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Comedy Drama Movies of 2005

The Thing About My Folks

A middle-aged man finds himself dealing with the divorce of his elderly parents as well as many years of emotional baggage in this poignant ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2005 ]

The Ice Harvest

Two men on the run from the mob end up negotiating more than their share of obstacles along the way in this comedy drama from director Harold ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2005 ]

Marilyn Hotchkiss Ballroom Dancing & Charm School

Randall Miller's Marilyn Hotchkiss Ballroom ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2005 ]

Game 6

A writer runs an obstacle course of neuroses as he prepares to debut an ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2005 ]

Ladies in Lavender

Two sisters engage in a subtle war for the affections of a man half their age in this British comedy drama. ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2005 ]

The Family Stone

A woman meets her future in-laws and discovers they don't much care for her ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2005 ]

In Her Shoes

Curtis Hanson's adaptation of Jennifer Weiner's novel In Her Shoes stars Toni Collette and ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2005 ]

The Matador

A chance meeting between two middle-aged men leads one into a life of crime in this offbeat comedy. Danny Wright (Greg Kinnear) is an American businessman whose life has been ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2005 ]

Thumbsucker

A high-school senior finds that fate (and modern medicine) ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2005 ]

Casanova

History's most renowned ladies' man finally meets his match in this historical romance laced with comedy and adventure. In Venice in 1753, Giacomo Casanova (Heath Ledger) is ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2005 ]

A Little Trip to Heaven

Three stories of human treachery are given an unexpected link in this dry ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2005 ]

Boynton Beach Club

A handful of men and women "of a certain age" pick up the pieces of their lives and look for new love after the loss of their mates in this comedy ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2005 ]

The Weather Man

A man struggles to get a grip on a life that's spinning out of control in this emotional comedy drama. Dave Spritz (Nicolas Cage) is a television weatherman on a high-profile Chicago news program. Professionally, Dave is ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2005 ]

Elizabethtown

A young man in need of a fresh start gets one under highly unexpected circumstances in this ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2005 ]

Happy Endings

Three loosely interrelated stories of dysfunctional relationships are played for edgy laughs in this dark comedy drama from writer and director Don Roos. An unexpected assignation between ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2005 ]

Out of the Woods

Young, self-absorbed attorney Matt Fleming (Jason London) is sent out of the city and into the woods by his mother, who is worried over the welfare of Matt's crusty, eccentric ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2005 ]

Wah-Wah

Actor and author Richard E. Grant made his directorial debut with this period comedy drama inspired by his own experiences growing up in colonial Africa in the sixties. Ralph Compton (Zachary Fox) is the 11-year old son of Harry ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2005 ]

The Tiger and the Snow

A love-struck poet travels into the heart of wartime Iraq in hopes of rescuing the woman he loves ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2005 ]

Conversations With Other Women

An encounter between two people with a shared past and conflicting futures is played out on a split-image screen in this offbeat drama. An unnamed man (Aaron Eckhart) and ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2005 ]

Mrs. Henderson Presents

A recently widowed eccentric with money to burn and no intentions of settling down enlists the aide of a showbiz professional to transform a run-down theater in Soho into ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2005 ]

Checking Out

A feisty octogenarian on the verge of his ninetieth birthday invites his three grown children to his upcoming birthday celebration with the ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2005 ]

The Chumscrubber

The death of a troubled teen throws a suburban neighborhood into chaos in this darkly satirical comedy. Dean ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2005 ]

The Science of Sleep

Inventive Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind director Michel Gondry takes ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2005 ]

Prime

Two women get a new and unusual perspective on the doctor/patient relationship in this romantic comedy. Rafi Gardet (Uma Thurman) is a woman in her mid-thirties who has recently gone through a messy divorce. ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2005 ]

The Great New Wonderful

A collection of everyday New Yorkers struggle to carry on with their increasingly stressful lives a year after the city was forever changed by the 9/11 terrorist attacks in Brooklyn-native ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2005 ]

Shopgirl

Steve Martin wrote the screenplay and served as co-producer for this screen adaptation of his short novel, which takes a witty but bittersweet look at a young woman and the two men involved with her. Mirabelle Buttersfield (Claire ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2005 ]

