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Recent Examples of comedy drama
But Slumdog Millionaire, a feel-good comedy drama about predestination and game shows, is the one that won him all the glory.
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Jordan Hoffman, Vanity Fair, 16 Mar. 2026
The actor subsequently used the space to film parts of his 2011 comedy drama Newlyweds.
—Emma Banks, InStyle, 5 Mar. 2026
Laurent Lafitte won best actor for his turn alongside Isabelle Huppert in Thierry Khifla’s comedy drama The Richest Woman In The World, loosely based on the 2010 Bettencourt Affair.
—Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 26 Feb. 2026
Driving Miss Daisy, the 1989 comedy drama, details the unlikely friendship between an elderly Jewish widow named Daisy, played by Jessica Tandy, and a Black chauffeur named Hoke, played by Freeman.
—Yamillah Hurtado, PEOPLE, 25 Nov. 2025
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Jordan Hoffman, Vanity Fair, 16 Mar. 2026
The actor subsequently used the space to film parts of his 2011 comedy drama Newlyweds.
—Emma Banks, InStyle, 5 Mar. 2026
Laurent Lafitte won best actor for his turn alongside Isabelle Huppert in Thierry Khifla’s comedy drama The Richest Woman In The World, loosely based on the 2010 Bettencourt Affair.
—Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 26 Feb. 2026
Driving Miss Daisy, the 1989 comedy drama, details the unlikely friendship between an elderly Jewish widow named Daisy, played by Jessica Tandy, and a Black chauffeur named Hoke, played by Freeman.
—Yamillah Hurtado, PEOPLE, 25 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for comedy drama
Noun
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There’s a tension between the update’s good intentions and the tendency of musical comedy to traffic in amusing caricatures.—
Theater Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
20 May 2026
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Additionally, Broadway licensing house Theatrical Rights Worldwide has acquired the stage licensing rights to the musical comedy.—
Greg Evans,
Deadline,
20 May 2026
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Shakespeare’s comedies especially understand the joy of watching people get trapped in schemes and plots well beyond their control.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
2 June 2026
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The film starts as a buddy comedy, with Niki helping out his elderly mentor, Harry, played by Dustin Hoffman, on tuning gigs.—
Jane Bua,
New Yorker,
1 June 2026
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Over a half-century later, that humble staging of the Godspell musical paved the way for Martin, a Tony Award-winning stage actress for My Favorite Year and Pippin.—
Etan Vlessing,
HollywoodReporter,
28 May 2026
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At Pasadena Playhouse, where a revival of the 1947 musical is occurring, some of the audience may already have a different miracle in mind, unrelated to any mystical Scottish hokum coming up in the plot.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
27 May 2026
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Elsewhere, an unnamed melodrama series will be directed by acclaimed filmmaker Rogério Gomes (aka Papinha) and produced by A Fábrica.—
Stewart Clarke,
Deadline,
26 May 2026
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Netflix announced a second melodrama last December, about the secrets and intrigues of an elite Rio de Janeiro family, created in partnership with Amaia Produções and Conspiração, with general direction by Mauro Mendonça Filho.—
John Hopewell,
Variety,
25 May 2026
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Diego Luna got his feet wet as a director with the promising 2011 debut, Abel, a slight but disarming tragicomedy that took imaginative shots at Mexican patriarchy and manhood.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
13 May 2026
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Almodóvar’s latest is billed as a tragicomedy, starring Bárbara Lennie and Leonardo Sbaragli as writer-directors exploring autofiction.—
Rachel Handler,
Vulture,
12 May 2026
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Already, his story had begun to take on the grim pallor of tragedy.—
Jack Lang,
New York Times,
28 May 2026
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Maternal mortality – the death of a woman during pregnancy or within 42 days of giving birth – is not a rare tragedy.—
Yenupini Joyce Adams,
The Conversation,
27 May 2026
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Deliberately schlocky and over-the-top, the production is a mere backdrop for the psychodrama happening off set between Elle and her costar Dominique (Havana Rose Liu), a girl her own age who’s also unfortunately her stepmother.—
Jordan Mintzer,
HollywoodReporter,
19 May 2026
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And Malia is also achingly lonesome for her family life, with a sister about to get married and a doting father played, in this headache-inducingly twisty psychodrama’s most refreshing meta-twist, by Romanian director Radu Jude.—
Jessica Kiang,
Variety,
18 May 2026
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“Comedy drama.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/comedy%20drama. Accessed 3 Jun. 2026.
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