Comedy - DVD

<p>Filmmaker Richard Linklater (Boyhood, Before Midnight) explores the lives of young Americans at a crossroads in subUrbia, adapted by Eric Bogosian (Talk Radio) from his play. It rocks with soundtrack music by Sonic Youth, Beck, Skinny Puppy, Butthole Surfers, Elastica and more of the...

<p>A lot of things can test a marriage, but Lorenzo and Susan Vega unwittingly put their five-year union to the ultimate test: They go camping. And Susan's guardian angel, seen only by Susan, joins them. TV's I Love Lucy was in its fifth season...

Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz live slaphappily ever after as newlyweds honeymooning in The Long, Long Trailer, breezily directed by Vincente Minnelli. They quickly find that the interior of a moving trailer is ideal for tossing a Caesar salad -- and everything else. That...

<p>When spoiled heiress Connie Casey goes off to college, her father secretly sends along four Ivy League football stars as her bodyguards. In no time, they turn tiny Pottawatomie U into a gridiron powerhouse! Fast-paced and infectiously funny, Too Many Girls is celebrated for...

<p>In the spirit of true-crime documentaries, this outrageous fish-out-of-water comedy features bright-eyed New York lawyer Josh Segal (Nicholas D'Agosto), who heads to a tiny Southern town for his first big case. His mission? To defend an eccentric rollercizing poetry professor (John Lithgow) accused of...

<p>The judge sentenced slumlord Louie Kritski to six months in his own building. He would have been better off in jail! Joe Pesci (GoodFellas) stars as Kritski, the landlord from Hell who gets a taste of his own medicine when he must live in...

<p>Hidden deep in the swamp lies tiny Biskitt Castle, home of the smallest dogs in the world, the Biskitts! For years, kings have entrusted their royal treasure to these pups. Now, from a nearby castle, rules the wasteful King Max and so begins every...

<p>When her husband jumped out of a plane without a parachute, Grace Trevethen knew life would get tough...but she had no idea just how tough. Left with a manor on the Cornish coast, a mountain of debt and dozens of creditors on her heels,...

<p>Alex (Jon Voight) has had a good day at the track, but a bad night at the poker game, and he'll have a worse time if the guys he owes catch up with him. So Alex and go-along pal Jerry (Burt Young) split for...

<p>Shortly before Hollywood came calling, Preston Sturges conquered Broadway, and Strictly Dishonorable was the comedy king's crown jewel. Hitting the screen soon after its stage incarnation, Strictly Dishonorable is a ribald romance loaded with double entendres and good intention. Isabelle Perry, a Southern belle...

<p>Yarn-spinning yokel William Quincy Malone (Dennis O'Keefe) is unique among the cowpuncher roustabouts working a ranch in Texas -- he does it with a croquet mallet and a tennis ball, with the help of a hundred-trick pony by the name of Lone Star. Unlike...

<p>And baby makes three. Isolde (Doris Day) and Augie (Richard Widmark) Poole would love to do the math, but adopting a new Poole proves tricky. Dick (Gig Young), the Pooles' neighbor, has advice for Augie during these challenging times: Have an affair. (Of course,...

<p>The State Department wants Ethel Barrymore to represent the American theater at an arts exposition in Paris. But Miss Ethel Barrymore's invitation goes instead to Miss Ethel "Dynamite" Jackson, a very blonde, very brassy chorus girl. And she's going to give Paris an Eiffel!...

<p>By day, Mark Hunter (Christian Slater, Very Bad Things, Broken Arrow) is a painfully shy new kid in a small Arizona town. But by night, he's Hard Harry, the cynical, uncensored DJ of a pirate radio station. Idolized by his high school classmates (who...

<p>In Terrence McNally's Tony Award winner Love! Valour! Compassion!, the secret to keeping the story vital and the humor fresh was retaining the original award-winning cast and adding the brilliant of Jason Alexander (Seinfeld) as the witty, show-tune-singing Buzz. Rarely has the spirit of...

<p>It's 1908. The West has changed. Grizzled frontiersman Cable Hogue (Jason Robards) hasn't. Despite the fortune he's made selling water to thirsty desert travelers, he lies in wait. Someday two no-account desert rats -- who long ago robbed Hogue and left him to die...