Mozart and the Whale

The emotional dysfunctions of two people suffering from an autistic disorder known as Asperger's syndrome threaten to derail the pair's emerging romance in director Petter Næss' affectionate ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2005 ]

Transamerica

The first film by Duncan Tucker, Transamerica stars Felicity Huffman as a pre-operative transsexual named Bree (whose given name was Stanley). One week before going under the knife, Bree learns that she fathered a ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2005 ]

Factotum

Norwegian director Bent Hamer follows up his quirky and critically acclaimed Kitchen Stories with a heartbreakingly humorous look at the life of depressive writer Hank ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2005 ]

Empire Falls

This two-part HBO miniseries is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Richard Russo. Having long since ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2005 ]

Man About Town

An unscrupulous Hollywood agent seeks to balance the success of his professional status with the abysmal reality of his personal life in director Miek Binder's existential comedy drama. When it comes to playing the Hollywood game, ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2005 ]

Brooklyn Lobster

A family struggles to keep their business afloat as they're dogged by personal crises in this drama from writer and director Kevin Jordan. Frank Giorgio (Danny Aiello) is the owner of Giorgio's Lobster Farm, a seafood ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2005 ]

Ice Princess

A teenager is torn between her desire to please her mother and following her own ambitions in this family-friendly comedy drama. Casey Carlyle (Michelle Trachtenberg) is a high-school student who ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2005 ]

Junebug

Phil Morrison, who collaborated with screenwriter Angus MacLachlan for his ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2005 ]

Imagine Me & You

A new bride finds she's tempted to leave her husband under circumstances she never anticipated in this romantic ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2005 ]

Daltry Calhoun

When seed and sod entrepreneur Daltry Calhoun's (Johnny Knoxville) abandoned ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2005 ]

Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont

An elderly widow and a young would-be author strike up an unlikely friendship in this comedy drama. Mrs. Palfrey (Joan Plowright) has been uneasy since the death of her husband, and she decides ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2005 ]

On a Clear Day

A middle-aged man gives himself the challenge of a lifetime in this comedy drama from the U.K. Frank (Peter Mullan) has spent most of his 55 years working the same job in the shipyards of Glasgow until he's fired after business tapers off and ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2005 ]

Grey's Anatomy: Season 01

Launched as a mid-season replacement on ABC in spring 2005, this sex-soaked medical soap opera quickly became a hit during its ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2005 ]

Weeds: Season 01

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School of Life

A small-town history teacher with a decidedly different approach to public education raises the ire of a stuffy biology ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2005 ]

Grey's Anatomy: Season 02

Following its nine-episode inaugural season, the seriocomic medical series Grey's Anatomy ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2005 ]

A Lot Like Love

Two friends who've convinced themselves they would never make a good couple discover they might just be wrong in this romantic comedy. Oliver ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2005 ]

Americano

A recent college graduate is forced to choose between a life of limitless wealth and complacent security or a potentially dangerous trip down the road less ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2005 ]

Bigger Than the Sky

A regular guy adds some much-needed drama to his life in this comedy. Peter Rooker (Marcus Thomas) is a man who has come to a crossroads in his life -- he's just been given his walking papers by his girlfriend, has lost ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2005 ]

How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer

Georgina Garcia Riedel's comedy How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer stars Lucy Gallardo, Elizabeth Peña, and America Ferrara as three generations in a family. Teenager Blanca ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2005 ]

Pizza

Mark Christopher - writer-director of the hit Miramax drama 54 (1998) - returns to the ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2005 ]

The L Word: Season 02

Season two of Showtime's lesbian-oriented seriocomedy series The L Word finds the formerly blissful relationship between control-freak Bette (Jennifer Beals) and supplicative Tina (Laurel Holloman) on hiatus due to Bette's ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2005 ]

The Girl in the Café

Produced for HBO, the Capraesque romantic comedy The Girl in the Café stars Bill Nighy as ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2005 ]

Sueño

An aspiring musician looking to break big finds the singer who may finally be able to make his ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2005 ]

The Third Wish

The family friendly film The Third Wish stars Jenna Mattison as Maggie , mousy book store employee who believes she has ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2005 ]

One Last Thing...

