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1981

April 19, 2009
Camera Cinema Club
USA
English
115 Minutes — August 14, 1981
Comedy
Peter Bogdanovich [The Last Picture Show; Mask; The Thing Called Love; Northern Exposure; The Sopranos; Broken English]

Three agency detectives fall in and out of love in the course of their duties.

The guest this Sunday morning was writer-director, Peter Bogdanovich. Which was cool.

* Halliwells
6.0 IMDB

They All Laughed @ Amazon

THEY ALL LAUGHED

2008

April 8, 2009
Download
USA / Germany
English
121 Minutes — November 7, 2008
Comedy
David Wain [The Daily Show; Keeping The Faith; The Ten]
Paul Rudd [Clueless; Romeo + Juliet; The Cider House Rules; Friends; Anchorman: The Legend Of Ron Burgundy; The 40 Year Old Virgin; The Ten; Knocked Up; Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story; Forgetting Sarah Marshall]

Danny and Wheeler were just sentenced to 150 hours mentoring kids. Worst idea ever.

This one can be filed in the “could have been much worse” category. Man-crush Paul Rudd makes this story bearable. We get a ten year old obsessed with boobs, a medieval role-playing dork, and a guy who responds to a woman’s “I’m kinda engaged” with “I’ve kinda got a boner.” I laughed a lot, and I only feel moderately embarrassed about that.

6.0 Metacritic
7.3 IMBD

Role Models @ Amazon

ROLE MODELS

1996

September 14, 2008
DVD — Thank You Nazhat S.
USA
English / Spanish
91 Minutes — February 21, 1996
Adventure / Comedy / Crime / Drama / Romance
Wes Anderson [Rushmore; The Royal Tenenbaums; The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou; Hotel Chevalier; The Darjeeling Limited]

They’re not criminals, but everybody’s got to have a dream.

Three young incompetents decide to embark on a life of crime.

* Halliwells — “Enjoyable and witty small-scale independent film that manages some original variations on a familiar theme.”
6.0 MC
7.2 IMDB

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