<p>A husband-and-wife songwriting team (Robert Young and Ann Sothern) sure know how to turn out the hits, from "Lady Be Good" to "The Last Time I Saw Paris." But when it comes to marriage, they can't seem to hit anything but sour notes. Red...

<p>Season three of this beloved sitcom about young singles sharing a brownstone begins with Regine (Kim Fields) angrily moving out! Khadijah (Queen Latifah) has a great job running her own magazine and interviewing high-level athletes, but her publishing career might face serious setbacks. Max...

<p>Alice's sixth season sees the staff settling in for a steady service of hopes, dreams, chili and grits-kissing. While Alice (Linda Lavin) ponders her life choices as she approaches forty, Vera (Beth Howland) attends her school reunion and ends up engaged, Jolene (Celia Weston)...

<p>Christian Slater (Heathers, The Contender) stars as a mysterious drifter whose life takes a fateful turn when he stops at a sleepy, small town. In a place where nothing ever happens, he becomes the object of fascination for its quirky inhabitants. The men revere...

<p>Walter Matthau, Jack Lemmon, Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie and an all-star cast bring the characters of Truman Capote's novel to life in this touching film about how people learn to love and change. Following the death of his parents, young Collin Fenwick (Edward Furlong)...

<p>Pert and precocious Nancy Barklay (Jane Powell) is up for the leading role in a Broadway musical set in Brazil, but her seasoned stage-star mother, Frances (Ann Sothern), thinks she's got the part! A sticky situation becomes impossibly complicated after Nancy follows her mother...

<p>Returning for its third season, The Wayans Bros. continues to deliver its unique blend of classic physical comedy and hip '90s situation comedy with Shawn and Marlon Wayans playing brothers with little in common save an innate ability to disagree, disrupt and "dis." Shawn...

<p>Goofball. Dear Old Pa. Sugar Daddy with a Heart of Gold. These were the stock-in-trade characters of beloved Warner Bros.' stock company member Guy Kibbee. Beginning his career entertaining on a Mississippi riverboat, Kibbee brought a larger-than-life energy to his characters, even when they...

<p>Perhaps best known for her portrayal of intrepid reporter Torchy Blane in a series of films, the great Glenda Farrell was an indispensable member of the Warner Bros. stock company of players. More "the girl from down the block" than "the girl next door,"...

<p>Screen icon Alan Ladd produces and stars in this crime spectacle, shot on location in noir central -- San Francisco. Steve Rollins (Ladd) is both ex-cop and ex-con, recently sprung from the stir. Spurning both love (Joanne Dru, as a songstress spouse who strayed)...

<p>Season Four sees the young staff of the King's Tower enter into a new maturity while its proprietors begin to make plans to step aside. Fancy (Garcelle Beauvais) and Braxton (Christopher B. Duncan) get promoted to Director of Sales and General Manager, respectively, while...

<p>A Broadway producer has the talent, the tunes, the theater and everything else he needs to put on a show -- except the dough. Not to worry, say Ginger Rogers and the other leggy chorines decked out in giant coins. Everyone will soon be...

<p>In an earlier time, East Coast spring break pleasure seekers overran Fort Lauderdale. And for Easter Week West, busloads of teens would converge on California's desert playground for a wild Palm Springs Weekend. Troy Donahue headlines this romp as Jim Munroe, captain of the...

<p>Last season on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Rebecca Bunch (Rachel Bloom) moved to West Covina, California, inspired by her seemingly providential run-in with old summer-camp boyfriend Josh Chan (Vincent Rodriguez III). Rebecca's arrival has unforeseen consequences for everyone in town - most of all for herself....

<p>This pre-Code caper put comic-relief titan Edward Everett Horton in a most unusual position -- romantic leading man! Thankfully, for Horton's sake and ours, the filmmaker's wisely chose to fill the role of his leading lady with the amazing Louise Fazenda, who even gets...

<p>Meet Dink: a happy-go-lucky little kid...who just happens to be a dinosaur! Dink, an Apatosaurus, explores the land around his home of Green Meadow alongside his youthful saurian soul mates -- Amber, a big-sister-type Corythosaurus; Scat, a Compsognathus with poor impulse control; Shyler, a...

<p>The society pages are shocked by the news that millionairess Flora Barton (Frieda Inescourt) has abruptly married unknown salesman Denny Williams (Patric Knowles), but not as shocked as humble manicurist Jean Russell (Lucille Ball), Denny's intended. Reeling at Denny's callous treatment, Jean redoubles her...

