Bringemovies
← Browse Movies
Buying the Cow
TITLE DETAILS

Buying the Cow

2002-06-08 · 88 min · ★ 5.1

Comedy · Romance

A commitment-averse man frantically hits the dating scene after his girlfriend starts pressuring him to pop the question.

Open detail page

Trailers are previews, not full movies.

No authorized playback source configured. Use the legal watch options below.

Production details

Directors
Walt Becker
Production companies
Destination Films
Countries
United States of America
Status
Released

Top Cast

Jerry O'ConnellJerry O'ConnellDavid Collins
Bridgette WilsonBridgette WilsonSarah
Ryan ReynoldsRyan ReynoldsMike Hanson
Bill BellamyBill BellamyJonesy
Alyssa MilanoAlyssa MilanoAmy
Jon TenneyJon TenneyAndrew Hahn
Annabeth GishAnnabeth GishNicole
Ron LivingstonRon LivingstonTyler Bellows
Erinn BartlettErinn BartlettJulie Madison
Scarlett ChorvatScarlett ChorvatKatie Madison
Jolie JenkinsJolie JenkinsAmber
John O'HurleyJohn O'HurleyTim 'Timbo' Chadway
Alicia RickterAlicia RickterLaura
Brian BeacockBrian BeacockAlex
Heather MorganHeather MorganWaitress
David DeLuiseDavid DeLuiseFratguy
Nina PetronzioCynthia
Fiona LoewiFiona LoewiSusan
Nipper KnappHost
S.A. GriffinS.A. GriffinStanley

Title information and images are supplied by TMDb. Explore our discovery guide for advice on comparing metadata and legal viewing options.

Where to watch

Availability provided by JustWatch via TMDb. Offers can change. Provider links are listed on TMDb; full playback requires a separately authorized source.

Streaming

Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads

View authorized watch options on TMDb

Recommendations

Bill Burr: Drop Dead Years
★ 7.2
Bill Burr: Drop Dead Years2025Comedy

In what might be his most personal and introspective hour yet, Bill offers hilarious takes on everything from male sadness to dating advice.

40 Dates and 40 Nights
★ 7.5
40 Dates and 40 Nights2026Comedy · Romance

Ready to quit the dating scene altogether, burned-out Leah accepts her grandmother's outrageous challenge—40 dates in 40 nights in exchange for a year's rent—only to discover amidst the awkward dinners and unexpected sparks that her biggest obstacle to love is herself.

Jimmy Carr: Natural Born Killer
★ 6.4
Jimmy Carr: Natural Born Killer2024Comedy

Jimmy Carr refutes the idea that you can't joke about anything these days with his edgy takes on gun control, religion, cancel culture and consent.

Tromeo & Juliet
★ 6.0
Tromeo & Juliet1996Comedy · Romance

All the body-piercing, kinky sex, and car crashes that Shakespeare wanted but never had! Join Tromeo and Juliet as they travel through Manhattan's underground in search of climactic love, violence and the American Way.

Shane Gillis: Beautiful Dogs
★ 7.0
Shane Gillis: Beautiful Dogs2023Comedy

In a rowdy stand-up set, Shane Gillis riffs on his girlfriend's Navy SEAL ex, touring George Washington's house and being bullied by an Australian Goth.

10
★ 5.8
101979Comedy · Romance

A Hollywood songwriter goes through a mid-life crisis and becomes infatuated with a sexy blonde newlywed.

Ricky Gervais: Mortality
★ 7.0
Ricky Gervais: Mortality2025Comedy

Ricky Gervais tackles life, death and the state of the world in a brutally honest special that spares no topic, even his own mortality.

The Overnight
★ 5.9
The Overnight2015Comedy

Alex, Emily, and their son, RJ, are new to Los Angeles. A chance meeting at the park introduces them to the mysterious Kurt, Charlotte, and Max. A family “playdate” becomes increasingly interesting as the night goes on.

Hard to Die
★ 6.0
Hard to Die1990Comedy

While doing the inventory for a lingerie outlet in a high rise office building, five attractive women are terrorized by a series of bizarre killings. They suspect that the strange janitor, who witnessed another series of killings six months previously, is at the bottom of the whole thing. Little do they know the real horror that they face in the end.

How to Murder Your Wife
★ 6.3
How to Murder Your Wife1965Comedy

Stanley Ford is a successful cartoonist and happily single. That is, until he gets drunk at a friend's bachelor party and impulsively proposes to the beautiful woman who pops out of the cake. Once sober, he regrets the decision, but she won't agree to a divorce. Stanley jokingly vents his frustrations in his comic strip by having the main character kill his wife. But when his actual wife goes missing and Stanley is arrested for her murder, he has a change of heart.

