Subgenre Sampler
Comedy: 5549 Films to Buy & Rent
Flubber (1997)
- Dir. Les Mayfield
Feat. Robin Williams, Marcia Gay Harden
- Robin Williams again gets the character–chemistry right in a reprise of the classic Absent–Minded Professor, the inadvertent inventor of…
For Roseanna (Roseanna's Grave) (1997)
- Dir. Paul Weiland
Feat. Mercedes Ruehl, Jean Reno
- Terminally–ill Mercedes Ruehl's dying wish is to be buried in the local cemetary, but the plots are filling up fast, thus sending off her…
Full Monty, The (1997)
- Dir. Peter Cattaneo
Feat. Robert Carlyle, Mark Addy, William Snape…
- British success story of the decade is small but perfected–formed tale of triumphant underdogs.
That it convinces that five pretty unsexy…
George of the Jungle (1997)
- Dir. Sam Weisman
Feat. Brendan Fraser, Leslie Mann, Thomas Haden Church
- Loose JUNGLE BOOK parody has Brendan Fraser as the hunky klutz in a loin cloth, raised by gorillas, who discovers love in the form of Ursula, whose…
Grosse Pointe Blank (1997)
- Dir. George Armitage
Feat. John Cusack, Minnie Driver, Dan Aykroyd…
- Sporting a sideways sense of humour, this sardonic comedy has likeable, babbling hitman John Cusack shyly fronting up to his 10–year highschool…
Head Above Water (1997)
- Dir. Jim Wilson
Feat. Cameron Diaz, Harvey Keitel, Craig Sheffer…
- An island respite turns afoul for Cameron Diaz, who adds to her multiple man troubles with a gush of fateful coincidences. Frantic suspense farce has…
Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves (1997)
- Dir. Dean Cundey
Feat. Rick Moranis, Bug Hall, Robin Bartlett
- Final installment in the "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids" trilogy follows Rick Moranis' inventor who accidentally shrinks himself and most of his family.…
Idiot Box (1997)
- Dir. David Caesar
Feat. Ben Mendelsohn, Jeremy Sims
- Yet another winner from across the Taz, Ben Mendelsohn and Jeremy Sims give career–best performances as a pair of cuddly petrol–heads…
In the Company of Men (1997)
- Dir. Neil LaBute
Feat. Aaron Eckhart, Stacy Edwards
- The year's most–discussed filmic skirmish in the war of the sexes is also one of its more outrageous black comedies. Two corporate exec's on…
Inventing the Abbotts (1997)
- Dir. Pat O'Connor
Feat. Liv Tyler, Joaquin Phoenix, Jennifer Connelly
- Liv Tyler, Joaquin Phoenix and Jennifer Connelly can't revive this '50s coming–of–age yawn in which two hard–done–by brothers…