Wallace Shawn

The Addams get tangled up in wacky adventures and find themselves involved in hilarious run-ins with all sorts of unsuspecting people.

Four lifelong friends Diane, Vivian, Sharon, and Carol are in a romantic rut in their relationships until they pick up Fifty Shades of Grey for their book club. Hilarity ensues as they discover a new way to rekindle old flames, through the book.

An east coast small town mayor makes a run for Senate. The progressive candidate makes an inspired run but dies before the election and his two aides attempt to put up a ruse that he's still alive.

A fractured family is forced to confront what tore them apart at the eldest son's wedding.

After a boy's dog dies, his inventor father creates a robotic replacement with mechanical abilities to be the new family pet. ROBO-DOG is a real-world fantasy film for the whole family. When Tyler's furry best friend dies tragically, his inventor Dad creates a new dog to take his place - complete with mechanical powers and robotic abilities to keep everyone on their toes. —Anonymous

Tina Fey (Date Night, 30 Rock) and Paul Rudd (I Love You Man, Knocked Up) star in 'Admission', the new film directed by Academy Award nominee, Paul Weitz ('About a Boy'), about the surprising detours we encounter on the road to happiness. Straight-laced Princeton University admissions officer, Portia Nathan (Fey) is caught off-guard when she makes a recruiting visit to an alternative high school overseen by her former college classmate, the free-wheeling John Pressman (Rudd). Pressman has surmised that Jeremiah (Nat Wolff), his gifted yet very unconventional student, might well be the son that Portia secretly gave up for adoption many years ago. Soon, Portia finds herself bending the rules for Jeremiah, putting at risk the life she thought she always wanted but in the process finding her way to a surprising and exhilarating life and romance she never dreamed of having.

Set in Cincinnati at the height of the Great Depression, Kit Kittredge, a resourceful young girl, helps her mother run a boardinghouse after her father loses his job. 'Kit Kittredge: An American Mystery' centers around a young girl living in the struggles of the Great Depression. 10 year old Kit lives in a boarding house her parents own in Cincinnati, Ohio. She has a passion for writing, & dreams of having something of hers put in the local paper someday. With the help of her friends, Sterling & Ruthie, will her dream finally come true? —wgdpink Kit Kitteredge is a movie based off the book series an American Girl. It's about a teenaged girl living through the depression and dreams of writing for the newspaper. But since her father lost his job their house has become a boarding house. Where Kit helps out her mom and makes new friends. But soon trouble stirs about and it's up to Kit and her friends to figure out what's wrong. —jillianlayton The film focuses on Kit Kittredge, who grows up in the early years of the Great Depression. —anonymous

A hospital resident is put in the middle of a legal battle between two half-sisters on whether to pull their comatose dad's life support. But more seems to be at stake than dad's life - his inheritance. Dr. Werner Ernst (James Spader) is a young hospital resident who becomes embroiled in a legal battle between two half-sisters who are fighting over the care of their comatose father. But are they really fighting over their father's care, or over his ten million dollar estate? Meanwhile, Werner must contend with his nutty supervisor, who insists that he only care for patients with full insurance. Can Werner sidestep the hospital's legal team and do what's best for the patient? —Martin Lewison <mlewison@utk.edu>

