Genre: Indie Comedies
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Submarine (2011)
Cast: Craig Roberts, Yasmin Paige, Noah Taylor …
Directed by: Richard Ayoade
In this captivating coming-of-age story with an offbeat edge, 15-year-old Oliver Tate has two big ambitions: to save his parents' marriage via carefully plotted intervention and to lose…
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Super (2011)
Cast: Rainn Wilson, Ellen Page, Liv Tyler …
Directed by: James Gunn
When his wife (Liv Tyler) falls in league with a drug dealer, average guy Frank D'Arbo (Rainn Wilson) dons the guise of a superhero, dubs himself the Crimson Bolt and tries to keep a…
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HappyThankYouMorePlease (2011)
Cast: Josh Radnor, Malin Akerman, Michael Algieri …
Directed by: Josh Radnor
On the way to meet a publisher, aspiring novelist Sam encounters Rasheen alone on the subway. While struggling to decide whether to send the young boy back to foster care, Sam looks after…
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Ceremony (2011)
Cast: Michael Angarano, Uma Thurman, Jesse Eisenberg …
Directed by: Max Winkler
Michael Angarano stars in this indie comedy as Sam, a naïve twentysomething who falls head over heels in love with Zoe (Uma Thurman), a beautiful older woman who's about to marry a…
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The Family Tree (2011)
Cast: Dermot Mulroney, Hope Davis, Chi McBride …
Directed by: Vivi Friedman
Finnish director Vivi Friedman makes her feature-film debut with this dark comedy about wife and mother Bunnie Burnett, who loses her memory and conveniently forgets all of her problems --…
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Terri (2011)
Cast: Jacob Wysocki, John C. Reilly, Bridger Zadina …
Directed by: Azazel Jacobs
This poignant coming-of-age tale follows Terri, an overweight orphan who, while struggling to find acceptance with his peers, forms an unlikely friendship with his vice principal, who also…
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Demoted (2011)
Cast: Sean Astin, David Cross, Michael Vartan …
Directed by: James B. Rogers
After receiving a surprise promotion, Ken Castro humiliates two jokester colleagues by demoting them to the secretarial pool. To keep their jobs, the chauvinistic duo must learn to respect…
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The Details (2011)
Cast: Tobey Maguire, Elizabeth Banks, Ray Liotta …
Directed by: Jacob Aaron Estes
After discovering that his lawn has been completely destroyed by raccoons, frustrated Jeff foolishly cheats on his wife, Nealy, which leads to a series of agonizing predicaments involving his…
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Prairie Love (2011)
Cast: Jeremy Clark, Holly Lynn Ellis, Garth Blomberg …
Directed by: Dusty Bias
A mysterious stranger rescues a rural man from freezing to death. Upon learning that the man is on his way to visit his jailed pen pal girlfriend, the stranger decides to adopt the man's…
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Lord Byron (2011)
Cast: Paul Batiste, Joseph Diaz, Justin Bickham …
Directed by: Zack Godshall
Middle-aged romantic Byron doggedly pursues women when he isn't smoking pot and living with his ex-wife and her new boyfriend. Unsatisfied, he sets out on a quest to reinvent himself,…
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Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same (2011)
Cast: Lisa Haas, Susan Ziegler, Jackie Monahan …
Directed by: Madeleine Olnek
Bashful greeting card store employee Jane (Lisa Haas) falls in love with Zoinx (Susan Ziegler), who just happens to hail from outer space. Soon, their romance gets disrupted by two Men in…
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The Woods (2011)
Cast: Toby David, Justin Phillips, Nicola Persky …
Directed by: Matthew Lessner
Eight young people decide that it's time to stop talking and enact real social change by going "off the grid"... sort of. This knowing mockumentary follows their attempt to create Utopia…
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The Catechism Cataclysm (2011)
Cast: Steve Little, Robert Longstreet, Wally Dalton …
Directed by: Todd Rohal
