Best Comedy movies of 2003

Actors : Willem Dafoe, Ellen DeGeneres, Alexander Gould, Albert Brooks,

After his son is captured in the Great Barrier Reef and taken to Sydney, a timid clownfish sets out on a journey to bring him home.

Actors : Jack Black, Adam Pascal, Mike White, Joan Cusack,
Directors : Richard Linklater,

After being kicked out of a rock band, Dewey Finn becomes a substitute teacher of a strict elementary private school, only to try and turn it into a rock band.

Actors : Shari Springer Berman, Harvey Pekar, Chris Ambrose, Paul Giamatti,

An original mix of fiction and reality illuminates the life of comic book hero everyman Harvey Pekar.

Actors : Patricia Clarkson, Bobby Cannavale, Peter Dinklage, Paul Benjamin,
Directors : Tom McCarthy,

When his only friend dies, a man born with dwarfism moves to rural New Jersey to live a life of solitude, only to meet a chatty hot dog vendor and a woman dealing with her own personal loss.

Actors : Billy Bob Thornton, Lauren Graham, Bernie Mac, John Ritter,
Directors : Terry Zwigoff,

A miserable conman and his partner pose as Santa and his Little Helper to rob department stores on Christmas Eve. But they run into problems when the conman befriends a troubled kid, and the security boss discovers the plot.

Actors : Catherine Zeta-Jones, George Clooney, Geoffrey Rush, Billy Bob Thornton,

A beautiful gold digger matches wits with a shrewd Beverly Hills divorce lawyer who is increasingly attracted to her.

Actors : Lindsay Lohan, Jamie Lee Curtis, Mark Harmon, Harold Gould,
Directors : Mark Waters,

An overworked mother and her daughter do not get along. When they switch bodies, each is forced to adapt to the other's life for one freaky Friday.

Actors : Zooey Deschanel, Will Ferrell, Bob Newhart, James Caan,
Directors : Jon Favreau,

After inadvertently wreaking havoc on the elf community due to his ungainly size, a man raised as an elf at the North Pole is sent to the U.S. in search of his true identity.

Actors : Keanu Reeves, Jack Nicholson, Diane Keaton, Amanda Peet,
Directors : Nancy Meyers,

A swinger on the cusp of being a senior citizen with a taste for young women falls in love with an accomplished woman closer to his age.

Actors : Hugh Grant, Liam Neeson, Laura Linney, Martine McCutcheon,
Directors : Richard Curtis,

Follows the lives of eight very different couples in dealing with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set during a frantic month before Christmas in London, England.

Actors : Sigourney Weaver, Shia LaBeouf, Jon Voight, Tim Blake Nelson,
Directors : Andrew Davis,

A wrongfully convicted boy is sent to a brutal desert detention camp where he joins the job of digging holes for some mysterious reason.

Actors : Bruce Altman, Sam Rockwell, Alison Lohman, Nicolas Cage,
Directors : Ridley Scott,

A phobic con artist and his protégé are on the verge of pulling off a lucrative swindle when the former's teenage daughter arrives unexpectedly.

Actors : Michael McKean, Christopher Guest, Jim Moret, Eugene Levy,
Directors : Christopher Guest,

Mockumentary captures the reunion of 1960s folk trio the Folksmen as they prepare for a show at The Town Hall to memorialize a recently deceased concert promoter.

Actors : Michiyo Ohkusu, Tadanobu Asano, Takeshi Kitano, Yui Natsukawa,
Directors : Takeshi Kitano,

The blind masseur/swordsman comes to a town in control of warring gangs, and while bunking with a farming family, he meets two women with their own agenda.

Actors : Vince Vaughn, Jeremy Piven, Will Ferrell, Luke Wilson,
Directors : Todd Phillips,

Three friends attempt to recapture their glory days by opening up a fraternity near their alma mater.

Actors : Seann William Scott, Rosario Dawson, Christopher Walken, Dwayne Johnson,
Directors : Peter Berg,

A tough aspiring chef is hired to bring home a mobster's son from the Amazon but becomes involved in the fight against an oppressive town operator and the search for a legendary treasure.

Actors : Fann Wong, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Owen Wilson, Jackie Chan,
Directors : David Dobkin,

When a Chinese rebel murders Chon's estranged father and escapes to England, Chon and Roy make their way to London with revenge on their minds.

Actors : Cher, Greg Kinnear, Eva Mendes, Matt Damon,

Conjoined twins from Martha's Vineyard move to Los Angeles so that one of them can pursue an acting career.

Actors : Morgan Freeman, Jennifer Aniston, Philip Baker Hall, Jim Carrey,
Directors : Tom Shadyac,

A guy who complains about God too often is given almighty powers to teach him how difficult it is to run the world.

Actors : Bill Murray, Tom Waits, RZA, Roberto Benigni,
Directors : Jim Jarmusch,

A series of vignettes that all have coffee and cigarettes in common.