Actress Bette Midler (1945)

TAn animated supernatural black comedy film, The Addams Family 2 (2021), is a sequel to the 2019 film based on the characters by Charles Addams. At a science fair, Wednesday Addams plans to present her experiment using her pet squid Socrates’ DNA on Uncle Fester to demonstrate how humans can be enhanced (though it also has the side effect of slowly changing Fester). However, she becomes disappointed upon seeing her family’s arrival. Despite this, her work catches the attention of scientist Cyrus Strange. Meanwhile at home, Gomez worries that his children are growing distant from him and Morticia. In an ...

An animated supernatural black comedy film, The Addams Family (2019), is based on characters from the cartoon created by Charles Addams. As a result of rejecting anything macabre in nature, an angry mob of villagers interrupts the midnight wedding ceremony of Gomez Addams and Morticia Frump. In the midst of chaos, Grandmama buys Uncle Fester time to evacuate them, along with Gomez and Morticia’s loyal hand servant, Thing. Deciding they’ve had enough of the outside world, Gomez and Morticia relocate to New Jersey – a place they deem undesired by most. There, they stumble upon an abandoned asylum on a ...

What Women Want (2000) is an American romantic fantasy comedy film directed by Nancy Meyers, and featuring the talents of Mel Gibson and Helen Hunt. Nick Marshall, a Chicago advertising executive, was raised by his mother, a showgirl in Las Vegas. Surrounded by beautiful women who treated him as their cherished mascot, and with rough casino men as his guides, Nick grew up to become a skilled chauvinist who excels at selling products to men and wooing women. When his boss at Sloane Curtis unexpectedly hires top competitor ...

Scenes from a Mall (1991), an American comedy directed by Paul Mazursky and co-written with Roger L. Simon, follows the story of successful couple Nick and Deborah. Married with children and thriving in their respective careers, they celebrate their 16th wedding anniversary by having their kids go out with friends while they themselves head to a Beverly Hills mall to pick up Japanese food for a home dinner with some friends, followed by gift exchanges. It is during this outing that Nick purchases Deborah’s book and reads a chapter urging couples to periodically ...

Adapted by Mary Agnes Donoghue, the American comedy-drama film Beaches (1988) is based on Iris Rainer Dart’s 1985 novel of the same name and directed by Garry Marshall. During a concert rehearsal in Los Angeles, New York actress and singer Cecilia Carol ‘C.C.’ Bloom receives a note and hastily departs to be with her friend Hillary Whitney, a San Francisco heiress and lawyer. As she drives through the night, C.C. reflects on their lifelong friendship that ...