Genre: Comedy Director: Colm O�Murchu Cast: Lara Cox, Martin Dingle-Wall, Jeff Gannon Length: 90� Country: Australia
Patricia Bartlett, a ruthless award winning journalist. Pitted against overwhelming odds, Hollywood makeover Guru Brad Holloway is blackmailed by her via the threat of crippling publicity. Rodger Keaton is a socially challenged, clinically frigid, computer nerd and desperate single male. Patricia gives Brad a "mission impossible" makeover. He must prove with substantial results that his Ultimate Makeover Services are the 'Real Deal'. He must change everything about Rodger: his cloths, his hair, his teeth, even his fingernails, and make him irresistible to women.
The new Rodger looks spectacular and through major hypnosis Rodger becomes a virtual clone of Brad. What happens when Rodger becomes a master Pick Up artist? And what happens when he seduces his guru's girlfriend? Over the six weeks challenge, Brad introduces Rodger to Sydney's hottest nightclubs, as disaster looms with hilarious consequences.
Join Rodger on a roller coaster of fear, anxiety, disaster, celebration, discovery, re invention and hope as he hurtles toward the finishing line in this race against time. The race is a game & the game has a name: It's called The Makeover.
Director: Veronica Craven Cast: Azmyth Kaminski, Ashley Hoyte, CC Perkison, Chuck Williams Country: United States Runtime:75’ Genre: Comedy Year: 2010
George has retired after 30 years of hard work but unfortunately he became the victim of a major corporate collapse that has left him and his wife penniless. Yet, they have an $800,000 life insurance policy so they are worth more dead than alive! What would any normal couple do in this dire time? Well of course hire a professional killer to "kill you." Problem solved, or so George thinks as he makes these lethal arrangements, unbeknownst to his wife Stella, with a professional killer.
George hires a newbie to the killing business, Brett Summerfield. Yet, how hard could it be to "take out" two frail old people? For Brett, it's almost as hard as trying to walk on water. After several attempts to complete the contract, poor Brett ends up more injured and bandaged up than his targets. But just as Brett is about to give up, he meets a beautiful Russian spy. Together, they set out to end these people's life. It looks like George and Stella may actually end up pushing up the daisies. Or do they?
The Cost of Living is a hilarious movie where "Mr. Bean" meets "The Fockers."
Director: Clete Keith Cast: Regan Burns, Rad Daly, Christy Reese Country: United States Runtime:103’ Genre: Comedy Language: English Year: 2009
Awards 2009
Cameron arranges a surprise party for his father's 75th birthday. His sister Theresa, a struggling actress living in New York - and her husband Clark, an afflicted loser with a voracious addiction for on-line auctions are the first to arrive. Cameron's bitter, pothead, adopted brother Mickey unexpectedly returns from a fifteen year absence, with a mysterious girl as his companion. But a late-night telephone call from the police permanently alters their weekend plans. Their father has suddenly died. This three-day weekend exposes everything this dysfunctional 'family' has to offer: love, loss, pain, happiness, betrayal, and most of all... truth.
Director: Carlos Gerbase Cast: Cristina Kessler, Carla Cassapo, Ana Maria Mainieri Country: Brazil Runtime:120’ Language: Portuguese with English subtitles Year: 2007
Awards 2008
3 F’s is a contemporary comedy that tells in a humorous way the emotional and financial problems faced by a group of characters who surround Sissi, a young university student.
Sissi has just lost her mother and has to support her father and her little brother. In this difficult situation, Sissi resorts to her aunt Martina’s advice.
Martina is a bored housewife who, in the middle of a crisis in her marriage to adman Rogério, feels irresistibly attracted to William, a humble waste collector. Yet, Rogério is also in trouble – his latest advertising campaign has gone wrong and now he needs to find a way to save his job no matter how.
So, under all these everyday pressures, the characters end up making decisions, which will change a lot of things among them – and also cause some unusual situations.
How far can you go to keep a job at risk, to support a family on the verge of starvation, or to give vent to desires condemned by society
Director: David Scheinmann Cast: David Annen, Rick Bacon, Rebecca Cardinale, Sarah Coomes, Malcom Ridley Country: United Kingdom Runtime: 85’ Language: English Year: 2006
Awards 2006
Relationships rule our lives, whether we're in one and trying to get out, out of one and trying to get in, or in one and just trying to hang on. Commitment may be the hardest thing to pledge, but a one-night-stand can no longer be just harmless fun. Are love and fidelity out of fashion? See what happens when a group of friends have a weekend away in the country. The West Wittering affair is the moment of truth for 4 uptight 30 something London professionals, which propels their chaotic love lives on an emotional roller-coaster in this romantic sex-comedy of errors.
Directed By: Reynald Bertrand Cast: Laurent Legeay, Nicolas Abraham, Marie-Anne Pauly Country: France Runtime: 83’ Language: French (English subtitles) Year of Production: 2008
2008 Awards
François Mangin is out of work and vying for a new sales job. Unable to decide between François and another candidate, the boss-to-be demands they decide among themselves who will get the job. François is determined to get the upper hand, but a random Christmas gift of a jar of face cream is about to make the competition a whole lot easier...
