"It's a comedy, sort of," a title card announces at the start of Happy Endings--just after Mamie (Lisa Kudrow) has been hit by a car. So it is, but talk about an unhappy beginning! Never fear, writer/director Don Roos will fulfill the promise of that title in several unexpected ways. The story then flashes back to 1983 for Mamie's life-altering encounter with her stepbrother. Mamie and Charley (Steve Coogan) will struggle with its consequences for the rest of the film. Does her teen pregnancy explain the fact that she became an abortion counselor or that he came out of the closet? Roos doesn't say, but nor does he judge. He loves his characters--foibles and all--in his ambitious, Altman-esque follow-up to the acerbic, yet heartfelt The Opposite of Sex. As before, Kudrow is... Learn More
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"It's a comedy, sort of," a title card announces at the start of Happy Endings--just after Mamie (Lisa Kudrow) has been hit by a car. So it is, but talk about an unhappy beginning! Never fear, writer/director Don Roos will fulfill the promise of that title in several unexpected ways. The story then flashes back to 1983 for Mamie's life-altering encounter with her stepbrother. Mamie and Charley (Steve Coogan) will struggle with its consequences for the rest of the film. Does her teen pregnancy explain the fact that she became an abortion counselor or that he came out of the closet? Roos doesn't say, but nor does he judge. He loves his characters--foibles and all--in his ambitious, Altman-esque follow-up to the acerbic, yet heartfelt The Opposite of Sex. As before, Kudrow is... More Info About This DVD Actor(s): Lisa Kudrow - Steve Coogan - Maggie Gyllenhaal Director(s): Don Roos DVD Release Date: 15 November 2005
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Around the World in 80 Days, the latest adaptation of Jules Verne's classic novel, is a mediocre bit of mish-mash, which while it has its moments, is an almost completely skippable movie.
Quite appropriately, Jackie Chan gets top billing in this movie, as this really is a Jackie Chan movie. Unfortunately, it has other stuff too. One doesn't watch Jackie Chan's movies for the writing or the acting or the special effects; one watches for the action. In the Jackie Chan portions of this film, the action is enough to entertain. At the other times, however, the bad acting, writing and effects are more than a little annoying.
No one comes off looking well in this movie. I wasn't demanding Oscar-caliber performances, just something that wasn't overly hammy. The dialogue, even if delivered... More Info About This DVD Actor(s): Jackie Chan - Steve Coogan - Jim Broadbent Director(s): Frank Coraci DVD Release Date: Released the 02 November 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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The 2004 version of Around the World in 80 Days is an entertaining hodge-podge of adventure, comedy, and scenery from across the globe. Phileas Fogg (Steve Coogan, 24 Hour Party People), an obsessively precise inventor, bets that he can circumnavigate the planet in 80 days--considered impossible in the Victorian era. In this version, Jackie Chan plays a Chinese peasant who retrieves a stolen idol from the Bank of England, then convinces Fogg to hire him as a French valet so that Chan can get back to his village. Chan supplies numerous spectacular fights against the forces trying to stop Fogg or get the idol, while Coogan is both funny and a surprisingly appealing romantic lead (he flirts with a fetching French painter who joins them). The various episodes--featuring cameos... More Info About This DVD Actor(s): Jackie Chan - Steve Coogan - Jim Broadbent Director(s): Frank Coraci DVD Release Date: Released the 02 November 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Inventive, tuneful retelling of The Wind in the Willows by filmmaker Terry Jones (Erik the Viking), and costarring many of his Monty Python pals. The film relies on creative dramatics and subtle costumes to show the human actors playing the various animal characters. We follow Mr. Mole (Steve Coogan), whose home is destroyed by a feisty band of weasels who want to make over the peaceful "wild wood" for economic means. Rat (Eric Idle) and the noble Badger (Nicol Williamson) are enlisted to help, but the rich and foolish Mr. Toad (Jones) and his enthusiasm for automobiles--and his ability to wreck them--soon lay waste to his friends' noble efforts. Python members Michael Palin and John Cleese have small roles as, respectively, the all-knowing Sun and Mr. Toad's... More Info About This DVD Actor(s): Terry Jones - Steve Coogan - Eric Idle Director(s): Terry Jones DVD Release Date: Released the 02 March 2004 Usually ships within 24 hours
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An ingenious docudrama on the Manchester music scene of the 1980s and '90s. 24 Hour Party People traces the rise and fall of bands like Joy Division, New Order, and Happy Mondays--bands whose success in the U.S. was limited, but whose impact in Europe (and England in particular) was phenomenal. It all centers around the record label that spawned these bands, Factory Records, and its impresario Tony Wilson (Steve Coogan), a man both ludicrous in his self-absorption and brilliant in his willingness to go out on a limb for bands he likes. Coogan, a British comic, gives a remarkable and deeply funny performance that manages to be simultaneously sincere and ironic. The movie communicates what was great about this time without any false majesty--the squalor and disasters are as crucial... More Info About This DVD Actor(s): Steve Coogan - Lennie James Director(s): Michael Winterbottom DVD Release Date: Released the 21 January 2003 Usually ships in 24 hours
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