Satire

Satirical comedy follows the machinations of Big Tobacco's chief spokesman, Nick Naylor, who spins on behalf of cigarettes while trying to remain a role model for his 12-year-old son.

Two victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and psychopathic serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media.

A tormented philosophy professor finds a will to live when he commits an existential act.

In a world where women have become able to "self-fertilise" and are no longer giving birth to males, a quiet, unassuming housekeeper named Andrew Myers finds himself at the center of a battle to keep men from going extinct.

Halla becomes a determined environmental activist, but this threatens a long-held hope of hers.

A young migrant battles hordes of monkeys in the heart of New Delhi as a contractual monkey repeller.

A beautiful actress struggles to connect with her disfigured co-star on the set of a European auteur's English-language debut.

A new republican prime minister strips the British monarch and her family of their money and assets and forces them to live on a rundown council estate.

Mockumentary about a wealthy couple who set out to make a difference in the lives of homeless people by giving each of them a lollipop with a cheery slogan on the wrapper.

Two low-level astronomers must go on a giant media tour to warn humankind of an approaching comet that will destroy planet Earth.

When a successful television writer's daughter becomes the interest of an aging filmmaker with an appalling past, he becomes worried about how to handle the situation.

An aging Manhattan socialite existing on the last of her inheritance moves to a small Paris apartment with her son and cat.

Duncan, a philosophical nomad hitchhiking across America, grabs a ride to Ann Arbor, Michigan from Toad - a performance artist and purple leisure slacks enthusiast from the suburbs. Toad has recently left his home town to begin a new life in Ann Arbor where his co-dependent, folk-singing sister Jenny lives with her verbally abusive fiancé, a law student named Calvin. Jenny currently sees a suicidal therapist four times a week and armed with her acoustic guitar, drives away patrons from a local coffee house where she slings cappuccinos with her best friend Squeeze. Squeeze is a closet genius whose easy-going outlook and unconditional support keep her live-in boyfriend Hank from the brink. Hank is a painter who can't paint because he spends his time baking delicious pastries and practicing for the Oprah Winfrey Show. In Ann Arbor, the civilians listen to Julian, a sociopathic dee-jay whose frustration and lingering optimism goad him to find the truth by cutting through blind idealism, pop culture, and politically correct bumper stickers. Once in Ann Arbor, Duncan encounters these and other eccentric characters, and through his simple outlook and curiosity, he changes their lives forever.

World-changing events spectacularly disrupt the annual Asteroid Day celebration in an American desert town.

A California father turns to illicit means to get dragées for his daughter's birthday cake after discovering that the bite-sized silver confections are banned in the state. Written by MPI filmmakers Meredith and Austin Bragg, this script was developed in MPI's Concept Development workshop. A Piece of Cake is a Moving Picture Institute original short.