"My Dinner with Andre" is a 1981 drama film that depicts a conversation between two old friends, Andre and Wally, over a long dinner at a restaurant in New York City. The movie is essentially a single conversation that covers a wide range of topics, from the meaning of life to the role of the artist in society.

The super-smart but tragically nerdy kids go to Harvard; the wise-ass geniuses go to Yale. Natalie Portman went to Yale. Therefore, no one should feel at all surprised that Portman can follow a brilliant and breathtaking performance in Black Swan with a charming and lighthearted romp through No Strings Attached. The bitter and brutal ballet movie showed critics and audiences just how smart, sensitive, and psychotic Portman can become when a role demands manic intensity. One critic commented, "She always has been good, but now we know the woman actually can act—except she is so good we forget she is acting." No Strings Attached proves Portman's range, and it satisfies her concern that Hollywood produces far too few "vulgar" comedies for women by women and starring women."No Strings Attached gained director Ivan Reitman's attention when it qualified for the 2009 "Hollywood Blacklist," a studio executive's annual collection of the best scripts that have failed to make the cut at every major studio. The writers pitched No Strings Attached in a single sentence: "A guy and a girl struggle to have an exclusively sexual relationship as they both come to realize they want much more." Although the plot seems painfully thin, irony, sentiment, and humor alloy the script. Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher punctuate and pixelate the post-modern era's answer to Doris Day and Rock Hudson, delivering a sweetly satisfying Valentine's Day confection. Apparently, at Yale, students learn never to take themselves or their obvious brilliance too seriously.

Alfie is a 2004 British-American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Charles Shyer and starring Jude Law in the title role. It is a remake of the 1966 film of the same name, which starred Michael Caine. The film follows the life of Alfie, a charming and charismatic womanizer in modern-day New York City. As he navigates his way through a series of relationships with various women, he begins to question the meaning of his existence and the consequences of his actions.

"The Kid" is a silent film from 1921, written, directed, produced and starring Charlie Chaplin. The film tells the story of a single mother who abandons her newborn child, which is later discovered by Chaplin's character, the Tramp. He decides to take care of the baby, raising him as his own son. When the child is around five years old, the mother returns and tries to reclaim her son, but the Tramp fights to keep the child in his care.

He is full of strength; he is brave, quick and invisible, cunning and wise. He fights with the elusive villain, Captain Industry, an embodiment of the universal evil on Earth! He is willing to fight to the last drop of blood (to the same as you know from the movie "bullets do not take me, they just bounce off) and give their lives for the opportunity to help and save people. - Superman? - NO! - Batman? - NO! - Who, then? - DefendOr!!! - DefendEr? - Defend O r!! ... At night he pulls on a black sweater, with the taped letter «D», rubs his eye blacking, rehearses a couple of phrases superhero front of a mirror and goes to fight evil forces! His weapon - stick, balls, slingshots, and, of course, a swarm «angry wasps!» He damn clumsy and almost every time he got kicked his ass, coming to work maimed. But he never tells anyone that these wounds he received during a "secret mission".

There is a Frank Oz film "Death at a Funeral" of 2007 which stills is one of the best comedies ever. And there is the Nile LaBute's remake "Death at a Funeral" of 2010 which as it turned out was not confounded the original, and at one point even outrides it. Screenwriter of both projects is the same Craig Dean, so you should not expect the different approach to story. Hence, a logical question: Why? Why was it necessary to do all the same, just change the white English actors on the better-known for global audience the black American stars, without even changing one of the key roles Peter Dinklage as a short blackmailer here and there?