21st Century Comedies, a list by BabaBooey25

7.1

/58374/

71

/2859/

68

/1322/

3.6

/86216/

98

/318/

81

/379/

87

/53/

3.5

age 15+

When a bestselling celebrity biographer is no longer able to get published because she has fallen out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception.

51

5.9

/25634/

67

/3349/

57

/836/

2.4

/15935/

43

/178/

37

/6/

2.0

After a publisher changes a writer's debut novel about a deadly assassin from fiction to nonfiction, the author finds himself thrust into the world of his lead character, and must take on the role of his character for his own survival.

82

7.3

/36894/

72

/2058/

71

/473/

3.8

/283157/

99

/232/

94

/146/

84

/49/

3.5

age 11+

When her family moves from New York City to New Jersey, an 11-year-old girl navigates new friends, feelings, and the beginning of adolescence.

27

26

3.4

/13427/

47

/308/

42

/193/

1.7

/6951/

3

/34/

26

/627/

9

/13/

age 17+

A kid from the Midwest moves out to Hollywood in order to follow in his parents footsteps -- and become a porn star.

50

5.6

/62020/

67

/6757/

63

/2171/

2.6

/94602/

32

/128/

43

/636/

42

/30/

2.0

age 17+

Amy, Kiki and Carla – three under-appreciated and over-burdened women – rebel against the challenges and expectations of the Super Bowl for mothers: Christmas. And if creating a more perfect holiday for their families wasn’t hard enough, they have to do all of that while hosting and entertaining their own mothers.

44

5.8

/8289/

59

/645/

58

/214/

2.7

/9157/

11

/38/

46

/63/

24

/7/

age 15+

An overlooked pencil-pusher catches her husband in bed with another woman, the shock of which causes him to die of a heart attack. So she buries his body and takes advantage of the growing celebrity status that comes from having a missing husband. But she quickly finds herself in over her head, dodging cops and criminals, all while trying to keep the truth from her sister, a local news anchor who’s desperate for a story.

49

41

5.5

/6255/

57

/112/

50

/75/

2.8

/1218/

40

/42/

40

/560/

44

/15/

age 14+

Luke Wilson plays a good-hearted ex-con who gets a job in a retirement hotel. Three elderly residents help him win back his girlfriend as he lends them a hand in fighting hotel corruption.

50

31

5.1

/3116/

55

/52/

52

/56/

2.8

/670/

37

/34/

Harmony had an encounter early in life with the young Elvis, and can't seem to shake his influence. Now a Pink Lady selling cosmetics, she seems to inadvertently bring harm to any Elvis impersonators she encounters. After a bizarre car accident leaves a slew of them dead, Harmony goes on the run from the authorities, hooking up with a downtrodden ad exec who has Elvis troubles of his own.

64

5.9

/9489/

60

/349/

59

/160/

3.2

/21283/

84

/91/

50

/194/

67

/25/

3.0

age 17+

Jamie is a boorish, insensitive American twentysomething traveling in Chile, who somehow manages to create chaos at every turn. He and his friends are planning on taking a road trip north to experience a legendary shamanistic hallucinogen called the San Pedro cactus. In a fit of drunkenness at a wild party, Jamie invites an eccentric woman—a radical spirit named Crystal Fairy—to come along.

44

5.6

/19510/

61

/638/

58

/375/

2.5

/8555/

25

/103/

35

/779/

27

/29/

age 14+

Paul Morse is a good guy. When his friends throw him a wild bachelor party, he just wants to keep his conscience clean -- which is why he's shocked when he wakes up in bed with a beautiful girl named Becky and can't remember the night before. Desperate to keep his fiancée, Karen, from finding out what may or may not be the truth, he tells her a teensy lie. Soon his lies are spiraling out of control and his life is a series of comical misunderstandings.

60

6.0

/6868/

64

/560/

59

/186/

3.1

/15305/

56

/747/

While Ron Burgundy's rivalry with Veronica Corningstone escalates quickly, a group of unprofessional thieves better known as 'The Alarm Clock' try to make the truth known, whatever that may mean...

68

6.9

/485119/

69

/14110/

65

/6639/

3.1

/331221/

69

/220/

70

/9221/

57

/40/

3.5

age 18+

For Nick, Kurt and Dale, the only thing that would make the daily grind more tolerable would be to grind their intolerable bosses into dust. Quitting is not an option, so, with the benefit of a few-too-many drinks and some dubious advice from a hustling ex-con, the three friends devise a convoluted and seemingly foolproof plan to rid themselves of their respective employers... permanently.