A teenage boy makes the sort of wish you'd expect a teenage boy to make, and he might just get to live it out in this dark comedy. Dylan Jamieson (Michael Angarano) is a ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2005 ]

Ellie Parker

Naomi Watts produces and stars in Ellie Parker, a semi-autobiographical story of ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2005 ]

Everything Is Illuminated

A young man takes a strange and unexpectedly funny journey in search of a family heroine he's never known in this screen adaptation of the novel by Jonathan Safran Foer. Jonathan (Elijah Wood) is a lifelong collector of any and all ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2005 ]

The Civilization of Maxwell Bright

Fed up with American women and determined to procure a docile Asian wife, an angry L.A. misogynist ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2005 ]

Russian Dolls

A French writer finds his life is once again being turned sideways by his footloose European friends in this sequel to the international hit ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2005 ]

Little Athens

The Darwinian plight of a small Arizona town's youthful but aimless population leads to a series of strange confrontations in Lansdown ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2005 ]

Whole New Thing

A precocious teenage genius is suddenly forced to adapt to the real world, while the real world ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2005 ]

The Ape

An aspiring novelist looking for a quiet place to finish his breakthrough novel finds that inspiration can come from the most unlikely of sources in the directorial debut of actor-turned-filmmaker James ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2005 ]

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

Ann Brashares' best-selling novel for young adults comes to the big screen in this engaging comedy drama. Carmen (America Ferrera), Bridget (Blake Lively), Lena (Alexis Bledel), and Tibby (Amber Tamblyn) are ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2005 ]

Roll Bounce

A handful of inner-city kids move up to the big time in this teen-centric musical. Xavier Smith (Bow Wow), known to his friends as X, is a teenager growing up on the South ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2005 ]

Say Uncle

A gay artist and telemarketer with a special knack for getting along well with children ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2005 ]

Duck

An aging societal outcast and a motherless duck set out to find shelter and meaning in a future where people are separated by as many degrees as they ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2005 ]

Scrap Heaven

A violent and outrageous revenge comedy with a thoughtful undercurrent, ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2005 ]

Kids in America

Teenagers stand up for their rights and take on the woman who wants to scuttle their freedoms in this comedy drama inspired by a true story. Principal Weller (Julie Bowen) is the ambitious but ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2005 ]

Veronica Mars: Season 02

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Nearing Grace

A teenage boy tries to hold his family together while the girl of his dreams drives him to distraction in this coming-of-age comedy drama. It's 1978, and Henry Nearing (Gregory Smith) and his ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2005 ]

The Naked Ape

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With Or Without You

A guy who's having jitters about his relationship ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2005 ]

Tyler Perry's Diary of a Mad Black Woman

A woman has to learn how to love and trust men all over again in this comedy drama. Helen McCarter (Kimberly Elise) would seem to have it all -- she's been married ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2005 ]

Heroes of the Heart

Struggling to make ends meet in the aftermath of a devastating flood, the residents of a small community move into a broken-down trailer park. One night, Nada (Lina Basquette) is ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2005 ]

One More Round

A man decides to prove himself by learning to fight in this independent comedy drama. Joseph Rex (Roy ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2005 ]

Queer as Folk: Season 05

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Look Both Ways

Preoccupation with disasters and a growing sense of mortality threaten to derail the growing relationship between the witness of a train accident and the reporter sent to interview her in this daring drama from ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2005 ]

Ushpizin

The insular world of Orthodox Jews in Jerusalem comes to the screen (with their blessings) in this warm comedy drama. Moshe (Shuli Rand) was once a secular ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2005 ]

I Am a Sex Addict

On the eve of his third wedding, documentary ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2005 ]

GTO - Great Teacher Onizuka: The Movie

Tohru Fujisawa's popular manga about a wildly irreverent high school teacher comes to the screen in this live-action comedy drama. Eikichi Onizuka (Takashi Sorimachi), who ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2005 ]

C.R.A.Z.Y.

