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Comedy Drama Movies of 2003

Secondhand Lions

In this family-friendly comedy drama, Walter (Haley Joel Osment) is a shy and bookish boy just short of his teens whose mother impulsively decides to leave him for the summer with his eccentric grand-uncles, Hub (Robert Duvall) and Garth ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

Big Fish

Tim Burton directs the fantasy drama Big Fish, based on the book Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions by Southern writer/illustrator Daniel Wallace. Billy Crudup plays William ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

Masked and Anonymous

Enigmatic rock legend Bob Dylan stars as an enigmatic rock legend (talk about a casting coup!) in this purposefully eccentric satiric comedy. Uncle Sweetheart (John Goodman) is an ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

Love Actually

All of London is in love -- or longing to be -- in Four Weddings and a Funeral writer Richard Curtis' first directorial effort. Billed as "the ultimate romantic comedy," Love Actually involves more than a dozen main characters, each weaving his ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

It Runs in the Family

A family takes on the difficult task of learning how to get along with one another in this emotional comedy drama. ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

Lost in Translation

After making a striking directorial debut with her screen adaptation of The Virgin ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

Tiptoes

Matthew Bright directs the romantic comedy ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

A Talking Picture

Elder statesman of Portuguese filmmaking Manoel de Oliveira directs the dialogue-driven drama A Talking Picture. Starting in Lisbon, the film involves a Mediterranean ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

Intermission

In the suburbs of Dublin, more than a dozen strangers find their paths ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

The Kiss

In this independent romantic drama, Cara Thompson (Francoise Surel) is a young woman ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

11:14

Greg Marcks' 11:14 intertwines five different storylines that all lead up to a series of events that happen one evening at 11:14. The audience is made privy to connections between the characters that they themselves are ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

American Reel

A struggling singer/songwriter finds himself faced with the prospect of overnight success after languishing in ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

Matchstick Men

Ridley Scott directs the crime comedy Matchstick Men, based on the novel of the same name ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

2 Days

A struggling actor decides to quit the business in the most permanent way possible in this dark comedy drama starring Paul Rudd, Donal Logue, ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

Spinning Boris

Roger Spottiswoode directs Jeff Goldblum, Anthony LaPaglia, and Liev Schreiber in the political satire Spinning Boris. The film takes place during the Russian elections of 1996 ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

Good Fences

A black family gets a first-hand look at the trials and tribulations of upward mobility and suburban segregation in this pointed comedy. In 1973, Tom (Danny Glover) is an African-American attorney who is determined to raise himself up ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

Milwaukee, Minnesota

Allan Mindel's Milwaukee, Minnesota is about con men hoping to take advantage of a fishing champion. Albert (Troy Garity) is the best ice-fisherman in Wisconsin. He is not the sharpest tack in the box, making him ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

American Splendor

The documentary directing team of Robert Pulcini and Shari Springer Berman makes their narrative feature debut with the biographical comedy drama American Splendor. Harvey Pekar (Paul Giamatti) is a comic book ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

Pieces of April

Novelist and screenwriter Peter Hedges makes his directorial debut with the comedy drama Pieces of April. Family outcast April Burns (Katie Holmes) lives in a beat-up apartment in New York's Lower East Side with her boyfriend, Bobby ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

Six Feet Under: Season 03

Love and death (and the problems they bring) remain the constants in ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

Easy Six

A burnt out college professor finds his quest for vitality leading him into the arms of disaster in this seriocomic tale of love and desperation starring Julian Sands, John Savage, Katherine Towne, and Jim Belushi. Packard Schmidt (Sands) ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

How to Deal

Teen pop star Mandy Moore stars in the romantic comedy How to Deal. Directed by British filmmaker Clare Kilner, the script is based on two of author ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

Baywatch Hawaiian Wedding

Fans of the old Baywatch TV series take heart. Despite all ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

Under the Tuscan Sun

A woman starts her life over with a new home in a new land in this romantic comedy drama . Frances (Diane Lane) is a writer in her mid-'30s who feels emotionally derailed after her divorce. Unhappy and unable to write, ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

Martha, Inc.: The Story of Martha Stewart

The casting of Cybill Shepherd as billionaire home-economics ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

Happy Hour

An alcoholic must choose between love, life, and the bottle in this independent comedy drama. Tulley (Anthony LaPaglia) is a ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

The Station Agent

Actor and playwright Tom McCarthy makes his feature film debut as a writer/director with the quirky comedy drama The Station Agent. In New Jersey, Finbar McBride ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

Wilder Days

The third TV movie produced for the TNT network's "Johnson & Johnson Spotlight Presentations," Wilder Days stars Peter Falk as septuagenarian James "Pop-Up" Morse, who, ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

