If someone decided to play last year's wrenching terminal-illness drama "James White" for laughs as well as tears, the results might be as wincingly uneven as "Other People," a none-too-subtle
seriocomedy about a 29-year-old gay writer who returns home to care for his cancer-stricken mom.
is convinced that in Apuleius' novel we have a philosophical-rhetorical
seriocomedy that is consistent with Apuleius' general agenda made explicit in his Apology, which T.
Ivan Acosta's award-winning play The Super (1982) has been praised by critics as a realist
seriocomedy about exile and dislocation.
The Erotes, like many Lucianic dialogues, is a satirical
seriocomedy The shallow, self-indulgent lifestyles of both speakers contrast pointedly with their idealistic speeches.
Maybe Baby, a pounds 4 million project, is a
seriocomedy about a couple's struggle to conceive a child.
Talleyrand said, "Love is a reality in the domain of the imagination." The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, made in 1972, is a
seriocomedy about homosexual love.
The family you never knew you had turns out to be the family you may wish you never met in Justin Lerner's "The Automatic Hate." This arresting
seriocomedy deftly walks a tightrope between droll and tense over a gaping pit of crazy.
The promo package endows this
seriocomedy, which concerns lies and corruption in high-government corridors at the crest of a century, with metacontemporary urgency.
A group of 30-ish friends' party weekend turns into an excuse for some group transgressions and individual soul-searching in "Milwaukee," a diverting, smoothly packaged ensemble
seriocomedy from debuting director Torre Catalano.
The Canadian film musical Zero Patience and the Broadway hit Rent may have scoped out this territory, and the recent
seriocomedy Playing by Heart added more fodder for hetero couples learning the HIV blues, but Jeanne and the Perfect Guy is a welcome wrinkle on the AIDS soaper.
Insinuatingly low-key, minimalist Icelandic
seriocomedy "Either Way" gets a slightly broader yet perhaps even more satisfying U.S.
An ostensible paean to the thesping profession and its wacky, lovable practitioners, this dysfunctional-family/romantic
seriocomedy in fact occasions plenty of bad acting, making this an interminable belabor of love that will have trouble finding an audience in any format.
seriocomedy - a comedy with serious elements or overtones