Subgenre Sampler
Comedy: 5549 Films to Buy & Rent
Brass Eye (TV Series) (1997-2001)
- Feat. Chris Morris, Doon Mackichan, Gina McKee…
- Satirical current affairs show created by Chris Morris (THE DAY TODAY), with a talented team of writers exploring the media's role in the propagation…
Breast Men (1997)
- Dir. Lawrence O'Neil
Feat. David Schwimmer, Chris Cooper
- Surgeons David Schwimmer and Chris Cooper negotiate the silicon–valleys (or is that hills?) of 60s America in this blackly comic history of…
Bring Me the Head of Mavis Davis (1997)
- Dir. John Henderson
Feat. Rik Mayall, Jane Horrocks
- Rik Mayall delivers one of his oily variations in what is only his second feature. As a jaded music manager he decides to have his…
Buddy (1997)
- Dir. Caroline Thompson
Feat. Rene Russo, Robbie Coltrane
- Animal freaks Rene Russo and Robbie Coltrane incur a series of fine messes when they attempt to domesticate an adult gorilla into their feathered and…
Castle, The (1997)
- Dir. Rob Sitch
Feat. Michael Caton, Anne Tenney, Sophie Lee…
- Uniquely Antipodean comedy about a blissfully naïve family that become forced to take on the council Goliath who wish to convert their beloved…
Chasing Amy (1997)
- Dir. Kevin Smith
Feat. Ben Affleck, Joey Lauren Adams, Jason Lee…
- Can a lesbian learn to love someone from the opposite sex? – is but one of the sticky questions proffered in this bittersweet arthouse hit.…
Chris Rock Show, The (TV Series) (1997)
- Feat. Chris Rock
- The Emmy Award–winning comedy series with one of America's most successful contemporary comics, Chris Rock.
It's "unrated, uncensored and…
Clockwatchers (1997)
- Dir. Jill Sprecher
Feat. Toni Collette, Parker Posey, Lisa Kudrow…
- Four office temps band together in an oppressive (and outdated?) corporate environment – too bad they're caricatures: Toni Collette is…
Cousin Bette (1997)
- Dir. Des McAnuff
Feat. Jessica Lange, Elisabeth Shue, Aiden Young
- Well–upholstered tale of malice and revenge in pre–revolutionary Paris follows buoyantly in the tradition of bodice–ripping…
Dad (TV Series) (1997)
- Feat. George Cole, Kevin McNally
- A creaky generation–gap sitcom centred on the familial conflict between a stuffy patriarch (Cole), his son (McNally), and his grandson.…