Subgenre Sampler
Comedy: 5549 Films to Buy & Rent
Girl 6 (1996)
- Dir. Spike Lee
Feat. Theresa Randle, Madonna, Naomi Campbell…
- Spike Lee's risque fable of the phone sex and role–playing favours glamour over substance, so treat it like a black SHOWGIRLS with phones.…
Go Now (1996)
- Dir. Michael Winterbottom
Feat. Robert Carlyle, Juliet Aubrey, James Nesbitt…
- Scotsman Robert Carlyle faces terminal illness with the support of family, his lover and a rich line in crude male banter from his mates. Not often…
God of Cookery, The (1996)
- Dir. Stephen Chow (Chiao)
Feat. Stephen Chow (Chiao)
- Stephen Chow cooks up a comic storm as a mercilessly ego–centric chef who, in great narrative tradition, is forced to truly earn his title…
Great White Hype, The (1996)
- Dir. Reginald Hudlin
Feat. Samuel L. Jackson, Jeff Goldblum, Peter Berg…
- Samuel L. Jackson and Jeff Goldblum star in this ham–fisted comic tale of ringside corruption. Jackson goes OTT as an opportunistic Don…
Gridlock'd (1996)
- Dir. Vondie Curtis Hall
Feat. Tim Roth, Tupac Shakur, Vondie Curtis Hall…
- Keyboardist Tim Roth and bassist Tupac Shakur jam out a squalid riff of muso–junkie blues. With girlfriend in a coma, the bureaucratic road to…
Guantanamera (1996)
- Dir. Tomas Gutierrez Alea, Juan Carlos Tabio
Feat. Carlos Cruz, Mirta Ibarra, Jorge Perugorria…
- A quirky mix of low–speed road movie and romantic comedy following the unsteady progress of a funeral procession across the length of Cuba…
Happy Gilmore (1996)
- Feat. Adam Sandler, Christopher McDonald, Julie Bowen
- After a couple of false strokes, standup humourist hits par with this golfing comedy, playing a teenage sociopath–cum–golf natural, who…
High School High (1996)
- Dir. Hart Bochner
Feat. Jon Lovitz, Louise Fletcher
- THE NAKED GUN parody–squad punish the college delinquent genre (DANGEROUS MINDS, HIGHER LEARNING etc). Jokes mainly aim below the belt, and…
Hotel De Love (1996)
- Dir. Craig Rosenberg
Feat. Simon Bossell, Aden Young, Saffron Burrows
- Two brothers vying for the same woman are among the farcical romantic complications that entangle at a kitsch honeymoon resort. The first–time…
Hugo Pool (1996)
- Dir. Robert Downey Snr.
Feat. Alyssa Milano, Malcolm McDowell, Robert Downey Jnr.…
- Comedy of quirks with Alyssa Milano, here still battling TV child–stardom, playing a hapless pool–cleaner who maintains the backyard…