48

5.6

/9113/

59

/235/

57

/131/

2.6

/10914/

26

/98/

54

/1288/

46

/26/

1.5

age 8+

A young man moves from Montana to Florida with his family, where he's compelled to engage in a fight to protect a population of endangered owls.

74

7.1

/483073/

71

/16220/

67

/6717/

3.6

/645100/

82

/249/

71

/28302/

71

/39/

3.5

age 16+

A group of self-absorbed actors set out to make the most expensive war film ever. After ballooning costs force the studio to cancel the movie, the frustrated director refuses to stop shooting, leading his cast into the jungles of Southeast Asia, where they encounter real bad guys.

35

5.0

/22922/

54

/767/

55

/373/

2.4

/9165/

5

/78/

30

/1496/

7

/15/

age 17+

A young man awakens from a four-year coma to hear that his once virginal high-school sweetheart has since become a centerfold in one of the world's most famous men's magazines. He and his sex-crazed best friend decide to take a cross-country road trip in order to crash a party at the magazine's legendary mansion headquarters and win back the girl.

71

6.9

/494553/

72

/38409/

68

/14205/

3.1

/1028465/

77

/235/

87

/4354/

58

/44/

3.0

age 11+

Four teenagers in detention discover an old video game console with a game they’ve never heard of. When they decide to play, they are immediately sucked into the jungle world of Jumanji in the bodies of their avatars. They’ll have to complete the adventure of their lives filled with fun, thrills and danger or be stuck in the game forever!

47

46

4.9

/17328/

53

/388/

47

/203/

2.8

/6143/

35

/82/

40

/2575/

50

/22/

Ten stories, each inspired by one of the ten commandments.

65

7.2

/2405/

71

/1819/

71

/824/

3.1

/24248/

57

/60/

61

/299/

2.5

A kidnapped Fred Savage is forced to endure Deadpool's PG-13 rendition of Deadpool 2, as a Princess Bride-esque story that's full of magic, wonder, and zero Fs.

54

6.2

/161690/

65

/4616/

62

/2585/

2.9

/94910/

30

/132/

49

/17805/

47

/33/

2.5

age 14+

After Dick Harper loses his job at Globodyne in an Enron-esque collapse, he and his wife, Jane, turn to crime in order to handle the massive debt they now face. Two intelligent people, Dick and Jane actually get pretty good at robbing people and even enjoy it -- but they have second thoughts when they're reminded that crime can hurt innocent people. When the couple hears that Globodyne boss Jack McCallister actually swindled the company, they plot revenge.

43

5.4

/6151/

57

/412/

48

/129/

2.8

/5245/

29

/38/

25

/44/

39

/14/

1.5

age 12+

Biblical archaeologist Don Verdean is hired by a local church pastor to find faith-promoting relics in the Holy Land. But after a fruitless expedition he is forced to get creative in this comedy of faith and fraud.

72

6.5

/10653/

66

/259/

63

/151/

3.4

/6109/

88

/96/

61

/381/

72

/26/

4.0

age 16+

Terri, a pajama-clad, disaffected high school student learns how to engage the world with the help of Mr. Fitzgerald, his assistant principal.

49

6.3

/57394/

65

/1816/

60

/707/

2.8

/23222/

27

/110/

42

/1647/

42

/28/

1.5

age 16+

Recent MIT grad Matt Franklin should be well on his way to a successful career at a Fortune 500 company, but instead he rebels against maturity by taking a job at a video store. Matt rethinks his position when his unrequited high-school crush, Tori, walks in and invites him to an end-of-summer party. With the help of his twin sister and his best friend, Matt hatches a plan to change the course of his life.

41

4.4

/3465/

54

/154/

48

/71/

2.6

/1060/

29

/63/

34

/22/

43

/18/

1.0

In Vero Beach, Florida, a trio of couples at various points in their relationships become the subjects of a film about marriage being an antiquated idea that needs a reboot: Why not turn marriage into a seven-year deal with an option to renew?

60

5.9

/157686/

56

/3723/

56

/1849/

3.0

/108843/

68

/225/

41

/15744/

54

/34/

3.5

age 18+

Flamboyantly gay Austrian television reporter Bruno stirs up trouble with unsuspecting guests and large crowds through brutally frank interviews and painfully hilarious public displays of homosexuality.