A middle-class teenage misfit living in '70s era Montreal dreams of abandoning his familiar hometown surroundings to seek a brighter future in director Jean-Marc Vallée's character-driven drama. A sexually-confused ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2005 ]

15 Days With You

Released back onto the streets after serving her time ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2005 ]

Kilometer Zero

A Turkish soldier and an Iraqi taxi driver attempt to transport the body of a deceased Iraqi soldier to ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2005 ]

Tenjho Tenge [Anime Series]

Souichiro and his friend Bob have plans to run their high school with an iron fist; they're the ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2005 ]

Familia

The influence of genetics and the ability to identify oneself as a separate entity from family lineage lies at the heart of award-winning short-filmmaker Louise ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2005 ]

Sukisho [Anime Series]

When Sora awakens after a nasty fall off of the school roof, he is missing some of his memory. The kind young man named Sunao who is taking care of him claims to be his best friend (and acts like he might be even more), but Sora has ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2005 ]

El Calentito

Filmmaker Chus Gutiérrez directs this high-spirited comedy set in newly democratic Spain and detailing the adventures of a teenage ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2005 ]

Hockey Mom

The lead character in Hockey Mom is a tough-minded single mother who loves to play the title sport. In order to ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2005 ]

In Bed

Director Matias Bize's erotic chamber piece details the debauched encounter between two strangers as they retreat to a seedy hotel room for an unbridled night of passion, only to ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2005 ]

Something Like Happiness

A trio of friends residing in an urban Czech housing project finds that ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2005 ]

The Big Bad Swim

Ishai Setton's comedy drama The Big Bad Swim concerns the people who sign up to attend a beginner adult swim class. Some of the people involved in the class include Amy ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2005 ]

Jam

A car wreck causes the lives of 15 strangers to unexpectedly collide in this independent comedy drama. It's Father's Day, and Ted (William Forsythe) ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2005 ]

Linda Linda Linda

Four schoolgirls put the axiom "the show must go on" to the test in this rock & roll teen comedy drama from Japan. Nozumi (Shiori Sekine) and Kyoto (Aki Maeda) are two friends who attend the same high school and have decided to put ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2005 ]

Iqbal

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The West Wittering Affair

The West Wittering Affair marks the debut feature of the fraternal writing-directing team of Danny Scheinmann and David Scheinmann. Topically, this British comedy of sexual mores plunges headfirst into the romantic and erotic ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2005 ]

Quinceañera

A Hispanic teenager travels the rough road to adult responsibility earlier than she expected in this independent drama. Magdalena (Emily Rios) is a young Latina who is looking forward to her upcoming quinceañera celebration -- the ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2005 ]

Two Young

Jackie Chan's son,Jaycee Chan, makes his second big screen appearance, this one opposite neophyte Asian starlet Fiona Sit, in the cross-class romance 2 Young (Cho ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2005 ]

Madeinusa

A young woman of privilege and a man of no social status meet as a small town prepares to wallow in forbidden pleasure in this satiric drama, the first feature film ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2005 ]

Grad Night

A hard partying group of urban high school graduates attempt to live-it-up large before taking their ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2005 ]

Home

A few dozen would-be artists, writers, and filmmakers spend an evening exchanging ideas (and sometimes phone numbers) at a party in this independent comedy drama. It's Saturday night, and Bobby ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2005 ]

Fun

A film that begins as a raunchy Bollywood sex farce and evolves into a gritty psychological thriller, Sunjay S. Zaveri's ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2005 ]

Joy

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Barrio Cuba

Filmmaker Humberto Solas weaves together three stories of people struggling to find love and ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2005 ]

My Family and Other Animals

Author Gerald Durrell's childhood memoir comes to life in this Masterpiece Theater presentation starring Academy ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2005 ]

The Iceberg

Three European directors - Bruno Romy, Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon - teamed up for the quirky and offbeat Franco-Belgian feature Iceberg, which represents an unofficial cinematic homage to the comedic antics of screen legends ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2005 ]

Close To Home

Two women with little in common are brought together by the shared annoyances of military service in this comedy drama from Israel. Mirit (Naama ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2005 ]

Chalk

Four educators muddle through another year at a typical American high school in this ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2005 ]

Cut Sleeve Boys

Ray Yeung's comedy Cut Sleeve Boys tells the story of two Chinese/British gay men named Mel and Ash. The two middle-aged friends ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2005 ]

Tata Birla Madhyalo Laila

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Trip Out

First-time feature filmmaker James Hausler offers a ... [ Comedy Drama movie - 2005 ]


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