Showbiz Comedy
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    Critic's Choice (1963)

    A Broadway critic (Bob Hope) shows up drunk and late on opening night to review a play written by...

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    Desperation Blvd. (2000)

    A former child (Judy Tenuta) star goes to extremes in making her comeback and finally gets a film...

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    A Sign From God

    The account of one man having his worst day.

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    Moon Over Parador (1988)

    A banana-republic police chief (Raul Julia) forces a U.S. actor (Richard Dreyfuss) to impersonate a...

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    Welcome to Hollywood

    A film director tries to turn a young actor into a success story, but runs into many problems along...

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    The First Nudie Musical

    The owner of a financially foundering skin-flick production company decides that the only way to...

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    The Front (1976)

    A man acts as a front for renowned television writers politically blacklisted during the McCarthy...

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    Shock Treatment (1981)

    Square Brad (Cliff De Young) and Janet (Jessica Harper) are forced to be contestants on a TV game...

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    Waiting for Guffman (1997)

    An effeminate theater director (Christopher Guest) assembles blithely talentless Missourians (Eugene...

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    The Watermelon Woman (1997)

    An aspiring black lesbian filmmaker (Cheryl Dunye) researches an obscure 1940s black actress billed...

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    Garage Days (2003)

    Internal strife and romantic entanglements threaten the integrity of a struggling rock band as they...

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    Nickelodeon (1976)

    A lawyer (Ryan O'Neal) becomes a director and a roustabout (Burt Reynolds) becomes a star in 1910s...

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    Way Off Broadway (2003)

    A playwright (Brad Beyer), an actress (Morena Baccarin), a guitarist (Forbes March) and two students...

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    Dead Tired (1995)

    A popular comic actor's reputation is threatened by the machinations of an imposter.

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    Josie and the Pussycats (2001)

    In a plot to take over the world, a music mogul tries to use the band (Rachael Leigh Cook, Tara...

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    Author! Author! (1982)

    Left by his wife (Tuesday Weld), a New York playwright (Al Pacino) juggles five kids and an affair...

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    Sweet Liberty (1986)

    A professor (Alan Alda) tries to stop a film crew from making a teen comedy out of his book about...

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    The Funny Farm

    Some potent comic talent lends credibility to the Canadian Funny Farm. Michael Chapin stars as Mark,...

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    Heaven Tonight (1990)

    An aging 1960s rock star tries to stage a comeback while his teenage son begins his own musical...

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    Spice World (1998)

    An all-girl musical group (The Spice Girls) prepares for a live performance at London's Royal Albert...

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    Surviving Eden (2006)

    A documentary crew captures the capitalistic trappings a reality show winner falls into during his...

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    Ride (1998)

    Fresh from film school, an aspiring director (Melissa De Sousa) boards a bus with artists traveling...

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    Illuminata (1999)

    A playwright (John Turturro) is anxious to stage his new work, which was written for a New York...

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    My Giant (1998)

    A sleazy showbiz agent (Billy Crystal) tries to exploit a very large, gentle man (Gheorghe Muresan)...

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    My Tiny Universe

    A failure at acting, a suicidal man (Andy Comeau) torments a top producer (John Heard) while holding...

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    The Seven Little Foys (1955)

    After the young wife of vaudevillian Eddie Foy passes away, he incorporates their seven children...

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    Sex Sells: The Making of Touche (2005)

    A world record orgy, wild sex scenes, a 42-inch penis, ninjas--just a typical day at the office when...

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    The Tender Trap (1955)

    An actress (Debbie Reynolds) flirts demurely with a swinging Manhattan bachelor (Frank Sinatra) who...

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    CB4 (1993)

    Three middle-class pals (Chris Rock, Allen Payne, Deezer D) try to be cell-block types and tap into...

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    Ham & Cheese

    Two talentless actors attempt to make it in the cruel world of showbiz. Without an ounce of talent...