Connection
The Understudy is a British film of genre Drama released in USA on 16 march 2012 with Marin Ireland
The Understudy (2012)
If you like this film, let us know!
Add to a movie listThe Understudy is a 2008 black comedy from British duo David Conolly and Hannah Davis and is their second feature-length film through their Mansion Pictures flagship, which is currently traveling the Film Festival circuit around the world.
Synopsis
Rebecca is an unemployed actress who is living with an equally unsuccessful screenwriter, Sarfras. Rebecca makes a living by caring for a blind and diabetic woman while going from one disastrous relationship to the next.Actors
Comments
Leave comment :
Suggestions of similar film to The Understudy
There are 66 films with the same actors, 86711 with the same cinematographic genres (including 11769 with exactly the same 2 genres than The Understudy), to have finally 70 suggestions of similar films.If you liked The Understudy, you will probably like those similar films :
Fancypants (2011)
, 1h26Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Robert Carradine, Richard Kind, Nicholas Turturro
Rating64%
L'histoire d'un lutteur professionnel qui a peur des conflits dans la vraie vie
Dark Horse (2012)
, 1h26Directed by Todd Solondz
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Jordan Gelber, Selma Blair, Christopher Walken, Mia Farrow, Justin Bartha, Aasif Mandvi
Rating58%
Abe (Jordan Gelber), a man in his thirties who suffers from arrested development, meets suicidal Miranda (Selma Blair) who recently moved back home after a failed literary/academic career and a divorce. While waiting outside Miranda's house for their first date Marie (his secretary) runs up and tells him to give up the girl, he has no shot but then he wakes with a start revealing it was a dream.
A Serious Man (2009)
, 1h46Directed by Frères Coen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about religion, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind, Simon Helberg, Fred Melamed, Adam Arkin, Michael Lerner
Rating69%
In a prologue, a Jewish man in an unnamed Eastern European shtetl tells his wife that he was helped on his way home by Traitle Groshkover, whom he has invited in for soup. She says Groshkover is dead and must be a dybbuk. Groshkover (Fyvush Finkel) arrives and laughs off the accusation, but she plunges an icepick into his chest. Bleeding, he exits into the snowy night.
Ghost Town (2008)
, 1h42Directed by David Koepp
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Ghost films
Actors Ricky Gervais, Téa Leoni, Greg Kinnear, Billy Campbell, Kristen Wiig, Aasif Mandvi
Rating66%
The film begins as married New York City businessman Frank Herlihy (Greg Kinnear) is accidentally killed while trying to buy an apartment for his mistress. Shortly afterward, cynical dentist Bertram Pincus (Ricky Gervais) has a near-death experience while under general anesthetic during a colonoscopy. When he recovers, he is able to see and communicate with ghosts who populate the area. The ghosts annoy Bertram by asking him to help them with personal business that was left unfinished when they died. Frank promises to keep the other ghosts away if Bertram will break up an engagement between Frank's widow Gwen (Leoni), a professional Egyptologist, and Richard (Billy Campbell), a human-rights lawyer who Frank says is dishonest. Bertram eventually agrees to the deal and tries to woo Gwen away from Richard. Bertram's past rudeness to Gwen makes this difficult, but he attracts her interest by analyzing the teeth of a mummified Egyptian Pharaoh that she has been studying.
Stars In Shorts (2012)
Directed by Rupert Friend, Neil LaBute, Jacob Chase
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Judi Dench, Lily Tomlin, Marin Ireland, Kenneth Branagh, Julia Stiles, Lucy Punch
Rating63%
Actors
The Angriest Man in Brooklyn (2014)
, 1h23Directed by Phil Alden Robinson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Robin Williams, Mila Kunis, Peter Dinklage, Melissa Leo, James Earl Jones, Richard Kind
Rating57%
Henry Altmann (Robin Williams) is stuck in Brooklyn traffic while on his way to a doctor's appointment. His car is suddenly struck by a taxi, which propels him into a rage which he unleashes upon the taxi driver. Henry goes to the Brooklyn hospital, where Dr. Sharon Gill (Mila Kunis) is covering for his usual doctor, with whom she is having an affair. After examining scans of his brain, Sharon informs Henry that he has a brain aneurysm and his outlook is bad. Henry erupts, throwing insults at Sharon and demanding that she tell him how long he has to live. She tries to dodge the question, but Henry is persistent. Panicking, Sharon tells him that he will die in ninety minutes. Henry leaves the hospital in a rage.
The Mystic Masseur (2001)
Directed by Ismail Merchant
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Om Puri, Aasif Mandvi, Ayesha Dharker, Jimi Mistry, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Zohra Sehgal
Rating58%
The semi-mystical novel by V. S. Naipaul moves between farce and acerbic social commentary on Trinidad, the country of his birth. The characters are mainly members of Trinidad's South Asian subculture and community. The protagonist is a frustrated writer of Indian descent (Ganesh Ramsumair) who rises from poverty on the back of his dubious talent as a 'mystic' masseur - a masseur (Pundit Ganesh) who can cure illnesses. In the end he becomes a successful colonial politician (G. Ramsay Muir).
Ingenious (2009)
, 1h25Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Actors Dallas Roberts, Jeremy Lee Renner, Eddie Jemison, Richard Kind, Ayelet Zurer, Marguerite Moreau
Rating56%
L'incroyable histoire de deux amis de longue date, un petit inventeur sans envergure et un représentant beau parleur, qui cherchent constamment "la grande idée" qui les rendra riches et célèbres. Le problème est qu'aucune de leurs inventions ne semble marcher comme prévu. Au moment où tout semble perdu, ils ont l'idée qui va changer leur vie pour toujours...
Sexting (2010)
, 8minutesDirected by Neil LaBute
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Julia Stiles, Carly pope, Marin Ireland
Rating57%
The Family Fang (2016)
, 1h45Directed by Jason Bateman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Christopher Walken, Jason Bateman, Nicole Kidman, Mackenzie Smith, Alexandra Wentworth, Marin Ireland
Rating60%
Two siblings, Buster and Annie Fang (Jason Bateman and Nicole Kidman), return to their family home in search of their world famous parents (Christopher Walken and Maryann Plunkett) who have disappeared.