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Whilst the premise of the film based on screenwriter Will Reiser's own experience with cancer screams "tragedy," 50/50 has been dubbed a "comedy-drama."
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He received Oscar nominations for Murder, Inc, his breakthrough film role, in 1960, and the comedy-drama Pocketful of Miracles, a year later.
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Fears over a possible swine flu outbreak in the United States hit the set of the FOX forensic comedy-drama Bones on Monday.
“Cougar Town” Halted Due To Courteney Cox’s “Private Family Matter” 2009
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It's the kind of low-key, understated character comedy-drama that has not much more reason than to make us like and understand its characters as a way of making us like and understand other real people and ourselves, and as that kind of a movie Sunshine Cleaning does a pretty good job.
Lance Mannion: 2009
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This comedy-drama presents Lemmon's character with a moral choice to make if he wants to continue to climb the corporate ladder.
Vivian Norris: Why We Need Shirley MacLaine, and Billy Wilder's The Apartment More Now than Ever Vivian Norris 2011
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Even a little zany, if perhaps not in the same league as the jurists on the comedy "Night Court" and the comedy-drama "Ally McBeal."
Judges With Temperaments Joanne Kaufman 2011
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When the BBC's idea of cutting-edge drama and social comment is Luther, and Hustle is the paradigm for comedy-drama. . . you get the picture.
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InDigEnt gained notice for such Winick-produced films as the comedy-drama "Pieces of April" 2003, which earned actress Patricia Clarkson an Oscar nomination.
Gary Winick, director and digital filmmaker, dies at 49 2011
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He was given a 12-month conditional discharge – and outside court made an obscene gesture like drunken layabout Frank Gallagher in Channel 4 comedy-drama Shameless.
Hayley Adamson is dead but Northumbria wins Gold! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010
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Such exchanges are not uncommon in The Big C, the new US comedy-drama in which a repressed teacher decides to view her inoperable cancer as a sort of Chessington World of Melanomas: madcap self-reinvention by the sea lion enclosure; knock-about biopsies behind the eastern-themed log flume.
With The Big C, Nurse Jackie and Weeds, US TV has given us women who are more than just Mistresses 2011
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