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The Beverly Hillbillies
1993 • 93 minutes • Colour • 20th Century Fox
Director: Penelope Spheeris
Cast: Diedrich Bader, Dabney Coleman, Buddy Edsen, Erika Eleniak, Jim Varney, Lily Thompson
Jed Clampett and kin move from Arkansas to Beverly Hills when he becomes a billionaire, after an oil strike. The country folk are very
naive with regard to life in the big city, so when Jed starts a search for a new wife there are inevitably plenty of takers and con artists ready
to make a fast buck.
Big Bully
1995 • 94 minutes • Colour • Warner Brothers
Director: Steve Miner
Cast: Rick Moranis, Tom Arnold, Julianne Phillips, Carol Kane, Jeffery Tambor
David Leary was bullied by Rosco when he was in elementary school. But he got even on the day his parents moved out of town. Now
twenty years later, David, who is a successful writer, is invited back to his home town to teach. Everything is great until Rosco, who is still
in town, recognizes him. Now suddenly someone is playing mean practical jokes on him. Isn't David a little too old to be running to the
Principal saying "Rosco's picking on me."
Big Eden
2000 • 117 minutes • Colour • Mongrel Media
Director: Thomas Bezucha
Cast: Arye Gross, Eric Schweig, Tim DeKay, Louise Fletcher, George Coe, Nan Martin, O'Neal Compton
Big Eden is a tiny fictional town in northwestern Montana, as Preston Sturges or Frank Capra might have envisioned it. Timber and
Cowboy country. This is the story of Henry Hart, a successful New York Artist, who returns to the town of his childhood to care for the
ailing grandfather who raised him.
Big Momma’s House
2000 • 98 minutes • Colour • 20th Century Fox
Director: Raja Gosnell
Cast: Martin Lawrence, Nia Long, Paul Giamatti
When a street-smart FBI agent (Lawrence) is sent to Georgia to protect a beautiful single mother and her son from an escaped convict, he
is forced to impersonate a crass Southern granny known as Big Momma in order to remain incognito.
Big Mommas House 2
2006 • 99 minutes • Colour • 20th Century Fox
Director: John Whitesell
Cast: Martin Lawrence, Nia Long, Wendy Braun, Sarah Brown, Kevin Durand, Randolph LeRoi, Zachary Levi, Chloe Moretz
On his latest assignment, FBI agent Malcolm Turner (Lawrence) goes undercover as Big Momma, and works as a nanny for an unhappy
woman (Procter) who is under investigation for murder.
Big Mommas: Like Father Like Son
2011 • 108 minutes • Colour • 20th Century Fox
Director: John Whitesell
Cast: Martin Lawrence, Max Casella, Portia Doubleday, Faizon Love, Jessica Lucas, Brandon T. Jackson, Ana Ortiz, Marc John Jefferies,
Reagan Michelle
FBI agent Malcolm Turner and his stepson Trent go undercover at an all-girls performing arts school after Trent witnesses a murder.
Big Shot's Funeral
2001 • 100 minutes • Colour • Mongrel Media
Director: Xiaogang Feng
Cast: Rosamund Kwan, Donald Sutherland, Da Ying, Paul Mazursky, Christopher Barden, Ada Shen
Yankie director Don Tyler faces mounting insecurity and declining health while on location in Beijing, so his assistant hires down-and-out
camerman YoYo to take the reins. Scrambling, studio boss sells the sagging picture to a Japanese media company. But YoYo is
determined to upstage the whole production by granting the director's wish to have a grand "comedy funeral". To raise the money for it, he
auctions off advertising and sponsorships for the funeral to companies around the world. But wait...is Don getting better
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