Pitch Perfect (2012) RT 80% / Audience 83%

DVD release: Dec 2012

College student Beca knows she does not want to be part of a clique, but that's exactly where she finds herself after arriving at her new school. Thrust in among mean gals, ...  (more)

GENRES: Comedy • Music • Romance

DIRECTION:  Jason Moore

CAST:  Anna Kendrick  •  Skylar Astin  •  Ben Platt  •  Brittany Snow

Big Fat Liar (2002) RT 42% / Audience 44%

DVD release: Sep 2002

Fourteen-year-old Jason Shepherd has a reputation for stretching the truth. So, when big-time Hollywood producer Marty Wolf steals his class paper and turns it into a smash ...  (more)

GENRES: Comedy • Family

DIRECTION:  Shawn Levy

CAST:  Frankie Muniz  •  Paul Giamatti  •  Amanda Bynes  •  Amanda Detmer

Can't Hardly Wait (1998) RT 40% / Audience 63%

DVD release: Nov 1998

It's graduation day at Huntington Hills High, and you know what that means - time to party. And not just any party, either. This one will be a night to remember, as the nerds ...  (more)

GENRES: Comedy • Drama • Romance

DIRECTION:  Harry Elfont  •  Deborah Kaplan

CAST:  Jennifer Love Hewitt  •  Ethan Embry  •  Charlie Korsmo  •  Lauren Ambrose

Clueless (1995) RT 81% / Audience 76%

DVD release: Oct 1999

Shallow, rich and socially successful Cher is at the top of her Beverly Hills high school's pecking scale. Seeing herself as a matchmaker, Cher first coaxes two teachers into ...  (more)

GENRES: Comedy • Drama • Romance

DIRECTION:  Amy Heckerling

CAST:  Alicia Silverstone  •  Stacey Dash  •  Brittany Murphy  •  Paul Rudd

Double Whammy (2001) RT 30% / Audience 30%

DVD release: Dec 2002

Ray Pluto has many problems. He is satirized in the tabloids as the "loser cop." His partner is starting to seem suspiciously attracted to him. A pair of screenwriters across ...  (more)

GENRES: Comedy • Crime • Drama

DIRECTION:  Tom DiCillo

CAST:  Denis Leary  •  Elizabeth Hurley  •  Luis Guzmán  •  Victor Argo

Josie and the Pussycats (2001) RT 53% / Audience 51%

DVD release: Aug 2001

Josie, Melody and Val are three small-town girl musicians determined to take their rock band out of their garage and straight to the top, while remaining true to their look, ...  (more)

GENRES: Comedy • Music

DIRECTION:  Harry Elfont  •  Deborah Kaplan

CAST:  Rosario Dawson  •  Tara Reid  •  Gabriel Mann  •  Alan Cumming

Juice (1992) RT 83% / Audience 90%

DVD release: Jan 2001

Four Harlem friends -- Bishop, Q, Steel and Raheem -- dabble in petty crime, but they decide to go big by knocking off a convenience store. Bishop, the magnetic leader of the ...  (more)

GENRES: Action • Crime • Drama • Thriller

DIRECTION:  Ernest R. Dickerson

CAST:  Omar Epps  •  Tupac Shakur  •  Khalil Kain  •  Jermaine 'Huggy' Hopkins

King's Ransom (2005) RT 2% / Audience 31%

DVD release: Jul 2005

Hoping to foil his own gold-digging wife's plan, a loathsome businessman arranges his own kidnapping, only to realize that there are plenty of other people interested in his ...  (more)

GENRES: Comedy • Crime

DIRECTION:  Jeffrey W. Byrd

CAST:  Anthony Anderson  •  Jay Mohr  •  Kellita Smith  •  Brooke D'Orsay

Remember the Titans (2000) RT 73% / Audience 93%

DVD release: Mar 2001

After leading his football team to 15 winning seasons, coach Bill Yoast is demoted and replaced by Herman Boone – tough, opinionated and as different from the beloved Yoast as ...  (more)

GENRES: Drama

DIRECTION:  Boaz Yakin

CAST:  Denzel Washington  •  Will Patton  •  Ryan Hurst  •  Wood Harris

Something New (2006) RT 61% / Audience 72%

DVD release: May 2006

Kenya McQueen, a corporate lawyer finds love in the most unexpected place when she agrees to go on a blind date with Brian Kelly, a sexy and free-spirited landscaper.  (more)

