Subgenre Sampler
Classics: 3559 Films to Buy & Rent
Haunted Honeymoon (1986)
- Dir. Gene Wilder
Feat. Gene Wilder, Dom DeLuise, Gilda Radner…
- Insipid farce has two hapless honeymooners besieged by various spooky happenings. There is some fun to be had here and Wilder's affection for Abbott…
Heartbreak Ridge (1986)
- Dir. Clint Eastwood
Feat. Clint Eastwood, Marsha Mason, Everett McGill…
- Eastwood stars as a rugged drill sergeant assigned to a platoon of raw recruits in order to whip them into shape.
Lesser Eastwood effort is also…
Heartburn (1986)
- Dir. Mike Nichols
Feat. Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson
- Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson undergo some engaging marital strife.
Hoosiers (1986)
- Dir. David Anspaugh
Feat. Gene Hackman, Dennis Hopper, Barbara Hershey
- Superior sports drama, with Hackman coaching a high–school basketball team out of their slump. Feelgood message is combined with a bit of…
Howard the Duck (1986)
- Dir. Willard Huyck
Feat. Lea Thompson, Tim Robbins, Jeffrey Jones
- An H–Bomb of interstellar proportions, this George Lucus produced quack–job starred a dwarf–sized humanoid duck, sent to earth to…
It's Garry Shandling's Show (1986-1990)
- Feat. Garry Shandling
- Hugely influential show centered around the neurosis of Garry Shandling – basically playing himself, who along with the rest of the cast just…
Kangaroo (1986)
- Dir. Tim Burstall
Feat. Judy Davis, Colin Friels
- Thinly veiled autobiographical account of novelist D.H. Lawrence features Colin Friels as 'a British writer' in Australia who gets unintentionally…
Last Days of Frank and Jesse James, The (1986)
- Dir. William A. Graham
Feat. Kris Kristofferson, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson…
- Likeable version of the last years, not days, of the legendary Frank and Jesse James played by 'outlaw' country music stars Johnny Cash and Kris…
Lucas (1986)
- Dir. David Seltzer
Feat. Corey Haim, Kerri Green, Charlie Sheen…
- Genuinely sympathetic account of the teenage love of 'dweeb' Corey Haim for an older schoolmate (Green), through infatuation, rejection and...…
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- Dir. Nadia Tass
Feat. Colin Friels, John Hargreaves
- A simple young man with a genius for things mechanical is coerced into criminal activity by his dodgy new flatmate. Deserved winner of 8 Australian…