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1	Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) more movies like this directed by Frank Capra featuring Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey, Jack Carson, Peter Lorre, Edward Everett Horton Arsenic and Old Lace is director Frank Capra's spin on the classic Joseph Kesselring stage comedy, which concerns the sweet old Brewster sisters (Josephine Hull, Jean Adair), beloved in their genteel Brooklyn neighborhood for their many charitable acts. One charity which the ladies don't advertise is their ongoing effort to permit lonely bachelors ... see all copies from $2.95! new only from $9.94!
2	Harvey (1950) more movies like this directed by Henry Koster featuring James Stewart, Josephine Hull, Peggy Dow, Charles Drake, Cecil Kellaway, Victoria Horne This whimsical fantasy about a local drunk's 6' 3 1/2" imaginary rabbit pal was a smash hit (and a Pulitzer Prize winner) on Broadway and was then adapted into this likeable farce that's also an allegory about tolerance. James Stewart stars as Elwood P. Dowd, a wealthy tippler whose sunny philosophy and inebriated antics are tolerated by most of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.10!
3	Arthur (1981) more movies like this directed by Steve Gordon featuring Dudley Moore, Liza Minnelli, John Gielgud, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Jill Eikenberry The ads for Arthur suggested that this was an obnoxious film about an obnoxious man, an eternally drunken millionaire indulging his every whim. Instead, Arthur (Dudley Moore) is a sweet, somewhat pathetic character whose millions have left him lonely and with no motivation in life. When the film opens, Arthur is on the threshold of an arranged ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.99!
4	The Big Lebowski (1998) more movies like this directed by Joel Coen featuring Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore, Steve Buscemi, David Huddleston, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Peter Stormare The plot of this Raymond Chandler-esque comedy crime caper from the Coen Brothers (Joel Coen and Ethan Coen) pivots around a case of mistaken identity complicated by extortion, double-crosses, deception, embezzlement, sex, pot, and gallons of White Russians (made with fresh cream, please). In 1991, unemployed '60s refugee Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski ... see all copies from $2.10! new only from $15.02!
5	Ball of Fire (1941) more movies like this directed by Howard Hawks featuring Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Oscar Homolka, Dana Andrews, Dan Duryea, S.Z. Sakall, Henry Travers Ball of Fire is a delightful retelling (by Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett) of the "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" legend -- though strictly for grownups. Gary Cooper is the youngest of eight bookish professors authoring an encyclopedia. They find a perfect "research associate" in the curvaceous form of stripteaser Barbara Stanwyck, who ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.67!
6	You Can't Take It with You (1938) more movies like this directed by Frank Capra featuring Jean Arthur, Lionel Barrymore, James Stewart, Edward Arnold, Mischa Auer, Ann Miller, Spring Byington Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman's whimsical Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway play You Can't Take It With You was transformed into a paean to populism by director Frank Capra and screenwriter Robert Riskin. This is the story of the zany Sycamore household, presided over by Grandpa Vanderhof (Lionel Barrymore), a former businessman who has turned his ... see all copies from $6.27! new only from $15.80!
7	The Philadelphia Story (1940) more movies like this directed by George Cukor featuring Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart, Ruth Hussey, John Howard We open on Philadelphia socialite C.K. Dexter Haven (Cary Grant) as he's being tossed out of his palatial home by his wife, Tracy Lord (Katharine Hepburn). Adding insult to injury, Tracy breaks one of C.K.'s precious golf clubs. He gallantly responds by knocking her down on her million-dollar keester. A couple of years after the breakup, Tracy is ... see all copies from $2.95! new only from $3.99!
8	His Girl Friday (1940) more movies like this directed by Howard Hawks featuring Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy, Gene Lockhart, Helen Mack, Porter Hall, Clarence Kolb, Roscoe Karns The second screen version of the Ben Hecht/Charles MacArthur play The Front Page, His Girl Friday changed hard-driving newspaper reporter Hildy Johnson from a man to a woman, transforming the story into a scintillating battle of the sexes. Rosalind Russell plays Hildy, about to foresake journalism for marriage to cloddish Bruce Baldwin (Ralph ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99!
9	My Best Friend's Wedding (1997) more movies like this directed by P.J. Hogan featuring Julia Roberts, Dermot Mulroney, Cameron Diaz, Rupert Everett, Philip Bosco A woman realizes that friends can be lovers, but now has to convince the friend in question in this romantic comedy. Michael O'Neal (Dermot Mulroney) and Julianne Potter (Julia Roberts) were romantically involved in college, and after breaking up, they have managed to remain close friends. For years, Julianne and Michael have had a pledge that if ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99!
