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Dark, Dark Comedies

Because villains are people, too.

DVD/ARSENIC
Arsenic and Old Lace
Cary Grant & Peter Lorre
When your sweet old aunts are killers, what’s a nephew to do? (NR) 1944

DVD/BOONDOCK
Boondock Saints
Willem Dafoe & Sean Patrick Flanery
Just a couple o’ Irish lads cleanin’ up the neigh-borhood. (R) 1999

DVD/DIVORCE
Divorce Italian Style
Marcello Mastroianni
There is only one way out of a 1960s Italian marriage… feet first. (NR) Italian 1962

DVD/DOG
Dog Day Afternoon
Al Pacino & John Cazale
A bank robbing duo, with issues. (R) 1975

DVD/DR.
Dr. Strangelove, or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Peter Sellers & Peter Sellers
It’s a M.A.D., M.A.D., M.A.D. …comedy. (PG) 1964

DVD/GET
Get Shorty
John Travolta & Gene Hackman
A Miami hit man, in a van, working the Hollywood scene. (R) 1995

DVD/I
I Love You to Death
Tracey Ullman & Kevin Kline
A cheating husband? You play, you pay. (R) 1990

DVD/IN
In Bruges
Colin Farrell & Ralph Fiennes
Two hit men, on the lam, amuse themselves… in Bruges? (R) 2008

DVD/KEEPING
Keeping Mum
Rowan Atkinson & Maggie Smith
Grace: housekeeper extraordinaire, exceptionally skilled in creatively dealing with domestic messes. (R) 2005

DVD/LOCK
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Guy Ritchie & Jason Statham
Four London lads hatch a plan, but if something can go wrong… (R) 1998

DVD/NURSE
Nurse Betty
Renee Zellweger & Morgan Freeman
A botched hit, a crazy broad, a road trip, and a Soap star. (R) 2000

DVD/RAISING
Raising Arizona
Coen Brothers & Nicolas Cage
Edwina wants a baby. H.I. wants to get her one. Nathan Arizona’s got five… (PG–13) 1987

DVD/THROW
Throw Momma from the Train
Danny DeVito & Billy Crystal
The perfect murder, if at first you don’t succeed… (PG–13) 1987

DVD/WE’RE
We’re No Angels
Humphrey Bogart & Joan Bennett
Three escaped cons make Christmas dreams come true for their “host” family. (NR) 1955

DVD/WHOLE
The Whole Nine Yards
Bruce Willis & Matthew Perry
Jimmy, the new hit man next door, makes a neighborhood dentist’s life more…interesting. (R) 2000

Prepared by Terri Williams, August 2009