Dummy
Sep 12, 2002 | IMDB 5.9
91 min Watch NowComedy, Drama, Romance
An ex-office worker becomes a ventriloquist, leading to a date with his unemployment counselor; but his quirky family and a gauche female friend may thwart his new career and love life.
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
Sunshine
Jeff Dunham: Spark of Insanity
Jeff Dunham's Very Special Christmas Special
Jeff Dunham: Arguing with Myself
Goyta
Go for Zucker
The Actress
Only Human
Train of Life
The Believer
Dreamgirls
Levitic 11
God Does Not Believe in Us Anymore
Prime
Ben-Hur
The Jazz Singer
Jakob the Liar
The Unholy Three
Bodger and Badger Live on Stage
The Song of Names
SIMILAR MOVIES
Sunshine
IMDB 6.5 | Sep , 1999
The fate of a Hungarian Jewish family throughout the 20th century.Jeff Dunham: Spark of Insanity
IMDB 6.7 | Sep , 2007
Combining his amazing talent and his unorthodox sense of humor, Jeff Dunham returns, yet again, with a hilarious stand-up comedy and ventriloquist performance. Starting off with the infamously known Walter, scrutinizing every bit of today's American society. Followed by two new characters, Achmed the Dead Terrorist, who continuously threatens the crowd with Silence and Death, and Melvin the Superhero.Jeff Dunham's Very Special Christmas Special
IMDB 6.5 | Nov , 2008
The multi-platinum selling comedian performs his first holiday-themed stand-up special with his friends.Jeff Dunham: Arguing with Myself
IMDB 6.6 | Apr , 2006
A recorded live performance of ventriloquist Jeff Dunham portrays a comedian whose revival of an old-fashioned art has made ventriloquism more relevant to modern societal concerns. Starring his six main characters, from Bubba Jay, a Nascar-obsessed hick, to Peanut, a flamboyant gay monkey, Dunham’s puppets have dirty but inoffensive senses of humor that mock the American Dream.Goyta
IMDB 0 | May , 2007
The lives of a Hassidic young man (Yoyli) and a Polish young woman (Mariola) intersect when they find themselves secluded in a car after he offers her a ride home. This, after Yoyli and his mother picked her up from a street corner in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where Polish, immigrant women wait to be taken to Hassidic homes to help with the cleaning of their house. In the movie they negotiate the labor at $8 an hour. After scrubbing and scouring for a bit, and after observing a world that is completely foreign to her, Mariola succumbs to the toxic fumes of the cleaning agents and falls and faints. After regaining consciousness, she leaves the house in an angry huff. At the prodding of his sister and father, Yoyli goes out to find her and offer her a ride. She accepts not realizing the differences of their worlds that would place the two young people in a tense and heated situation that is never fully resolved.Go for Zucker
IMDB 6.3 | Dec , 2004
Germany director Dani Levy filmed this comedy about Jewish life in today’s Germany along side the familiar east-west conflict. With it great success this film is a joyful comedy of humor and knowledge.The Actress
IMDB 0 | Oct , 1988
The year 1933: Successful actress Maria Rheine is in love with her Jewish colleague Mark Löwenthal. When the Nazis implement the racist Nuremberg Laws, their relationship is severely endangered. Defiant Maria decides to stay together with Mark and ends her promising career: She assumes a Jewish identity and continues to work under the name Manja Löwenthal. She and Mark perform at the Jewish Theatre in Berlin, until they become victims of an intrigue: Their colleague Judith, who has a crush on Mark, denounces them to the secret police.Only Human
IMDB 6.3 | Jul , 2004
Leni takes Rafi to meet her family in Madrid. Leni's family is Jewish - mother, father, older sister and daughter, brother, and grandfather. Rafi is Palestinian, in Spain since age 12. Before her father returns from work, Leni reveals Rafi's origins. He accidentally drops a block of frozen soup out the flat window, probably killing a passerby. Leni initiates a cover-up and Rafi figures out the body is probably Leni's father. The body disappears and without telling the rest of the family what they know, Leni and Rafi organize a search for dad. Mom is sure he's having an affair. Leni's belly-dancing sister kisses Rafi. Her brother grabs a rifle to shoot the Arab. Can anything be put right?Train of Life
IMDB 7.4 | Sep , 1998
In 1941, the inhabitants of a small Jewish village in Central Europe organize a fake deportation train so that they can escape the Nazis and flee to Palestine.The Believer
IMDB 6.9 | Aug , 2001
A hardcore US racist skinhead who, because of his intelligence, leads a gang dedicated to fighting the enemy: the supposed American-Jewish conspiracy for domination. However, he's hiding a secret: he's Jewish-born, a brilliant scholar whose questioning of the tenets of his faith has left him angry and confused, turning against those who he thinks have a tragic history of their own making.Dreamgirls
IMDB 6.7 | Dec , 2006
A trio of female soul singers cross over to the pop charts in the early 1960s, facing their own personal struggles along the way.Levitic 11
IMDB 1 | Apr , 2020
Moisés is a Jewish boy who dreams of eating tacos al pastor, but his mother and his religion forbid them.God Does Not Believe in Us Anymore
IMDB 7 | May , 1982
After his father is murdered by the Nazis in 1938, a young Viennese Jew named Ferry Tobler flees to Prague, where he joins forces with another expatriate and a sympathetic Czech relief worker. Together with other Jewish refugees, the three make their way to Paris, and, after spending time in a French prison camp, eventually escape to Marseille, from where they hope to sail to a safe port.Prime
IMDB 6 | Sep , 2005
A career driven professional from Manhattan is wooed by a young painter, who also happens to be the son of her psychoanalyst.Ben-Hur
IMDB 7.9 | Nov , 1959
In 25 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accused by a Roman childhood friend-turned-overlord of trying to kill the Roman governor, he is put into slavery and his mother and sister are taken away as prisoners.The Jazz Singer
IMDB 6.1 | Oct , 1927
A young Jewish man is torn between tradition and individuality when his old-fashioned family objects to his career as a jazz singer. This is the first full length feature film to use synchronized sound, and is the original film musical.Jakob the Liar
IMDB 6.7 | Sep , 1999
In 1944 Poland, a Jewish shop keeper named Jakob is summoned to ghetto headquarters after being caught out after curfew. While waiting for the German Kommondant, Jakob overhears a German radio broadcast about Russian troop movements. Returned to the ghetto, the shopkeeper shares his information with a friend and then rumors fly that there is a secret radio within the ghetto.The Unholy Three
IMDB 5.6 | Jul , 1930
A trio of former sideshow performers double as the "Unholy Three" in a scam to nab some shiny rocks.Bodger and Badger Live on Stage
IMDB 0 | Nov , 2006
Live release of Andy Cunningham's 'Bodger and Badger' act from their live slapstick comedy show. Despite the title the main feature is not actually on a stage but some sort of university hall.The Song of Names
IMDB 6.7 | Dec , 2019
A man searching for his childhood best friend — a Polish violin prodigy orphaned in the Holocaust — who vanished decades before on the night of his first public performance.