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Spotlight on... Screwball Comedies

November gloom got you down in the dumps? Dig yourself out of the doldrums with a screwball comedy. Characterized by snappy dialogue, wacky characters, and fast-paced plots, screwballs are one of the most popular comedy genres.

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Star wars, episode 5 (1980)
While Luke takes advanced Jedi training from Yoda, his friends are relentlessly pursued by Darth Vader.

      
Star wars, episode 6 (1983)
After rescuing Han Solo from Jabba the Hutt, the Rebels attempt to destroy the Second Death Star.

      
Stargate: continuum (2008)
An elite military unit must battle a powerful alien that wants to conquer Earth.

      
Starship troopers (2008)
Courageous soldiers travel to the distant and desolate Klendathu system for the ultimate showdown between the species.

      
The abyss (1989)
A diving team searching for a lost nuclear submarine is visited by a ‘Non-Terrestrial Intelligence’ that lives in the abyss.

      
The blob (1958)
Residents of a small Pennsylvania town combat a slimy space invader.

      
The day the Earth stood still (1951)
An alien lands and tells the people of Earth that they must live peacefully or be destroyed as a danger to other planets.

      
The fifth element (1997)
In the future, a cabdriver unwittingly becomes the central figure in the search for a weapon to keep Evil at bay.

      
The forgotten (2004)
Told that their children never existed, a man and woman discover that strange forces are trying to make the children forgotten.

      
The hitch-hikers guide to the galaxy (2005)
Everyman Arthur Dent is whisked off the Earth seconds before it is demolished to make way for a hyperspace bypass.

      
The invasion (2007)
A scientist discovers the origin of an epidemic that is unleashed through a space shuttle crash.

      
The last starfighter (1984)
A boy who is an expert at video games is recruited as a gunner for an alien defense force.

      
The mothman prophecies (2002)
A newspaper reporter investigates reports of winged creatures in a West Virginia town that may be the signs of an alien invasion.

      
The rocky horror picture show (1975)
A couple’s car breaks down and they seek help at the residence of Dr. Frank-N-Furter, a transvestite from the planet Transsexual.

      
The thing from another world (1951)
Scientists investigating a magnetic disturbance at the North Pole discover a man-like creature frozen beneath the ice.

      
The war of the worlds (1953)
When Earth is invaded by Martians, mass evacuation begins in panic as nations unite in an effort to repel the aliens.

      
The X-files (1998)
FBI agents Mulder and Scully must fight a government conspiracy to find the truth about an alien colonization of Earth.

      
Titan A.E. (2000)
Fifteen years after an alien race destroyed Earth, a boy searches for a spaceship that holds the secret to the salvation of the human race.

      
War of the worlds (2005)
A New Jersey family fights for survival as Earth is invaded by alien tripod fighting machines.



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