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13 Going on 30
13 Going on 30 is a 2004 Revolution Studios romantic comedy-fantasy directed by Gary Winick, starring Jennifer Garner and Mark Ruffalo; a 13-year-old wishes to be 'thirty, flirty and thriving' and wakes in 2004. It grossed $96 million and has since spawned a stage musical and a Netflix reboot.
50 First Dates
50 First Dates is a 2004 American romantic comedy starring Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore, a marine veterinarian courting a woman whose brain injury erases her memory daily.
A Dirty Shame
A Dirty Shame is a 2004 American sex comedy written and directed by John Waters, starring Tracey Ullman as a repressed Baltimore housewife whose head injury makes her a sex addict.
Alfie (2004 film)
Alfie (2004) is Charles Shyer's remake of the 1966 Michael Caine film, starring Jude Law as a womanizing Manhattan limo driver. Written by Elaine Pope and Shyer for Paramount, it grossed about $35 million worldwide and earned a 48% Rotten Tomatoes score.
All the Real Girls
All Real Girls is a 2003 romantic drama directed by David Gordon Green. Set in a North Carolina mill town, it stars Paul Schneider and Zooey Deschanel.
Along Came Polly
Along Came Polly is a 2004 Universal romantic comedy directed and written by John Hamburg, starring Ben Stiller, Jennifer Aniston, and Philip Seymour Hoffman; it set a January opening record but scored 44 on Metacritic and 27% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy is a 2004 American comedy directed by Adam McKay, co-written with and starring Will Ferrell as a 1970s San Diego TV anchor; it grossed $90 million worldwide and spawned Anchorman 2 (2013).
Anger Management (film)
Anger Management is a 2003 American buddy comedy directed by Peter Segal, in which court-ordered patient Adam Sandler faces unorthodox therapist Jack Nicholson; Marisa Tomei co-stars.
Bad Santa
Bad Santa is a 2003 American black comedy directed by Terry Zwigoff, starring Billy Bob Thornton as alcoholic safecracker Willie T. Soke, who poses as a mall Santa with Tony Cox's elf Marcus to rob stores on Christmas Eve; also known in unrated form as Badder Santa.
Breakin' All the Rules
Breakin' All the Rules is a 2004 American romantic comedy directed by Daniel Taplitz. Jamie Foxx stars as a magazine editor who writes a best-selling book on breakups.
Bride and Prejudice
Bride and Prejudice (Bride & Prejudice) is Gurinder Chadha's 2004 Bollywood-style musical adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, starring Aishwarya Rai as Lalita Bakshi and Martin Henderson as American Will Darcy, set across India, London, and America.
Bringing Down the House (film)
Bringing Down the House is a 2003 Touchstone comedy directed by Adam Shankman, starring Steve Martin and Queen Latifah as an online-dating mismatched lawyer and escaped convict; it grossed $132.5 million in the US despite a 33% Rotten Tomatoes score.
Bruce Almighty
Bruce Almighty is a 2003 American fantasy comedy directed by Tom Shadyac, in which Jim Carrey plays a Buffalo television reporter given God's divine powers.
Cala, My Dog!
Cala, My Dog! (卡拉是条狗) is a 2003 Chinese comedy-drama directed by Lu Xuechang, starring Ge You as a Beijing worker racing to pay a 5,000 yuan license fee to reclaim his confiscated dog.
Calendar Girls
Calendar Girls is a 2003 British comedy-drama directed by Nigel Cole, starring Helen Mirren and Julie Walters as Yorkshire Women's Institute members who pose nude for a charity calendar, based on the true Rylstone WI story.
Catch That Kid
Catch That Kid (2004) is an American children's heist film directed by Bart Freundlich, a remake of the Danish Klatretøsen, starring Kristen Stewart as a 12-year-old who robs a bank to fund her father's surgery; it grossed $16.7 million and was critically panned.
Cell Phone (手机)
Cell Phone (手机, Shou ji) is Feng Xiaogang's 2003 Chinese black comedy, written by Liu Zhenyun, starring Ge You as talk show host Yan Shouyi whose affairs are exposed by his mobile phone; it earned about 56 million RMB, was 2003's domestic box office champion, and won the Hundred Flowers Best Picture award.
Chasing Liberty
Chasing Liberty is a 2004 romantic comedy about a US President's daughter who escapes her Secret Service detail in Prague. She travels across Europe with a British agent.
Christmas with the Kranks
Christmas with the Kranks is a 2004 American Christmas comedy film starring Tim Allen and Jamie Lee Curtis, directed by Joe Roth from John Grisham's novel Skipping Christmas.
Cosas que Hacen que la Vida Valga la Pena
Cosas que hacen que la vida valga la pena is a 2004 Spanish romantic comedy by Manuel Gómez Pereira starring Ana Belén and Eduard Fernández as two divorced people who meet at an unemployment office; it won the Málaga Audience Award and earned two Goya nominations.
Daddy Day Care
Daddy Day Care is a 2003 American family comedy directed by Steve Carr, starring Eddie Murphy as a laid-off executive who opens a day care center.
Deliver Us from Eva
Deliver Us from Eva is a 2003 American romantic comedy directed by Gary Hardwick, starring Gabrielle Union and LL Cool J, a modern take on The Taming of the Shrew in which brothers-in-law pay Ray $5,000 to romance meddling Eva; grossed $17.3 million.
Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star
Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star is a 2003 Paramount comedy directed by Sam Weisman, starring David Spade as a washed-up 1970s child star who hires a family to relive his childhood, with real former child stars in cameos.
Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story is a 2004 American sports comedy directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber, starring Vince Vaughn and Ben Stiller as rival gym owners.
Down with Love
Down with Love (2003) is a Peyton Reed romantic comedy starring Renée Zellweger and Ewan McGregor, set in 1962 New York and homaging Doris Day–Rock Hudson sex comedies; it flopped at the box office but gained a cult following.
Duplex (film)
Duplex is a 2003 American black comedy directed by Danny DeVito, written by Larry Doyle, starring Ben Stiller, Drew Barrymore, and Eileen Essell as rent-controlled tenant Mrs. Connelly; released by Miramax September 26, 2003, grossing about $10 million worldwide.
Elf (film)
Elf is a 2003 American Christmas comedy film directed by Jon Favreau, starring Will Ferrell as Buddy, a human raised among Santa's elves who searches New York for his birth father.
Eloise at the Plaza
Eloise at the Plaza is a 2003 ABC Wonderful World of Disney television film directed by Kevin Lima, starring Sofia Vassilieva as Eloise and Julie Andrews as Nanny, based on Kay Thompson's books, with an Emmy-winning Bruce Broughton score.
Envy (2004 film)
Envy (2004 film), a Barry Levinson black comedy starring Ben Stiller, Jack Black, and Christopher Walken; Tim declines a stake in Nick's poop-vanishing spray Vapoorize, and the DreamWorks release flopped with $14.6 million worldwide and 7% on Rotten Tomatoes.
EuroTrip
EuroTrip is a 2004 American teen sex comedy directed by Jeff Schaffer, in which a recent high school graduate travels across Europe to reach his German pen pal.