Subgenre Sampler
Comedy: 5561 Films to Buy & Rent
Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot (1992)
- Dir. Roger Spottiswoode
Feat. Sylvester Stallone, Estelle Getty, JoBeth Williams…
- Taking a leaf out of Arnie's playbook, Sylvester Stallone tries his hand at comedy – sending up his tough guy persona as a mommy's boy who has…
Straight Talk (1992)
- Dir. Barnet Kellman
Feat. Dolly Parton, James Woods, Griffin Dunne…
- Easy–going comedy with Dolly Parton as a country gal who becomes a wildly popular 'agony aunt' on a Chicago radio station. Dolly livens up an…
Strictly Ballroom (1992)
- Dir. Baz Luhrmann
Feat. Paul Mercurio, Tara Morice, Barry Otto…
- An extraordinary comedy set in the world of ballroom dancing, appropriately loaded with glitz, self–mocking and brashness.
While at its…
Used People (1992)
- Dir. Beeban Kidron
Feat. Shirley Maclaine, Marcello Mastroianni, Kathy Bates…
- Feathers fly in the hen–house of recently widowed Shirley Maclaine when courted by debonair Marcello Mastroianni.
Vita Cane (Life's a Bitch aka Vita da Cane) (1992)
- Dir. Carlo Liconti
- An Italian hairdresser plays loverboy with a bevy of clients, but things snowhall hilariously when, to everyone's dismay, he falls in strictly…
Wayne's World (1992)
- Dir. Penelope Spheeris
Feat. Mike Myers, Dana Carvey, Rob Lowe
- Adapted from Mike Myers and Dana Carvey's Saturday Night Live TV skit, this full–length running gag makes the most of likeable loonies Wayne…
White Men Can't Jump (1992)
- Dir. Ron Shelton
Feat. Wesley Snipes, Woody Harrelson
- Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson team for this pacey comedy–thriller as a pair of hot–shot basketball hustlers whose scam relies on the…
Wild Target (1992)
- Dir. Pierre Salvadori
Feat. Jean Rochefort, Guillaume Depardieu
- Jean Rochefort is a fastidious hitman whose mania for control, both at home and on assignment, is dangerously weakened when he apprentices Gerard…
Absolute Hell (1991)
- Dir. Anthony Page
Feat. Judi Dench, Francesca Annis
- Classic BBC television production based on Rodney Ackland's book of the same name: a black, bleak comedy about about a sex–addicted , boozy…
Addams Family, The (1991)
- Dir. Barry Sonnenfeld
Feat. Anjelica Huston, Raul Julia, Christopher Lloyd…
- Huston, Julia and Lloyd star in this glossy update of the '60s TV series. Inventive, blackly comic and lavishly gothic production design.