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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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Main » Family fare


Rudy (1993)
Rudy is determined to overcome his small stature and blue collar background to play college football for Notre Dame.

      
Secondhand lions (2003)
An irresponsible mother sends her shy son to spend the summer with two eccentric uncles.

      
Sky Captain and the world of tomorrow (2004)
A reporter and a scientist team up to investigate attacks from giant flying robots.

      
Splash (1984)
A man is reunited with a mermaid who saved him from drowning when he was a boy.

      
The adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
When Prince John and his Norman overlords begin oppressing the Saxons, a Saxon lord fights back as the outlaw leader of a rebel army.

      
The astronaut farmer (2007)
A man who had to leave NASA to save the family farm tries to launch himself into space.

      
The court jester (1956)
A 12th Century court jester inadvertently becomes involved with outlaws who are trying to overthrow the kind of England.

      
The final season (2007)
A coach is set up to fail but must convince his high school baseball team that those who have written them off are wrong.

      
The game plan (2007)
A bachelor quarterback discovers he has an 8-year-old daughter from a previous relationship.

      
The greatest game ever played (2005)
The 1913 U.S. Golf Championship pits a likeable long-shot against his idol.

      
The hitchhikers 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 karate kid (1984)
Miyagi, a handyman/martial arts master, agrees to teach karate to Daniel, a bullied boy.

      
The miracle worker (1962)
Annie Sullivan struggles to teach the deaf, blind, and mute Helen Keller.

      
The miracle worker (2000)
The contemporary version of the classic true story of Helen Keller and Annie Sullivan

      
The princess bride (1987)
Beautiful Buttercup will be forced to marry Prince Humperdink, unless Wesley, AKA the Dread Pirate Roberts, can save her.

      
The red pony (1949)
A lonely boy finds refuge from his unhappy parents in his love for a pony.

      
The shakiest gun in the West (1968)
Jesse W. Haywood graduates from dental school in Philadelphia in 1870 and goes West “to fight oral ignorance.”

      
The sisterhood of the traveling pants (2005)
Four friends pass around a pair of jeans as their lives take them in different directions.

      
The Spiderwick chronicles (2008)
When they move into a run-down estate, a family finds themselves pulled into a world of faeries and other strange creatures.

      
The trouble with angels (1966)
Two mischievous students turn convent school upside down with their pranks.



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