A title is a key component in marketing a movie, but there have been some truly funny movie names in the past that have had audiences laughing before they see a single frame of the film. It is possible for a bad title to sink a movie, with examples like Lucky Number Slevin and John Carter being cited. While most movies attempt to deliver short and snappy names to get our attention, it is a rare talent for a movie title to actually amuse viewers with a few words.
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While there are plenty of movies getting hilarious translations of their titles in foreign markets, these are examples of original titles that brought some big laughs. In some cases, the names were some clever wordplay that highlighted the movie. In other instances, the titles boldly went for absurdity over catchiness. There are even some notable instances where the humor may have been unintentional. Whatever the case, these movie names put a smile on our faces.
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Shanghai Noon (2000)
Directed By Tom Dey
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Shanghai Noon
PG-13
Action
Adventure
Comedy
Release Date
May 26, 2000
Runtime
110 Minutes
Director
Tom Dey
Writers
Miles Millar, Alfred Gough
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Jackie Chan
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Owen Wilson
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Lucy Liu
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Brandon Merrill
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Transplanting Jackie Chan’s brilliant comedic martial arts skills into the Old West, Shanghai Noon stars Chan as an Imperial guard who travels to America and teams up with a cunning bank robber (Owen Wilson) in order to rescue a Chinese princess. The title is a funny play on words, giving the classic Western movie High Noon an Eastern flare that playfully tells the audience everything they need to know.
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Hot Tub Time Machine (2010)
Directed By Steve Pink
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Hot Tub Time Machine
R
Adventure
Comedy
Sci-Fi
7/10
Release Date
March 26, 2010
Runtime
99 minutes
Director
Steve Pink
Writers
Josh Heald, Sean Anders, John Morris
Sequel(s)
Hot Tub Time Machine 2
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John Cusack
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Rob Corddry
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Hot Tub Time Machine is a hilarious R-rated comedy with a sci-fi twist as it follows a group of middle-aged friends who return to the favorite ski lodge of their youths and party in a hot tub only to find themselves transported back to the 1980s and into their younger bodies. Sometimes a title gets a laugh by simply being direct with its premise, and this off-beat title promises a different take on a time travel movie.
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Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb (1964)
Directed By Stanley Kubrick
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Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb
PG
Comedy
10/10
10/10
Release Date
January 29, 1964
Runtime
95 minutes
Director
Stanley Kubrick
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Terry Southern, Stanley Kubrick, Peter George
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George C. Scott
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Slim Pickens
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Stanley Kubrick’s iconic wartime satire follows various storylines surrounding the threat of nuclear war as a rogue military man orders a bomber plane to drop a nuke on Russia while the bumbling politicians attempt to prevent catastrophe. The movie lets the audience know it’s in on the joke with the hilarious long title, which also mixes absurdity with a dark sense of humor, much like the movie itself does.
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Talladega Nights: The Ballad Of Ricky Bobby (2006)
Directed By Adam McKay
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Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
PG-13
Comedy
Sport
10/10
Release Date
August 4, 2006
Runtime
108 Minutes
Director
Adam McKay
Writers
Will Ferrell, Adam McKay
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Will Ferrell
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John C. Reilly
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Will Ferrell’s sports movie sees him starring as Ricky Bobby, a talented, self-important, and dim-witted NASCAR driver who sees his position at the top of the racing world crumble, putting him on a path of redemption. Ferrell excels at playing foolish and pathetic characters who see themselves as something grander, and the mere use of “Ballad” in this title is a hilarious hint that Ricky Bobby is one such character.
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Dumb And Dumber To (2014)
Directed By Bob Farrelly & Peter Farrelly
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Dumb and Dumber To
PG-13
Comedy
4/10
2/10
Release Date
November 12, 2014
Runtime
109 MInutes
Director
Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly
Writers
Sean Anders, Mike Cerrone, Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly, John Morris, Bennett Yellin
Prequel(s)
Dumb and Dumber
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Jim Carrey
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Jeff Daniels
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Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels make for an iconic buddy comedy team in Dumb and Dumber as two clueless best friends who set out on a cross-country road trip to return a briefcase to a woman, accidentally getting caught up in a bigger scheme. A simple misspelling in the title makes for a funny nod to the brainless duo and the fun adventure they are going to take us on.
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Spaceballs (1987)
Directed By Mel Brooks
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Spaceballs
PG
Adventure
Sci-Fi
Comedy
8/10
10/10
Release Date
June 24, 1987
Runtime
96 minutes
Director
Mel Brooks
Writers
Mel Brooks, Ronny Graham, Thomas Meehan
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John Candy
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Daphne Zuniga
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Following the success of the original Star Wars trilogy, Mel Brooks takes aim at the space opera and other sci-fi movies in this entertaining parody movie about a pair of heroic space mercenaries who attempt to rescue a princess from an evil cosmic lord. Brooks’ comedy is rarely subtle, and the title gets right to the laughs with a juvenile, silly, and effective suggestion of how seriously you should take this movie.
