Movies: Dry comedy

Frances Ferguson is discontent. Like a lot of us, she does a bit of “acting out” and pays the price —an arrest, a trial, incarceration. And then a new identity, one that’s not terribly comfortable....

Two public broadcast employees, tired of their dead-end jobs, set out to make a documentary proving aliens exist in a small Minnesotan farming community....

When an aging Punxsutawney Phil discovers that he's going to be replaced as the weather-predicting groundhog of tradition, he must strive to find meaning in his otherwise measly existence....