Humour Movies : Comedy Therapy

Humour Movie Recomendations: Comedy Therapy

 

So, you’ve read Arolemodel.com’s guide to developing your sense of humour, you know the health benefits of a good sense of humour and you’ve been cracking jokes, pulling faces and acting like a clown to develop your humour. You’ve also read Sense of Humour Quotes.  What you really need now is some amazing comedy movies that will develop your sense of humour. Check these out. . .

 

Humour Movie Recomendations

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Contender: The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel: Release Date: 24th February

 

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is a comedy / drama being released in cinemas on 24th February 2012 but will it be good enough to find its place in this list of. . .

The Best movies For Developing Your Sense of Humour

Smile

Katie, a teenage girl from Malibu, California, finds herself in the throes of growing up, facing her parents, her boyfriends, her sexuality and a privileged life. Half a world away in rural China, Lin, who shares a birthday with Katie, faces a much different reality. Because of facial deformity, she lives a life of fear and shame. Her father, Daniel, has devoted his life to her, with hopes and dreams that her circumstances will change one day.
The opportunity comes with the discovery of the worldwide “Doctor’s Gift” program. Katie signs up for a trip to China. Once there, she is deeply touched by the work, which prompts her to take off on her own to find Lin. A “smile” is brought to Lin’s face, Katie finds her soul and their extraordinary connection becomes a life-changing experience for both girls.
This movie is based on the work of the charity organization Operation Smile.

       

Corpse Bride

Corpse Bride, often promoted as Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride, is a 2005 stop-motion-animated fantasy musical film directed by Mike Johnson and Tim Burton. It is set in a fictional Victorian era village in Europe. Johnny Depp led an all-star cast as the voice of Victor, while Helena Bonham Carter (for whom the project was specially created) voiced Emily, the title character. Corpse Bride is the third stop-motion feature-film produced by Tim Burton (not including his short film Vincent), the first two being The Nightmare Before Christmas and James and the Giant Peach.
The film was nominated in the 78th Academy Awards for Best Animated Feature, but was bested by Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. It was shot with a battery of Canon EOS-1D Mark II digital SLRs, rather than the 35mm film cameras used for Burton’s previous stop-motion film The Nightmare Before Christmas.[3]

         

 

Road To Wellville

The Road to Wellville is a 1994 American comedy-drama film adaptation of T. Coraghessan Boyle’s novel of the same name, which tells the story of the doctor and clean-living advocate John Harvey Kellogg and his methods as employed at the Battle Creek Sanitarium at the start of the 20th Century. It was written and directed by Alan Parker.
The Road to Wellville stars Anthony Hopkins as Dr. Kellogg, Matthew Broderick as sanitarium patient William Lightbody, Bridget Fonda as his spouse Eleanor, John Cusack as budding health-food entrepreneur Charles Ossining, Dana Carvey as the doctor’s adopted son George and Colm Meaney as Dr. Lionel Badger.
It was filmed in New Paltz, New York at the Mohonk Mountain House. Also used were the North Carolina towns of Winnabow and Wilmington.

       

 

Patch Adams

Patch Adams raises two schools of thought: There are those who are inspired by the true story of a troubled man who finds happiness in helping others–a man set on changing the world and who may well accomplish the task. And then there are those who feel manipulated by this feel-good story, who want to smack the young medical student every time he begins his silly antics.

Staving off suicidal thoughts, Hunter Adams commits himself into a psychiatric ward, where he not only garners the nickname “Patch,” but learns the joy in helping others. To this end, he decides to go to medical school, where he clashes with the staid conventions of the establishment as he attempts to inject humor and humanity into his treatment of the patients (“We need to start treating the patient as well as the disease,” he declares throughout the film). Robin Williams, in the title role, is as charming as ever, although someone should tell him to broaden his range–the ever-cheerful do-gooder à la Good Will Hunting and Dead Poets Society is getting a little old. His sidekick Truman (Daniel London) steals the show with his gawky allure and eyebrows that threaten to overtake his lean face–he seems more real, which is odd considering that Patch Adams does exist and this film is based on his life. Monica Potter is the coolly reluctant love interest, and she makes the most of her one-dimensional part. While moments of true heartfelt emotion do come through, the major flaw of this film is that the good guys are just so gosh-darn good and the bad ones are just big meanies with no character development. Patch Adams, though, does provide the tears, the giggles, and the kooky folks who will keep you smiling at the end.

     

 

Zorba The Greek

Zorba the Greek is a 1964 film based on the novel Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis. . It is the tale of a young Greek intellectual who ventures to escape his bookish life with the aid of the boisterous and mysterious Alexis Zorba. The novel was adapted into a successful 1964 film of the same name as well as a 1968 musical, Zorba.

       

 

Big Fish

Big Fish is a 2003 American fantasy adventure film based on the 1998 novel of the same name by Daniel Wallace. The film was directed by Tim Burton and stars Albert Finney, Ewan McGregor, Billy Crudup, Jessica Lange and Marion Cotillard. Other roles are performed by Helena Bonham Carter, Matthew McGrory, Danny DeVito, Deep Roy and Miley Cyrus among others. Finney plays Edward Bloom, a former traveling salesman from the Southern United States with a gift for storytelling, now confined to his deathbed. Bloom’s estranged son, a journalist played by Crudup, attempts to mend their relationship as his dying father relates tall tales of his eventful life as a young adult, played by Ewan McGregor.

   

 

Murderball

Murderball is a 2005 American documentary film about tetraplegic athletes with partial arm function who play wheelchair rugby. It centers on the rivalry between the Canadian and U.S. teams leading up to the 2004 Paralympic Games. It was directed by Henry Alex Rubin and Dana Adam Shapiro, and produced by Jeffrey V. Mandel and Shapiro. It was nominated for Best Documentary Feature for the 78th Academy Awards.[1]Murderball was the very first MTV film released through ThinkFilm as well as Participant Media.

             

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