Louis C.K.: Oh My God
★ 7.6
Louis C.K.: Oh My God2013Comedy

Filmed at the Celebrity Theatre in Phoenix, AZ on February 15th and 16th, 2013, Oh My God is Louis C.K.'s fifth stand-up special, his first for HBO since 2007's Shameless, and his first since winning a Emmy Award for writing on his acclaimed show on FX, Louie. Performed in the round in front of a live audience, he discusses such topics as the food chain, animals, divorce, strange anecdotes, broken morality, murder and mortality.

South Park (Not Suitable for Children)
★ 7.4
South Park (Not Suitable for Children)2023Comedy

After it's discovered that a teacher at South Park Elementary has an OnlyFans page, Randy is compelled to take a closer look at the seedy underbelly of the world of online influencers.

Ricky Gervais: Armageddon
★ 7.1
Ricky Gervais: Armageddon2023Comedy

Ricky Gervais dishes out controversial takes on political correctness and oversensitivity in a taboo-busting comedy special about the end of humanity.

68 Kill
★ 5.9
68 Kill2017Comedy

Chip's problem is that he can't say no to beautiful women. This weakness gets him into a world of trouble when he agrees to help his girlfriend steal $68,000.

Robin Williams: An Evening at the Met
★ 8.2
Robin Williams: An Evening at the Met1986Comedy

In this hilarious stand up comedy, Robin Williams is energetic, witty and again hilarious. It's the number one stand up comedy of all time.

Heathers
★ 7.2
Heathers1989Comedy

A girl who halfheartedly tries to be part of the "in crowd" of her school meets a rebel who teaches her a more devious way to play social politics: by killing the popular kids.

A Dogwalker's Christmas Tale
★ 5.8
A Dogwalker's Christmas Tale2015Comedy · Romance

Spoiled 21-year-old Luce Lockhart faces a tough decision when a handsome new friend asks her to help protect a dog park from her wealthy employer.

Goltzius & the Pelican Company
★ 6.1
Goltzius & the Pelican Company2012Comedy

Hendrik Goltzius, a late-16th-century Dutch printer and engraver of erotic prints, seduces the Margrave of Alsace into paying for a printing press to make and publish illustrated books.

Pretty Persuasion
★ 5.8
Pretty Persuasion2005Comedy

A 15-year-old girl incites chaos among her friends and a media frenzy when she accuses her drama teacher of sexual harassment.

Orgazmo
★ 6.1
Orgazmo1998Comedy

A devout Mormon living in L.A. becomes a pornographic actor after his martial arts moves impress a big-time director.

Similar titles

10
★ 5.8
101979Comedy · Romance

A Hollywood songwriter goes through a mid-life crisis and becomes infatuated with a sexy blonde newlywed.

Goodbye, Spy
Not rated
Goodbye, Spy2025Romance

Two spies spend an emotional evening together before one must leave on a dangerous mission - or so he says...

Harlem Nights
★ 6.1
Harlem Nights1989Comedy

'Sugar' Ray is the owner of an illegal casino and must contend with the pressure of vicious gangsters and corrupt police who want to see him go out of business. In the world of organised crime and police corruption in the 1920s, any dastardly trick is fair.

The American President
★ 6.5
The American President1995Comedy · Romance

Widowed U.S. president Andrew Shepherd, one of the world's most powerful men, can have anything he wants -- and what he covets most is Sydney Ellen Wade, a Washington lobbyist. But Shepherd's attempts at courting her spark wild rumors and decimate his approval ratings.

The Four Feathers
★ 6.6
The Four Feathers2002Romance

A young British officer resigns his post when he learns of his regiment's plan to ship out to the Sudan for the conflict with the Mahdi. His friends and fiancée send him four white feathers as symbols of what they view as his cowardice. To redeem his honor, he disguises himself as an Arab and secretly saves their lives.

Regular Guys
★ 6.0
Regular Guys1996Comedy

Christoph, cop and self-confident macho, has trouble with his fiance. After a long night he wakes up in the arms of Edgar, a good-looking, gay auto-mechanic. His live gets more and more troublesome after his girl friend throws him out of their apartment and as last resort he moves to Edgars place. Working together with a new, good-looking, very self-confident, female collegue, but living with a good-looking gay guy makes him pretty uncertain about his sexuality and his role as a cop. Written by Konstantin Articus

Buffalo Soldiers
★ 6.3
Buffalo Soldiers2002Comedy

A criminal subculture operates among U.S. soldiers stationed in West Germany just before the fall of the Berlin wall.

11:14
★ 6.8
11:142004Comedy

Tells the seemingly random yet vitally connected story of a set of incidents that all converge one evening at 11:14pm. The story follows the chain of events of five different characters and five different storylines that all converge to tell the story of murder and deceit.