73

7.0

/24570/

69

/607/

67

/323/

3.4

/6905/

84

/141/

75

/1356/

77

/35/

3.0

age 13+

A movie spun out of equal parts folk tale, fable and real-life legend about the mysterious, 1930s Tennessee hermit who famously threw his own rollicking funeral party... while he was still alive.

74

7.5

/174813/

75

/6102/

73

/3412/

3.5

/134096/

79

/262/

84

/3873/

65

/46/

3.0

age 13+

Author P.L. Travers looks back on her childhood while reluctantly meeting with Walt Disney, who seeks to adapt her Mary Poppins books for the big screen.

62

7.0

/255176/

72

/6189/

66

/2026/

3.2

/139816/

60

/161/

86

/18130/

54

/32/

1.0

age 17+

Three friends attempt to recapture their glory days by opening up a fraternity near their alma mater.

72

6.5

/13953/

65

/273/

62

/195/

3.4

/6399/

84

/112/

72

/2007/

73

/28/

3.5

age 16+

Hal is a 15-year-old high-school student with a minor yet socially alienating (and painful) disability: he stutters uncontrollably. Determined to work through the problem, Hal opts for an extreme route – he joins the school debating team, which sends him on a headfirst plunge into breakneck speech competitions and offers a much-needed boost toward correcting the problem.

64

6.5

/211261/

69

/12377/

63

/3360/

2.9

/275878/

71

/51/

61

/8424/

66

/12/

age 15+

To test its top-secret Human Hibernation Project, the Pentagon picks the most average Americans it can find - an Army private and a prostitute - and sends them to the year 2505 after a series of freak events. But when they arrive, they find a civilization so dumbed-down that they're the smartest people around.

48

5.2

/19067/

60

/723/

58

/644/

2.5

/28767/

35

/95/

42

/1073/

43

/26/

2.0

age 7+

Shattered illusions are hard to repair -- especially for a good-hearted zebra named Stripes who's spent his life on a Kentucky farm amidst the sorely mistaken notion that he's a debonair thoroughbred. Once he faces the fact that his stark stripes mark him as different, he decides he'll race anyway. And with help from the young girl who raised him, he just might end up in the winner's circle.

52

5.7

/26406/

65

/832/

58

/358/

3.6

/64252/

54

/125/

53

/2049/

47

/29/

0.5

age 12+

Josie, Melody and Val are three small-town girl musicians determined to take their rock band out of their garage and straight to the top, while remaining true to their look, style and sound. They get a record deal which brings fame and fortune but soon realize they are pawns of two people who want to control the youth of America. They must clear their names, even if it means losing fame and fortune.

51

6.3

/19347/

67

/580/

58

/183/

2.9

/6849/

8

/49/

84

/1941/

22

/15/

Rick Rambis and his friends are having the time of their lives on Bull Mountain—until the legendary Papa Muntz' son decides to sell the mountain to a sleazy land developer, have the staff fired and turn Bull Mountain into 'Yuppieville'.

80

7.6

/329929/

75

/7967/

74

/4830/

4.1

/893702/

81

/219/

89

/14399/

76

/34/

3.5

age 17+

Royal Tenenbaum and his wife Etheline had three children and then they separated. All three children are extraordinary --- all geniuses. Virtually all memory of the brilliance of the young Tenenbaums was subsequently erased by two decades of betrayal, failure, and disaster. Most of this was generally considered to be their father's fault. "The Royal Tenenbaums" is the story of the family's sudden, unexpected reunion one recent winter.

33

29

3.5

/12696/

47

/141/

38

/71/

1.9

/2714/

5

/38/

52

/1288/

21

/14/

age 14+

A slovenly cable repairman becomes a big-city health inspector and is tasked with uncovering the source of a food poisoning epidemic.

62

6.4

/17824/

63

/260/

58

/188/

3.2

/9765/

63

/144/

56

/3130/

54

/28/

3.0

age 16+

Failed actor-turned-worse-high-school-drama-teacher Dana Marschz rallies his Tucson students as he conceives and stages politically incorrect musical sequel to Shakespeare's Hamlet.

59

5.6

/4693/

68

/193/

64

/71/

2.8

/2156/

41

/68/

61

/390/

52

/19/

3.0

age 7+

The true story of Jasmine Plummer who, at the age of eleven, became the first female to play in Pop Warner football tournament in its 56-year history.

