Subgenre Sampler
Classics: 3566 Films to Buy & Rent
- Mystic Pizza (1988)
- Dir. Donald Petrie
Feat. Julia Roberts, Lili Taylor, Annabeth Gish
- Julia Roberts' star quality shines in this, her debut film, contrasting the love–lives of three pizza waitresses in a town called Mystic.…
- Naked Gun, The (1988)
- Dir. David Zucker
Feat. Leslie Nielsen, George Kennedy, O.J. Simpson…
- Leslie Neilsen perfects his deadpan for the Zucker Bros., who do for police work what their classic FLYING HIGH did for air travel. A…
- Natural Causes (1988)
- Dir. Vernon Lawrence
Feat. George Cole, Prunella Scales
- A farcical comedy of infidelity and spousal skulduggery. George Cole plays a professional 'disposer' who is hired to fabricate the suicide of a…
- Patty Hearst (1988)
- Dir. Paul Schrader
Feat. Natasha Richardson, William Forsythe, Ving Rhames…
- Intense depiction of Patty Hearst's kidnapping, confinement and brain–washing by 'urban guerillas' the SLA, from that specialist in American…
- Punchline (1988)
- Dir. David Seltzer
Feat. Sally Field, Tom Hanks, John Goodman
- Ambitious comedy–drama focused on the career–efforts of two, very different aspiring standup comics – a personable Sally Field and…
- Rain Man (1988)
- Dir. Barry Levinson
Feat. Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise, Valeria Golino
- Oscar–winning road drama featuring Dustin Hoffman's virtuoso performance as the idiot savant brother of Tom Cruise, who does equally well in a…
- Running On Empty (1988)
- Dir. Sidney Lumet
Feat. Judd Hirsch, River Phoenix, Christine Lahti…
- A married couple, on the run for activist crimes in the 1960s, come to terms with their childrens' right to be free.
A moving story, handled with…
- Satisfaction (Girls of Summer) (1988)
- Dir. Joan Freeman
Feat. Justine Bateman, Julia Roberts, Liam Neeson…
- Flavour of the '80s, Justine Bateman (TV's FAMILY TIES), stole the limelight from her then fledgling co–star, Julia Roberts, in this hoary girl…
- Scrooged (1988)
- Dir. Richard Donner
Feat. Bill Murray, Karen Allen, Alfre Woodard…
- Bill Murray is hilariously mean–spirited as a yuppie incarnation of Charles Dicken’s ‘Scrooge’ who eventually gets a change of attitude…
- Shame (1988)
- Dir. Steve Jodrell
Feat. Tony Barry, Deborra-Lee Furness
- Stranded in an outback town, a female lawyer defends a young rape victim when her plight is met with nonchalance by the townsfolk.