Douchebag

Release Date: October 1st, 2010

Starring: Andrew Dickler, Ben York Jones, Marguerite Moreau, Nicole Vicius, Amy Ferguson

Director: Drake Doremus

Writer: Andrew Dickler, Drake Doremus, Jonathan Schwartz, Lindsay Stidham

Studio: Paladin Films

Genre: Comedy, Romance

Runtime: 1 hour 21 minutes

The romantic comedy directed by Drake Doremus, is a moving story of two brothers, who have to restore their relations despite of misunderstanding in the past. The fiancée of Sam learns, that Sam’s younger brother Tom is not coming on their wedding ceremony. As far as she thinks, that it would be better, if the brothers reconciled with each other before such a great event, she brings Tom to their house. Two brothers have to meet each other under the same roof and reunite despite of their past quarrels.

Soon the couple gets to know, that Tom has fallen in love only once, and now he has nobody to accompany him on the wedding, as he hasn’t seen his sweetheart called Mary Barger for ages. His elder brother insists they set off for a road trip and do everything possible and impossible to find Mary. The incredible adventure of two brothers, possessing rather mismatched characters, becomes the significant part in their lives. And while Tom has a burning desire to find his old girlfriend, Sam wants to enjoy his last days of freedom to the full.

Starring in the film are Andrew Dickler in the role of Sam; Ben York Jones as his estranged brother Tom; Marguerite Moreau as Sam’s fiancée and Nicole Vicius in the role of Mary Barger.

Click here to Download DOUCHEBAG

Barry Munday

Release Date: October 1st, 2010

Starring: Mae Whitman, Judy Greer, Patrick Wilson, Malcolm McDowell, Missi Pyle

Director: Chris D'Arienzo

Writer: Chris D'Arienzo, Frank Turner Hollon

Studio: Magnolia Pictures

Genre: Comedy

Runtime: 1 hour 34 minutes

The astonishing comedy from filmmaker Chris D'Arienzo touches upon the question of parenthood, parental love and their meaning for a man.

Barry Munday is a suburban Don Juan, enjoying his dates with numerous women. But one day everything changes in his life. His carefree existence ends, when he finds himself once in the hospital. Barry remembers he has been attacked in the movie theater. And now the man discovers that he misses the most significant part of himself – his testicles… Besides, Barry Munday has to face a paternity lawsuit, filed over him by some woman. But to his surprise Barry don’t remember, that he has ever had sex with her. Still, the main hero realizes it perfectly well - this lawsuit is his last chance of becoming a father, since he couldn’t be a father of any other baby in future.  The thirst for parenthood becomes the main reason of all Barry’s further adventures. The main hero is ready to withstand any troubles and difficulties, he faces on this way.

The film stars Mae Whitman, Patrick Wilson, Malcolm McDowell, Judy Greer and Missi Pyle. The scenario of the film is written by Chris D'Arienzo in cooperation with Frank Turner Hollon.

Click here to Download BARRY MUNDAY

You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger

Release Date: September 22nd, 2010

Starring: Naomi Watts, Josh Brolin, Anthony Hopkins, Antonio Banderas, Freida Pinto

Director: Woody Allen

Studio: Sony Pictures Classics

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Runtime: 1 hour 38 minutes

The film directed by acclaimed Woody Allen is a dramatic story of two unhappily married couples. Alfie and Helena experience hard times in their married life. One day Alfie gets infatuated by a young and light-hearted girl called Charmaine and leaves home and his wife for her. Being not able to take the betrayal of her husband, Helena run to another extreme, when hands her life over to a charlatan fortune teller and her loopy advice. Her daughter Sally and her husband Roy are also unhappy in their marriage. Sally takes a fancy to her clever and attractive boss Greg, the owner of an art gallery. Meanwhile her husband Roy, who is a novelist by profession, is nervous about a response to his latest work, and becomes crazy about a mysterious woman called Dia, with whom he exchanges glances through the windows.

The characters of the film try to escape problems by dreaming and making unrealizable and irrational plans, but all their efforts fail and cause only more troubles, anxiety and heartache.

The film stars Anthony Hopkins in the role of Alfie; Gemma Jones as Helena; Lucy Punch as Charmaine; Josh Brolin as Roy; Freida Pinto as Dia; Antonio Banderas in the role of Greg; and Naomi Watts as Sally.