After his relationship to the church sours, a young priest and his high-school pal take a canoe trip, where they recall their glory days in rock bands. But they realize they're lost as…
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Pleasant People (2011)
Cast: Jiyoung Lee, Josh Hall, Dave Marder …
Directed by: David Bonawits
Inspired by his quirky friends, director David Bonawits makes his feature film debut with this comedy about Jiyoung Lee (Jiyoung Lee), a frustrated singer-songwriter who tries to remain…
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Fred & Vinnie (2011)
Cast: Jack Axelrod, Fred Stoller, Lee Reherman …
Directed by: Steve Skrovan
Comedian, actor and perpetual lonely guy Fred Stoller (playing "himself") is thrilled when his good buddy, Vinnie (comedian Angelo Tsarouchas), the world's happiest agoraphobic and the…
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A Bag of Hammers (2011)
Cast: Jason Ritter, Jake Sandvig, Chandler Canterbury …
Directed by: Brian Crano
Best friends Alan and Ben are unable to face adulthood and lead decent, moral lives, much to Alan's sister's chagrin. But when the twosome must become "fathers" to a new…
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The Kids Are All Right (2010)
Cast: Julianne Moore, Annette Bening, Mark Ruffalo …
Directed by: Lisa Cholodenko
Joni (Mia Wasikowska) and Laser (Josh Hutcherson), the children of same-sex parents Nic (Annette Bening) and Jules (Julianne Moore), become curious about the identity of their sperm-donor dad…
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It's Kind of a Funny Story (2010)
Cast: Keir Gilchrist, Zach Galifianakis, Emma Roberts …
Directed by: Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck
Being a teenager is too much for 16-year-old Craig (Keir Gilchrist), who shocks his parents (Lauren Graham and Jim Gaffigan) by checking himself into a mental health clinic for a little R &…
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Cyrus (2010)
Cast: John C. Reilly, Jonah Hill, Marisa Tomei …
Directed by: Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass
Indie favorites Jay and Mark Duplass co-direct this wry look at modern love and family dysfunction. John C. Reilly plays a divorced man who thinks he's found just the right woman (Marisa…
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Leaves of Grass (2010)
Cast: Edward Norton, Richard Dreyfuss, Susan Sarandon …
Directed by: Tim Blake Nelson
Edward Norton stars in this quirky tale centered on a respected Ivy League professor who's lured back to Oklahoma to help his equally brilliant twin brother -- who grows the world's…
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Please Give (2010)
Cast: Catherine Keener, Rebecca Hall, Amanda Peet …
Directed by: Nicole Holofcener
Life gets knotty when successful Manhattan couple Alex (Oliver Platt) and Kate (Catherine Keener) develop a relationship with the granddaughters of Andra (Ann Morgan Guilbert), the…
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Boy (2010)
Cast: James Rolleston, Te Aho Eketone-Whitu, Taika Cohen …
Directed by: Taika Cohen
Filmed in his native New Zealand, this comedy from writer-director Taika Waititi (Eagle vs. Shark) follows 11-year-old Boy and his younger brother, Rocky, whose rich fantasy lives are stopped…
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Another Year (2010)
Cast: Jim Broadbent, Lesley Manville, Ruth Sheen …
Directed by: Mike Leigh
Over the course of a tumultuous year, contented medical counselor Gerri (Ruth Sheen) and her geologist husband, Tom (Jim Broadbent), see their friends and relations through a series of happy…
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Operation: Endgame (2010)
Cast: Joe Anderson, Rob Corddry, Ellen Barkin …
Directed by: Fouad Mikati
When a government assassin known as The Fool (Joe Anderson) arrives at a classified underground facility for his first day of work, he discovers the boss has been killed. Now, he must uncover…
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Tiny Furniture (2010)
Cast: Lena Dunham, Laurie Simmons, Grace Dunham …
Directed by: Lena Dunham
When twenty-something film theory major Aura (Lena Dunham) returns home after college to live with her artist mother in TriBeCa, she confronts a long list of personal and professional…