Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Comedy: 5452 Films to Rent
Grafters (TV Mini-series) (1998)
- Dir. David Richards, Stephen Whittaker
Feat. Robson Green, Stephen Tompkinson
- Distinct drama series following the misadventures of two brothers forced to work together as builders and renovate a house for a London couple, which…
Hairy Bird, The (Strike) (1998)
- Dir. Sarah Kernochan
Feat. Lynn Redgrave, Gaby Hoffmann
- Good–natured meditation on the importance of female–bonding set in a girls prep–school (run by Lynn Redgrave) in 1963, with the…
Half Baked (1998)
- Dir. Tamra Davis
Feat. Dave Chappelle
- Red–eyed farce has the irrepressible Dave Chappelle contrive a desperate scheme to raise bail funds for a dope–smoking buddy by...…
Higher Love (At Sachem Farm; Uncorked) (1998)
- Dir. John Huddles
Feat. Rufus Sewell, Minnie Driver, Nigel Hawthorne
- Moderately quaffable comedy has a young heir (Sewell) plan to sell his wealthy Californian family's huge wine collection so as make an investment.…
Holy Man (1998)
- Dir. Stephen Herek
Feat. Eddie Murphy, Jeff Goldblum, Kelly Preston
- Bravely playing against his profane persona, the unholy Eddie Murphy gets to fill a pair of Gandhi pajamas in this ironic 'messiah comedy'. But after…
Home Fries (1998)
- Dir. Dean Parisot
Feat. Drew Barrymore, Luke Wilson
- Drew Barrymore continues to style herself as a wise yet perky cutsie–pie, here as a pregnant Burger–Matic waitress dodging the vindictive…
Homegrown (1998)
- Dir. Stephen Gyllenhaal
Feat. Billy Bob Thornton, Kelly Lynch, Hank Azaria…
- Billy Bob Thornton heads a trio of inept drug dealers in a modest, though deft comedy of marijuana capers. Seeking to offload their crop when the…
How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998)
- Dir. Kevin Sullivan
Feat. Angela Bassett, Whoopi Goldberg
- Career–women again undergo the midlife crisis, with all its romantic miscalculations in another adaptation from the pen of Terry McMillan…
I'll Make You Happy (1998)
- Dir. Athina Tsoulis
Feat. Jodie Rimmer, Michael Hurst
- A comical hotchpotch set among Auckland's K–Road denizens, featuring Jodie Rimmer as a peppy prositute who plots to rip–off pimp Michael…
I'm Alan Partridge (TV Series) (1998)
- Dir. Dominic Brigstocke
Feat. Steve Coogan
- This is possibly British comedian Steve Coogan’s finest achievement to date, a spot–on portrait of a failed middle–aged TV host…