Inexplicably, whenever François rubs on some of the cream, other people instantly think he’s someone famous. At first, the novelty of his new “celebrity” is a kind of fun and flattering. But as the newfound fame quickly goes to his head, it begins to wreak havoc on his ego, his marriage and even his civil liberties. Factor into the equation an enterprising rival, a knowing wife, a corrupt businessman, a femme fatale, an honest cop and a whole lot of loose women and the results are both hilarious and disastrous.
A subversive black comedy slathered with brilliant chaos and a dab of lunacy, The Cream is also insightful commentary on how we respond to celebrity and our own desires to be famous.
Director/Writer: Sarah Schenck Cast: Dan Fogler, Jim True-Frost, Wes Ramsey Runtime: 79 minutes Year of Production: 2006 Country: United States Language: English
A fierce young feminist filmmaker who is desperate for cash to finish her documentary "Feminism for Dummies" secretly takes a job directing a porn film after her other moneymaking schemes don't pan out.
She brings her feminist ideals to the porn set, and the experience unexpectedly awakens her slumbering sexuality, arousing the suspicions of her politically-correct husband and threatening her marriage.
Directed by : Jennifer Ussi Cast: Veronica Neave, Queenie van de Zandt, Catarina Hebbard, Jamie Dunn, Adam Couper Runtime: 82� Year of Production: 2010 Country: Australia Language: English
Christine, Miki and Margo have been friends for 20 years, chatting, gossiping and laughing non-stop through the joys and troubles of marriage, boyfriends, careers, babies and now, age spots and all; they�re still at it, this time facing the fickle whims of MIDDLE AGE. And they�re not facing it particularly well. Miki�s vaguely visible laughter lines have taken Grand Canyon-like proportions in her mind, Margo is desperately trying to empty her nest so that she can finally walk around her own house naked and play actual decent music, and at whatever volume she wants. And Christine�s just lost it completely and suddenly, urgently, absolutely, wants a BABY.
Christine shuns anonymous donation, her ex boyfriend shuns her, adoption is not on the cards, and all this as her biological clock ticks frantically screaming for fruition and time threatens to run out before the beginning of the end of all choice and reason� the unavoidable malady called MENOPAUSE. But finally she finds her Mr Perfect Donor. He doesn�t want a relationship, he�s tall, not bald, does not have a mental illness and is ready and willing. Unfortunately he dies minutes before they�re about to do the deed...
Being these rather determined women they are, and with a little bit of luck and a lot of ingenuity, out comes the sperm problem ready for Christine�s achingly ready eggs. But there�s a lot of little future babies, and there�s only this one try � well, unless they can keep some of it. Keep it at body temperature until they can safely store it in Christine�s freezer a good 10 kilometre drive away. In goes two semi-filled condoms smothered in some of that baby oil into slightly worried, definitely horrified, but really loyal friends.
Suddenly Christine realises that those two baby-holding, life-saving, sperm-storing condoms had been removed from her handbag. They were her Condoms full of pinholes she made during a more than manic moment in the middle of her manic search for a donor. Pinholes viciously punched into the condoms in a moment of madness and desperation� pinholes that would allow as much sperm as an egg could possibly need.
Don't Ask Don't Tell
Director: Dough Miles Writer: Tex Hauser Cast: Kielsen Baker, Martin Friederichs Runtime: 80 minutes Year of Production: 2002 Country: United States Language: English
2002 AWARDS
This re-dubbed parody uses footage from the science fiction B-movie Killers From Space. The soundtrack has been replaced with campy dialogue and added a few new scenes to make the film about a group of aliens who want to turn the whole world gay. In this version Graces is portrayed as a Dr. Fartin, a scientist involved in a conspiracy to get rid of gay people in the military. When he crash-lands in Texas, the aliens abduct him and take him back to their home base. Revived by the alien operations, the doctor becomes a homosexual agent of the aliens' covert plans.
Director: Raimundo García Writers: Ulises Bermejo, Enrique Calvo, Raimundo García Producers: David Jareno Ortega Cast: Luis López Vázquez, Daniel Huarte, Sergio Villoldo, Kira Miró, Javier Gurruchaga, Xenia Reguant, Caco Senante, Rodolfo Sancho, Luciano Federico, Idelfonso Tamayo Runtime: 85 minutes Country: Spain Language: Spanish with English subtitles
When a family of anarchist squatters is violently evicted from their "cultural centre" thanks to an overzealous reporter, a reckless car chase leads them to the doors of the Cuban Embassy in Madrid where a media frenzy has begun following Fidel Castro's announcement of Cuba's first democratic elections. The family lock the doors of the building and embark upon an "ideological occupation" of the Cuban Embassy.
Aided by a diplomat and Cuba's political upheaval, they create an international scandal in this outrageous comedy which pokes fun at Fidel Castro, the Cuban revolution, the squatter movement, the media and the police.
