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The Muppet Movie is a 1979 musical road comedy, and the feature film debut of The Muppets , Jim Henson 's famed ensemble of puppet characters. Produced by Henson himself, the film was directed by James Frawley and written by Muppet Show writers Jerry Juhl and Jack Burns , and followed the origin story of the puppet troupe as Kermit The Frog travels across the country to make it big in Hollywood, m...

The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas is a 1982 musical comedy film based on the stage musical of the same name. Directed by Colin Higgins , it followed the "Chicken Ranch" brothel located in Lanville County, widely accepted and traditionally beloved by the small town of Gilbert, but faced with closure upon its discovery by a TV morality watchdog. The cast featured Dolly Parton , Burt Reynolds , Dom...

O Brother, Where Art Thou? is a satirical comedy-drama musical film released in 2000, written, produced, and directed by The Coen Brothers . The film starred George Clooney , John Turturro , Tim Blake Nelson , Holly Hunter , John Goodman , and CHARLES DURNING in a 1930s Mississippi setting. In which a trio of escaped convicts travel across the American South in search of a supposed buried treasure...

Cats Don't Dance is a 1997 animated musical film directed by Mark Dindal , which featured an ensemble cast including Scott Bakula , Jasmine Guy , sung vocals by Natalie Cole , Jon Rhys-Davies , Ashley Peldon , and various others, and featured a soundtrack of musical numbers composed by Randy Newman and contributions to choreography by Gene Kelly ; his final film contribution before his death in 19...

Ride The Cyclone is a 2008 musical written by Canadian playwrights Jacob Richmond and Brooke Maxwell . It features a high-concept story of a quintet of High School choir students, plus one mystery teenager, who were killed while riding the Cyclone, a fictional malfunctioning roller coaster operating out of Uranium City in Saskatchewan. (Ride The Cyclone marks the second installment of Richmond's "...

Les Miserables is a film adaptation of the period musical of the same name. Released in 2012, it followed the exploits of Jean Valjean , an escaped convict going to great lengths to find personal redemption at the height of the French Revolution. The film version, directed by Tom Hooper , sought to emulate the epic scope of the stage musical, and featured grandiloquent and verbose set pieces and c...

Better Man is a 2024 musical biopic depicting the life of English singer-songwriter and former Take That member Robbie Williams . It was written, directed, and produced by Michael Gracey (On the heels of his success with noted piece of treacly crap The Greatest Showman ), and features the central conceit of replacing the film version of Robbie with that of an anthromorphic CGI chimpanzee. Robbie W...

Yentl is a 1983 film directed and starring screen actor and Broadway mainstay Barbra Streisand . Based on the Isaac Bashevis Singer short story Yentl The Yashiva Boy , Yentl the film follows the story of an Ashkenazi Jewish woman in Poland in 1904 who decides to disguise herself as a man so that she can receive an education in Talmudic law. Various misunderstandings follow as the titular Yentl att...

Hearts Beat Loud is an independent comedy-drama starring Nick Offerman , Kiersey Clemons , Toni Collette , Ted Danson , and others released in 2018 across limited screenings. It followed Offerman as the owner of a failing record store, who hits upon minor viral success when he records a jam session with his daughter, a singer just about to attend medical school, and ends up in several major Spotif...

Earth Girls Are Easy is a 1988 science fiction comedy film directed by famed music video director Julien Temple , and written by comedian/singer Julie Brown . Based off of a song previously released by Brown, the action follows a trio of space aliens landing upon Earth, and finding themselves under the care of a lovelorn manicurist in California. The film follows the group's efforts to blend in wi...

Gigi is a 1958 movie musical based on a 1944 French novella, directed by Vincente Minnelli and featuring a screenplay by Alan Jay Lerner . The film starred Leslie Caron , Louis Jordan , and Maurice Chevalier , and followed the story of a bored French playboy Gaston attempting to reignite a spark in his life, and finding it in a young friend of the family, the titular Gigi. (Who appears in much les...

Anna & The Apocalypse is a hybrid Christmas/zombie/musical/comedy film released in 2017, directed by John McPhail , and the final screenplay posthumously released by Ryan McHenry . Set in a small town in Scotland, it follows several impending graduating students who find themselves embroiled in an unfolding zombie apocalypse on the cusp of Christmas break. The titular Anna finds herself at an...

The Phantom Of The Opera is a 2004 movie musical, one of of innumerable amounts based upon the novel Le Fantôme de l'Opéra by Gaston LeRoux , and based specifically upon Andrew Lloyd Webber 's famed musical production surrounding a tortured and disfigured artist's reign of terror upon an opera house. This film version was directed by Joel Schumacher and starred Gerard Butler , Emmy Rossum , Patric...

