Subgenre Sampler
Comedy: 5549 Films to Buy & Rent
Slums of Beverly Hills (1998)
- Dir. Tamara Jenkins
Feat. Marisa Tomei, Alan Arkin
- A New York teen comes of age while being dragged around various LA hovels by her poor–schmuck father (Alan Arkin) and her two irritating…
Splendor (1998)
- Dir. Gregg Araki
Feat. Kathleen Robertson, Johnathon Schaech
- Breezing in with this hip soap–opera, dir. Araki abandons his doomy, Gen–X scowl, for a lighter if slighter slice of youthful confusion…
Sports Night (TV Series) (1998)
- Feat. Felicity Huffman, Peter Krause, Josh Charles…
- Clever sitcom from the creator of the WEST WING based around a group of professionals who produce a sports–related cable TV show, and their…
Strange Planet (1998)
- Dir. Emma-Kate Croghan
Feat. Claudia Karvan, Hugo Weaving, Naomi Watts
- Three girl–friends and three guy–friends collide by chance for New Years Eve in a remote beach–house, mixing–n–matching…
Suburbans, The (1998)
- Dir. Donal Lardner Ward
Feat. Jennifer Love Hewitt
- Bubbly record–exec Jennifer Love Hewitt gives 80s musical has–beens The Suburbans a second shot at fame despite time finding them…
Swing (1998)
- Dir. Nick Mead
Feat. Hugo Speer, Clarence Clemmons, Lisa Stansfield…
- Thoroughly in the mould of THE COMMITMENTS, this comic celebration of how music can relieve the drudgery of life casts Hugo Speer as an incarcerated…
Tackle Happy (1998)
- Dir. Mick Molloy
Feat. Simon Morley, David Friend
- Eye–widening puppet–show utilises the visual and tactile properties of the male–organ to impersonate… all sorts of things:…
That 70s Show (TV Series) (1998-2005)
- Feat. Topher Grace, Ashton Kutcher, Mila Kunis…
- A teen–oriented, retro–themed sitcom from the 1990s that, like "Happy Days" before it, satirizes a more innocent decade with large…
The Man Who Thinks He's It - Steve Coogan Live (1998)
- Feat. Steve Coogan, Simon Pegg, Julia Davis
- Filmed at The Palace Theatre Manchester in 1998, Coogan performs a variety of characters including Duncan Thickett – the world's worst…
There's Something About Mary (1998)
- Dir. Pete Farrelly, Bob Farrelly
Feat. Matt Dillon, Cameron Diaz, Ben Stiller
- After the cult classics DUMB AND DUMBER and KINGPIN, the Brothers Farrelly hit the box–office jack–pot by spiking a time–honoured…