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Subgenre Sampler
Troll (1985)- Dir. John Buechler, Drago Floyd
Feat. Michael Moriarty, Sonny Bono, Shelley Hack… - Barrel–scrapingly hilarious, this GREMLINS knock–off sees a hairy troll turning an apartment block into a "garden of ancient evil", by…
Volunteers (1985)- Feat. Tom Hanks, John Candy, Rita Wilson…
- Broad eighties comedy stars a fresh–faced Hanks as a upper class snob who joins the peace corps in Thailand in order to escape his gambling…
Voyeur (Abel) (1985)- Dir. Alex Van Warmerdam
Feat. Alex Van Warmerdam, Henri Garcin, Olga Zuiderhoek - So many windows, so little time! An oddball sex farce in which the director himself plays a binocular–happy mummy's boy who falls in love with…
Water (1985)- Dir. Dick Clement
Feat. Michael Caine, Billy Connolly, Valerie Perrine… - When oil is discovered on a peaceful Caribbean outpost island it swiftly finds itself embroiled in a political upheaval with all sides fighting for…
When Father Was Away on Business (1985)
- Dir. Emir Kusturica
Feat. Moreno de Bartolli, Miki Manojlovic, Mira Furlan - A delightful dramedy of social upheaval, set during Yugoslavia’s Tito–Stalin conflict of the 1950s. Kusturica filters the tribulations of…
Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai - Across the Eighth Dimension (1984)- Dir. W.D. Richter
Feat. Peter Weller, John Lithgow, Ellen Barkin… - This offbeat genre film has been described as a silly movie for smart people. A bored neurosurgeon (Buck) decides to become a rock star and defender…
All of Me (1984)
- Dir. Carl Reiner
Feat. Steve Martin, Lily Tomlin - Martin gives a career–best turn when, through a little hocus–pocus, is forced to share his body with a crotchety millionairess.
American Dreamer (1984)- Dir. Rick Rosenthal
Feat. Giancarlo Giannini, JoBeth Williams, Tom Conti… - Comedy adventure in which a fed–up housewife pens a story about a spy and wins a trip to Paris where she starts to believe she is the spy in…
At Last Smith And Jones (TV Series) (Alas Smith and Jones) (1984-1998)- Feat. Mel Smith, Griff Rhys-Jones
- Best of the British sketch show ALAS SMITH AND JONES. Similar in tone to NOT THE NINE O'CLOCK NEWS, this is equally hit–and–miss,…
Bachelor Party (1984)- Dir. Neal Israel
Feat. Tom Hanks - 'Classic', if that's the word, 80s sex comedy has an impish Tom Hanks undergoing various hair–raising rites of passage before he is wed.
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