Subgenre Sampler
Comedy: 5549 Films to Buy & Rent
City Slickers (1991)
- Dir. Ron Underwood
Feat. Billy Crystal
- Crystal and two thirtysomething buddies flee the urban rat–race to rekindle their lost youth – on a cattle drive in the Wild West. Fun,…
Commish, The (TV Series) (1991-1995)
- Feat. Michael Chiklis
- Impressionable cop series set in small–town America with Michael Chiklis taking on the role of local police commissioner attempting to balance…
Commitments, The (1991)
- Dir. Alan Parker
Feat. Colm Meaney
- Surprise hit simply chronicles the rise and fall of a Dublin soul band, formed by a group of teens with naught better to do. Unashamedly light fare,…
Defending Your Life (1991)
- Dir. Albert Brooks
Feat. Albert Brooks, Meryl Streep, Rip Torn…
- Albert Brooks plays a high–flying executive who dies in a car accident, then is shifted off to 'Judgement City' – an otherworldly halfway…
Delirious (1991)
- Dir. Tom Mankiewicz
Feat. John Candy, Mariel Hemingway, Emma Samms…
- A soap–opera writer (John Candy) wakes up in his own TV show, with the ability to control events around him by writing them, in this…
Doc Hollywood (1991)
- Dir. Michael Caton-Jones
Feat. Michael J. Fox, Julie Warner, David Ogden Stiers…
- Star vehicle for Michael J Fox, playing a plastic–surgeon en–route to L.A. who has a car–wreck in South Carolina and ends up…
Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead (1991)
- Dir. Stephen Herek
Feat. Christina Applegate, Danielle Harris
- Married With Children bimbo Christina Applegate stars one of a bunch of brats who have to fend for themselves when their geriatric minder carks it.…
Drop Dead Fred (1991)
- Dir. Ate De Jong
Feat. Rik Mayall, Phoebe Cates, Marsha Mason
- Rik Mayall extends his hyperactive 'Young Ones' persona as the imaginary childhood friend of a grown–up Phoebe Cates. The silly stuff is offset…
Edward Scissorhands (1991)
- Dir. Tim Burton
Feat. Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder, Vincent Price
- This inspired contemporary fairy–tale posits Johnny Depp as a boy endowed with sharp appendages, a mixed blessing when it comes to fitting into…
Father of the Bride (1991)
- Dir. Charles Shyer
Feat. Steve Martin, Martin Short
- Entertaining remake with Steve Martin as the Dad who goes into protective overdrive when he finds out his 'baby' plans to wed. Martin Short is…