Subash Kundanmal Movies
- 2005
- PG13
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Comic and filmmaker Albert Brooks serves his country while struggling to get some laughs in this offbeat satiric comedy. Brooks plays himself, a comedic filmmaker whose most recent success was providing the voice of a fish for an animated feature and who has just been passed by as director for a remake of Harvey. As Brooks wonders what's going to happen next with his career, his wife (Amy Ryan), and his daughter, he's approached by government representatives who want him for a special assignment. The State Department, eager to better understand the cultural gap between the United States and the Middle East, have been directed by the president to make a study of what makes Muslims laugh. Brooks is asked to fly to India and Pakistan and bring back a 500-page report on Muslim humor; told the Medal of Freedom may be his if he comes through, Brooks accepts. With a pair of State Department officials in tow, Stuart (John Carroll Lynch) and Mark (Jon Tenney), and some help from a local assistant, Maya (Sheetal Sheth), Brooks sets out to find the funny bone of India's and Pakistan's Muslim communities, though it doesn't take long to find out what they don't find funny -- his standup act. Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World was originally set for release in the United States by Sony Pictures Classics, but when they became nervous over the film's title, they dropped the project and it was picked up for distribution by Warner Independent Pictures. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Albert Brooks, Sheetal Sheth, (more)
- 2003
A young foreigner's quest to obtain an ever-elusive green card fuels this romantic comedy drama from first-time writer/director Bala Rajasekharuni. Intentionally overstaying his visa in order to seek out a green card that will permit him to remain in the U.S., the naïve youngster finds himself wading through a sordid underworld of illegal immigrants and immigration layers while attempting to elude the ever-persistent INS. Along the way he find himself falling for a an Indian American girl who attempts to assist him in his quest.
~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Vikram Dasu, Deep Katdare, (more)
- 2001
After foiling a plot to blow up an international seminar with a human bomb, Sydney (Jennifer Garner) is assigned by SD-6 to kidnap a German biotech engineer. CIA agent Vaughn (Michael Vartan) offers to help Syd double-cross SD-6 without their knowing it, using a CIA computer expert named Paul Kelvin (Tom Everett) as a decoy. Elsewhere, Sydney's father, Jack (Victor Garber), is driven to desperate measures to protect his daughter, and Will (Bradley Cooper) comes closer to solving the mystery of Danny's death. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 2001
Taking time off from tracking the terrorist who plans to blow up an international seminar in São Paulo, Sydney (Jennifer Garner) reluctant agrees to play private eye for her roommate, Francie (Merrin Dungey), who suspects that her boyfriend, Charlie (Evan Dexter Parke), is seeing another woman. Meanwhile, Syd's father, Jack (Victor Garber), grimly prepares to reveal a terrible secret to his daughter. And Will (Bradley Cooper) tries to unravel the mystery of "Kate Jones," the last person to see Syd's fiancé, David, alive. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
