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1996 comedy-drama films
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The list 1996 comedy-drama films includes
Jerry Maguire, Swingers, Race the Sun, Jack and Freeway.
The list consists of 61 members
and 2 sublists.
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Jerry Maguire
1996 sports film by Cameron Crowe
Overview: Jerry Maguire is a 1996 American sports comedy-drama film directed and written by Cameron Crowe. It was produced by Crowe and James L. Brooks for Gracie Films and distributed by TriStar Pictures. It stars ...
Release date: 6 December 1996Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, SportDirector: Cameron CroweCast: Marliece Andrada, Tom Cruise, Cuba Gooding Jr., Renée Zellweger, Kelly Preston, Jerry O'ConnellProducer: James L. Brooks, Cameron CroweWriter: Cameron CroweWhen a sports agent has a moral epiphany and is fired for expressing it, he decides to put his new philosophy to the test as an independent agent with ...
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Swingers
1996 American film
Overview: Swingers is a 1996 American buddy comedy film about the lives of single, unemployed actors living on the 'eastside' of Hollywood, California, during the 1990s swing revival. Written by Jon Favreau and ...
Release date: 31 August 1996Genre: Comedy, DramaDirector: Doug LimanProducer: Jon Favreau, Nicole LaLoggiaWriter: Jon FavreauA wannabe actor has a hard time moving on from a break-up, but he is lucky to have supportive friends. 0
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
American animated musical drama film
Overview: The Hunchback of Notre Dame is a 1996 American animated musical drama film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It is loosely based on the 1831 novel of the same ...
Release date: 21 June 1996Genre: Animation, Drama, Family, Musical, RomanceDirector: Gary Trousdale, Kirk WiseWriter: Tab Murphy, Victor HugoA deformed bell-ringer must assert his independence from a vicious government minister in order to help his friend, a gypsy dancer. 0
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Race the Sun
1996 film
Overview: Race the Sun is a 1996 American comedy-drama film directed by Charles T. Kanganis and starring Halle Berry and James Belushi alongside Casey Affleck, Eliza Dushku, and Kevin Tighe. The plot is loosely ...
Release date: 22 March 1996Genre: Drama, Adventure, ComedyDirector: Charlie GanisProducer: Richard Heus, Barry MorrowWriter: Barry MorrowA bunch of high school misfits in Hawaii, introduced by their new teacher, attend a science fair in which they draw up inspiration to build their own solar ... 0
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One Fine Day
1996 film by Michael Hoffman
Overview: One Fine Day is a 1996 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Michael Hoffman, starring Michelle Pfeiffer and George Clooney. Alex D. Linz and Mae Whitman play their children. The title comes ...
Release date: 20 December 1996Genre: Comedy, Romance, DramaDirector: Michael HoffmanCast: Michelle Pfeiffer, George Clooney, Mae Whitman, Alex D. Linz, Charles Durning, Jon Robin BaitzProducer: Kate Guinzburg, Mary McLaglenWriter: Terrel Seltzer, Ellen SimonThe lives of two strangers and their young children unexpectedly intersect on one hectic, stressful day in New York City. 0
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Jack
1996 film by Francis Ford Coppola
Overview: Jack is a 1996 American coming-of-age comedy-drama film co-produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The film stars Robin Williams, Diane Lane, Jennifer Lopez, Brian Kerwin, Fran Drescher, and Bill ...
Release date: 9 August 1996Genre: Comedy, DramaDirector: Francis Ford CoppolaProducer: Doug Claybourne, Francis Ford CoppolaWriter: James DeMonaco, Gary NadeauBecause of an unusual disorder that has aged him four times faster than a typical human being, a boy looks like a 40-year-old man as he starts fifth grade ... 0
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Freeway
1996 US dark comedy crime film by Matthew Bright
Overview: Freeway is a 1996 American black comedy crime thriller film written and directed by Matthew Bright and produced by Oliver Stone. It stars Kiefer Sutherland, Reese Witherspoon and Brooke Shields. The film's ...