The Battle of Shaker Heights

The Battle of Shaker Heights is directed by the team of Efram Potelle and Kyle Rankin. Kelly Ernswiler ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

Break a Leg

A talented character actor with an undeniable presence on the screen but an uncanny ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

God Has a Rap Sheet

Kamal Ahmed, formerly one-half of the prank phone-call duo the Jerky Boys, makes his directorial debut with God Has a Rap Sheet. A holding tank filled with nine ethnically and culturally diverse New Yorkers is shaken when one of ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

Second Best

Writer Eric Weber (author of the infamous paperback How to Pick Up Girls) directs his screenplay ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

Gilmore Girls: Season 04

Returning home to Stars Hollow after a whirlwind European trip at the outset of Gilmore Girls' fourth season, single mom Lorelai Gilmore (Lauren Graham) is informed that her business partner, Sookie St. James (Melissa McCarthy), is ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

Grand Theft Parsons

One man goes above and beyond the call of duty (and possibly the limits of ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

Returning Mickey Stern

Mickey Stern (Joseph Bologna) is living in the past. When he was still in high school, Mickey (played as a young man by Joshua Fishbein) was a ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

Easy

American independent filmmaker Jane Weinstock makes her feature debut with the romantic comedy Easy, shot on digital video. Marguerite Moreau plays Jamie, a ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

Monk: Season 02

America's favorite super-phobic, obsessive-compulsive detective is back on the job as Monk launches its second season. Still freelancing as a ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

Bright Young Things

British writer/actor Stephen Fry makes his feature-film debut with the witty, sophisticated comedy Bright Young Things, adapted from Evelyn Waugh's 1930 ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

Cleopatra

Eduardo Mignogna's comedy drama Cleopatra tells the tale of friendship ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

Dead Like Me: Season 01

Untimely ripped from the land of the living by a stray piece of bathroom porcelain from the MIR space station, ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

Love Me If You Dare

Part romantic comedy and part black comedy, director Yann Samuell's 2003 feature film debut Jeux d'Enfants (Love Me if You Dare) follows the exploits of two young would-be lovers as they go from childhood to ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

The Boys & Girl From County Clare

British filmmaker John Irvin directs the musical comedy drama The ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

The Cheetah Girls

Based on the popular series of children's books by Deborah Gregory, the made-for-cable The Cheetah Girls is all about four teenage girlfriends, all from different ethnic and economic backgrounds, all attending a Manhattan high ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

Wondrous Oblivion

Writer/director Paul Morrison, who directed the cross-cultural period drama Solomon and Gaenor, returns to similar ground, though in a lighter vein, with Wondrous Oblivion. Sam Smith stars as David Wiseman, a ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

Moving Malcolm

A writer who was dumped at the alter attempts to impress his flaky ex-fiancee by helping her father movie in ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

Frankie and Johnny Are Married

Successful television director and film producer Michael ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

The Barbarian Invasions

Director Denys Arcand revisits the situations and relationships that informed his international breakthrough The Decline of the American Empire with this dialogue-driven character study. Set 17 years after Decline, The Barbarian ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

Coney Island Baby

American film producer Amy Hobby makes her feature debut as a director with the independent romantic comedy Coney Island Baby. Shot on digital video, the ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

Loving Glances

Directed by Srdjan Karanovic, Sjaj u Ocima (Loving Glances) is set in 1995 Belgrade. Despite a war raging in the ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

Mambo Italiano

Old World values collide with modern-day questions of sexual orientation in this ethnic comedy. Mambo Italiano tells the story of Angelo, a neurotic twentysomething preoccupied with the ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

Camp

Tony-nominated actor Todd Graff makes his directorial debut with the musical comedy ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

Dopamine

Mark Decena makes his directorial debut with the romantic comedy Dopamine. In San Francisco during the economic heyday of computer technology, Rand (John Livingston) works as a software designer. He and ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

Morelia de Mis Amores

Lina Santos and Guillermo Quintanilla star in this south-of-the-border romantic comedy that finds love flourishing in the most unlikely of circumstances. Despite dedicating the majority of their time to saving Morelia's youth ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

Noi the Albino

Noi Albinoi is the feature-length debut from Icelandic filmmaker Dagur Kari. Set in an isolated fjord during the dead of winter, ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

Assisted Living

The first film for writer/director/producer Elliot Greenebaum, Assisted Living chronicles a day in the ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

Stupeur et Tremblements

French director Alain Corneau delves into the painfully irrational world of office politics, which are further complicated by a severe case of culture clash in his ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

