Subgenre Sampler
Classics: 3560 Films to Buy & Rent
- Pick-Up Artist, The (Pickup Artist) (1987)
- Dir. James Toback
Feat. Robert Downey Jnr., Molly Ringwald, Dennis Hopper…
- Serial womanizer Downey gets more than he bargained for when he falls for mobster's daughter Ringwald. Teen sex comedy is more thorny than horny with…
- Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987)
- Dir. John Hughes
Feat. Steve Martin, John Candy
- Well–matched comic coupling Steve Martin and John Candy go astray in the Midwest transport system. Reliably funny "mature" comedy is a pleasant…
- Poor Little Rich Girl - The Barbara Hutton Story (Mini-Series) (1987)
- Dir. Charles Jarrott
Feat. Farrah Fawcett, Burl Ives, Bruce Davison…
- Farrah Fawcett divides and conquers in this sizable biopic on the life and times of heiress Barbara Hutton, whose lineage to the Woolworth fortune…
- Poor Man's Orange (TV Mini-series) (1987)
- Dir. George Whaley
Feat. Martyn Sanderson, Anne Phelan, Kaarin Fairfax…
- The continuing sagas of a poverty stricken Irish–Australian family, in this sequel to HARP IN THE SOUTH.
- Radio Days (1987)
- Dir. Woody Allen
Feat. Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Julie Kavner
- Woody Allen revisits his childhood days in the golden era of radio.
- Rita, Sue and Bob Too (1987)
- Dir. Alan Clarke
Feat. Michelle Holmes, Siobhan Finneran
- Frank sexuality has rarely been as squarely depicted as in this tale of two naive schoolgirls growing up in working class Liverpool. Bleak and darkly…
- Roxanne (1987)
- Dir. Fred Schepisi
Feat. Steve Martin, Daryl Hannah
- Steve Martin's splendid update of Cyrano de Bergerac casts him as a fire chief burdened with an enormous nose. Daryl Hannah is the object of his…
- Secret of My Success (1987)
- Dir. Herbert Ross
Feat. Michael J. Fox, Helen Slater, Richard Jordan
- Michael J. Fox returns back to the present to climb the Wall Street corporate ladder.
- Spaceballs (1987)
- Dir. Mel Brooks
Feat. Rick Moranis, Mel Brooks, John Candy…
- A rollicking and fairly successful Mel Brooks take–off of STAR WARS and the space–opera genre, with Rick Moranis irresistibly hilarious…
- 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…