A reporter's dream of becoming a news anchor is compromised after a one-night stand leaves her stranded in downtown L.A. without a phone, car, ID or money - and only 8 hours to make it to the most important job interview of her life.
After discovering her boyfriend is married, Carly soon meets the wife he's been betraying. And when yet another love affair is discovered, all three women team up to plot revenge on the three-timing S.O.B.
A lazy, incompetent middle school teacher who hates her job, her students, and her co-workers is forced to return to teaching to make enough money for breast implants after her wealthy fiancé dumps her.
Director:
Jake Kasdan
Stars:
Cameron Diaz,
Jason Segel,
Justin Timberlake
While settling his recently deceased father's estate, a salesman discovers he has a sister whom he never knew about, leading both siblings to re-examine their perceptions about family and life choices.
Director:
Alex Kurtzman
Stars:
Chris Pine,
Elizabeth Banks,
Michelle Pfeiffer
A suburban couple becomes embroiled in an international espionage plot when they discover that their seemingly perfect new neighbors are government spies.
Follows the lives of five interconnected couples as they experience the thrills and surprises of having a baby and realize that no matter what you plan for, life does not always deliver what is expected.
Director:
Kirk Jones
Stars:
Cameron Diaz,
Matthew Morrison,
J. Todd Smith
When three overworked and under-appreciated moms are pushed beyond their limits, they ditch their conventional responsibilities for a jolt of long overdue freedom, fun and comedic self-indulgence.
Mild mannered businessman Sandy Patterson travels from Denver to Florida to confront the deceptively harmless looking woman who has been living it up after stealing Sandy's identity.
Dave is a married man with three kids and a loving wife, and Mitch is a single man who is at the prime of his sexual life. One fateful night while Mitch and Dave are peeing in a fountain, lightning strikes and they switch bodies.
Meghan Miles is a TV correspondent who works at a local Tv station. She gets an opportunity to work at a network. She goes home to celebrate with her boyfriend. Her friends show up to celebrate with her. But they find her despondent. It seems like her boyfriend left without saying good bye and the network is leaning towards someone else. Her friends convince her to go out and get drunk. They get her to put on a hot dress. She eventually gets so drunk that a guy offers to take her home but she prefers to go to his place. And she spends the night. When she wakes up she gets s call telling her that the network is reconsidering her so she has to go to work but her car was towed away and her wallet which in her purse is also in it. And she left her phone at the guy's place. She then finds herself wandering around downtown LA and runs into drug dealers and people think she's a hooker. So she has to find a way get to work. And even the police are after her.Written by
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As Meghan is driving her car out of Mid-Wilshire Tow, you can briefly see her front personalized California license plate on her vehicle; NEWZGURL. See more »
Goofs
The uniformed station officer in the police station scene is wearing Captain's bars, and he tells the two police officers to report to the [plainclothes] lieutenant. Captains outrank lieutenants pretty much everywhere. Further, the captain mans the radio in other scenes. It is very unlikely that a police captain would be working at the station's front desk, and it's more likely that the officers would be told to report to the captain, not the lieutenant. See more »
Quotes
Gordon:
No, I'm not a hipster. I can't grow a convincing enough beard.
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In case you have not been paying attention, most "comedies" today are either (a) a vehicle for ex-SNL alumni to strut their stuff (b) a showcase for an internet eccentric to strut his stuff (c) a riff off the most recent successful mainstream films; (d) someone took Jim Carrey out of mothballs or (e) an attempt by the current Lampoon franchise owners to recapture their glory days (as in for example Eurotrip).
Did I miss anything? Against this backdrop it is fun to see Banks drop out of nowhere, literally, and attempt to recapture the spirit of the Screwball comedies of the 30s and 40s.
The hallmark of these films is a single character, usually female, who gets into trouble, and then gets into trouble while trying to get out of trouble.
And lots of grimaces, double-takes, and mugging to the camera.
Not bad. Actually laughed at some of the scenes (the "creepy kid" comes to mind) and the idea of leaving Banks in the same yellow dress for the whole feature is entirely consistent with the screwball theme.
Not bad at all.
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In case you have not been paying attention, most "comedies" today are either (a) a vehicle for ex-SNL alumni to strut their stuff (b) a showcase for an internet eccentric to strut his stuff (c) a riff off the most recent successful mainstream films; (d) someone took Jim Carrey out of mothballs or (e) an attempt by the current Lampoon franchise owners to recapture their glory days (as in for example Eurotrip).
Did I miss anything? Against this backdrop it is fun to see Banks drop out of nowhere, literally, and attempt to recapture the spirit of the Screwball comedies of the 30s and 40s.
The hallmark of these films is a single character, usually female, who gets into trouble, and then gets into trouble while trying to get out of trouble.
And lots of grimaces, double-takes, and mugging to the camera.
Not bad. Actually laughed at some of the scenes (the "creepy kid" comes to mind) and the idea of leaving Banks in the same yellow dress for the whole feature is entirely consistent with the screwball theme.
Not bad at all.