Show Time: Friday, April 4 at 9 PM on STAR MOVIES
Genre: Comedy
Duration: 1 hour, 22 minutes
Director: Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris
Cast: Greg Kinnear, Toni Collette, Steve Carell
Nominated for four Academy Awards, this gem took home Oscars for Best Supporting Actor (Alan Arkin) and Best Original Screenplay. LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE is an American comedy that shatters the mold.
Olive (Abigail Breslin), a pudgy, bespectacled seven-year-old, wants to take home the coveted Little Miss Sunshine crown at an upcoming beauty pageant.
To help her achieve her dream, her wildly dysfunctional family sets out on an interstate road trip. Family patriarch Richard (Kinnear) is a motivational speaker who continues to cling to his cliché-ridden philosophies, much to the chagrin of his increasingly annoyed spouse, Sheryl (Collette). (more…)
ShowTime:Today at 11:30pm onHBO
Starring: Nia Vardalos, Toni Collette and David Duchovny.
Directed by: Michael Lembeck
Genre: Comedy
Duration: 1 hr 33 min
Connie (Vardalos, My Big Fat Greek Wedding) and Carla (Collette, In Her Shoes, The Hours) are two struggling Chicago dinner theater performers who accidentally witness a mafia hit … and who subsequently hit the road, running for their lives.
Assuming the killers will never look for them in a place devoid of culture, the pair head to Los Angeles, where they assume new identities and find their middling talent at song and dance perfectly suited to their new careers - as drag queens.
Much to their surprise, they inadvertently become the toast of the cabaret circuit. As their ruse becomes increasingly difficult to maintain, they discover that it is indeed lonely at the top, especially after Connie meets Jeff (Duchovny, Trust The Man, Emmy® Award winning TV series The X Files), a guy she’d really like to be a real girl with. (more…)