6-558: The Great New Wonderful is a 2005 American comedy-drama film written by Sam Catlin and directed by Danny Leiner . It stars Naseeruddin Shah , Tony Shalhoub , Jim Gaffigan , Maggie Gyllenhaal and Olympia Dukakis , and tells the tales of several New Yorkers a year after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks . The film premiered on April 22, 2005 at the Tribeca Film Festival and
12-464: A humorous tenor. In television, modern scripted comedy dramas tend to have more humour integrated into the story than the comic relief common in drama series but usually contain a lower joke rate than sitcoms . In the very influential Greek theatre , plays were considered comedies or tragedies. This concept even influenced Roman theatre and theatre of the Hellenistic period . Theatre of that era
18-509: A rise in film and television works that could be described as comedy-dramas. The term is a translation from the French "comédie dramatique". The portmanteau "dramedy" came to be in the 1980s. In January 2022, Rafael Abreu, writing for the StudioBinder filmmaking blog, defined this genre as follows: A dramedy is a movie or program that balances the elements of a drama and a comedy. Also known as
24-523: Is thought to have long-lasting influence, even in modern narrative works. Even today, works are often classified into two broad buckets, dramas and comedies. For instance, many awards that recognize achievements in film and television today, such as the Primetime Emmy Awards and the Golden Globe Awards segregate several award categories into these two classifications. The 20th century saw
30-557: The stories of five disconnected individuals who share an unspoken emotional malaise that shadows their attempts at returning to normal life." On Metacritic , the film has a weighted average score of 57 out of 100, based on 14 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Comedy-drama Comedy drama , also known by the portmanteau dramedy , is a hybrid genre of works that combine elements of comedy and drama . In films, serious dramatic themes (such as death, illness, etc.) are dealt with realism and subtlety, while preserving
36-633: Was released in the United States on June 26, 2006. The Great New Wonderful is a series of vignettes of incidents taking place concurrently around Manhattan . The only other thing linking the incidents is the month in which they occur: September 2002. Recurring themes include frustration and sugar. The vignettes include: On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes , the film has an approval rating of 73% based on 41 reviews, and an average rating of 6.7/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Set in post-9/11 New York, this largely evocative dramedy interweaves
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