Fred Wolf’s Typical Vibe
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Fred Wolf has 11 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1990s through the 2010s.
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After their high school basketball coach passes away, five good friends and former teammates reunite for a Fourth of July holiday weekend.
Dir. Dennis Dugan · With Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock

Unemployed and recently dumped, Mitch and his buddy Sam start a revenge-for-hire business to raise the $50,000 that Sam's father needs to get a heart transplant.
Dir. Bob Saget · With Norm Macdonald, Artie Lange, Jack Warden
Lenny has relocated his family back to the small town where he and his friends grew up. This time around, the grown ups are the ones learning lessons from their kids on a day notoriously full of surprises—the last day of school.
Dir. Dennis Dugan · With Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock
When dignified Albert Donnelly runs for Governor, his team moves to keep his slow-witted and klutzy younger brother, Mike, out of the eye of the media. To baby-sit Mike, the campaign assigns sarcastic Steve, who gets the experience of a lifetime when he tries to take Mike out of town during the election.
Dir. Penelope Spheeris · With Chris Farley, David Spade, Tim Matheson

Three friends, whose lives have been drifting apart, reunite for the funeral of a fourth childhood friend. When looking through their childhood belongings, they discover a trunk which contained details on a quest their friend was attempting. It revealed that he was hot on the trail of the $200,000 that went missing with airplane hijacker D.B. Cooper in 1971. They decide to continue his journey, but do not understand the dangers they will soon encounter.
Dir. Steven Brill · With Seth Green, Matthew Lillard, Dax Shepard

Joe Dirt is a janitor with a mullet hairdo, acid-washed jeans and a dream to find the parents that he lost at the Grand Canyon when he was a belligerent, trailer park-raised eight-year-old. Now, blasting Van Halen in his jacked-up economy car, the irrepressibly optimistic Joe hits the road alone in search of his folks.
Dir. Dennie Gordon · With David Spade, Dennis Miller, Brittany Daniel

TV child star of the '70s, Dickie Roberts is now 35 and parking cars. Craving to regain the spotlight, he auditions for a role of a normal guy, but the director quickly sees he is anything but normal. Desperate to win the part, Dickie hires a family to help him replay his childhood and assume the identity of an average, everyday loser.
Dir. Sam Weisman · With David Spade, Mary McCormack, Jon Lovitz

Shelley is living a carefree life until a rival gets her tossed out of the Playboy Mansion. With nowhere to go, fate delivers her to the sorority girls from Zeta Alpha Zeta. Unless they can sign a new pledge class, the seven socially clueless women will lose their house to the scheming girls of Phi Iota Mu. In order to accomplish their goal, they need Shelley to teach them the ways of makeup and men; at the same time, Shelley needs some of what the Zetas have - a sense of individuality. The combination leads all the girls to learn how to stop pretending and start being themselves.
Dir. Fred Wolf · With Anna Faris, Colin Hanks, Emma Stone
When happy family man Joe Dirt finds himself transported to the recent past, he begins an epic journey to get back to his loved ones in the present.
Dir. Fred Wolf · With David Spade, Brittany Daniel, Patrick Warburton
With the ratings dropping for a wilderness-themed TV show, two animal fans go to the Andes in search of Bigfoot.
Dir. Fred Wolf · With Steve Zahn, Allen Covert, Jonah Hill
Two drunk parents attempt to hide their ever increasing financial difficulties from their daughter and social circle through elaborate neighborhood schemes.
Dir. Fred Wolf · With Alec Baldwin, Salma Hayek Pinault, Joe Manganiello
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