Music [nf]

1998

NR

Plot: Singer-songwriter Sophie B. Hawkins attracted music-industry attention with her debut album Tongues and Tails (1992). Observing Hawkins rehearsal for a 1996 30-city tour, filmmaker Gigi G ...

Comedy

1947

NR

Plot: James Thurber wasnt too happy with the Sam Goldwyn film adaptation of his 1939 short story The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, but the Technicolor musical comedy proved to be a cash cow at t ...

Music [nf]

1998

NR

Plot: This video, shot at a live date in March of 1998, captures blues guitar hero Walter Trout in all his fret-burning glory as he rocks the house with numbers like Hardtime Blues, The Reason Im G ...

Horror

1996

R

Plot: This well-written, entertainingly tasteless tongue-in-cheek horror film from Full Moon Pictures concerns Lance (Blake Bailey) a wimpy diner owner who is being shaken down by a crass, loutish biker name ...

Comedy

1991

PG13

Plot: Inspired more by the 1960s TV series than by the original Charles Addams New Yorker cartoons, The Addams Family proved to be one of the more successful of the TV shows-turned-movies of th ...

Thriller

1976

PG

Plot: Alfred Hitchcocks final film was adapted from Victor Cannings novel The Rainbird Pattern by Ernest Lehman, who previously wrote the screenplay for Hitchcocks North by Northwest< ...

Comedy

2003

R

Plot: Comedian Eddie Griffin delivers a set of his outrageous standup comedy and introduces his fans to the family who helped inspire his work in this documentary. In DysFunKtional Family ...

Comedy

1965

NR

Plot: As if one Jerry Lewis wasnt enough, Family Jewels offers no fewer than seven Jerrys. Fans of Lewis will like the film. Others should be advised to steer clear of any and all French film f ...

Plot: A woman meets her future in-laws and discovers they dont much care for her in this comedy from writer and director Thomas Bezucha. Everett Stone (Dermot Mulroney) is a successful young businessm ...

Plot: Co-produced by the Art Theatre of Japan, The Family Game explores the coming-of-age (so to speak) of a traditional Japanese family. Ichirota Miyagawa is the youngest member of a clan that ...

Comedy

1993

PG13

Plot: The ghoulish cartoon family created by Charles Addams returns for a second big-screen outing darker and nastier than the first. When Morticia Addams (Anjelica Huston) gives birth to new baby boy Puber ...

Adventure

1999

PG

Plot: James Keach and Jane Seymour, husband and wife in real life, are teamed in this direct-to-cable update of Johann David Wyss classic adventure tale The Swiss Family Robinson. While on a boat boun ...

2003

NR

Plot: Originally given a special telecast just after Super Bowl XXXIII on January 31, 1999, the debut episode of the iconoclastic animated series Family Guy immediately staked out its territory ...

2003

Plot: Twenty-one new, non sequitur-laden episodes are dished up by series creator Seth MacFarlane for the third and final Fox network season of the cartoon weekly Family Guy. Things start off w ...

Comedy

2004

PG13

Plot: Comedian Cedric the Entertainer serves as both producer and star of this comedy about a family who discovers just how much can go wrong en route to a family get-together. When Nate Johnson (Cedr ...

Plot: Actor and playwright Tyler Perry returns as Madea, a brash but loving African-American grandmother with her own way of doing things in this screen adaptation of his popular stage comedy drama. M ...

Children's/Family

1968

G

Plot: Set in 1888, this tuneful fact-based Disney production concerns the attempts of a musically talented family of Dakota pioneers -- who are politically divided on the upcoming presidential election -- to ...

Comedy

2005

Plot: This feature-length story from the cult-hit animated series The Family Guy follows the pint-sized evil genius Stewie as he searches his true family. Along the way, the diaper-clad mental ...