Haleigh FoutchĪs a longtime fan of Seth Rogen, An American Pickledidn’t have to sell me too hard on watching it earlier this year when it dropped onto HBO Max. It's the kind of genre-bender that will have you cringing through the comedy and smiling through the squirmiest bits. Bettis is reliably excellent in the lead, and David Arquette charms his way through his minimal scenes, but Farnworth is a dang force of nature as an unstoppable dimwit who will do whatever it takes to save her own dolled-up skin, no matter how dastardly. Grant has snappy dialogue and a sharp eye (especially in one dance-fuelled scene transition that truly delighted me,) but as an experienced actor herself, she’s especially keen at getting killer performances out of her cast. Set in a hospital during one very gnarly, unrelenting shift, the film stars Angela Bettis as a nurse whose black market organ-selling scheme goes way off track when her not-to-bright but extremely determined cousin ( Chloe Farnworth) loses a harvested kidney. If you like your comedy it bit twisted and very bloody, settle in for a super-fun thriller with Brea Grant’s 12 Hour Shift. Image via Magnolia Pictures / Magnet Releasing Check out the Collider Staff’s best comedy movies of the year below, and if you’re looking for something you can watch right now, head over to the Best Comedies on Netflix and the Best Comedies on Amazon Prime. We sorted through 2020’s comedy releases, from the streaming hits to the straight-to-VOD surprises, and the few that had the chance to screen in theaters, and picked our favorites.
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And then there’s that Will Ferrell movie that made us cry like babies. There’s a whole lot of genre-bending comedies that skew towards drama, action-comedies, horror-comedies, and animated funny movies for kids. Like everything else in 2020, it’s been an interesting and unusual year in comedy. Fortunately, while many of the year’s biggest blockbusters and highly-anticipated horror titles were delayed, a lot of high-profile comedy movies made their way to streaming and DVD, giving us something to laugh about at home. Times are tough, we’ve all had an unusual amount of alone time this year, and there’s nothing like a good guffaw to burn off a little stress and make you feel primally connected to something.
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If there was ever a year that needed some good laughs, it’s 2020.