Subgenre Sampler
Comedy: 5561 Films to Buy & Rent
Say Anything (1989)
- Dir. Cameron Crowe
Feat. John Cusack, Ione Skye, John Mahoney
- Fresh light is cast on the East–end boy meets West–end girl scenario. Satisfying teen fare.
Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills (1989)
- Dir. Paul Bartel
Feat. Jacqueline Bisset, Mary Woronov, Ray Sharkey…
- This irreverant poke at Hollywood's upper–class has something to offend everyone, but its camp bad taste is kind of endearing. Jacqueline…
See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989)
- Dir. Arthur Hiller
Feat. Richard Pryor, Gene Wilder
- Average teaming of Wilder and Pryor as a deaf man and a blind man on the lam. The high obscene–language level doesn't yield much comic results.
Send a Gorilla (1989)
- Dir. Melanie Read
Feat. Carmel McGlone, Katherine McRae, Perry Piercy
- Valentine's Day spells chaos for three women who run a singing telegram company. A whimsical comedy set and filmed on location here in Wellington.
She's Been Away (1989)
- Dir. Peter Hall
Feat. Peggy Ashcroft, James Fox
- After a lifetime in mental institutions, an elderly Peggy Ashcroft is released into the care of her liberal nephew James Fox. A disarming and…
She-Devil (1989)
- Dir. Susan Seidelman
Feat. Meryl Streep, Roseanne, Ed Jr. Begley…
- A stylised comic treatment of Fay Weldon's dark novel with Rosanne Barr exacting ultimate retribution on husband–stealing rich–bitch…
Shirley Valentine (1989)
- Dir. Lewis Gilbert
Feat. Pauline Collins, Tom Conti
- Pauline Collins adapts her stage role for the screen and the result is an unqualified success. You'll take delight in witnessing her rediscover her…
Simpsons, The (TV Series) (1989)
- Dir. Various
- Fun at home with Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie Simpson – the definitve animated American family, in the iconic TV series of the 1990s has…
Slaves of New York (1989)
- Dir. James Ivory
Feat. Bernadette Peters, Chris Sarandon, Mary Beth Hurt…
- Screen adaptation of Tama Janowitz' cult novel about the pretensions and perversions of fashionable New Yorkers. Stars Bernadette Peters.
Steel Magnolias (1989)
- Dir. Herbert Ross
Feat. Julia Roberts, Dolly Parton, Daryl Hannah…
- Light comedy–come–tearjerker in which six Southern belles congregate at a beauty salon over several years.