6 Movies Starring Jemaine Clement

Dinner for Schmucks

Dinner for Schmucks

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2010-07-30

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

114 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

5.9 (75162 Reviews)

Director:

Jay Roach

Genres:

Comedy

Cast:

Writer:

David Guion (screenplay)

Michael Handelman (screenplay)

Francis Veber (film "Le Diner de Cons")

Fullplot:

Tim (Rudd) is a rising executive who "succeeds" in finding the perfect guest, IRS employee Barry (Carell), for his boss's monthly event, a so-called "dinner for idiots," which offers certain advantages to the exec who shows up with the biggest buffoon.

Eagle vs Shark

Eagle vs Shark

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2007-08-30

Languages:

English

Countries:

New Zealand

Runtime:

88 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.8 (14945 Reviews)

Director:

Taika Waititi

Cast:

Writer:

Loren Taylor (story)

Taika Waititi (story)

Taika Waititi

Fullplot:

In Wellington, Lily is a wallflower, inexplicably attracted to Jerrod, a loser. He's nursing a decade-long grudge against someone who teased him in high school; she's just out of a job. She goes home with him to a seacoast town where he intends to have it out with his nemesis; she meets his father, his daughter from a one-night stand, and other family members - and there's the memory of his talented (and dead) brother. Jerrod treats Lily badly, invents a relationship with a women he had a crush on years before, and gears up for his fight. Will she finally have enough and go home?

Men in Black 3

Men in Black 3

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2012-05-25

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

106 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

6.9 (243311 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Etan Cohen

Lowell Cunningham (based on the Malibu comic by)

Fullplot:

After breaking out of a moon-based maximum security prison, Boris the Animal decides to go back in time and eliminate the person who arrested him - Agent K. When he does so, Agent J realizes that the time line has been changed and he too travels back to July 15, 1969, the day before Agent K is killed. After overcoming some disbelief, J manages to convince K and others of just who he is and why he's there. With the help of a being who can see all time lines, they track Boris down. J also learns a secret, something K had never told him.

Rio 2

Rio 2

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2014-04-11

Languages:

English, Portuguese

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

101 min

Rated:

G

IMDB Ratings:

6.4 (50051 Reviews)

Director:

Carlos Saldanha

Cast:

Writer:

Don Rhymer (screenplay)

Carlos Kotkin (screenplay)

Jenny Bicks (screenplay)

Yoni Brenner (screenplay)

Carlos Saldanha (story)

Fullplot:

It's a jungle out there for Blu, Jewel and their three kids after they're hurtled Rio de Janeiro to the wilds of the Amazon. As Blu tries to fit in, he goes beak-to-beak with the vengeful Nigel, and meets the most fearsome adversary of all: his father-in-law.

What We Do in the Shadows

What We Do in the Shadows

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2015-02-13

Languages:

English, German, Spanish

Countries:

New Zealand, USA

Runtime:

86 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.6 (41029 Reviews)

Genres:

ComedyHorror

Fullplot:

Follow the lives of Viago (Taika Waititi), Deacon (Jonathan Brugh), and Vladislav (Jemaine Clement) - three flatmates who are just trying to get by and overcome life's obstacles-like being immortal vampires who must feast on human blood. Hundreds of years old, the vampires are finding that beyond sunlight catastrophes, hitting the main artery, and not being able to get a sense of their wardrobe without a reflection-modern society has them struggling with the mundane like paying rent, keeping up with the chore wheel, trying to get into nightclubs, and overcoming flatmate conflicts.

People Places Things

People Places Things

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2015-08-14

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

85 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

(628 Reviews)

Genres:

Comedy

Fullplot:

PEOPLE PLACES THINGS tells the story of Will Henry (Jemaine Clement), a newly single graphic novelist father balancing single-parenting his young twin daughters, writers block, a classroom full students, all the while exploring and navigating the rich complexities of new love and letting go of the woman who left him.

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