331. Day of the Wacko ( Dzien swira )
Year of Release: 2002
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: Polish
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Marek Koterski
Actors: Marek Kondrat, Janina Traczykówna, Michal Koterski, Maria Ciunelis
332. Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
Year of Release: 1948
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Charles Barton
Actors: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Lon Chaney Jr., Bela Lugosi, Glenn Strange, Lenore Aubert
Plot: Two freight handlers Wilbur Grey and Chick Young (Abbot and Costello) find
themselves in deep trouble when Dracula and a weakened Frankenstein escape
on route to a house of horrors exhibit. When the Wolfman comes calling to
stop Dracula - who is after Wilbur's brain to revitalize his monster -
things seem to be going better... until the full moon arrives.
333. Slap Shot
Year of Release: 1977
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Sport
MPAA Rating: R
Director: George Roy Hill
Actors: Paul Newman, Strother Martin, Michael Ontkean, Jennifer Warren, Jerry Houser, Jennifer Warren
Plot: An aging coach for lousy minor league hockey team needs his team to win or
watch it fold. Turning to dirty tactics and bloody fights, plus the rough
Hanson brothers, the team just may be able to save themselves.
334. Kolya ( Kolja )
Year of Release: 1997
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Russian
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Jan Sverák
Actors: Zdenek Sverák, Andrei Chalimon, Libuse Safránková, Ondrej Vetchý, Stella Zázvorková, Silvia Suvadova
Plot: A Czech concert cellist, and consummate ladies man, Franta Louka finds himself out of a job and running up debts. In order to secure cash, he agrees to marry a Russian woman so she can get her papers - but immediately after she runs to the arms of a West German boyfriend, leaving her five-year-old child behind with her grandmother. After she suddenly dies, it falls to Louka to take care of the young boy.
335. Grey Gardens
Year of Release: 1976
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Ellen Hovde, Albert Maysles, David Maysles and Muffie Meyer
Actors: Edith Bouvier Beale, Edith 'Little Edie' Bouvier Beale, Brooks Hyers, Norman Vincent Peale, Jerry Torre
Plot: Maysles brothers Documentary about the poor side of the family of Jacque O (Edith Bouvier Beale, and her daughter Edie)
336. A Mighty Wind
Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Christopher Guest
Actors: Harry Shearer, Michael McKean, Christopher Guest, Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara, Parker Posey
Plot: Charming mockumentary about folk music featuring many of the usual suspects from "Waiting For Guffman", "Best In Show", and "For Your Consideration".
337. The Fox and the Hound
Year of Release: 1981
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Comedy
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Ted Berman, Richard Rich
Actors: Mickey Rooney, Kurt Russell, Pearl Bailey, Keith Coogan, Corey Feldman, Jeanette Nolan
Plot: An unlikely friendship develops between a hound dog pup, Copper and a baby fox, Tod. As they grow up, their relationship is strained as Copper is expected to hunt fox. Is their childhood friendship strong enough to survive?
338. Adam's Rib
Year of Release: 1949
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: George Cukor
Actors: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Holliday, Tom Ewell, David Wayne, Jean Hagen
Plot: A happily married, middle aged husband and wife strain their marriage while serving as trial attorneys on opposite sides of the same headline-making attempted murder marital case (he as the prosecutor, she as the defender).
339. Delicatessen
Year of Release: 1991
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Marc Caro, Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Actors: Dominique Pinon, Marie-Laure Dougnac, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Karin Viard, Ticky Holgado, Anne-Marie Pisani
Plot: In a post-apocalyptic world, food has become the new currency and a
vicious landlord / butcher serves up troublesome people as food for his
quirky tenants.
340. Empire Records
Year of Release: 1995
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Allan Moyle
Actors: Anthony LaPaglia, Maxwell Caulfield, Ethan Embry, Renée Zellweger, Liv Tyler, Rory Cochrane
Plot: The dying breed of the independent music store is the setting for a group
of employees, many with personal crisis rearing their ugly heads, who need
to come together to keep the store from being swallowed by a mega
corporation.
