based on the fable The Sky Is Falling. The film was animated in-house at WDFA's main headquarters in Burbank, California, and released by Walt...
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For Your Consideration
For Your Consideration is a 2006 comedy film directed by Christopher Guest. It was co-written by Guest and Eugene Levy, both also starring in the film.
The film, titled with a phrase used in trade advertisements to promote films for awards such as...
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The Nightmare Before Christmas
Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas is a 1993 stop motion fantasy film directed by Henry Selick and produced/co-written by Tim Burton. It tells the story of Jack Skellington, a being from "Halloween Town" who opens a portal to "Christmas...
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Waiting for Guffman
Waiting for Guffman is a musical mockumentary starring, co-written and directed by Christopher Guest that was released in 1997. Many of its cast appeared in several of the subsequent mockumentaries directed by Guest. Its title is a satirical...
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Intergalactic Thanksgiving
Intergalactic Thanksgiving (also known by its on-screen title, Please Don't Eat the Planet) is the fourth television special from the Canadian animation company, Nelvana.
When the space farmer family the Spademinders (Maw, Paw, Victoria, and trusted...
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Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York is the 1992 sequel to the 1990 film Home Alone, and the second film in the Home Alone series. Home Alone 2 was written and produced by John Hughes and directed by Chris Columbus. It stars Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci,...
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Bartok the Magnificent
Bartok the Magnificent is a direct-to-video spin-off to the 1997 film Anastasia, which features Hank Azaria as the voice of Bartok. This film was released on VHS and DVD by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment on November 16, 1999, and was re...
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Home Alone
Home Alone is a 1990 Christmas film written and produced by John Hughes and directed by Chris Columbus. The film features Macaulay Culkin as Kevin McCallister, an eight-year-old boy who is mistakenly left behind when his family flies to Paris for...
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Surviving Christmas
Surviving Christmas is a 2004 comedy film, directed by Mike Mitchell and starring Ben Affleck. Despite being a Christmas movie, DreamWorks SKG released the movie towards the end of October. This was due to it being advanced from December 2003 to...
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Home Fries
Home Fries is a 1998 film directed by Dean Parisot, starring Drew Barrymore. It also starred Luke Wilson and Shelley Duvall. The script was originally penned by writer Vince Gilligan for a film class at New York University. It was filmed in Lockhart...
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Penelope
Penelope is a 2006 romantic comedy film directed by Mark Palansky with a wide release in 2008. It stars Christina Ricci, James McAvoy and Reese Witherspoon.
Penelope Wilhern is a young woman from a well-bred and wealthy family with all the qualities...
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Orange County
Orange County is a 2002 United States comedy film starring Colin Hanks and Jack Black. It was released on January 14, 2002. The movie was distributed by Paramount Pictures and produced by MTV Films and Scott Rudin. The movie was directed by Jake...
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Pippi Longstocking
Pippi Longstocking is a 1997 animated film from AB Svensk Filmindustri and Nelvana, based on the eponymous children's books by Astrid Lindgren. It was distributed theatrically by Legacy Releasing and on DVD by Warner Bros., and was served as a pilot...
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Barbie in the 12 Dancing Princesses
Barbie and the 12 Dancing Princesses is a 2006 direct-to-video computer animated Barbie film directed by Greg Richardson and loosely based on the fairytale "The Twelve Dancing Princesses." It is part of the Barbie film series and features the voice...
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There Goes the Neighborhood
Avarice is the motivation behind the zany deeds in this 1992 comedy film known as There Goes the Neighborhood in the USA, but released as Paydirt in most foreign countries. It all begins when a dying prisoner whispers the location of his loot to the...
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Where the Wild Things Are
Where the Wild Things Are is a 2009 American fantasy film directed by Spike Jonze and adapted from Maurice Sendak's 1963 children's book of the same name. The film combines live action, performers in costumes, animatronics, and computer-generated...
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Over the Hedge
Over the Hedge is a 2006 computer animated film based on the characters from United Media comic strip of the same name. Directed by Tim Johnson , Karey Kirkpatrick and produced by Bonnie Arnold, it was released in the U.S. on May 19, 2006. The film...
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The Last of the High Kings
The Last of the High Kings is a 1996 coming of age film set in Dublin, Ireland in the 1970s where the teenagers of the story are dealing with the birth of punk, the death of Elvis Presley and the various dramas of their teens. The lead role of...
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The Wool Cap
The Wool Cap is a 2004 American cable television movie, an updated and Americanized version of the 1962 feature film Gigot starring Jackie Gleason, who wrote the original story.
In this adaptation written by William H. Macy and Steven Schachter,...
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A Simple Twist of Fate
A Simple Twist of Fate is a 1994 American drama film directed by Gillies MacKinnon. The screenplay by Steve Martin is loosely based on the 1861 novel Silas Marner by George Eliot.
When high school music teacher Michael McCann discovers his wife is...
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Cat tale
Cat Tale is an upcoming 2010 animated film by Imagi Animation Studios starring Sean Astin, Elisha Cuthbert, Jerry O'Connell, David Cross, Catherine O'Hara, Rip Torn, Stanley Tucci, R. Lee Ermey, Michael Richards, Fred Willard, Chazz Palminteri,...
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Away We Go
Away We Go is a 2009 comedy-drama directed by Academy Award-winning director Sam Mendes and written by the husband-and-wife team of Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida. The film stars John Krasinski, Maya Rudolph, Allison Janney, Catherine O'Hara, Jeff...
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Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events is a 2004 black comedy film directed by Brad Silberling. It is based on the first three novels, The Bad Beginning, The Reptile Room, and The Wide Window, in Lemony Snicket's book series. The film stars...
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After Hours
After Hours is an American black comedy film released in 1985, directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Joseph Minion. It depicts Paul Hackett (Griffin Dunne), a New Yorker who experiences a series of adventures and perils in trying to make his...
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Five Killers
Five Killers is a 2010 comedy, action, thriller, suspense starring Katherine Heigl, Ashton Kutcher, and Tom Selleck.
A vacationing woman meets her ideal man, leading to a swift marriage. Back at home, however, their idyllic life is upset when they...
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Monster House
Monster House is a American 2006 computer animated fantasy comedy film released on July 21, 2006 by Columbia Pictures. Executive produced by Robert Zemeckis and Steven Spielberg, this is the first time since Back to the Future Part III that both...
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