Subgenre Sampler
Comedy: 5549 Films to Buy & Rent
Sleepers (TV Series) (1991)
- Feat. Nigel Havers, Warren Clarke
- Absurdist BBC spy comedy set in the post–Glasnost era, where it is discovered that two KGB agents assigned to infiltrate British society in the…
Soapdish (1991)
- Dir. Michael Hoffman
Feat. Kevin Kline, Whoopi Goldberg, Sally Field…
- Kevin Kline, Whoopi Goldberg, Sally Field and Robert Downey Jnr. grace this malicious and frantic farce about life on and behind the set of a daytime…
Spirit of '76 (1991)
- Dir. Lucas Reiner
Feat. David Cassidy, Leif Garrett, Moon Zappa…
- Wanting to study the customs of 1776 America, a party of time–travellers from the future end up in a satirised 1970s.
Stepping Out (1991)
- Dir. Lewis Gilbert
Feat. Liza Minnelli, Julie Walters, Shelley Winters…
- Liza Minnelli slips on her dancing shoes as a part–time instructor who introduces a group of disparate housewives into the world of tap.
Suburban Commando (1991)
- Dir. Burt Kennedy
Feat. Hulk Hogan, Christopher Lloyd, Shelley Duvall…
- Kids will love Hulk Hogan strutting his stuff as an inter–galactic crime fighter who crash lands in suburbia.
Surviving Desire (Hal Hartley Shorts) (1991)
- Dir. Hal Hartley
Feat. Martin Donovan
- The hour–long 'Surviving Desire' is an earlier Hartley work that focuses on Hartley's world of the 'college–educated slacker' whose…
Switch (1991)
- Dir. Blake Edwards
Feat. Ellen Barkin, Jimmy Smits, JoBeth Williams…
- Sultry Ellen Barkin suceeds in a comic role as a womanizing 'man' who is reincarnated in her body and gets a taste of his own sexist medicine.
Tatie Danielle (1991)
- Dir. Etienne Chatiliez
Feat. Tsilla Chelton, Catherine Jacob, Isabelle Nanty…
- Brilliantly absurd black comedy about an elderly widow who does her best to make life miserable for her relatives. Tsilla Chelton is irresistible as…
Tonight at 8:30 (TV Series) (The Noel Coward Collection - Disc 4) (1991)
- Dir. Paul Annett, Sydney Lotterby, John Glenister
Feat. Joan Collins
- Comedy series featuring eight one–act Noel Coward plays:
1. Hands Across The Sea – Satirical look at visiting colonials trying to fit…
True Identity (1991)
- Dir. Charles Lane
Feat. Lenny Henry, Frank Langella, Charles Lane…
- Anglo–African comedian Lenny Henry deploys his wonderful gift for mimicry as an actor who unwittingly learns a gangland secret, so assumes the…