231. The Shop Around the Corner
Year of Release: 1940
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Actors: Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Frank Morgan, Joseph Schildkraut, Sara Haden, Felix Bressart
Plot: Before there was a "you've Got Mail", there was this movie, which has the two protagonist corresponding via regular mail.
232. Lolita
Year of Release: 1962
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Actors: James Mason, Sue Lyon, Peter Sellers, Shelley Winters
Plot: A professor moves to a small resort style town to begin writing more
poetry when he meets a girl who is merely a teenager. He falls in love
with caring for her as he controls as the various neighbors become
suspicious.
233. Sherlock Jr.
Year of Release: 1924
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Buster Keaton
Actors: Buster Keaton, Kathryn McGuire, Joe Keaton, Erwin Connelly, Ward Crane
Plot: A movie projectionist dreams of being a detective.
234. Safety Last!
Year of Release: 1923
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor
Actors: Mildred Davis, Harold Lloyd, Noah Young, Westcott Clarke, Bill Strother
Plot: A sales associate puts on a bet about climbing the building on the outside which creates consequences unknown from the beginning. Silent.
235. Fried Green Tomatoes
Year of Release: 1991
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Jon Avnet
Actors: Kathy Bates, Mary Stuart Masterson, Mary-Louise Parker, Jessica Tandy, Cicely Tyson, Chris O'Donnell
Plot: A woman in a troubled marriage strikes up a relationship with a woman in a nursing home. The stories she hears inspires change in her own life.
236. Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?
Year of Release: 1983
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Henry Jaglom
Actors: Karen Black, Michael Emil, Michael Margotta, Frances Fisher, Martin Harvey Friedberg, Robert Hallak
237. Children of Heaven ( Bacheha-Ye aseman )
Year of Release: 1999
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Persian
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Majid Majidi
Actors: Amir Farrokh Hashemian, Mohammad Amir Naji, Bahare Seddiqi, Nafise Jafar-Mohammadi, Fereshte Sarabandi, Kamal Mirkarimi
Plot: Ali has lost his younger sister's shoes at the market. He comes up with a solution until he can somehow find a new pair: they will share his shoes.
238. The Music Man
Year of Release: 1962
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Musical/Comedy
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Morton DaCosta
Actors: Robert Preston, Shirley Jones, Buddy Hackett, Ron Howard, Hermione Gingold, Paul Ford
Plot: Professor Harold Hill, a gilt-edged con artist, tricks the citizens of River City into organizing a boys band so he can sell them nonexistent band instruments.
239. Sitting Ducks
Year of Release: 1980
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Henry Jaglom
Actors: Michael Emil, Zack Norman, Patrice Townsend, Irene Forrest, Richard Romanus, Kelly Rogers
Plot: A pair of small-time criminals rip off the mob in order to fund their dreams of becoming a comedic duo. En route to Miami - where they plan to escape to Costa Rica, they pick up a pair females and a chauffeur/singer and that's where the fun really begins.
240. Little Big Man
Year of Release: 1970
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Arthur Penn
Actors: Dustin Hoffman, Faye Dunaway, Chief Dan George, Martin Balsam, Richard Mulligan, Jeff Corey
Plot: The 121-year-old Jack Crabb reflects on his life of being raised by Indians, watching his wife die at the hands of Custer and being the sole survivor of Little Big Horn.