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Dude, Where’s My Car? (2000)
Directed By Danny Leiner
Dude, Wheres My Car?
PG-13
Comedy
Mystery
Sci-Fi
Release Date
December 15, 2000
Runtime
83 minutes
Director
Danny Leiner
Writers
Philip Stark
Cast
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Ashton Kutcher
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Jennifer Garner
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Another brainless buddy comedy, Ashton Kutcher and Seann William Scott star as two best friends who wake up after a wild night with no real memory of what happened and no idea where their car is. It is another hilarious straight-forward title that indicates the simple plot and is also not shy about insinuating the lack of sophistication of the main characters.
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Borat! Cultural Learnings Of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation Of Kazakhstan (2006)
Directed By Larry Charles
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Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
Comedy
Release Date
November 1, 2006
Runtime
84 minutes
Director
Larry Charles
Writers
Anthony Hines, Dan Mazer, Peter Baynham
Producers
Jay Roach
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Ken Davitian
Azamat Bagatov
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Sacha Baron Cohen
Borat Sagdiyev
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Luenell
Luenell
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Pamela Anderson
Pamela Anderson
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Sacha Baron Cohen takes one of the standout characters from his sketch comedy series and brings him to the big screen in this mockumentary about a curious and friendly but misguided visitor to the United States looking to learn more about the country. While a very different movie from Dr. Strangelove, it is another hilariously long title, but it is made even funnier by sounding like something that was haphazardly passed through an online translator.
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Cop Out (2010)
Directed By Kevin Smith
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Cop Out
pg-13
Action
Comedy
Crime
Release Date
February 26, 2010
Runtime
107minutes
Director
Kevin Smith
Writers
Robb Cullen, Mark Cullen
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Bruce Willis
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Tracy Morgan
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Juan Carlos Hernández
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Cory Fernandez
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Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan team up for this buddy cop comedy about partners who find themselves targeted by a vicious crime lord while going in search of a stolen baseball card. The humor behind the title needs a little behind-the-scenes context as the movie was originally titled A Couple of Dicks only to be forced to change it and settle for this title that makes a joke on the disappointing decision.
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Meet The Fockers (2004)
Directed By Jay Roach
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Meet the Fockers
PG-13
Comedy
Release Date
December 22, 2004
Runtime
115 Minutes
Director
Jay Roach
Writers
Jim Herzfeld
Sequel(s)
Little Fockers
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Robert De Niro
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Ben Stiller
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Dustin Hoffman
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Barbra Streisand
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A sequel to Meet the Parents, Meet the Fockers reverses the premise with Gregg Focker (Ben Stiller) bringing his wife and her parents, including his disapproving father-in-law (Robert De Niro), to meet his own eccentric parents, played by Dustin Hoffman and Barbra Streisand. The first movie got a lot of mileage out of Gregg’s hilarious last name, and the sequel leans even heavier into the joke with a title that catches the audience off guard.
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Freddy Got Fingered (2001)
Directed By Tom Green
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Freddy Got Fingered
R
Comedy
Release Date
April 20, 2001
Runtime
87 minutes
Director
Tom Green
Writers
Tom Green, Derek Harvie
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Tom Green
Gord Brody
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Rip Torn
Jim Brody
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Marisa Coughlan
Betty
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Eddie Kaye Thomas
Freddy Brody
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Tom Green wrote, directed, and starred in this absurd comedy about a grown man living with his parents who is willing to go to extremes in order to ensure he is able to stay under their roof. The movie captures the in-your-face and shocking humor Green was known for during this time while also potentially warning others what they are in for.
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Shaun Of The Dead (2004)
Directed By Edgar Wright
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Shaun of the Dead
R
Horror
Comedy
9/10
14
9.2/10
Release Date
September 24, 2004
Runtime
99 minutes
Director
Edgar Wright
Writers
Simon Pegg, Edgar Wright
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Kate Ashfield
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Nick Frost
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Edgar Wright kicks off his Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy with this zombie comedy starring Simon Pegg as an aimless man who sees the opportunity to prove something to himself and his girlfriend during a zombie outbreak. Much like the movie itself, the title both pays homage to the zombie genre and the classic Dawn of the Dead while also having some fun with it.
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Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo (1984)
Directed By Sam Firstenberg
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Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo
PG
Drama
Music
Release Date
December 21, 1984
Runtime
94 minutes
Director
Sam Firstenberg
Writers
Julie Reichert, Charles Parker, Jan Ventura, Allen DeBevoise
Producers
Menahem Golan, Pieter Jan Brugge
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Lucinda Dickey
Kelly
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Adolfo Quinones
Ozone
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Michael Chambers
Turbo
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Susie Coelho
Rhonda
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A follow-up to the break-dancing drama Breakin’, this sequel catches up with the main characters as they use their unique dancing skills in an attempt to save their community center from being converted into a shopping mall. One of the unintentionally funny movie titles that is hard to say with a straight face, Electric Bugaloo has become a pop culture staple as a silly subtitle for a sequel to anything.
