Zero Effect

Genres: Comedy, Thriller, Mystery

Starring: Bill Pullman, Kim Dickens, Angela Featherstone, Ben Stiller, Ryan O'Neal, Hugh Ross, Sarah DeVincentis

Directors: Jake Kasdan

Country: USA

Year: 1998

Daryl Zero is a psuedonym taken by a paranoid genius. His ability to make observations and then relate them into facts is remarkable. He has curried this ability into a small fortune solving seemingly unsolvable detective cases in inhumanly short periods of time. He is no less than a private investigator savant. While his paranoia requires him to use a front man for all contact with his clientelle, he performs all the actual sleuth work himself, albeit undercover. His tortured relationship with his front man and his first romantic involvement, met while performing his investigations, both serve to distract him from solving a blackmail case. I...

 

Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

Genres: Comedy, Music

Starring: John C. Reilly, Terrence Beasor, Tim Meadows, Raymond J. Barry, Margo Martindale, Nat Faxon, Matt Price

Directors: Jake Kasdan

Country: USA

Year: 2007

Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def

The up-and-down-and-up-again story of musician Dewey Cox, whose songs would change a nation. On his rock 'n roll spiral, Cox sleeps with 411 women, marries three times, has 22 kids and 14 step-kids, stars in his own 70s TV show, collects friends ranging from Elvis to the Beatles to a chimp, and gets addicted to - and then kicks - every drug known to man; but despite it all, Cox grows into a national icon and eventually earns the love of a good woman - longtime backup singer Darlene.

 

Orange County

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Starring: Bret Harrison, Catherine O'Hara, Jack Black, Colin Hanks, John Lithgow, Chevy Chase, Carly Pope

Directors: Jake Kasdan

Country: USA

Year: 2002

Shaun Brumder is a local surfer kid from Orange County who dreams of going to Stanford to become a writer and to get away from his disfunctional family household. Except Shaun runs into one complication after another starting when his application is rejected after his dim-witted guidance counselor sends the wrong application. So, Shaun goes to great lengths with a little help from his girlfriend Ashley and his drugged-out loser brother Lance to get into Stanford any way they see fit.

 

The TV Set

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Starring: Judy Greer, Sigourney Weaver, M.C. Gainey, Willie Garson, David Doty, David Duchovny, Ioan Gruffudd

Directors: Jake Kasdan

Country: USA

Year: 2006

Available Quality: Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def

A television network is making a pilot of Mike's quirky comedy based on the aftermath of his brother's suicide. As the network suits ask for change after change, and as Mike struggles with compromise, there are strains on families, execs who show rushes to their children, leads who feel each other out, and assistants who put a smile on everything. Can an honest show get made in the world of reality TV chasing an audience of teen-aged boys?

 

Bad Teacher

Genres: Comedy

Starring: Cameron Diaz, Jason Segel, Justin Timberlake, John Michael Higgins, Lucy Punch, Jillian Armenante, Matthew J. Evans

Directors: Jake Kasdan

Country: USA

Year: 2011

Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def

A comedy centered around a foul-mouthed, junior high teacher who, after being dumped by her sugar daddy, begins to woo a colleague -- a move that pits her against a well-loved teacher.