Subgenre Sampler
Comedy: 5549 Films to Buy & Rent
Blues Brothers 2000 (1998)
- Dir. John Landis
Feat. John Goodman, Dan Aykroyd, Evan Bonifant
- Belated, extraneous sequel to the 1980 cult 'classic' with John Goodman filling in the XXL trousers of the very late John Belushi. (Alas, the…
Borrowers, The (1998)
- Dir. Peter Hewitt
Feat. John Goodman, Jim Broadbent
- Inhabiting the wall and floor–spaces of our houses, colonies of tiny people eek out an existence 'borrowing' food–scraps and those items…
Bulworth (1998)
- Dir. Warren Beatty
Feat. Warren Beatty, Halle Berry, Don Cheadle…
- Disillusioned Democrat senator Warren Beatty warrants his own assassination, then stirs up a storm of controversy by fearlessly speaking his mind at…
Butcher Boy, The (1998)
- Dir. Neil Jordan
Feat. Eamonn Owens, Stephen Rea, Fiona Shaw
- Despairing yet distinctive black comedy depicts the insanity implicit in a boy's view of his small town in Ireland, circa 1962. Adopts a lurid…
Can't Hardly Wait (1998)
- Dir. Deborah Kaplan
Feat. Jennifer Love Hewitt
- Getting good party–points out of the classic formula, this perky high–school comedy unravels the limited world–views of its…
Chicago Cab (Hellcab) (1998)
- Dir. Mary Cybulski, John Tintori
Feat. John Cusack, Gillian Anderson, Julianne Moore…
- Bleak black comedy based around a day in the life of a Chicago cab–driver (Dillon) in the lead up to Christmas, who becomes confessor to his…
Clay Pigeons (1998)
- Dir. David Dobkin
Feat. Vince Vaughn, Joaquin Phoenix, Janeane Garofalo
- Vince Vaughn's crazy cowpoke killer slices up the Montana natives and finds a fall guy in gullible yokel Joaquin Phoenix (who turns in a mercifully…
Cookie's Fortune (1998)
- Dir. Robert Altman
Feat. Glenn Close, Liv Tyler, Chris O'Donnell…
- A satisfying, home–spun Southern patchwork, stuffed with little–biddy–town idiosyncracies and a slightly kooky plot surrounding the…
Crackers (1998)
- Dir. David Swann
Feat. Warren Mitchell, Peter Rowsthorn, Susan Lyons
- Exploring the rituals and humour of a Melbourne suburban backyard at Christmas time as four generations of a typical clan booze and squabble their…
Dead Man's Curve (1998)
- Dir. Dan Rosen
Feat. Matthew Lillard, Keri Russell, Dana Delaney
- Taking malicious advantage of a school–policy loophole, two desperate students conspire to dress up the murder of their room–mate as a…