Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Comedy: 5452 Films to Rent
If Only (Twice Upon Yesterday) (1998)
- Dir. Maria Ripoll
Feat. Douglas Henshall, Elizabeth McGovern, Penelope Cruz
- Young lovers undergoing a relationship crisis get to relive the 'break–up' day all over again, thanks to a dose of SLIDING DOORS–style…
Imposters, The (1998)
- Dir. Stanley Tucci
Feat. Stanley Tucci, Oliver Platt, Isabella Rossellini
- Following up his comic hit BIG NIGHT, Stanley Tucci helms this passable 'false–identity' comedy set aboard a cruise ship from out of some kind…
In and Out (1998)
- Dir. Frank Oz
Feat. Kevin Kline, Joan Cusack, Tom Selleck…
- Bow–tied teacher Kevin Kline is 'out'–ed by an ex–student during his Oscar acceptance speech, casting suspicion on his impending…
Intervention, The (Suicide, the Comedy) (1998)
- Dir. Glen Freyer
Feat. Jamie Harris, Alison Eastwood
- Black comedy in which a struggling screenwriter researches a film script about suicide but worries his friends and family that he has real tendencies…
Jawbreaker (1998)
- Dir. Darren Stein
Feat. Rose McGowan
- A trio of teen–queens (incl. Rose McGowan), used to inflicting tongue–lashings on their classmates go onto the back foot when they…
Jerry Seinfeld - Live on Broadway (I'm Telling You For The Last Time) (1998)
- Feat. Jerry Seinfeld
- Self–congratulatory – yet completely hilarious – stand–up from Jerry Sienfeld, who recorded this in 1998 after SEINFELD had…
King of Queens, The (TV Series) (1998-2006)
- Feat. Kevin James, Jerry Stiller, Patton Oswalt
- Warm–hearted neighbourhood comedy series set on the streets of Queens, NYC, which gets going when a rotund and happily–settled delivery…
Kissing a Fool (1998)
- Dir. Doug Ellin
Feat. David Schwimmer, Jason Lee
- David Schwimmer (TV's FRIENDS) assumes the guise of a dapper, smart–mouthed ladies' man, who, in an attack of last–minute humbug over his…
Krippendorf's Tribe (1998)
- Dir. Todd Holland
Feat. Richard Dreyfuss, Lily Tomlin
- Bristled anthropologist Richard Dreyfuss commits scientific fraud to help out with the career and mortgage, making films of an undiscovered New…
Last Days of Disco (1998)
- Dir. Whit Stillman
Feat. Chloe Sevigny, Kate Beckinsale
- Not so much a nostalgia trip as a literate comedy of manners a la 1980s Manhattan, dissecting the sashays on the social dancefloor among a troupe of…