Lip Service 2001  R, 95 min.
Genre: Comedy / Thriller
Director: Shawn Schepps
Cast: Jami Gertz, Sybil Temchen, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Christian Camargo, Jenna Byrne, Julie Claire, David Pressman, Jennifer McComb, Laurel Moglen, Jonathan Silverman
While in college, Kat (Jami Gertz) designed and gave roommate Allison (Sybil Temchen) a chair. Allison "stole" the design and started what became a lucrative furniture business. When Kat returns 10 years later, there's hell to pay. Alternately a black comedy, heavy drama, and a thriller.
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Pyrates 1991  R, 98 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Noah Stern
Cast: Kevin Bacon, Kyra Sedgwick, Bruce Payne, Kristin Dattilo, Buckley Norris, Deborah Falconer, David Pressman, Raymond O'Connor
Ari (Kevin Bacon) and Sam (Kyra Sedgwick) fall in love, have sex, and discover that their sexual encounters are so intense that the sparks erupt and set actual fires.
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Tropic Thunder 2008  R, 106 min.
Genre: Action / Comedy
Director: Ben Stiller
Cast: Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Robert Downey Jr., Brandon T. Jackson, Jay Baruchel, Nick Nolte, Steve Coogan, Danny McBride, Bill Hader, Brandon Soo Hoo, Reggie Lee, Tom Cruise, Matthew McConaughey, Trieu Tran, David Pressman
In this satire on Hollywood filmmaking, Oscar-winning actor Kirk Lazarus (Robert Downey Jr.) just doesn't fit in with the other actors–Tugg Speedman (Ben Stiller), Alpa Chino (Brandon T. Jackson), Kevin Sandusky (Jay Baruchel), and Jeff Portnoy (Jack Black)–on the set. Bickering fills the air, and after director Kamien Cockburn (Steve Coogan) is threatened with being fired by the film's producer Les Grossman (Tom Cruise), he sends the cast by helicopter to the jungles of Southeast Asia where filming is to be done by hidden cameras. Meanwhile, the film is axed, and the actors find themselves in a real war, lost in the jungle where they are hunted down by a Burmese drug ring, led by twelve-year-old Tran (Brandon Soo Hoo), that believes the actors are soldiers. Now, their acting skills really come into play. Robert Downey Jr. received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.
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 Zoolander 2001 PG-13, 85 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Ben Stiller
Cast: Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Christine Taylor, Will Ferrell, Jerry Stiller, Milla Jovovich, David Duchovny, Jon Voight, David Pressman, Judah Friedlander, Nathan Lee Graham, Alexandre Manning, Alexander Skarsgard, Donald Trump, Christian Slater
This plot uses the premise that child labor is important in the production of fashion industry goods; therefore, the Prime Minister of Malaysia–because he is against child labor–must be assassinated. A not-very-bright fashion model, Derek Zoolander (Ben Stiller) is convinced by the powers that be that he can save the day by killing the Prime Minister. But, will he be stopped before carrying out the crime?
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| 1. Lip Service (2001)
2. Pyrates (1991)
3. Tropic Thunder (2008)
4. Zoolander (2001)
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