Harold Ramis
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Teamed with a relentlessly cheerful producer and a smart-aleck cameraman, TV weatherman Phil Connors is sent to Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania to cover the annual Groundhog Day festivities. But on his way out of town, Phil is caught in a giant blizzard, which he failed to predict, and finds himself stuck in small-town hell. Just when things couldn't get any worse, they do. Phil wakes the next morning to find it's Groundhog Day all over again-- and again--...
3) Ghostbusters
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
When three college professors lose their jobs, they decide to go into the freelance "paranormal investigation and elimination" business. When their first client discovers her refrigerator has become a portal into the spiritual dimension, our heroes come face to face with an ancient evil force with plans to raise hell in Manhattan. When ghosts go on a rampage, only these men can save the world. Soon every spook in the city is loose and our heroes face...
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
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Description
A romantic comedy about a weatherman caught in a personal time warp where it is Groundhog Day again, and again, and again. First he uses this to his advantage, but then he realizes that he might be doomed to spend the rest of eternity in the same place, seeing the same people, and doing the same thing every day.
5) Caddyshack
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Greenskeeper Carl Spackler is about to start World War III, against a gopher. Pompous Judge Smalls plays to win but his nubile niece Lacey Underall wants to score her own way. Playboy Ty Webb shoots perfect golf by becoming the ball. And country club loudmouth Al Czervik just doubled a $20,000 bet on a 10-foot putt. Insanity? No. Caddyshack.
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Faber College has one frat house so disreputable it will take anyone. The campus's only other frat house is full of white, anglo-saxon, rich young men that no one can stand except Dean Wormer. The dean enlists the help of their fraternity to get the boys of Delta House off campus. The dean's plan comes into play just before the homecoming parade.
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Michael Scott is an earnest but clueless boss who can't help but contribute his own irreverent commentary to the daily happenings at the Scranton branch of the Dunder Mifflin paper company. As the staff deals with potential office closures, mergers, romances and advancement, Michael is always there to say all the wrong things at all the right times.
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Ghostbusters 1: Suit up for classic comedy! When kooky, spooky college profs Peter Venkman, Ray Stantz and Egon Spengler lose their University jobs, they decide to go freelance, de-haunting houses in a new ghost removal service.
Ghostbusters 2: Doctors Venkman, Stantz and Spengler regroup to nuke the spooks in this high-spirited comedy. Sidelined after their spectacular save of New York CIty five years ago, the heroes of the hereafter once again...
Author
Language
English
Description
He's good enough, he's smart enough and doggone it, people like him! He's Stuart Smalley (Al Franken), and he's bringing his nutty New Age act to the big screen in a heartwarming comedy that's "flat-out amazing" (F.X. Feeney, L.A. Weekly) Stuart's "shame spiral" begins when his cable-access show, Daily Affirmation With Stuart Smalley, is abruptly canceled. Then Stuart's favorite aunt dies, sending him home to his co-dependent mother, alcoholic dad,...
10) Meatballs
Author
Language
English
Description
Bill Murray is at his hilarious best in this classic comedy that's "Animal House goes to summer camp" (Newsweek). Murray plays Tripper, the wisecracking, rule-bending head counselor at Camp North Star. Whether playing pranks on Camp North Star's clueless director, wooing a female counselor, or scheming against the rich brats of a rival camp, Tripper delivers fun and mayhem in a laugh-filled summer his campers will remember forever!
11) Club Paradise
Author
Language
English
Description
Robin Williams stars as a burned-out Chicago fireman conned into investing his disability money in a run-down, backwater Caribbean resort in this comic look at the other side of paradise.
Jack Moniker (Williams) fights to hold onto his dream of a tropical island resort when the first planeload of losers arrives. Now, not only must he referee the nerdy bachelors and the bikini-clad young women prowling for a rich husband, but also contend with a...
12) Orange County
Author
Language
English
Description
Shaun is content to be a bright but unfocused surf slacker, until the day he discovers a novel by acclaimed author Martin Skinner. Inspired, he suddenly leaves behind Orange County to study creative writing at Stanford University.