63

7.2

/173088/

71

/7007/

70

/3506/

3.5

/278414/

64

/366/

61

/1517/

61

/54/

1.5

age 15+

George W. Bush picks Dick Cheney, the CEO of Halliburton Co., to be his Republican running mate in the 2000 presidential election. No stranger to politics, Cheney's impressive résumé includes stints as White House chief of staff, House Minority Whip and Defense Secretary. When Bush wins by a narrow margin, Cheney begins to use his newfound power to help reshape the country and the world.

41

40

4.9

/7433/

51

/363/

48

/111/

2.0

/3195/

18

/372/

After Shenaniganz loses all its hottest waitresses to new competitor Ta-Ta's Wing Shack -- where the scantily clad wait staff earns bigger tips -- the Shenaniganz staff aims to give Ta-Ta's its just desserts.

61

6.0

/12614/

62

/767/

56

/313/

2.9

/17314/

66

/35/

50

/74/

65

/11/

3.0

age 13+

Local Pennsylvania polka legend Jan Lewan develops a plan to get rich that shocks his fans and lands him in jail.

57

6.5

/369596/

66

/9275/

63

/5654/

2.9

/188857/

39

/195/

52

/8871/

51

/39/

2.5

age 16+

Peter Highman must scramble across the US in five days to be present for the birth of his first child. He gets off to a bad start when his wallet and luggage are stolen, and put on the 'no-fly' list. Peter embarks on a terrifying journey when he accepts a ride from an actor.

58

6.1

/9976/

65

/208/

58

/115/

3.0

/10764/

36

/74/

57

/628/

46

/24/

3.5

age 17+

Carolyn's sorority sisters set their sights on the Sorority of the Year award and coaching challenged athletes is their ticket to the trophy. But when the queen of formals finds herself mentoring Pumpkin, a disabled athlete, their two worlds collide.

64

6.4

/54937/

65

/1636/

62

/642/

3.0

/33189/

73

/134/

52

/1631/

65

/37/

3.0

age 17+

When an alcoholic relapses, causing him to lose his wife and his job, he holds a yard sale on his front lawn in an attempt to start over. A new neighbor might be the key to his return to form.

51

6.5

/156056/

70

/7883/

68

/3718/

3.1

/256924/

16

/137/

64

/2227/

31

/33/

1.5

age 13+

Recently divorced mom Lauren and widowed dad Jim let their friends push them into a blind date, which goes disastrously wrong. Unsurprisingly, neither wants to see the other ever again. However, fate intervenes when both Jim and Lauren, unbeknownst to each other, purchase one-half of the same vacation package at a South African resort for families, during spring break. They and their children are forced to share the same romantic suite and participate in a slew of family activities together.

49

33

5.6

/3317/

52

/96/

50

/63/

2.9

/691/

29

/180/

An offbeat romantic comedy about a decent guy, Ray Tuckby, with a dead-end life in the dead-end town of Trona, CA. After encouragement from a stranger whom he happens upon, Ray begins to dream again. He sheds the parasites in his life, musters the nerve to pursue his childhood love, and finally takes back his community by toppling the local teenage Meth-baron.

47

42

5.7

/8875/

55

/196/

52

/137/

2.7

/1587/

30

/43/

33

/663/

49

/12/

Gary, a musician, is trapped in an unhappy relationship with his live-in lover, Dora. He becomes enthralled with a beautiful seductress who enters his dreams, and tries to control his dream-state so he can spend more and more time with her. When Gary sees his mystery woman's face on a bus billboard, he discovers she is real, and fate brings him an opportunity to meet her.

76

7.1

/164674/

70

/5779/

70

/2853/

3.7

/919365/

75

/320/

76

/313/

75

/57/

4.0

age 15+

The staff of an American magazine based in France puts out its last issue, with stories featuring an artist sentenced to life imprisonment, student riots, and a kidnapping resolved by a chef.

54

44

5.6

/2487/

60

/101/

56

/42/

2.8

/1720/

63

/8/

36

/333/

53

/5/

A Stanford law-school dropout named Jillian escapes to the anonymity of Los Angeles to figure out what she wants to do with her life, and on the day of her college boyfriend's birthday, she finds herself stuck running an ice cream truck fending off locals and oddball friends alike. This one day spent in a truck on the streets of Los Angeles will wake Jillian from her aimless daze and make her see that life doesn't stop just because you want it to.

60

59

6.3

/25278/

61

/377/

57

/273/

3.0

/9683/

61

/153/

58

/2571/