The film begins by showing the Beindorfs, mother Janet (Jamie Lee Curtis), father Ned (Kevin Pollak), Gregory whose nicknamed "Grover" (Kyle Howard), and Stacy (Amy Sakasitz), a supposedly happy family living a typical family life in the suburbs of Defiance, Ohio. It is revealed that Janet and Ned are not happy and in fact separating although they tell their children it is not a divorce. Groves's friend Matt tells him that usually it starts with a separation and ends with a divorce. He asks Groves to check for tell tale signs like who is moving out (usually mom moving out is temporary), if they are not giving reasons then there is a lot wrong and if the suitcases are already packed to estimate the seriousness of the situation. Grover is being bullied at school by TJ. It is Janet and Ned's marriage anniversary and Grover and Stacy first try to recreate their parents' honeymoon in the basement of their house, but this fails to bring any happiness into their relationship. The children then leave the basement telling their parents they must get another surprise for them upstairs. They go up, close the door, and nail it shut. They vow to keep it shut until their parents work out their problems. They removed all the tools, boarded up the windows and cut the phone line to the basement as well. The first night, Janet and Ned only spend time trying to escape the basement. The next day, the kids call in their parents sick at work and then go to school, as usual. Chief Rocco (Ray Walston) is the next-door neighbor to the Beindorf and is a retired police chief. Grover tells his best friend Matt Finley (Mooky Arizona) what he has done and T.J. Krupp (Russel Harper), the wealthy local bully, overhears the conversation. Matt goes over to the Beindorfs' house to look at the children's work and is impressed. T.J. shows up to have a look and actually installs a newer, more secure door to keep the parents trapped. TJ is almost an adult in size and is able to push Groves's parents back while Groves and Stacy install the new steel door, after removing the old wooden door. TJ and Matt then leave to collect their parents and bring them to the Beindorfs' house to lock them up as well. Matt's father Vic (Wallace Shawn) never keeps a wife for more than two years and T.J.'s father Donald (Christopher McDonald) does not treat his wife Gwenna (Sheila McCarthy) well. Matt also brings his bulldog Cosmo and his two younger brothers, Teddy and Jimmy (who come armed with sleeping bags) and T.J. brings Spot, his pet boa constrictor. When Grover asks what is going on in response to his friends setting up camp at his house, T.J. replies with "Our parents could be down there for months!" The next morning Grover goes to school, and Stacy serves breakfast to all parents in the basement. Janet and Ned almost talk Grover into letting them all out but T.J.'s father, Donald (who's an attorney), threatens him with legal action. Grover finds out that his dream girl, Brooke Figler (Jennifer Love Hewitt), is also having parental problems: her mother Cindy (Jennifer Tilly) acts like a teenager, going so far as to trying to hang out with Brooke's friends. Grover invites her to lock up Cindy with the rest of the parents. The children lock up all of their parents and begin to help them solve their problems. The kids lower a TV camera and speakers by cutting hole in the basement ceiling and having a group therapy session for the parents. The parents try to find a way out of the basement (when Ned finds the blueprints to an old laundry chute) while getting along and seeing what each of their problems are. The children also work out their differences with each other above in the house. They work together to clean up the house and act responsibly while their parents are locked up. As they get to talking, they also defend their respective parents and their quirky habits. Rocco continues to keep an eye on the house. Ned and Janet have a fight in the basement as Ned wants to cut off electricity to the house (fuse box is in the basement), while Janet feels that is negative reinforcement. The rapid turning on and off of lights is witnessed by Rocco from across the street, who calls the cops. The cops only find kids having a pajama party with TJ acting as a grown up, and leave. Janet tries to climb up the laundry chute but cannot hold on and slides right back down. The next morning, Janet's lawyer brings over the divorce papers and Grover realizes that his parents had been lying to him. Even Ned did not know that Janet had asked her lawyer to draw up divorce papers. Ned and Donald dig through the cemented window and push Vic through the hole into the backyard where Rocco sees him and calls the police again. Grover is dejected and realizes that what he did was wrong. The kids eventually give in and give up to the police and their parents are set free. It is revealed at the end that Grover's parents reconciled and took a second honeymoon to Hawaii. Matt's parents' wedding lasted past the two-year mark, and they are expecting another child. T.J.'s parents got divorced though his mom later went back to law school and they opened up a law firm together. Brooke's mother started dating other men instead of intruding on Brooke's dates. Also, Grover and Brooke became boyfriend and girlfriend, and she passionately kisses him in front of their classmates at school for a very long time, causing a slightly awkward moment for the bystanders. However, he concluded if their parents ever try to get divorced again, he might think of locking them in the attic.

Dorothy Parker remembers the heyday of the Algonquin Round Table, a circle of friends whose barbed wit, like hers, was fueled by alcohol and flirted with despair.

Two fugitives pass themselves off as priests in the hope of evading capture and passing the police blockade at the border with Canada. A couple of escaped convicts on the run find refuge with the Church when they are mistaken for two priests. The two are keen to flee but are unable to do so without the help of Molly. —Rob Hartill Ned (Robert De Niro) and Jim (Sean Penn) are convicts who get their shot at freedom when they unexpectedly escape from prison along with a killer. The two fugitives head north towards the Canadian border, but before they can cross over, they get mistaken for priests and decide to go along with the ruse. Taking up residency at the area monastery, the two men awkwardly try not to blow their cover, even as Ned falls for a beautiful local girl, Molly (Demi Moore). —from track.tv (Canon y mus)

Dudley Moore and director Blake Edwards are reunited in this laugh-packed romp about a lovable bigamist. TV reporter Rob Salinger (Moore) longs for a baby. But his career-minded wife, Micki (Ann Reinking), is too busy for motherhood. A romantic fling with a seductive cellist, Maude (Amy Irving), leads to her pregnancy. Rob receives another shock when Micki announces that she's also expecting! In love with both women, he marries Maude and starts leading a double life full of complicated and riotous situations. MICKI & MAUDE reaches the heights of hilarity when both women are delivering babies in adjoining rooms while Moore serves double duty as the frantic father-to-be!

Reduced to minding the counter at a crusty pawn shop, Weslake stumbles onto a scheme by some disgruntled misfit clients to rob the place. Rather than blow the whistle, however, he insinuates himself as the heist's mastermind. Down-and-out Weslake (Donald Sutherland) was reduced to minding the counter at the San Francisco pawn shop of crusty Garvey (Jack Warden) when he stumbled onto a scheme by some of the boss's disgruntled misfit clients to rob the place. Rather than blow the whistle, however, he insinuates himself as the heist's mastermind. Louis Malle's hilarious remake of Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958) co-stars Sean Penn, Wallace Shawn, Christine Baranski, and Professor Irwin Corey. —Anonymous Garvey is a San Francisco pawnshop operator. His unemployed and criminal friends Dillard, Turtle, and Weslake, team up with Boardwalk, a local pimp, to burgle Garvey's shop while the owner is out of town. During the elaborate planning process, Dillard falls for a Hispanic woman, the sister of a friend. Also, Boardwalk is assigned to case a local apartment, where he meets and falls for the maid. Amidst all these romantic hijinks, Weslake puts together a burglary plan, which is executed by the makeshift gang. —veloc <velo_00@yahoo.com>