GENRES: Comedy • Drama • Romance

DIRECTION:  Sanaa Hamri

CAST:  Sanaa Lathan  •  Simon Baker  •  Katharine Towne  •  Mike Epps

Sugar Hill (1994) RT 20% / Audience 69%

DVD release: Jan 2003

In the Harlem neighborhood of New York City, the Mafia steps in when a drug dealer quits his partner brother to lead a straight life with his girlfriend.  (more)

GENRES: Action • Drama • Thriller

DIRECTION:  Leon Ichaso

CAST:  Wesley Snipes  •  Michael Wright  •  Donald Faison  •  O. L. Duke

Trippin' (1999)

Greg is near the end of his senior year in high school, wanting to go to the prom, eyeing Cinny (the school's beauty with brains) from afar, and regularly trippin', ...  (more)

GENRES: Comedy • Romance

DIRECTION:  David Raynr

CAST:  Deon Richmond  •  Donald Faison  •  Guy Torry  •  Maia Campbell

Uptown Girls (2003) RT 14% / Audience 60%

DVD release: Jan 2004

Molly Gunn, the freewheeling daughter of a deceased rock legend, is forced to get a job when her manager steals her money. As nanny for precocious Ray, the oft ignored ...  (more)

GENRES: Comedy

DIRECTION:  Boaz Yakin

CAST:  Brittany Murphy  •  Dakota Fanning  •  Marley Shelton  •  Donald Faison

Waiting to Exhale (1995) RT 52% / Audience 79%

DVD release: Mar 2001

Cheated on, mistreated and stepped on, the women are holding their breath, waiting for the elusive "good man" to break a string of less-than-stellar lovers. Friends and ...  (more)

GENRES: Comedy • Drama • Romance

DIRECTION:  Forest Whitaker

CAST:  Whitney Houston  •  Angela Bassett  •  Loretta Devine  •  Lela Rochon

Good Boy! (2003) RT 44% / Audience 39%

DVD release: Mar 2004

An intergalactic dog pilot from Sirius (the dog star), visits Earth to verify the rumors that dogs have failed to take over the planet.  (more)

GENRES: Comedy • Family • Science Fiction

DIRECTION:  John Robert Hoffman

CAST:  Molly Shannon  •  Liam Aiken  •  Matthew Broderick  •  Donald Faison

Butter (1998) RT 33% / Audience 44%

DVD release: Dec 2012

Corrupt record company executives kill a singing sensation with a drug overdose rather than letting her leave their label and join another company. They then frame her ...  (more)

GENRES: 

DIRECTION:  Peter Gathings Bunche

CAST:  Shemar Moore  •  Nia Long  •  Ernie Hudson  •  Donnie Wahlberg

Wish I Was Here (2014) RT 44% / Audience 59%

DVD release: Oct 2014

Aidan Bloom, a struggling actor, father and husband, is 35 years old and still trying to find a purpose for his life. He and his wife are barely getting by financially and ...  (more)

GENRES: Comedy • Drama

DIRECTION:  Zach Braff

CAST:  Zach Braff  •  Donald Faison  •  Joey King  •  Pierce Gagnon

Kick-Ass 2 (2013) RT 31% / Audience 57%

DVD release: Dec 2013

After Kick-Ass’ insane bravery inspires a new wave of self-made masked crusaders, he joins a patrol led by the Colonel Stars and Stripes. When these amateur superheroes are ...  (more)

GENRES: Action • Adventure • Crime

DIRECTION:  Jeff Wadlow

CAST:  Aaron Taylor-Johnson  •  Chloë Grace Moretz  •  Morris Chestnut  •  Claudia Lee

Stag (2013) RT Audience 9%

DVD release: Aug 2013

Ken Andrews (Faison) has been the orchestrator of the hazing pranks at all of his buddies' stags - elaborate, hilarious pranks that have left many emotional scars and a few ...  (more)

GENRES: Comedy

DIRECTION:  Brett Heard

CAST:  Donald Faison  •  Eva Amurri  •  Jon Dore  •  Pat Thornton