When you consider that old-fashioned tearjerkers are an endangered species in Hollywood, a movie like The Notebook can be embraced without apology. Yes, it's syrupy sweet and clogged with clichés, and one can only marvel at the irony of Nick Cassavetes directing a weeper that his late father John--whose own films were devoid of saccharine sentiment--would have sneered at. Still, this ...
Manufacturer: Entertainment in VideoStarring: Rachel McAdams, Ryan Gosling, Gena RowlandsDirected By: Nick Cassavetes
The cutting wit of Tina Fey (the first female head writer for US comedy breeding ground Saturday Night Live) brilliantly fuses pop culture and smart satire. Fey wrote Mean Girls, in which a formerly home-schooled girl named Cady (Lindsay Lohan) gets dropped into the sneaky, vicious world of the Plastics, three adolescent glamour-girls who dominate their public high school's social ...
Manufacturer: Paramount Home EntertainmentStarring: Lindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdams, Tina Fey, Tim Meadows, Amy PoehlerDirected By: Mark Waters (VIII)
The surprise comedy smash of 2005, Wedding Crashers has a resolutely simple set up. You take Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson, cast them as a pair of thirtysomethings who spend their weekends gatecrashing weddings, and put them in search of female company while they're there. The clue really is in the title. Yet there are several elements that make the film a little bit special. First and ...
Manufacturer: Entertainment in VideoStarring: Owen Wilson, Vince Vaughn, Christopher Walken, Rachel McAdams, Isla FisherDirected By: David Dobkin
For anyone who views holiday gatherings with equal parts joy and dread, The Family Stone offers plenty of comedy to identify with. Writer-director Thomas Bezucha's slapstick premise begins when Everett (Dermot Mulroney) brings his fiancé Meredith (Sarah Jessica Parker) home to meet his family for Christmas. It's an instant disaster when parents Sybil (Diane Keaton) and Kelly (Craig T. ...
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Home EntertainmentStarring: Sarah Jessica Parker, Paul Schneider, Claire Danes, Diane Keaton, Rachel McAdamsDirected By: Bezucha Thomas
Manufacturer: Touchstone Home VideoStarring: Rob Schneider, Anna Faris, Vergi Rodriguez, Matthew Lawrence, Eric Christian OlsenDirected By: Tom Brady
Red Eye is the latest movie from Wes Craven, whose most recent successes, the Scream trilogy, give some flavour of what to expect here. The action once again centres on a strong, young woman, this time called Lisa and played by Rachel McAdams (recently seen in Wedding Crashers), who spends all her time managing a busy hotel. On a flight back from a funeral, she finds ...
Manufacturer: Dreamworks Home EntertainmentStarring: Rachel McAdams, Cillian Murphy, Brian CoxDirected By: Wes Craven
With Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson as a pair of brazen wedding crashers, this buddy/romantic comedy milks a few big laughs from its foolproof premise. Under the direction of David Dobkin (who previously worked with Wilson on Shanghai Knights), the movie ranges from bawdy romp to mushy romance, and that tonal identity crisis curtails the overall hilarity. But when the well-teamed co-stars are ...
Manufacturer: New Line Home VideoStarring: Gena Rowlands, James Garner, Rachel McAdams, Ryan Gosling, Joan AllenDirected By: Nick Cassavetes
Manufacturer: Paramount Home EntertainmentStarring: Lindsay Lohan, Jonathan Bennett, Rachel McAdams, Tina Fey, Tim MeadowsDirected By: Mark Waters
