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People go to the movies for all sorts of reasons.
Comedies, by their very nature, are films meant to entertain.
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More than anything,people rememberMarley & Mefor its heartbreaking ending.
The third act sees the aging Labrador retriever Marley get a deadly intestinal disorder.
But his latest work,May December, finds a particularly fresh balance between melodrama and dark comedy.
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There are certainly hints of dark humor and amusingly bizarre moments inMay December.
It’s about Bill, a stick figure man who struggles to put together his shattered psyche.
As it happens,It’s Such a Beautiful Dayis also one ofthe saddest animated movies ever made.
It’s hysterical, overwhelmingly sad stuff.
Hilariously absurd hijinks and humor that’s bound to offend every demographic that might watch the film ensue.
The main character’s moral quandaries after having accidentally killed a child are certainly harrowing.
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To this day, however, his saddest comedy remains the brutalThree Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.
There’s hope and some degree of happiness, butsuffering doesn’t just disappear.
Happinessis often grimly funny, sure, but it’s also one ofthe most depressing moviesof the ’90s.
It stars a phenomenalDavid Thewlisas an unemployed man from Manchester who flees to London after he abused a girl.
There, he vents his rage on unsuspecting strangers as he embarks on a nocturnal odyssey.
One day, his life changes when he meets the interesting Lisa (Jennifer Jason Leigh).
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