Subgenre Sampler
Classics: 3566 Films to Buy & Rent
- Welcome Home (1989)
- Dir. Franklin J. Schaffner
Feat. Kris Kristofferson, JoBeth Williams, Sam Waterston…
- Fairly tepid post–Vietnam War drama has Kris Kristofferson play a pilot shot down over Cambodia and was rescued by a Khmer Rouge woman, whom he…
- Wilt (1989)
- Dir. Michael Tuchner
Feat. Griff Rhys-Jones, Mel Smith
- Tom Sharpe's outrageous farce with Griff Rhys Jones as the dowdy schoolteacher suspected of murdering his social–climbing wife. Bent in all the…
- Young Einstein (1989)
- Dir. Yahoo Serious
Feat. Yahoo Serious, Odile Le Clezio, John Howard
- Ozzie one–man film–making machine Yahoo Serious stars in his own zany slapstick epic about an intrepid young maverick who happens to be a…
- 1969 (1988)
- Dir. Ernest Thompson
Feat. Kiefer Sutherland, Winona Ryder, Robert Downey Jnr.…
- Keifer Sutherland and Winona Ryder lead a brat–pack of sensitive anti–war youths in the summer of '69.
- Accidental Tourist, The (1988)
- Dir. Lawrence Kasdan
Feat. William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, Geena Davis…
- A travel author faces problems with the two eccentric women in his life. A dry leisure.
- Accused, The (1988)
- Dir. Jonathan Kaplan
Feat. Jodie Foster, Kelly McGillis
- Jodie Foster won an Academy Award for her portrayal of a rape victim who suffered the additional ordeal of prosecuting her attackers in the face of…
- Another Woman (1988)
- Dir. Woody Allen
Feat. Gena Rowlands, Gene Hackman, Ian Holm…
- Gena Rowlands heads a cast of Woody Allen regulars in this absorbing Bergman–esque portrait of a successful professor who is forced to reflect…
- Bagdad Cafe (1988)
- Dir. Percy Adlon
Feat. Marianne Sagebrecht, Jack Palance, C.C.H. Pounder
- Marianne Sagebrecht plays an aloof German tourist who meets a group of equally lovable eccentrics at a remote desert inn. A quirky, expressive and…
- Beaches (1988)
- Dir. Garry Marshall
Feat. Bette Midler, Barbara Hershey, John Heard…
- Bette Midler's tour–de–force about the lifetimes of two childhood friends pulls the heart strings in all the right places.
- Big Business (1988)
- Dir. Jim Abrahams
Feat. Bette Midler, Lily Tomlin, Fred Ward…
- Midler and Tomlin play sets of identical twins in this mixed–identity farce.