Lemonade

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Torremolinos 73

The sexual revolution meets a bumbling door-to-door salesman and his beautician wife in the form of "educational" sex films in this satiric comedy, set in Spain in 1973. Alfredo Lopez (Javier Cámara) is ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

Ana y los Otros

Ana (Camila Toker) has been living in Buenos Aires for several years when she decides to return home to the seaside city of Paraná. She wanders about town, seemingly aimlessly. She goes to the beach and sunbathes. ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

Cry Funny Happy

Six thirtysomething friends find out more about each other than they expected or wanted to know in this semi-improvised drama. Wes (Michael Traynor) is about to turn 30, and his ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

James' Journey To Jerusalem

South African actor Siyabonga Melongisi Shibe stars as a devout Christian who becomes part of Tel Aviv's migrant force after making a ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

Kitchen Stories

Director Bent Hamer's comedy drama Salmer Fra Kjřkkenet (Kitchen Stories) is based on the real-life social experiments conducted in Sweden during the 1950s. In the years following WWII, a research institute sets out to modernize the ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

Entre Ciclones

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Funny Ha Ha

American independent filmmaker Andrew Bujalski makes his feature debut as a writer/director with the ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

Buddy

Norwegian filmmaker Morten Tyldum makes his directorial debut with the romantic comedy drama Buddy about a group of twentysomethings living in Oslo. Pals ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

You'll Get Over It

Fabrice Cazeneuve's coming-out comedy drama You'll Get Over It (Tu Verras, Ca Te Passeras) was originally aired on television in France. Teenage Vincent (Julien Baumgartner) is the golden boy of his high school and family. ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

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A popular comic struggles to discourage his wife's romantic attraction to a ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

Do I Love You?

British writer/director/actress Lisa Gornick makes her feature debut with the microbudget romantic comedy Do I ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

The Merry Widow

Opus Arte and the BBC present this performance of Franz Lehár's comic operetta The Merry Widow. Directed by Lotfi Mansouri, this production features Yvonne Kenny in the lead role and ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

Which Way Por Favor?

Filmed alongside Mexico's lush Pacific coast, director Mick Diener's comedy drama Which Way Por Favor? follows four travelers through the village of Yelapa. Though they had set off ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

Gori Vatra

Bosnian filmmaker Pjer Zalica makes his feature debut as a writer/director with the dark comedy Gori Vatra (Fuse). It's post-war peacetime during the late '90s in the Bosnian town of Tesanj and the townsfolk are ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

Flavors

Written and directed by Raj Nidimoru, this romantic comedy follows the love lives of several Indians who have immigrated to America. Flavors centers around the cross-cultural wedding between American WASP Jenni (Jicky ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

Goodbye, Dragon Inn

In a cavernous movie palace, King Hu's classic 1968 film Dragon Inn plays for a sparse crowd. As the movie progresses, the ticket-taker makes dinner, cleans the bathroom, and ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

God Is Brazilian

Directed by Carlos Diegues, Deus é Brasileiro (God Is Brazilian) is based on author Joao Ubaldo Ribeiro's short story The Saint Who Didn't Believe ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

Vodka Lemon

A poverty-stricken widower finds new love in a cemetery in this ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

Schultze Gets the Blues

Directed and written by Michael Schorr, Schultze ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

Patricia Routledge In Three Portraits

Patricia Routledge, best known for her role as the social-climbing Hyacinth Bucket on the popular British sitcom Keeping Up Appearances, shows off her dramatic range in this ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

Kal Ho Naa Ho

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Screen Door Jesus

Kirk Davis' debut feature Screen Door Jesus charts the uproar that breaks out ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

Tokyo Godfathers

Japanese filmmaker Satoshi Kon directs his third anime feature with the holiday film Tokyo Godfathers. ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

A Year of Celibacy

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Vibrator

Internationally acclaimed Japanese film director Ryuichi Hiroki (I Am an S&M Writer, Tokyo Trash Baby) takes the ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

In the City

A web of romantic entanglements covers a growing circle of friends in this ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

Latter Days

Sweet Home Alabama screenwriter C. Jay Cox directs the independent romance Latter Days. Christian (Wesley A. Ramsey) is a young gay party boy who ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

CSA: The Confederate States of America

American history is turned on its head in this bitterly satirical mockumentary from writer and director Kevin Willmott. Taking the form of a BBC documentary about slavery in America, C.S.A. ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

Ha-Asonot Shel Nina

Israeli filmmaker Savi Gabizon directs the tragi-comic drama Ha-Asonot Shel Nina, also released as Nina's Tragedies (A Very Sad Comedy). Teenaged boy Nadav (Aviv Elkabeth) is secretly in love with his beautiful Aunt Nina ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