A Goofy Movie is a 1995 comedy-musical from Disney Animation , based heavily on the Disney Afternoon cartoon Goof Troop , which relocated the iconic Mickey Mouse character Goofy to the suburbs to raise his single child Max . A Goofy Movie follows a misguided attempt at father-son bonding over a cross-country fishing trip, the antics which ensue, and the gradual repair of their relationship. The mo...

Cats is a 2019 film adaptation of the stage musical of the same name by Andrew Lloyd Webber , the infamous rootbeerm'n. The musical itself is based upon a 1939 collection of poetry by T.S. Eliot called Old Possum's Book Of Practical Cats . The film version was directed by Tom Hooper (His second musical feature following a controversial adaptation of Les Misérables ) and featured an ensemble cast o...

Moulin Rouge! is a 2001 romantic drama musical directed by Baz Luhrmann , or as he's best known in Zero Science circles; "Bag Lunchman". The film followed the story of a young British poet, and his doomed romance with a burlesque dancer and courtesan in Paris during the 1900s. It was noteworthy for its usage of contemporary popular music in contrast to the turn-of-the-century setting, (An early ex...

Annie is a 1982 film adaptation of the Broadway musical of the same name, which itself was based upon the comic strip Little Orphan Annie . It was directed by John Huston (Previously of The Maltese Falcon , The Man Who Would Be King , and The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre ?!) and starred Albert Finney , Carol Burnett , Bernadette Peters , Tim Curry , and child actress Aileen Quinn as the titular An...

The Commitments is is a 1991 musical comedy-drama based on the story of the same name by Irish novelist Roddy Doyle . In it a collection of working-class youths in Northern Dublin come together to form a soul band amidst crippling poverty and miserable living conditions, and quickly experience the trials and tribulations of being a local band as tensions rise and egos develop. The film was directe...

That Thing You Do! is a 1996 comedy film written, directed, and co-starring Tom Hanks , detailing the rise and fall of a one-hit wonder pop act from the 1960s. The cast featured Tom Everett Scott , Liv Tyler , Johnathon Schaech , and Steve Zahn among others, and included a soundtrack written largely by Hanks himself, with contributions from Adam Schlesinger of Fountains Of Wayne, and other profess...

Josie & The Pussycats is a musical comedy film released in 2001, based on the Archie Comics series and Hanna-Barbera cartoon of the same name. The film starred Rachael Leigh-Cook , Rosario Dawson , Tara Reid , Alan Cumming , and Parker Posey , and was directed by Harry Elfont and Deborah Kaplan . The film followed the adventures of the eponymous band as they attempt to achieve and eventually n...

Cyrano is a 2021 musical drama based on a musical theater adaptation of the Edmond Rostand play Cyrano De Bergerac . The film version was directed by Joe Wright , and featured Peter Dinklage in the title role, with Haley Bennett , Kelvin Harrison Jr. , and Ben Mendelsohn . Beyond being a musical version of the play (Featuring songs written by members of indie rock group The National ) what set thi...

Matilda the Musical was a movie musical adaptation of the musical of the same name, which itself was a musical adaptation of children's book author Roald Dahl 's famous story. It featured a cast of Alisha Weir , Lashana Lynch , Stephen Graham , Andrea Riseborough , and Emma Thompson , and like the original musical it was adapted from featured a soundtrack of songs by British-Australian comedian Ti...

Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey is a musical fantasy/Christmas film directed by David E. Talber t, and released to Netflix in 2020. It featured a cast of Forest Whitaker , Keegan Michael-Key , Anika Noni Rose , Phylicia Rashad , Ricky Martin , and introducing child acress Madalen Mills . Originally planned as a stage production, it followed the adventures of a disgraced toymaker and his grandda...

Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story was a 2007 musical comedy directed by Jake Kasdan, and produced by Judd Apatow, featuring John C. Reilly in his first ever starring role, along with Jenna Fischer, Tim Meadows, Kristin Wiig, Margo Martindale, Raymond J. Barry, and a slew of cameos. The film was an early parody of the musician biopic, following the trials and tribulations of Dewey Cox, a fictional per...

Grease 2 was a 1982 musical romantic comedy, directed by Patricia Birch and starring Maxwell Caulfield, Michelle Pfeiffer, Adrian Zmed, and various others. It posited itself as a sequel to the hit 1978 film Grease, which itself was based on a 1971 musical of the same name. This new film followed a new cast (With a few scattered returning roles) and featured a setting taking two years after the ori...