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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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Main » Weddings


License to wed (2007)
A minister puts an engaged couple through grueling tests to determine if they are meant to be married.

      
Lovers and other strangers (1970)
As their families fall apart, Mike and Susan seem to be the only ones happy about their wedding.

      
Made of honor (2008)
A man in love with his best friend, an engaged woman, tries to win her over after she asks him to be her “maid” of honor.

      
Margot at the wedding (2007)
On the eve of their wedding, Margot visits her sister and less-than-impressive fiancé and leaves behind a trail of destroyed relationships.

      
Monsoon wedding (2001)
A stressed father, a bride-to-be with a secret, a smitten event planner, and relatives from around the world prepare for a marriage in India.

      
Moonstruck (1987)
Weeks away from her wedding, an Italian-American widow falls for her fiancé’s brother.

      
Muriel’s wedding (1994 )
Dumpy Muriel becomes engaged to a foreign sports hero who needs to marry an Australian to become a citizen.

      
My big fat Greek wedding (2002)
A Greek-American woman falls in love with a non-Greek and tries to get her family to accept him.

      
Once upon a wedding (2005)
An island dictator’s daughter questions her arranged marriage after she injures a man in a car accident and finds herself attracted to him.

      
Rana’s wedding (2002)
A Palestinian girl has ten hours to find and marry her boyfriend in occupied Jerusalem and the West Bank.

      
Romeo and Juliet get married (2005)
An obsessed football fan falls for the daughter of the rival team’s club president.

      
Rumor has it (2005)
Sarah stumbles upon a well-kept family secret when she attends her sister’s wedding.

      
Runaway bride (1999)
A writer is assigned to write about a woman who has left many fiancés at the altar.

      
Sarah plain and tall (1991)
In 1910, a New England teacher answers a Kansas widower’s ad asking for a wife.

      
Seven brides for seven brothers (1954)
The eldest of seven figures out a solution to his brothers’ loneliness: kidnap some brides.

      
Socha na tha (2005)
A man rejects an arranged marriage to marry a woman of his choice, but then he rejects her in favor of his family’s choice.

      
Standing still (2005)
High school and college friends gather for a wedding and bring their emotional baggage with them.

      
Swing time (1936)
A dance team’s romance is hampered by the man’s engagement to another woman.

      
The bridesmaid (2004)
A man falls in love with his sister’s bridesmaid, unaware that she is mentally disturbed.

      
The catered affair (1956)
A mother insists that her daughter have a fancy wedding, even though it will wipe out the family financially.



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