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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.

Try a classic or a contemporary from our collection!

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Terminator 3: rise of the machines (2003)
The Terminator is back—again—and a female terminator is after him.

      
The Bourne identity (2002)
A bullet-riddled man with amnesia races to elude assassins and recover his memory.

      
The Bourne supremacy (2002)
When Bourne is framed for a botched CIA operation, he must take up his former life as a trained assassin to survive.

      
The Dukes of Hazzard (2005)
Bo and Luke try to save the family farm from Hazzard County’s corrupt commissioner and elude the authorities in their 1969 Dodge Charger.

      
The fast and the furious (2001)
An undercover cop looking to bust a hijacking ring infiltrates an underworld subculture of street racers in Los Angeles.

      
The fast and the furious: Tokyo drift (2006)
An American on the run from the law discovers drift racing in Tokyo.

      
The French connection (1971)
Two New York City detectives learn of a scheme to smuggle a large quantity of heroin inside a car being shipped from France.

      
The hunter (1980)
Based on a true story; a bounty hunter becomes the prey of a vengeful psychopath.

      
The island (2005)
A man in a utopian village discovers he is a “harvested being” and goes on the run.

      
The Italian job (2003)
Thieves plan to pull off the heist of their lives by creating Los Angeles’ largest traffic jam.

      
The love bug (1968)
A driver becomes a champion with a VW Bug that has a mind of its own.

      
The rock (1996)
San Francisco is taken hostage when a general seizes control of Alcatraz, threatening to launch missiles loaded with poison gas.

      
The terminator (1984)
A cyborg is sent from the future to destroy mankind’s only hope for survival.

      
The transporter (2002)
A man’s job is to deliver packages, without asking questions; complications arise when he breaks that rule.

      
The world is not enough (1999)
007 is the world’s only hope against a high-tech terrorist with a deadly characteristic: a bullet lodged in his brain renders him impervious to pain.

      
Thunder Road (1958)
A Kentucky bootlegger battles racketeers who try to muscle in on his territory.

      
Tomorrow never dies (1997)
Bond must stop a media mastermind from starting WW III to increase his revenues.

      
Transporter 2 (2005)
The transporter has retired, but he must dust off his combat skills to save a kidnapped boy.

      
True lies (1994)
A wife thinks her husband is a boring computer salesman, but he really is a secret agent.

      
Two lane blacktop (1971)
Two car freaks drive a 1955 Chevy across the Southwestern U.S. looking for other cars to race.



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