Subgenre Sampler
Comedy: 5570 Films to Buy & Rent
Summer School (1987)
- Dir. Carl Reiner
Feat. Mark Harmon, Kirstie Alley, Robin Thomas…
- Goofy 80's High School comedy starring Mark Harman as a gym teacher with big vacation plans who reluctantly agrees to teach a summer English class…
Three O'Clock High (1987)
- Dir. Phil Joanou
Feat. Casey Siemaszko
- Bad day scenario finds teenage loner Siemaszko in a twist with the school’s leather–jacketed thug, who must wheedle out of a 3pm rendezvous…
Throw Momma from the Train (1987)
- Dir. Danny De Vito
Feat. Billy Crystal, Danny De Vito, Kim Greist…
- Snappy comic spinoff of STRANGERS ON A TRAIN.
Tin Men (1987)
- Dir. Barry Levinson
Feat. Danny De Vito, Richard Dreyfuss, Barbara Hershey
- A bitter feud escalates between aluminum–cladding salesm en Danny De Vito and Richard Dreyfuss in the 1950s. Both chinwaggers are in their…
Tutti Frutti (TV Series) (1987)
- Feat. Robbie Coltrane, Emma Thompson, Richard Wilson
- This beautifully sardonic Scottish miniseries launched the careers of it's lead actors, offering a brilliant satire of the music industry and a deft…
Who's That Girl? (1987)
- Dir. James Foley
Feat. Madonna, Griffin Dunne
- Straight outta prison for murder, Madge (innocent, naturally) accosts a soon–to–be–wedded attorney (Dunne) in the name of justice,…
Witches of Eastwick (1987)
- Dir. George Miller
Feat. Cher, Susan Sarandon, Michelle Pfeiffer…
- Lively comic fantasy about three bored spinsters whose dreams of Mr. Right unwittingly conjure up a diabolical Jack Nicholson.
Woo Woo Kid, The (In the Mood) (1987)
- Dir. Phil Alden Robinson
Feat. Patrick Dempsey, Beverly D'Angelo, Talia Balsam…
- Dreamboat Patrick Dempsey woos two older women as a 15–year–old casanova in this affable romantic comedy of an adolescent who has a gift…
You Talkin' to Me? (1987)
- Dir. Charles Winkler
Feat. Jim Youngs, Faity Ford, Mykeltin Williamson
- An intriguing satire about the perils of blind ambition, it follows a disenchanted New York actor – whose idol is Robert De Niro in TAXI DRIVER –…
A Very Peculiar Practice (TV Series) (+ A Very Polish Practice) (1986-1988)
- Dir. David Tucker
Feat. Peter Davison, Graham Crowden, Barbara Flynn
- A glorious surreal BBC black–comedy drama set in the health centre of a British university, based on the experiences of revered writer Andrew…