Click here to Download YOU WILL MEET A TALL DARK STRANGER

White Wedding

Release Date: September 5th, 2010

Starring: Mbulelo Grootboom, Sylvia Mngxekeza, Zandile Msutwana, Kenneth Nkosi, Louise Saint-Claire

Director: Jann Turner

Writer: Jann Turner

Studio: Stepping Stone Pictures

Genre: Comedy, Romance

Runtime: 1 hour 33 minutes

The romantic comedy from writer and director Jann Turner centers on the wedding of two beloved, which is to take place in Cape Town, South Africa.

Charming Ayanda can’t wait to merry her sweetheart Elvis, and dreams of the perfect white wedding. The date of the ceremony is already determined, but the problem is, that the would-be husband is not in Cape Town yet, but in Johannesburg, which is in 1800 km from the SA capital. Elvis is a quite positive character: a sincere and committed man, loyal to his word. To get in time to the very significant event of his life, Elvis sets off by bus Tuesday night, going to Durban. There the bridegroom intends to meet Tumi - a good friend of him, who is also a best-man. To his surprise, Elvis doesn’t find Tumi at the Durban bus station, as they agreed. And that is only the beginning of funny and ironical happenings and misfortunes, which follow Elvis and his friend on the way to Cape Town, where the first one should reunite with his bride. The journey of these two turns into a really big adventure, both comic and fascinating.

Starring in the film are Zandile Msutwana in the role of Ayanda; Kenneth Nkosi as her bridegroom Elvis; and Rapulana Seiphemo in the role of best-man Tumi.

Click here to Download WHITE WEDDING

The Winning Season

Release Date: September 3rd, 2010

Starring: Sam Rockwell, Emma Roberts, Margo Martindale, Rob Corddry, Jessica Hecht

Director: James C. Strouse

Writer: James C. Strouse

Studio: Lionsgate

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport

Runtime: 1 hour 44 minutes

A former boy’s coach, Bill is working now as a dishwasher and drunk a lot. He has a teenage daughter, but the relations between them are far from being ideal, so that Bill feels he is hardly a good father and a good example for her. He didn’t get on in life, and getting drunk is his way to hide from himself and his problems. But one day he gets a chance to change his purposeless existence for better. A good friend of Bill, who is a high school principal, offers the former coach to train the girl’s team. Bill takes the offer to see, that the team he has to coach presents rather a sorry spectacle. The girls are unmotivated, alienated and mostly have no idea how to work as a team and how to play at all. Bill is not inspired either by his new position or by the girls, and they pay him the same.

But day by day the new coach together with his assistant Donna tries to motivate his unruly pupils and make them work as a team. Little by little Bill finds a contact with the girls and they achieve some encouraging results. And while the team improves, Bill also receives some lessons of how to bridge a gulf between him and his daughter.  The winning season is coming, and everything seems to be possible, if you work hard… Would it be successful for Bill and the team? Will see…

Click here to Download THE WINNING SEASON

The Freebie

Release Date: September 17th, 2010

Starring: Katie Aselton, Leonora Gershman, Ken Kennedy, Joshua Leonard, Sean Nelson

Director: Katie Aselton

Studio: Phase 4 Films

Genre: Comedy, Romance

Runtime: 1 hour 20 minutes

The relationship between Darren and Annie is an object of envy. Their marriage is built on true love, trust, mutual respect and understanding. The couple enjoys the company of each other and would be a perfect example of a happy family, if it were not for their sexual life. Darren and Annie could spend a lot of time having fun with crossword puzzles or laughing at jokes of each other, but unfortunately they haven’t had sex for ages.

During an honest discussion at a dinner party, the spouses come to a conclusion, that they need a seven year itch to cure their sexual life. Darren and Annie make a deal. Each of them can spend one night and have sex with anyone else, no questions asked.

The question is, would this night of freedom be a good remedy to restore the sexual relations of the couple? Or would it be rather a disappointment? Or would it make a small problem bigger? The film answers these questions.

“The Freebie” is a directorial debut of Katie Aselton, who also stars in the role of Annie in the film. This is an independent comedy, which offers a curious and humorous picture of love and relations between people, who try to sustain them at any price… Darren is played by Dax Shepard.

