291. Pretty in Pink
Year of Release: 1986
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Howard Deutch
Actors: Molly Ringwald, Harry Dean Stanton, Jon Cryer, Annie Potts, James Spader, Andrew McCarthy
Plot: A working class high school girl gets romantically involved with a rich
boy. Meanwhile, another boy is crushing on her.
292. Horse Feathers
Year of Release: 1932
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Norman Z. McLeod
Actors: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Zeppo Marx, Thelma Todd, David Landau
Plot: Professor Quincy Adams Wagstaff finds himself the new president of Huxley
College. His son, Frank, wants nothing more than the college to beat rival
Darwin in the big game. He convinces Wagstaff to recruit to ringers, but
instead is beaten to punch by Darwin and instead is left with two misfits:
Baravelli and Pinky. But he comes up with another plan to win the big
game.
293. Kung Fu Panda 2
Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Jennifer Yuh
Actors: Jack Black, Angelina Jolie, Jackie Chan, Gary Oldman, Seth Rogen, Jean-Claude Van Damme
Plot: Po and the Furious Five plan a trip to China where they hope to stop an evil villain and learn the real story behind Po's mysterious past.
294. All of Me
Year of Release: 1984
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Carl Reiner
Actors: Steve Martin, Lily Tomlin, Victoria Tennant, Madolyn Smith Osborne, Richard Libertini, Dana Elcar
Plot: Unsuspecting attorney ends up sharing his body with the spirit of a client he hates.
295. The Purple Rose of Cairo
Year of Release: 1985
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Fantasy/Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Woody Allen
Actors: Mia Farrow, Jeff Daniels, Danny Aiello, Irving Metzman, Stephanie Farrow, David Kieserman
Plot: A New Jersey waitress during the depression, Cecilia wants nothing more than to escape her dreary life. She decides to take in a show, The Purple Rose of Cairo, and is surprised when the star of the film, the dashing Tom Baxter, walks right out of the picture into her life. But Tom isn't real - and neither are the other versions who are suddenly walking off the screen all over the U.S. - what will all these Tom characters decide to do?
296. The Thin Man
Year of Release: 1934
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Mystery
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: W.S. Van Dyke
Actors: Myrna Loy, William Powell, Maureen O'Sullivan, Porter Hall, Cesar Romero, Nat Pendleton
Plot: A couple that solves murders for fun, they encounter a difficult one to
tackle with many different players involved.
297. McLintock!
Year of Release: 1963
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Western
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Actors: John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Patrick Wayne, Stefanie Powers, Jack Kruschen, Chill Wills
Plot: A cattle baron's separated wife comes back to take their daughter.
298. Prince Avalanche
Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: David Gordon Green
Actors: Paul Rudd, Emile Hirsch, Lance LeGault, Joyce Payne, Gina Grande, Lynn Shelton
Plot: Set in 1988, two men leave behind their city lives one summer and take their highway road work to a more isolated area. Yet this opens up opportunities for misadventures as the two men find themselves at odds with each other and the women they left behind.
299. The Ladykillers
Year of Release: 1956
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Crime
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Alexander Mackendrick
Actors: Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom, Peter Sellers, Danny Green, Katie Johnson
Plot: Five criminals, led by the erudite Professor Marcus, plan a daring
daylight heist of gold bullion while posing as classical musicians for
octogenarian Mrs. Wilberforce, Marcus' landlady. The heist is pulled off
without a hitch, but Mrs. Wilberforce soon deduces the quintet's
involvement in it, and demands that they return the money and then turn
themselves in. Not too keen on this idea, the five criminals resolve to
'do in' the old lady. Killing a sweet, defenseless old widow in cold
blood, though, turns out to be a lot harder than the criminals first
anticipated.
300. The Squid and the Whale
Year of Release: 2005
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Noah Baumbach
Actors: Owen Kline, Jeff Daniels, Laura Linney, William Baldwin, Anna Paquin, Jesse Eisenberg
