Subgenre Sampler
Comedy: 5549 Films to Buy & Rent
Love and Other Catastrophes (1996)
- Dir. Emma-Kate Croghan
Feat. Frances O’Connor, Alice Garner, Radha Mitchell…
- The indie success story of '96 was made by 23–year–old Croghan on a shoestring with her Melbourne film school buddies.
Love is a…
Love Jones (1996)
- Dir. Theodore Witcher
Feat. Larenz Tate, Nia Long, Isaiah Washington…
- Far removed from the over–familiar ghettos, this all–black ensemble instead frequent the smoky cool bars of Chicago, where they drink…
Love Serenade (1996)
- Dir. Shirley Barrett
Feat. George Shetsov, Miranda Otto, Rebecca Frith
- Two sisters fall for a middle–aged, schmoozing radio–jock in this perfectly measured Australian comedy set in a tinpot outback town.…
Lust and Revenge (1996)
- Dir. Paul Cox
Feat. Nicholas Hope, Claudia Karvan
- An unlikely creative partnership between the solemn, prolific Dutch–Aussie director Paul Cox (MAN OF FLOWERS, A WOMAN'S TALE) and John Clarke…
Man of the Year (1996)
- Dir. Dirk Shafer
Feat. Vivian Paxton, Claudette Sutherland, Michael Marisi Ornstein
- Dirk Shafer's crafty autobiographical 'mockumentary', reconstructs his bizarre experience as a gay model having to live the charade of being…
Manny and Lo (1996)
- Dir. Lisa Krueger
Feat. Mary Kay Place, Scarlett Johansson, Aleksa Palladino
- Two runaway sisters kidnap an expert surrogate care–giver, a baby–shop clerk, to help them after one falls pregnant. As a…
Mars Attacks! (1996)
- Dir. Tim Burton
Feat. Jack Nicholson, Glenn Close, Annette Bening…
- Tim Burton once again turns tacky into an art form, but this time with a monster budget to match the alien carnage.
This gleefully (though…
Michael (1996)
- Dir. Nora Ephron
Feat. John Travolta, William Hurt, Andie MacDowell…
- Not even the star presence of John Travolta, William Hurt, and Andie MacDowell can revive this abysmal comic–fantasy about a cynical tabloid…
Mirror Has Two Faces, The (1996)
- Dir. Barbra Streisand
Feat. Barbra Streisand, Jeff Bridges
- Frumpy college prof Barbra Streisand pains to keep her platonic vows in an 'ideal' no–sex marriage to fellow academic Jeff Bridges.
Babs'…
Mr. Reliable (My Entire Life) (1996)
- Dir. Nadia Tass
Feat. Colin Friels, Gillian Statham, Susie Porter
- A bland title conceals a corker recreation of a bizarre event of late '60s Ozzie history, when a petty criminal became a folk hero after a…