Click here to Download THE FREEBIE

Leaves of Grass

Release Date: September 17th, 2010

Starring:Edward Norton, Lucy DeVito, Susan Sarandon, Kent Jude Bernard, Amelia Campbell, Tim Blake Nelson

Director: Tim Blake Nelson

Writer: Tim Blake Nelson

Studio: Telepathic Studios

Genre: Comedy

Runtime: 1 hour 44 minutes

Bill Kincaid (played by Edward Norton) is a professor of classics, working at Ivy League. One day he receives a news of his twin brother’s death. The main hero leaves Northeastern academia and hurry to his homeland Oklahoma.

But soon Bill learns, that there was no need to hurry, as the news of his brother’ death is greatly exaggerated. He is alive, but has stiff troubles with the local drug lord, who covers his drug commerce using a small Jewish community Tulsa of Oklahoma. Upon arrival Bill Kincaid reunites with his mother, a very eccentric woman, played by Susan Sarandon. Besides he meets a charming and educated young lady (performed by Keri Russell), who has preferred a gentler life of Oklahoma to academia society.

Little by little Bill gets caught up in a criminal world of drug business and involved into his brother’s affairs. The professor has to do impossible to help his brother to get off the conflict with a local drug lord and his gang. Taking into account the fact, that the knowledge of Marcus Aurelius and Plato has prepared Bill to an absolutely different kind of activity, he has only a slightest idea of how to act in such a situation...

The film from Tim Blake Nelson blends comedy, classical philosophy, crime drama and violence. 

Click here to Download LEAVES OF GRASS

Heartbreaker

Release Date: September 10th, 2010

Starring: Romain Duris, Vanessa Paradis, Julie Ferrier, François Damiens, Héléna Noguerra

Director: Pascal Chaumeil

Writer: Laurent Zeitoun, Jeremy Doner, Yohan Gromb

Studio: IFC Films

Genre: Comedy

Runtime: 1 hour 45 minutes

“Heartbreaker”, directed by Pascal Chaumeil, is a breathtaking movie, blending romance and comedy. Genteel Romain Duris, starring in the title role, skillfully portrays French professional Casanova called Alex, who is engaged in a business of his own. This is a rather specific job, he does. His clients are jealous lovers, envious friends, or the families, anxious about their children’s dating. The task of Alex in these cases is to break up the unfavorable or undesirable relationships. He is not alone in this sort of business: the sister of Alex, Melanie, helps her brother to break up couples. But both have certain principles in their work. They do not interfere in the lives of happy partners, breaking up only the unhappy ones.

Nevertheless, the last work of Alex stands against their principles. The business is slow, and he is ears in debt. Hired by wealthy M. Van Der Bercq, he has to destroy his daughter’s happy relations with her boyfriend. According to his client’s desire, Don Juan has only one week to keep charming Juliette, played by Vanessa Paradis, from marriage. But the thing is that Juliette is absolutely in love with her chosen one… The heartbreaker faces quite a serious problem to be solved asap…

Click here to Download HEARTBREAKER

Expecting Mary

Release Date: September 10th, 2010

Starring: Elliott Gould, Linda Gray, Lainie Kazan, Cloris Leachman, Della Reese

Director: Dan Gordon

Writer: Dan Gordon

Studio: WonderStar Productions

Genre: Family

Runtime: 1 hour 37 minutes

The film, written and directed by Dan Gordon, is a story of Mary – a pregnant teenager of sixteen, who runaways from home. The girl sets off to California, where her dad lives. She thinks, he will understand her more than her uptight mother and stepfather, who insist on abortion. The reason is not financial; Mary’s family is wealthy enough to maintain twenty mouths, as she says. But the public opinion seems to bother Mary’s parents much more, than their daughter and her future child.

Picked up by a kind trucker Horace, the eight months pregnant girl tells him her sad story, and he offers her to visit a casino in New Mexico, where his girlfriend Darnella performs as a showgirl. After that Mary stays for a while in a trailer park, where Darnella lives, among very eccentric personalities.

Mary’s journey becomes a starting point to adult life. On the way to California, where she hopes to find a shelter and her father’s support, the girl gets acquainted with the true meaning of such notions as love, family and sacrifice.

The cast of the film includes Olesya Rulin, Cybill Shepherd, Elliott Gould, Lainie Kazan, Linda Gray, Della Reese and Cloris Leachman. “Expecting Mary” is a perfect film for a family viewing.

Click here to Download EXPECTING MARY