<p>From Emmy winners Conan O'Brien and Greg Daniels (The Office) and creator David Jenkins comes People of Earth, a comedy series about a support group for alien abductees. People of Earth centers on skeptical journalist Ozzie Graham (Wyatt Cenac), who investigates a support group...

<p><strong>Bombshell:</strong> Glamour queen Lola (Harlow) is quitting the movie biz -- something her manipulative press agent (Lee Tracy) can't allow!</p>

<p>The "Broadway Musketeers" -- a trio of chorus girls -- are all for one and one for all in this musical drama about their quest for the golden groom. At the wild end of the Roaring '20s, when Prohibition still forces alcohol into underground...

<p>It's definitely a "singles thing" when six upwardly-mobiles allow you to come into their Brooklyn brownstone and eavesdrop on their lives, loves and attitudes. Khadijah James (Queen Latifah) runs her own magazine with a little help from her roommate and cousin, Synclaire (Kim Coles),...

<p>The first of three films teaming Academy Award -winners* Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant, and ably directed by famed director George Cukor (The Philadelphia Story), Sylvia Scarlett tells the story of a young woman disguised as a man to evade the law, and all...

<p>That's NOT all, folks! Warner Bros. first cartoon superstar, everyone's favorite pantless porcine, Porky Pig, takes center stage. From his humble beginnings as the breakout star of a schoolhouse talent show in I Haven't Got a Hat to his slimmer, slaphappy sidekick stage alongside...

<p>Every rental is rented, every sublet is let in crowded Washington, D.C. So Jamie Rowan does her part for the wartime lodging crunch by sharing her home with military inventor Pat Jamieson. There are a few conditions, natch. First, for appearances, they must get...

<p>The merriest Mr. and Mrs. team ever, William Powell and Myrna Loy, are at it again, for better...and worse! The domestic duo that enchanted filmgoers in The Thin Man series are completely out of their minds in this hilarious misadventure. On the night of...

<p>Take a refreshing plot with a novel twist, add line after line of wonderfully saucy dialogue, garnish with top-notch direction by W. S. Van Dyke II, and the result is one of the brightest romantic comedies ever essayed by the William Powell-Myrna Loy team....

<p>One of Hollywood's most beloved film couples, William Powell and Myrna Loy, star in this irreverent romantic romp about an unlikely pair of star-crossed lovers. Margit Agnew (Loy) is the domineering head of a wealthy family, which includes her deferential younger sister, Irene, and...

<p>In The Middle's hit eighth season, the Heck kids continue to smash through their comfort zones and navigate new situations -- which may or may not be comforting to parents Frankie (Patricia Heaton) and Mike (Neil Flynn). Axl (Charlie McDermott) may be living out...

<p>A nation called out in its time of need. Albert Brooks answered. Yes, he would venture into India and Pakistan on a top assignment for the USA. Yes, he would see if comedy could achieve what diplomacy and power has not -- make the...

<p>Mel's Diner continues to function as a welcome waystation in the pursuit of dreams in Alice's fifth hit season. Ex-Mel gal Belle (Diane Ladd) continues to keep the service staff up to snuff in style and sass, while Alice continues to raise Tommy and...

<p>Christy (Anna Faris) is a single mom who, after years of questionable choices, is now sober and trying to get her life on track. She's tested daily by her mother, Bonnie (Allison Janney), whom Christy still considers the root of her troubles, even though...

<p>Director John Waters breaks every rule of good filmmaking and good taste with his 1972 landmark cult classic, Pink Flamingos. Starring Divine, Mink Stole and Edith Massey (an ensemble cast like you wouldn't believe), this underground epic sets a benchmark for the bizarre that...

<p>Things get rocky at the Gravel household when paranoid Peggy Gravel (Mink Stole) and her murderous maid, Grizelda (Jean Hill), kill Peggy's husband. They escape from the law, only to wind up in the crazy town of Mortville, where Queen Carlotta (Edith Massey) presides...

<p>Not since Judy met the boy next door in St. Louis has there been a heaping of tuneful, romantic Midwestern American life like this! Doris Day and Gordon MacRae team for spoonin', croonin' and swoonin' On Moonlight Bay, based on Booth Tarkington's Penrod stories....