Ein Sommer in Südfrankreich
★ 4.5
Ein Sommer in Südfrankreich2016Romance

After the death of uncle Olivier, his estate, a small chateau in Provence and the small town's only undertaker firm in its cellar, befall equally and jointly to his local stepson André Vidal, who runs the business since Olivier semi-retired ill, and German cousin, business consultant Charlotte. She arrives from Frankfort to sell the estate at the skyrocketing prices for such idyllic hospitality industry sites. André is shocked, determined to preserve the town's social fabric by preserving Olivier's heritage, and disappointed she doesn't even recognize him as childhood best playmate. It turns out the backward taxes are a ticking bomb, which she sneakily intends to ignite, only André's charms and the lavender-scented bucolic way of life appeal ever more even to businesslike Charlotte.

Bibingka Apoy Sa Ilalim  Apoy Sa Ibabaw
★ 4.3
Bibingka Apoy Sa Ilalim Apoy Sa Ibabaw2002Romance

Long years of separation have made sisters Loida and Lina strangers to each other. So much so that when cruel fate makes their paths cross anew, it is by way of one man's love Willie's. As unsuspecting of the two women are, of their familial affinities, Willie gets caught in the what seems a sticky situation. Especially as Loida and Lina finally and eventually find the truth about themselves. Love and life can be as hot and sticky as rice cakes, indeed!

Cloud 9
★ 5.7
Cloud 92008Romance

A romantic drama about a woman who enters into an affair after 30 years of marriage.

Antz
★ 6.2
Antz1998Comedy

A neurotic worker ant in love with a rebellious princess rises to unlikely stardom when he switches places with a soldier. Signing up to march in a parade, he ends up under the command of a bloodthirsty general. But he's actually been enlisted to fight against a termite army.

Casper
★ 6.4
Casper1995Comedy

Casper is a kind young ghost who peacefully haunts a mansion in Maine. When specialist James Harvey arrives to communicate with Casper and his fellow spirits, he brings along his teenage daughter, Kat. Casper quickly falls in love with Kat, but their budding relationship is complicated not only by his transparent state, but also by his troublemaking apparition uncles and their mischievous antics.

Alfie
★ 5.9
Alfie2004Comedy · Romance

A tale of a philosophical womanizer who is forced to question his seemingly carefree existence.

Dude, Where's My Car?
★ 5.5
Dude, Where's My Car?2000Comedy

Two stoners wake up after a night of partying and cannot remember where they parked their car.

For Love or Money
★ 6.2
For Love or Money1993Comedy · Romance

New York concierge Doug Ireland wants to go into business for himself and refurbish a hotel on Roosevelt Island, N.Y., but he needs an investor. With a few weeks left before his option on the site runs out, Doug agrees to help wealthy Christian Hanover conceal his affair with salesgirl Andy Hart from his wife. Despite his own attraction to Andy, Doug tries to stay focused on getting Christian to invest $3 million in his project.

Dog Days
★ 6.6
Dog Days2001Comedy

Vignettes of the lives of several residents of a Vienna suburb during a heat wave.

The Guru
★ 5.4
The Guru2002Comedy · Romance

Bored with Bollywood movies but fascinated with their Hollywood counterparts from his youth, Ram dreams to become a singer and actor in America, the country where dreams are made. He is encouraged when his American-based close friend, Vijay Rao, comes for visit, and brags about driving a Mercedes and living in a penthouse.

Mechanics of Love
★ 6.5
Mechanics of Love2017Romance

Mattilynn Dupree is back in her home town for her sister’s wedding, re-evaluating her life after missing out on the promotion she always wanted. She runs into an old friend, Jake, in her Dad’s auto mechanic shop and is given a reason to stay. But her ex-boyfriend comes to town to get her back, and her boss calls to lure her away with the promise of a better job, so she’s torn between the life she thought she always wanted and the one that she’s fallen in love with all over again.

Rain in the Sunshine
★ 6.9
Rain in the Sunshine2013Romance

Schoolboy Hinata has a big crush on his classmate Shigure, but is too shy to tell her. On the day Shigure is leaving, Hinata flies off on the wings of a bird chasing after her to tell how he feels!

Your favorites

Recently viewed

Watch

Choose an authorized server.

Full video from an operator-configured authorized source. Official trailers use a separate player. If a server fails, retry or select another authorized server.

Legal watch options

Official trailer

Trailer preview only. Press Play to start.

Privacy choices

Favorites stay in your browser. Movie images load from TMDb. YouTube trailers contact YouTube only after you allow external media and choose a trailer. Advertising consent, if ads are enabled, is managed separately by the operator’s certified CMP.

Privacy policy

After allowing external media, choose the trailer button to load its player.