The Holiday (
2006) | IMDb:
6.9
Two women, one American and one British, swap homes at Christmastime following bad breakups. Each woman finds romance with a local man but realizes that the imminent return home may end the relationship.
Surviving Christmas (
2004) | IMDb:
5.4
A wealthy executive, Drew Latham (Ben Affleck) has no close relationships and becomes nostalgic for his childhood home as Christmas approaches. When he visits the house and finds another family living there, he offers the residents, Tom Valco (James Gandolfini) and his wife, Christine (Catherine O'Hara), a large sum of money to pretend they are his parents. Soon Drew tests the couple's patience, and, when their daughter, Alicia (Christina Applegate), arrives, things get increasingly tense.
Starring:
Ben Affleck
,
James Gandolfini
,
Christina Applegate
,
Catherine O'Hara
,
Josh Zuckerman
,
Bill Macy
Analyze This (
1999) | IMDb:
6.7
Countless wiseguy films are spoofed in this film that centers on the neuroses and angst of a powerful Mafia racketeer who suffers from panic attacks. When Paul Vitti needs help dealing with his role in the "family," unlucky shrink Dr. Ben Sobel is given just days to resolve Vitti's emotional crisis and turn him into a happy, well-adjusted gangster.
Starring:
Robert De Niro
,
Billy Crystal
,
Lisa Kudrow
,
Chazz Palminteri
,
Kresh Novakovic
,
Bart Tangredi
The Doctor (
1991) | IMDb:
6.9
Jack McKee is a doctor with it all: he's successful, he's rich, and he has no problems.... until he is diagnosed with throat cancer. Now that he has seen medicine, hospitals, and doctors from a patient's perspective, he realises that there is more to being a doctor than surgery and prescriptions.
Starring:
William Hurt
,
Christine Lahti
,
Elizabeth Perkins
,
Mandy Patinkin
,
Adam Arkin
,
Charlie Korsmo
My Favorite Year (
1982) | IMDb:
7.3
Fledgling comic Benjy Stone can't believe his luck when his childhood hero, the swashbuckling matinee idol Alan Swann, gets booked to appear on the variety show he writes for. But when Swann arrives, he fails to live up to his silver screen image. Instead, he's a drunken womanizer who suffers from stage fright. Benjy is assigned to look after him before the show, and it's all he can do to keep his former idol from going completely off the rails.
Starring:
Peter O'Toole
,
Mark Linn-Baker
,
Jessica Harper
,
Joseph Bologna
,
Bill Macy
,
Lainie Kazan
The Jerk (
1979) | IMDb:
7.1
After discovering he's not really black like the rest of his family, likable dimwit Navin Johnson sets off on a hilarious misadventure that takes him from rags to riches and back again. The slaphappy jerk strikes it rich, but life in the fast lane isn't all it's cracked up to be and, in the end, all that really matters to Johnson is his true love.
Starring:
Steve Martin
,
Bernadette Peters
,
Catlin Adams
,
Mabel King
,
Richard Ward
,
Carl Gottlieb
Directed by:
Carl Reiner