Release date: 1 January 1996Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, ThrillerDirector: Matthew BrightCast: Kiefer Sutherland, Reese Witherspoon, Bokeem Woodbine, Paul Perri, Robert Peters, Ben MeyersonProducer: Mark Ezralow, Samuel HadidaWriter: Matthew BrightA twisted take on 'Little Red Riding Hood' with a teenage juvenile delinquent on the run from a social worker traveling to her grandmother's ... 0
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Fargo
1996 film by Joel and Ethan Coen
Overview: Fargo is a 1996 black comedy crime film written, directed, produced and edited by Joel and Ethan Coen. Frances McDormand stars as Marge Gunderson, a pregnant Minnesota police chief investigating a triple ...
Release date: 8 March 1996Genre: Crime, Drama, ThrillerDirector: Joel Coen, Ethan CoenProducer: Tim Bevan, John CameronWriter: Ethan Coen, Joel CoenMinnesota car salesman Jerry Lundegaard's inept crime falls apart due to his and his henchmen's bungling and the persistent police work of the quite p ... 0
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Sunset Park
1996 film directed by Steve Gomer
Overview: Sunset Park is a 1996 American sports comedy drama film directed by Steve Gomer, based upon a screenplay by Seth Zvi Rosenfeld and Kathleen McGhee-Anderson. The film stars Rhea Perlman as the head coach ...
Release date: 26 April 1996Genre: Drama, SportDirector: Steve GomerProducer: Cara Buonincontri, Elizabeth CantillonA white school teacher takes over a talented, but undisciplined black high school basketball team and turns them into a winning team. 0
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Intimate Relations
1996 Canadian film
Overview: Intimate Relations is a 1996 Canadian-British film, the first movie by writer and director Philip Goodhew. It stars Rupert Graves, Julie Walters and a fifteen-year-old Laura Sadler, the only feature film ...Release date: 10 September 1996Genre: Comedy, DramaDirector: Philip GoodhewProducer: Philip Goodhew, Simon HardyHarold Guppy moves into the Beasley household as a lodger. Before long Mrs. Beasley falls for him and eventually ends up in his bed... 0
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Harriet the Spy
1996 film by Bronwen Hughes
Overview: Harriet the Spy is a 1996 American coming-of-age comedy film directed by Bronwen Hughes in her feature film directorial debut, and starring Michelle Trachtenberg in her major film acting debut. It co-stars ...
Release date: 10 July 1996Genre: Family, Comedy, DramaDirector: Bronwen HughesCast: Michelle Trachtenberg, Gregory Smith, Vanessa Chester, Rosie O'Donnell, J. Smith-Cameron, Robert JoyProducer: Debby Beece, Nava LevinWriter: Louise Fitzhugh, Greg TaylorHarriet M. Welsch is a spy. But when her friends find her secret notebook, the tables are turned on her. Can she win them back and still keep on going ... 0
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Girl 6
1996 film by Spike Lee
Overview: Girl 6 is a 1996 American black comedy film produced and directed by Spike Lee. The film stars Theresa Randle, Isaiah Washington, and Lee. Suzan-Lori Parks wrote the screenplay, making it the first film ...Release date: 22 March 1996Genre: Comedy, DramaDirector: Spike LeeWriter: Suzan-Lori ParksThis Spike Lee film examines the life of an aspiring actress in New York. She is upset by the treatment... 0
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Brassed Off
1996 British film by Mark Herman
Overview: Brassed Off is a 1996 British comedy-drama film written and directed by Mark Herman and starring Pete Postlethwaite, Tara Fitzgerald and Ewan McGregor.