Harvie Krumpet

We all have a stroke of bad luck from time to time, but Harvie ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

9 Souls

From acclaimed Japanese filmmaker Toshiaki Toyoda (Blue Spring) comes this poignant tale of nine escaped prisoners hoping to find redemption in an unsympathetic and constantly changing society. Convinced that a secret buried treasure could be ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

Searching for Wooden Watermelons

A small-town girl who has always feared change and ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

El Carro

The ups and downs of one's family's life are reflected in their adventures with a rattletrap used car in this comedy drama from Colombia. ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

Kaleido Star [Anime Series]

Naekino Sora has had a dream since she was a little girl of joining the Kaleido Stage, the most breathtaking circus in the world. This dream became even more important to her when her parents, whom she saw the Kaleido Stage with for the first ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

Caterina in the Big City

Writer/director Paolo Virzě and co-writer Francesco Bruni follow up their sly fish-out-of-water comedy My Name Is Tanino with another comedy in a similar vein, Caterina in the Big City. Giancarlo (Sergio ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

You I Love

Two may be company, but three is more than anyone counted on in this outrageous comedy from Russia. Timofei (Evgeny Koryakovsky) is a successful advertising executive based in Moscow who is involved in a satisfying relationship with Vera ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

This is Not a Film

Michael A. Nickles romantic comedy This Is Not a Film ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

Comfort and Joy

A workaholic advertising executive discovers that there may just be more to life than the daily grind in this warmhearted Christmas comedy from director Maggie Greenwald. Jane (Nancy McKeon) is a type-A go-getter who has little time to ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

Fish Without a Bicycle

A newly single woman confronts the perils of both dating and life in California in this independent comedy drama. Jules (Jenna Mattison) is an aspiring actress who has grown disenchanted with her handsome but ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

Jack

An adolescent who is sorting out his new sexual feelings is less than ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

200 American

A gay man nursing a broken heart finds love while looking for sex in this romantic drama from ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

Summer Thunder

A bizarre accident sends a young boy on a strange 20-year journey through drugs, minor-league celebrity, porn stardom, and unwanted attention from chicken hawks of all sorts in this bizarre independent black comedy. Billy Lee Tucker (Matthew ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

Love Chronicles

Filmmaker Tyler Maddox-Simms follows up his 1999 debut, Beverly Hood, with this romantic comedy-drama centering on a radio call-in show. A pair of ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

Lili's Apron

Director Mariano Galperin takes the helm for this gender bending satire about a stubborn chef who is forced to go to work as a female maid. Ramon is a successful chef who lives in a modest house with his loving wife Lili. ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

Someday's Dreamers [Anime Series]

In Someday's Dreamers, magic has become a serviceable commodity in the modern world and being able to use it ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

Kick 'n Rush

Aage Rais-Nordentoft's coming-of-age drama Kick 'n Rush concerns three friends who bond over soccer. Their relationship hits a rocky patch when Jakob puts ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

Stratos 4 [Anime Series]

Meet the Storm Troops: these pretty young women are very popular on Earth and not just because they're so cute; these girls are saving the world from destruction every day. When asteroids began to ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

Please Twins [Anime Series]

PleaseTwins, while light-hearted, also bases its plot on a fair amount of ecchi. This potential naughtiness, while purely entertaining for its intended Japanese audience, may ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

Footballers Wive$: Series 02

Season Two of the ribald British series Footballers' Wives begins some five months after the end of Season One, rapidly tying up loose story ends to make way for even more outrageous plot ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

I.P.O.

In the tradition of the hit BBC series The Office comes this tale of hope, greed, and disappointment set against the backdrop of San Francisco's dot-com era. ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

Kino's Journey: The Beautiful World [Anime Series]

This 13-episode anime TV series illustrates how a simple chance meeting can have a wide impact. It ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

Hoop Days [Anime Series]

Aikawa Kazuhiko has both a talent and a love for basketball. When he transfers to Mizuho High School, however, he finds that not only is their basketball team subpar, it's defunct. Aikawa cares too much about his beloved sport to live without ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

Rumiko Takahashi Anthology [Anime Series]

Rumiko Takahashi Anthology consists of 13 unrelated episodes based on the short stories of Rumiko Takahashi. With tales that focus on the personal journey of the characters, along with an unusual ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

The Trouble with Men and Women

Still reeling from his recent break-up with the women who left ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]

Abby Singer

Shot on a shoestring budget and featuring a variety of surprising celebrity cameos, actor/writer/director Ryan Williams' incisive showbiz comedy ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2003 ]


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