10	Some Girls (1988) more movies like this directed by Michael Hoffman featuring Patrick Dempsey, Florinda Bolkan, Jennifer Connelly, Sheila Kelley, Lance Edwards, Ashley Greenfield Michael (Patrick Dempsey) is a college student invited to spend Christmas vacation in Quebec City with his sweetheart Gabby (Jennifer Connelly) and her family. The wide-eyed Michael sees the city as a fairytale land with the splendid architecture gently dusted by the falling snow. When Michael arrives, Gabby tells him she is breaking up with him, ... see all copies from $4.64! new only from $10.78!
11 view cover	Working Girl (1988) more movies like this directed by Mike Nichols featuring Melanie Griffith, Harrison Ford, Sigourney Weaver, Joan Cusack, Alec Baldwin Unhappy with her job and her loser boyfriend, Melanie Griffith takes a secretarial post at a major Wall Street firm. Her boss is Sigourney Weaver, an outwardly affable yuppie whose grinning visage hides a wicked and larcenous propensity for exploiting the ideas of her employees. While Weaver is incapacitated, Griffith is compelled by circumstances ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.00!
12 view cover	It Happened One Night (1934) more movies like this directed by Frank Capra featuring Claire McDowell, Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly, Roscoe Karns, Jameson Thomas Frank Capra's seminal screwball comedy, which won all five major Academy Awards for 1934, is still as breezy and beguiling today. Claudette Colbert plays Ellie Andrews, a spoiled heiress who has married fortune-hunting aviator King Westley (Jameson Thomas), despite her father (Walter Connolly)'s objections. To keep Ellie from marrying this ... see all copies from $2.95! new only from $14.95!
13 view cover	Bringing Up Baby (1938) more movies like this directed by Howard Hawks featuring Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Charlie Ruggles, Barry Fitzgerald, May Robson Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant star in this inspired comedy about a madcap heiress with a pet leopard who meets an absent-minded paleontologist and unwittingly makes a fiasco of both their lives. David Huxley (Grant) is the stuffy paleontologist who needs to finish an exhibit on dinosaurs and thus land a $1 million grant for his museum. At a ... see all copies from $8.95! new only from $23.07!
14 view cover	Runaway Bride (1999) more movies like this directed by Garry Marshall featuring Julia Roberts, Richard Gere, Hector Elizondo, Joan Cusack, Rita Wilson In 1990, Pretty Woman turned Julia Roberts into a star and gave Richard Gere's career a much-needed boost; for 1999, Roberts and Gere reunited with director Garry Marshall for the romantic comedy Runaway Bride. Roberts plays Maggie, who has left so many prospective husbands at the altar that she has gained notoriety as "the Runaway Bride," and a ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.95!
15 view cover	Christmas in Connecticut (1945) more movies like this directed by Peter Godfrey featuring Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet, Reginald Gardiner War hero Dennis Morgan becomes the object of a publicity stunt staged by magazine publisher Sidney Greenstreet. The corpulent print mogul announces that Morgan has won a Christmas dinner, to be prepared by the magazine's housekeeping expert Barbara Stanwyck in her own Connecticut home. The catch: Not only does Stanwyck not have a home in ... see all copies from $2.95! new only from $15.05!
16 view cover	Laws of Attraction (2004) more movies like this directed by Peter Howitt featuring Pierce Brosnan, Julianne Moore, Michael Sheen, Parker Posey, Frances Fisher, Nora Dunn Though equally respected in their field, divorce lawyers Audrey Woods (Julianne Moore) and Daniel Rafferty (Pierce Brosnan) are opposites inside and out of the courtroom. Audrey is meticulous and by the book, while Daniel relies on personality and luck to get by. Despite the difference in methods, neither lawyer has lost a case, and neither plan ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99!
17 view cover	What's Up, Doc? (1972) more movies like this directed by Peter Bogdanovich featuring Barbra Streisand, Ryan O'Neal, Kenneth Mars, Austin Pendleton, Sorrell Booke With Howard Hawks's Bringing Up Baby (1938) as his blueprint, Peter Bogdanovich resurrected and payed homage to 1930s screwball comedy in What's Up, Doc? (1972). When wacky co-ed Judy Maxwell (Barbra Streisand, in the Katharine Hepburn part) spies nebbishy musicologist Howard Bannister (Ryan O'Neal in bespectacled Cary Grant mode) in a San ... see all copies from $4.00!
