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Subgenre Sampler
All Night Long (1981)- Dir. Jean-Claude Tramont
Feat. Gene Hackman, Barbra Streisand, Dennis Quaid… - Gene Hackman escapes the druggery of family life by shacking up with nutty Barbra Streisand in this uneven screwball comedy. Totally erratic,…
Cannonball Run (1981)- Dir. Hal Needham
Feat. Burt Reynolds, Roger Moore, Farrah Fawcett… - Packed with an absurd combination of stars, this trans–continental car race yarn is largely a vehicle for Burt Reynolds wisecracks and some…
Continental Divide (1981)- Dir. Michael Apted
Feat. John Belushi, Blair Brown, Allen Garfield… - Neglected Belushi outing is a gentle comedy with a hard–nosed journalist falling for an eagle researcher high in the mountains of Colorado.
Hoodwink (1981)- Dir. Claude Whatham
Feat. John Hargreaves, Judy Davis, Geoffrey Rush… - Devious bank robber Hargreaves eludes the law by pretending to be blind in this low–key Aussie caper–romance. Geoffrey Rush’s first…
Incredible Shrinking Woman, The (1981)- Dir. Joel Schumacher
Feat. Lily Tomlin, Charles Grodin, Ned Beatty… - Fitfully amusing comedy mines the considerable talents of Lily Tomlin in the role of a housewife accidentally shrunk by her husband. Considerably…
My Dinner with Andre (1981)
- Dir. Louis Malle
Feat. Wallace Shawn, Andre Gregory - An honest exchange of philosophy transpires over dinner between an out–of–work playwright and a theatre director. Remarkably compelling…
Neighbors (Neighbours) (1981)- Dir. John G. Avildsen
Feat. Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, Cathy Moriarty - Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi bicker over the back–fence in this suburban comedy.
Private Lessons (1981)- Dir. Alan Myerson
Feat. Sylvia Kristel, Eric Brown, Howard Hesseman… - A slightly queasy mix of thriller and sexual drama, has a teenager (Brown) initiated by the family maid (Kristel) into the carnal facts of life, and…
Private Schulz (1981)- Feat. Michael Elphick, Ian Richardson, Billie Whitelaw…
- Gleefully macabre farce focuses on the scheming titular character who convinces the Nazis to mass counterfeit millions of five pound notes in a bid…
S.O.B. (1981)- Dir. Blake Edwards
Feat. Julie Andrews, William Holden, Richard Mulligan… - Blake Edwards' satire of the film industry and Hollywood society in which a movie producer who made a huge flop tries to salvage his career by…
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