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So I Married An Axe Murderer (1993)
Directed By Thomas Schlamme
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So I Married an Axe Murderer
PG-13
Comedy
Crime
Romance
Thriller
Release Date
July 30, 1993
Runtime
93 minutes
Director
Thomas Schlamme
Writers
Robbie Fox
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Mike Myers
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Nancy Travis
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Anthony LaPaglia
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Before doing so in the Austin Powers movies, Mike Myers took on multiple roles in this comedy about a poet who meets his dream girl only to begin to suspect she might have killed her past partner. The title wonderfully plays on the dark comedic premise, presenting the problem as if it were a relatable relationship issue that happens to everyone.
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South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999)
Directed By Trey Parker
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South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
R
Animation
Comedy
15
7.1/10
Release Date
June 30, 1999
Runtime
81 Minutes
Director
Trey Parker
Writers
Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Pam Brady
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Trey Parker
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The first-ever South Park movie finds the four young boys becoming influenced by a foul-mouthed movie from Canada, leading their parents to organize a war on their neighbors to the North, which threatens to destroy the entire world. The funniest South Park episodes have always had fun sneaking things past censors, and this suggestive title brings their innuendos to a much bigger scale.
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Pffft (1954)
Directed By Mark Robson
This rom-com focuses on a couple who have ended their romance and attempted to move on with new companions only to find themselves continuously running into one another by chance. It is a rare title with a sound instead of the word and a lot of the humor comes from how deadset the movie was to stick with the unusual title, including a trailer in which star Kim Novak attempted to teach the audience how to pronounce the movie and a clever tagline “Don’t say it, see it.”
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Nope (2022)
Directed By Jordan Peele
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Nope
r
Horror
Sci-Fi
8/10
7.8/10
Release Date
July 22, 2022
Runtime
131 minutes
Director
Jordan Peele
Writers
Jordan Peele
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Steven Yeun
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Michael Wincott
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Jordan Peele’s third movie as a director follows a brother and sister working on their family horse ranch when they discover a UFO around their land and attempt to capture proof of it. The title is hilariously abrupt and plays on the kind of reaction we wish more characters in horror movies would have when met with a terrifying situation.
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Robin Hood: Men In Tights (1993)
Directed By Mel Brooks
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Robin Hood: Men in Tights
PG-13
Comedy
Adventure
Musical
Release Date
July 28, 1993
Runtime
104 Minutes
Director
Mel Brooks
Writers
J.D. Shapiro, Evan Chandler, Mel Brooks
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Cary Elwes
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Richard Lewis
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Roger Rees
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Another parody from Mel Brooks, this time tackling Robin Hood movies and specifically the more recent Kevin Costner vehicle Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. Like Spaceballs, Brooks is extremely effective in cutting to the core of the subject of his parody with a silly title that makes the audience consider, “Yes, they do wear a lot of tights in those movies.”
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Don’t Be A Menace To South Central While Drinking Your Juice In The Hood (1996)
Directed By Paris Barclay
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Don’t Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood
R
Comedy
Crime
Release Date
January 12, 1996
Runtime
89 Minutes
Director
Paris Barclay
Writers
Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans, Phil Beauman
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Shawn Wayans
Ashtray
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Marlon Wayans
Loc Dog
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Keenen Ivory Wayans
Mailman
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Tracey Cherelle Jones
Dashiki
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Before launching the Scary Movie franchise, the Wayans brothers delivered a hilarious parody of ’90s “hood movies”. The title is a funny combination of many of the movies being spoofed, like Boyz n the Hood, South Central, Menace II Society, and Juice, all jammed into one long and unwieldy title. It is a technique that was taken by many spoof movies that followed.
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Don’t Tell Mom The Babysitter’s Dead (1991)
Directed By Stephen Herek
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Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead
PG-13
Comedy
Family
Release Date
June 7, 1991
Runtime
102 minutes
Director
Stephen Herek
Writers
Neil Landau, Tara Ison
Producers
Brian Reilly, Jeffrey Silver, Julia Phillips, Michael Phillips
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Christina Applegate
Swell
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Joanna Cassidy
Rose Lindsey
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John Getz
Gus
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Josh Charles
Bryan
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Christina Applegate stars in this teen comedy about a group of siblings who are left on their own with a babysitter when their mother is out of town, only for the babysitter to die, leaving them to run wild on their own. Like So I Married an Ax Murderer, the title fully embraces the darkly comedic premise while making even more laughs by downplaying the severe situation.
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