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Sweet Autumn

2020

Sweet Autumn

2020
7
Maggie, a successful entrepreneur, returns home for a will reading and discovers she’s inherited half of her aunt’s famed maple candy business. What she doesn’t understand is why Aunt Dee’s maple supplier, Dex, inherited the other half. Her return also coincides with the town’s Sweet Autumn Fest, and through a series of letters Aunt Dee left, Maggie and Dex search for the reason behind her aunt’s final wishes. As she and Dex grow closer, Maggie must decide if the life she built is the one she wants.
I Don't Know How She Does It

2011

I Don't Know How She Does It

2011
5.2
As an employee at a Boston-based financial firm, Kate Reddy struggles daily to balance the demands of her high-powered career with the needs of her husband, Richard, and their two children. When she gets an account that requires frequent trips to New York and her husband gets a new job, Kate finds herself spread even thinner. Complicating Kate's life even more is her new business associate Jack Abelhammer, who throws temptation into the mix.
I Am Comic

2010

I Am Comic

2010
6.3
Through unprecedented backstage access and candid interviews, the film weaves through the absurd world of the working comedian and reveals a crazy and hilarious psychological profile of its practitioners. We also follow retired comic Ritch Shydner's attempt to climb back on stage after a thirteen-year hiatus. At the top of his game in the 1980's, Shydner had HBO specials, shot five pilot TV shows, and numerous late night appearances (Carson, Letterman, Leno, etc.) but the big time eluded him. Equipped with the collective wisdom and nutty musings of over 80 of his peers, he gives it another shot. Does Ritch have what it takes to connect with today's young crowds and still get the laughs?
How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog

2002

How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog

2002
5.9
The story of Peter McGowan, a chain-smoking, impotent, insomniac playwright who lives in Los Angeles. Once very successful, he is now in the tenth year of a decade-long string of production failures. He finds himself bonding with a new neighbor's lonely young daughter who has mild cerebral palsy; and during one of his middle-of-the-night strolls, he encounters his oddball doppelgänger.
Somebody Up There Likes Me

2013

Somebody Up There Likes Me

2013
5.2
Thirty-five years in the life of Max, his best friend Sal and a woman they both adore, Lyla. The trio stumble through mandatory but seemingly unfulfilling entanglements, at weddings, funerals, hospitals, eateries, divorce courts and the tool shed. A deadpan fable about time sneaking up on and swerving right around us.
Adam Newman: Fuzzies

2017

Adam Newman: Fuzzies

2017
8
Adam Newman returns to Athens, GA for "Fuzzies," recorded at the Georgia Theatre where he used to work as a security guard. In his first hour long special, Adam dissects newly discovered Jetsons debauchery, obscure B-Horror movies, and gets downright dirty sharing some Presidential erotic fan fiction. Plus, Adam breaks new comedy ground by setting the record for World's Highest Mic Drop!
Accidental Family

2021

Accidental Family

2021
6.4
A shy lonely genealogist finally discovers the perfect family and the love of her life… they just don’t know it yet! They mistakenly think she’s a long lost relative, and unfortunately he is engaged to the wrong girl who just wants his family fortune. As sparks start to fly, she must warn him of his deceptive finance and find a way to tell him the truth about herself.
Curry Scent

2024

Curry Scent

2024
After recently immigrating to America, Geetha attempts to help her family realize the American dream by seeking a modern day arranged marriage.
On a Clear Day You Can See Forever

1970

On a Clear Day You Can See Forever

1970
6.7
Daisy Gamble, an unusual woman who hears phones before they ring, and does wonders with her flowers, wants to quit smoking to please her fiancé, Warren. She goes to a doctor of hypnosis to do it. But once she's under, her doctor finds out that she can regress into past lives and different personalities, and he finds himself falling in love with one of them.
Love's Sweet Recipe

2021

Love's Sweet Recipe

2021
6
Talented chef, Courtney Preston’s life has been turned upside down ever since the passing of her father, who was the master chef of her family’s famous restaurant. Now her family business is failing, her love life is in shambles, her passion for cooking has died and her childhood best friend and fellow chef Jake Turner has left town to find work in the big city.
Fiddlesticks

2014

Fiddlesticks

2014
5.9
Life could be so good for the children of Bollersdorf if the town had not been discovered by the Society for Consumer Research because of its mediocrity. New products are to be tested here. The market researchers know that what the people of Bollersdorf like sells well everywhere. But while the local parents enthusiastically take part, their children quickly get fed up with the annoying product testers. Even more so when they want to send their beloved grandmas and grandpas to a care home to bring the average age back into line. This is a case for the coati gang! Together with the clever coati Quatsch, the children hatch a clever plan: With adventurous inventions and crazy world records, they want to prove Bollersdorf's uniqueness so that the consumer researchers finally disappear again...
Offenbach: Barbe-Bleue

2019

Offenbach: Barbe-Bleue

2019
Bluebeard, an opéra bouffe by Jacques Offenbach, premiered in Paris in 1866. Directed by Laurent Pelly, the National Opera in Lyon stages this musical comedy about a man suspected of murdering his wives. Hortense Schneider originally played Boulotka, a village girl who reforms Bluebeard. Yann Beuron and Héloise Mas star, with Christophe Gay as the alchemist Popolani.
Bloomin Mud Shuffle

2015

Bloomin Mud Shuffle

2015
3.9
Middle-aged Lonnie hasn't done much since he graduated high school. His only shot at greatness is to take his relationship to the next level.
Tis The Season

2019

Tis The Season

2019
2
Every year Karen dreads the holidays but, this season, her husband, friends, and one particularly wacky neighbor pitch her a new perspective.
Rita Rudner: A Tale of Two Dresses

2018

Rita Rudner: A Tale of Two Dresses

2018
4
In her tenth comedy special, Rita Rudner discusses life, parenting and her contentious relationship with Siri. Rita’s teenage daughter, singer/songwriter, Molly Bergman, also appears on the special, singing one of her songs.The special was taped at the Palace Theatre in Los Angeles, CA.
Read Me

2016

Read Me

2016
5.4
Clark can't read words, but he can read people. Can his special intuition guard him from the one obstacle he must overcome?
Mr. Doodle Kicks Off

1938

Mr. Doodle Kicks Off

1938
9
A wealthy businessman promises to donate a huge endowment to his college alma mater, but there's one condition -- his loser of a son, a student at the school, must become a football hero. Comedy.
Falling for the Competition

2023

Falling for the Competition

2023
4.6
Molly runs the local mom’s group and this year they’re entering the prestigious Modern Parenting Group of the Year award. When new to town Ashley sets up a rival dad’s group and starts usurping Molly and her team at charity bake-offs and smashing their times in fun-runs, will their competitive natures get in the way of what everyone else, including their children, can see – a spark worth fighting for?
Frisky

2015

Frisky

2015
4.1
Two twenty-somethings move to San Francisco to chase their career, but end up chasing tail instead.
All Joking Aside

2020

All Joking Aside

2020
7
A young woman pursuing her dream of becoming a stand-up comic, forms an unlikely friendship with a jaded, former comedian after he heckles her off the stage at her first open mic.