Subgenre Sampler
Classics > Comedy: 911 Films to Buy & Rent
Quick Change (1990)
- Dir. Bill Murray
Feat. Bill Murray, Geena Davis, Randy Quaid
- Clever caper comedy features the most ingenious bank robbery ever staged. Rollicking fun with Bill Murray, Geena Davis and Randy Quaid.
Rosalie Goes Shopping (1990)
- Dir. Percy Adlon
Feat. Marianne Sagebrecht, Brad Davis, Judge Reinhold…
- Marianne Sagebrecht, the plump and lovable Bavarian from BAGDAD CAFE, is this time endowed with 37 credit cards and an insatiable appetite for…
Sibling Rivalry (1990)
- Dir. Carl Reiner
Feat. Kirstie Alley, Bill Pullman, Carrie Fisher…
- Hysterical screwball comedy with Kirstie Alley playing an aspiring writer and neglected wife, whose fling with a handsome stranger leads to mistaken…
Waiting for the Light (1990)
- Dir. Christopher Monger
Feat. Shirley Maclaine, Teri Garr, Clancy Brown
- Shirley MacLaine is a hoot in this silly family film about a former magician who moves her straight–laced niece and her mischievous children to…
When Harry Met Sally (1990)
- Dir. Rob Reiner
Feat. Meg Ryan, Billy Crystal
- Thirtysomething favourite that amicably flirts with the subject of platonic relationships between men and women. Meg Ryan's priceless 'fake orgasm'…
Behaving Badly (TV mini-series) (1989)
- Dir. David Tucker
Feat. Judi Dench, Frances Barber, Maurice Denham…
- A bleak though blackly–comic mini–series with Judi Dench as a dowdy housewife who belatedly comes out of her shell after her husband of…
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989)
- Dir. Stephen Herek
Feat. Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, George Carlin
- Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter play a couple of crazed teenagers who are sent on a Excellent Adventure, collecting famous historical figures via a…
Bloodhounds of Broadway (1989)
- Dir. Howard Brookner
Feat. Matt Dillon, Jennifer Grey, Julie Hagerty…
- An American Playhouse adaptation of four Damon Runyon tales which intersect on New Year's Eve 1928 in a milieu of jazz–age hedonism. A good…
Burbs, The (1989)
- Dir. Joe Dante
Feat. Tom Hanks, Bruce Dern, Carrie Fisher…
- A worthwhile comic spin on that age–old comic scenario – what if those strange new neighbours were members of a cannibalistic cult?…
Chorus of Disapproval (1989)
- Dir. Michael Winner
Feat. Jeremy Irons, Anthony Hopkins, Prunella Scales…
- A light and slight drama set around widower Jeremy Iron’s move to a seaside town and involvement with a local theatre group. Superb cast livens the…