Release date: 1 November 1996Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, MusicDirector: Mark HermanCast: Pete Postlethwaite, Tara Fitzgerald, Ewan McGregor, Stephen Tompkinson, Jim Carter, Philip JacksonProducer: Steve Abbott, Olivia StewartWriter: Mark HermanThe coal mine in a northern English village may be closing, which would also mean the end of the miners' brass band. 0
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Walking and Talking
1996 French film
Overview: Walking and Talking is a 1996 independent film written and directed by Nicole Holofcener and starring Catherine Keener, Anne Heche, Todd Field, Liev Schreiber and Kevin Corrigan.Release date: 1 January 1996Genre: Drama, Comedy, RomanceDirector: Nicole HolofcenerProducer: Dorothy Berwin, Ted HopeWriter: Nicole HolofcenerThings have been tough lately for Amelia. Her best friend moved out of the apartment, her cat got cancer... 0
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The Van
1996 Irish film
Overview: The Van is a 1996 film, based on the novel The Van (the third in The Barrytown Trilogy) by Roddy Doyle. Like The Snapper (1993), it was directed by Stephen Frears. The first film of the trilogy, The C ...
Release date: 11 May 1996Genre: Drama, ComedyDirector: Stephen FrearsProducer: Mary Alleguen, Roddy DoyleWriter: Roddy DoyleSet in the fictional Dublin suburb of Barrytown, Bimbo is a baker who loses his job after being made redundant. Bimbo then acquires the help of his best ... 0
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The Evening Star
1996 American film
Overview: The Evening Star is a 1996 American comedy drama film directed by Robert Harling, adapted from the 1992 novel by Larry McMurtry. It is a sequel to the Academy Award-winning 1983 film Terms of Endearment ...
Release date: 5 December 1996Genre: Comedy, DramaDirector: Robert HarlingProducer: Dennis Bishop, David Paul KirkpatrickWriter: Larry McMurtry, Robert HarlingContinuing the story of Aurora Greenway in her latter years. After the death of her daughter, Aurora struggled to keep her family together... 0
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Manny & Lo
1996 film
Overview: Manny & Lo is a 1996 American comedy-drama film directed by Lisa Krueger and starring Scarlett Johansson, Aleksa Palladino, and Mary Kay Place.Release date: 22 January 1996Genre: Comedy, DramaDirector: Lisa KruegerCast: Mary Kay Place, Scarlett Johansson, Aleksa Palladino, Dean Silvers, Marlen Hecht, Forrest SilversProducer: Lisa Krueger, Phillipa DavisA pregnant teen and her younger sister run away from foster homes and kidnap a woman whom they believe can help with the pregnancy. 0
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Irma Vep
1996 film by Olivier Assayas
Overview: Irma Vep is a 1996 French comedy-drama film written and directed by Olivier Assayas. Hong Kong actress Maggie Cheung plays a fictionalised version of herself, as disasters result when an unstable French ...
Release date: 6 September 1996Genre: Fantasy, Drama, ComedyDirector: Olivier AssayasCast: Maggie Cheung, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Nathalie Richard, Antoine Basler, Nathalie Boutefeu, Alex DescasProducer: Georges Benayoun, Françoise GuglielmiWriter: Olivier AssayasA Hong Kong actress, Maggie Cheung playing a fictional version of herself, is cast in France to star in a remake of Les vampires (1915), but petty intrigues ... 0
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I'm Not Rappaport
1996 comedy drama film by Herb Gardner
Overview: I'm Not Rappaport is a 1996 American buddy comedy drama film written and directed by Herb Gardner, and starring Walter Matthau and Ossie Davis. Based on Gardner's play, the film focuses on two elderly ...Release date: 24 December 1996Genre: ComedyDirector: Herb GardnerProducer: John Penotti, David SamethWriter: Herb GardnerOld Nat Moyer is a talker, a philosopher, and a troublemaker with a fanciful imagination. His companion is Midge Carter... 0
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Big Night
1996 comedy-drama film
Overview: Big Night is a 1996 American comedy-drama film co-directed by Campbell Scott and Stanley Tucci. Set in the 1950s on the Jersey Shore, the film follows two Italian immigrant brothers, played by Tucci and ...Release date: 24 January 1996Genre: DramaDirector: Campbell Scott, Stanley TucciProducer: Joseph Tropiano, Stanley TucciA failing Italian restaurant run by two brothers gambles on one special night to try to save the business. 0
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