THE UNDERSTUDY

USA, 2008

Directors: David Conolly, Hanna Davis

Writers: David Conolly, Hanna Davis

Producers: David Conolly, Hanna Davis

Cast: Marin Ireland, Paul Sparks, Aasif Mandvi, Richard Kind

Plot Summary:

A perennial understudy takes matters into her own hands to achieve fame at any price.

BORAT: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

USA, 2006
Genre: Comedy

Director: Larry Charles
Producers: Sacha Baron Cohen, Jay Roach
Writer: Sacha Baron Cohen, Peter Baynham, Anthony Hines, Dan Mazer, Todd Phillips
Cast: Sacha Baron Cohen, Ken Davitian
Budget: $18M

Plot Summary:
Borat Sagdiyev is a TV reporter of a popular show in Kazakhstan as Kazakhstan's sixth most famous man and a leading journalist. He is sent from his home to America by his government to make a documentary about American society and culture. Borat takes a course in New York City to understand American humor. While watching Baywatch on TV, Borat discovers how beautiful their women are in the form of C. J. Parker, who was played by actress Pamela Anderson who hails from Malibu, California. He decides to go on a cross-country road trip to California in a quest to make her his wife and take her back to his country. On his journey Borat and his producer encounter a country full of strange and wonderful Americans, real people in real chaotic situations with hysterical consequences.

CREATIVE NON FICTION

USA, 2009
Genre: Comedy

Director: Lena Dunham
Writer: Lena Dunham
Producer:
Cast: Richard Brundage, Jeffery Cristiani, Grace Dunham, Lena Dunham
Budget: $18K

Plot Summary:

Plot SummaryCollege student Ella is completely focused on her ambiguously romantic relationship with her dorm-mate, Chris. She is so consumed by trying to understand his behavior that she's neglecting the screenplay she is supposed to write in order to graduate. When she does sit down to work on the script, her increasingly awkward social life bleeds onto the page and her work begins to express her true feelings about her own situation.

All My Good Countrymen

Czechoslovakia, 1969
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Director:Vojtech Jasný
Producers: Vojtech Jasný
Writers: Jaroslav Jílovec
Awards: Cannes 1969 (Best Director)
Cast: Vlastimil Brodský, Radoslav Brzobohatý, Vladimír Mensík, Waldemar Matuska, Drahomira Hofmanová

Plot Summary:
Stories about seven friends in a small Moravian village following the socialization of Czechoslovakia in 1948, developing gradually into the story of Frantiek, the resister. The film offers some direct political criticism, particularly of the process of collectivizing agriculture. After the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, it was promptly banned.

Shaun Of The Dead

UK, 2004
Genre: Comedy
Director: Edgar Wright
Producers: Nira Park, Eric Fellner, Tim Bevan
Writers: Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg
Budget: $4M
Cast: Simon Pegg, Kate Ashfield, Nick Frost

Plot Summary:
Shaun is having many problems in life. His long-time girlfriend has dumped him due to their almost-daily expedition to Shaun's favorite pub, the Winchester. His temporary management job isn't going well at Foree Electronics, with his subordinates not even giving him the time of day. His deadbeat flatmates, Pete and Ed, are at each others' throats. And, oh yeah, London is overrun with multitudes of zombies. In the midst of this, he must save himself, Ed, his ex, his mom, and his precious record collection. There is a time when a hero must rise...from his couch.

The General

USA, 1926

Genre: Comedy

Directors: Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman

Writers: Buster Keaton & Cyde Bruckman

Producer: Buster Keaton

Cast: Buster Keaton, Marion Mack, Glen Cavender.

Plot Summary:

Johnnie loves his train (The General) and Annabelle Lee. When the Civil War begins he is turned down for service because he's more valuable as an engineer. Annabelle thinks it's because he's a coward. Union spies capture The General with Annabelle on board. Johnny must rescue both his loves.

Inglorious Basterds

USA 2009
Genre: War
Directed by: Quentin Tarantino
Producer: Lawrence Bender
Writter: Quentin Tarantino
Budget: $70M
Cast: Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Michael Fassbender, Mèlanie Laurent, Diane Kruger, Daniel Brühll, Mike Myers

Plot Summary:
During World War II a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds soon cross paths with a French-Jewish woman who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers.

The Informant

2009

Genre: Comedy

Directed by: Steven Soderbergh

Producers: Howard Braunstein, Kurt Eichenwald, Jennifer Fox, Gregory Jacobs, Michael Jaffe.

Writters: Scott Z. Burns (screenplay), Kurt Eichenwald (book).

Cast: Matt Damon, Scott Bakula, Lucas Carrol, Joel McHale, Melanie Lynskey

Budget: $21M

Plot Sumary:

Mark Whitacre has worked for lysine developing company ADM for many years and has even found his way into upper management. But nothing has prepared him for the job he is about to undertake - being a spy for the FBI. Unwillingly pressured into working as an informant against the illegal price-fixing activities of his company, Whitacre gradually adopts the idea that he's a true secret agent. But as his incessant lies keep piling up, his world begins crashing down around him