18 view cover	Housesitter (1992) more movies like this directed by Frank Oz featuring Steve Martin, Goldie Hawn, Dana Delany, Julie Harris, Donald Moffat In this romantic comedy from director Frank Oz, Steve Martin plays Boston architect Newton Davis, an impulsive dreamer who builds a bucolic dream home for his girlfriend (Dana Delany) as a means of proposing to her -- only she turns him down. Three months later, the depressed Davis meets a waitress who calls herself Gwen (Goldie Hawn), though ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.03!
19 view cover	Clue (1985) more movies like this directed by Jonathan Lynn featuring Eileen Brennan, Tim Curry, Madeline Kahn, Martin Mull, Christopher Lloyd, Lesley Ann Warren, Michael McKean In this spoof of McCarthy-era paranoia and 1950s wholesomeness, the characters and plot are drawn from the popular Parker Brothers board game of the same name. On a dark and stormy night in 1954, six individuals with ties to Washington are assembled for a dinner party at the swanky mansion of one Mr. Boddy (Lee Ving). Boddy's butler, Wadsworth ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.99!
20 view cover	The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) more movies like this directed by Joel Coen featuring Tim Robbins, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Paul Newman, Charles Durning, John Mahoney Joel Coen and Ethan Coen concocted this stylish screwball comedic amalgam of Frank Capra and Howard Hawks. Tim Robbins stars as Norville Barnes, a dull-wit from Muncie, Indiana who wrangles a job with the big Hudsucker Industries. He has a singular idea for a new children's toy that he wants to present to corporate executive Sidney J. Mussberger ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.98!
21 view cover	Desperately Seeking Susan (1985) more movies like this directed by Susan Seidelman featuring Rosanna Arquette, Madonna, Aidan Quinn, Mark Blum, Robert Joy A petite New Jersey housewife finds self-fulfillment through amnesia in this new wave comedy of errors set in New York's hip '80s downtown scene. Rosanna Arquette stars as Roberta, who turns to the personals for vicarious thrills after her four-year marriage to staid hot tub salesman Gary (Mark Blum) grows stale. Her favorite classified ads trace ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.05!
22 view cover	Summer Rental (1985) more movies like this directed by Carl Reiner featuring John Candy, Rip Torn, Richard Crenna, Karen Austin, Aubrey Jene, Kerri Green, Joey Lawrence This routine comedy is about a series of misadventures during a family vacation at the beach and stars John Candy (who died of a heart attack while filming in Mexico in 1994) as John Chester and Karen Austin as his long-suffering wife Sandy. When the family leave for what turns out to be a pretty decrepit shack on a public beach, Jack eventually ... see all copies from $3.50! new only from $7.12!
23 view cover	The Palm Beach Story (1942) more movies like this directed by Preston Sturges featuring Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrea, Mary Astor, Rudy Vallee, William Demarest As for the opening reels, the principal motivating factor is money. After a deliberately confusing pre-credit sequence (not explained until the film's punch line), Tom Jeffers (Joel McCrea) and Gerry Jeffers (Claudette Colbert) are married. "And so they lived happily ever after," exults a title card, "...or did they?" Well, they didn't. After five ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.95!
24 view cover	Good Burger (1997) more movies like this directed by Brian Robbins featuring Kel Mitchell, Kenan Thompson, Sinbad, Abe Vigoda, Shar Jackson Kenan Thompson and Kel Mitchell, stars of the popular Nickelodeon series All That , confront the ogre of faceless corporate tyranny and have fun doing it in this comedy for young people. Ed (Mitchell) is a teenager who lives for his job at Good Burger, a small but friendly neighborhood hamburger stand, while his buddy Dexter (Thompson) also works ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.87!
25 view cover	The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947) more movies like this directed by Irving G. Reis featuring Cary Grant, Irving Bacon, Myrna Loy, William Bakewell, Ian Bernard, Shirley Temple, Rudy Vallee, Veda Ann Borg, Ray Collins Judge Myrna Loy decides that the best way to curb the excesses of playboyish art teacher Cary Grant is to force him to do what he does best--romance a willing young lady. In this instance, the girl is Loy's own sister, played by a blossoming Shirley Temple. Aware that Temple has a serious crush on Grant, Loy orders him to date the teen-aged Temple ... see all copies from $3.55! new only from $11.77!

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