Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Classics: 3200 Films to Rent on DVD
- How to Get Ahead in Advertising (1989)
- Dir. Bruce Robinson
Feat. Richard E. Grant, Rachel Ward
- Richard E. Grant encores for the director of WITHNAIL AND I to play a manic genius ad–man whose conscience rears its ugly head while he…
- In Country (1989)
- Dir. Norman Jewison
Feat. Bruce Willis, Emily Lloyd, Joan Allen
- Drama about a High School graduate from Kentucky who throws herself into a rigorous investigation of the life of her father, who died in the Vietnam…
- Jeweller's Shop, The (1989)
- Dir. Michael Anderson
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Olivia Hussey, Ben Cross
- Charming, low–key adaptation of a play by Pope John Paul the Second. Burt Lancaster in his last film role plays a jeweller in 1930's Poland…
- Lean On Me (1989)
- Dir. John G. Avildsen
Feat. Morgan Freeman, Robert Guillaume
- Principal Morgan Freeman whips the pupils of a troubled high–school into shape in this formulaic but likeable example of the genre.
- My Name is Bill W. (1989)
- Dir. Daniel Petrie
Feat. James Woods, JoBeth Williams, James Garner
- James Woods plays Bill Wilson, the famed co–founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, in this tele–movie charting his descent from 1920's business…
- National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (Christmas Vacation) (1989)
- Dir. Jeremiah Chechik
Feat. Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Randy Quaid
- A John Hughes–penned comedy featuring Chevy Chase as the bedraggled father of the family Griswold, whose plans for a big family Christmas…
- Parenthood (1989)
- Dir. Ron Howard
Feat. Steve Martin, Mary Steenburgen, Dianne Wiest…
- An effervescent and poignant comedy about the trials and tribulations of family life. An impressive ensemble cast headed by Steve Martin provide…
- Romero (1989)
- Dir. John Duigan
Feat. Raul Julia, Richard Jordan
- Provocative political drama details the story of Salvadorian Archbishop Oscar Romero, who was assassinated in 1980 by representatives of an…
- 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.
- Shadow Makers (Fat Man and Little Boy) (1989)
- Dir. Roland Joffe
Feat. Paul Newman, Dwight Schultz, Bonnie Bedelia…
- An informative (if only really adequate) dramatisation of the Manhattan Project, which produced the A–Bomb in the New Mexico desert during WW2.…