Hamlet 2 2008  R, 92 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Andrew Fleming
Cast: Steve Coogan, Catherine Keener, Joseph Julian Soria, Skylar Astin, Phoebe Strole, Melonie Diaz, Arnie Pantoja, Michael Esparza, Natalie Amenula, Marshall Bell, David Arquette, Elisabeth Shue, Amy Poehler, Shea Pepe, Marco Rodriguez
Dana Marschz (Steve Coogan) teaches drama at West Mesa High School in Tucson, Arizona, where his latest play has been panned by the school's ninth-grade drama critic. Now, the school is considering getting rid of the drama department, and Dana will lose his job. Meanwhile, things at home are not great either–Dana's unhappy wife Brie (Catherine Keener) and their boarder Gary (David Arquette) make his life difficult. In an effort to save the drama department, Dana comes up with an idea to put on a musical sequel to "Hamlet," and, almost immediately, complaints roll in from the citizens of Tucson and school officials about the play's contents. But, the show must go on.
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Sydney White 2007  PG-13, 90 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Joe Nussbaum
Cast: Amanda Bynes, Sara Paxton, Matt Long, Jack Carpenter, Jeremy Howard, Crystal Hunt, Adam Hendershott, Danny Strong, Samm Levine, Libby Mintz, John Schneider, Arnie Pantoja, Brian Patrick Clarke
In this take-off on "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," Snow–oops–Sydney White was brought up by her plumber father (John Schneider) and his construction workers after her mother died. Thus, tomboy Sydney was more interested in tools and comic books than social graces when she headed off to the college that her mother had attended, and joined her mother's sorority. She immediately becomes popular at school, resulting in the nasty sorority president, Rachel Witchburn (Sara Paxton), going to great lengths to get Sydney out of the sorority because of Rachel's loss of "most popular" student–and the threat of losing her boyfriend, Tyler (Matt Long), to Sydney. But Sydney doesn't care for the sorority girls, so she moves out and finds a home with seven dorky outcasts (whose personalities are suspiciously similar to the seven Dwarfs). The team plots to take on the evil Rachel and her elitist cohorts and make the school better for all.
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