Subgenre Sampler
Comedy: 5570 Films to Buy & Rent
Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
- Dir. Guy Ritchie
Feat. Jason Statham, Jason Flemyng, Nick Moran…
- The independent hit of 1998 is a massively assured directing debut and an entertainment sensation.
Cocked with sharp dialogue, intricate plotting,…
Mafia! (Jane Austen's Mafia) (1998)
- Dir. Jim Abrahams
Feat. Lloyd Bridges, Christina Applegate, Olympia Dukakis
- Ever the low–brow, dir. Jim Abrahams (NAKED GUN et al) delivers a fair quota of spoofing lowblows to the goodfella genre, assisted by a gang of…
Martial Law (TV Series) (1998-2000)
- Feat. Sammo Hung, Arsenio Hall
- Action–comedy series starring prolific Hong Kong actor/director/producer Sammo Hung (and frequent Jackie Chan collaborator) as a Chinese law…
Mouse Hunt (1998)
- Dir. Gore Verbinski
Feat. Nathan Lane, Lee Evans, Christopher Walken
- Larger than life, very entertaining all–ages comedy follows the misfortunes of brothers Nathan Lane and Lee Evans, who inherit the family…
Mr Nice Guy (1998)
- Dir. Sammo Hung
Feat. Jackie Chan
- Another comic hodgepodge starring the overworked Jackie Chan, filmed and set in Melbourne, Australia (as a budget consideration?)
An incriminating…
Mr. Magoo (1998)
- Dir. Stanley Tong
Feat. Leslie Nielsen, Kelly Lynch
- Disney live–action remake, with Leslie Nielsen assuming the squint and bumbling crankiness of the small–screen 'toon. In this instance,…
My Giant (1998)
- Dir. Michael Lehmann
Feat. Billy Crystal, Gheorghe Muresan, Kathleen Quinlan…
- Novelty comedy in which Billy Crystal plays a desperate movie agent who uncovers the next "big" thing in Romania when he meets a giant basketballer…
Next Stop, Wonderland (1998)
- Dir. Brad Anderson
Feat. Hope Davis, Philip Seymour Hoffman
- Hope Davis (DAYTRIPPERS) utterly captivates as a jilted blonde indisposed to the dating scene, who finds little sign of Mr. Right in the long queue…
Night at the Roxbury, A (1998)
- Dir. John Fortenberry, Peter Markle
Feat. Will Ferrell, Chris Kattan, Dan Hedaya…
- Saturday Night Livers Ferrell and Kattan extend their sketch about two hapless, Z–grade ladies men out to get laid – if the women of…
Nothing to Lose (1998)
- Dir. Steve Oedekerk
Feat. Tim Robbins, Martin Lawrence
- Ad–man Tim Robbins loses his will to live after he discovers his wife's affair, and winds up indulging in petty crime with his…