Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Comedy: 5452 Films to Rent
Doing Time for Patsy Cline (1997)
- Dir. Chris Kennedy
Feat. Miranda Otto, Matt Day, Richard Roxburgh…
- A quietly inspired drama, set around the journey of an Australian lad (Day) towards Country Music fame in Nashville, who becomes waylaid by a curious…
Eddie Izzard - Glorious (1997)
- Dir. Peter Richardson
Feat. Eddie Izzard
- Filmed at Labatt’s Apollo Theatre, this mock–epic auto–biography has cult comedian Eddie Izzard re–enact the important and…
Eight Heads in a Duffel Bag (1997)
- Dir. Tom Schulman
Feat. Joe Pesci, Andy Comeau, Kristy Swanson
- Mob bagman Joe Pesci must transport hard evidence of a mass slaying, but he loses the noggins and has to recoup them by any means necessary from a…
Eric Bana Show, The (TV Series) (1997)
- Feat. Eric Bana
- After guest–starring on the classic Australian skit–series "Full Frontal" and before starring in THE CASTLE and moving on to Hollywood,…
Fast Show, The (TV Series) (1997-1999)
- A cult British sketch–show series from the 1990s has many inventive moments. Sketches include Ted and Ralph, Channel Nine News, Unlucky Alf,…
Fathers' Day (1997)
- Dir. Ivan Reitman
Feat. Robin Williams, Billy Crystal
- Middle–aged slacker Robin Williams and finnicky lawyer Billy Crystal dish up more of the same in this…
Fierce Creatures (1997)
- Dir. Robert Young, Fred Schepisi
Feat. John Cleese, Kevin Kline, Jamie Lee Curtis…
- John Cleese reunites the cast of A FISH CALLED WANDA for his self–penned farce set in a British zoo.
His pointed satire of corporate ethics…
Flubber (1997)
- Dir. Les Mayfield
Feat. Robin Williams, Marcia Gay Harden
- Robin Williams again gets the character–chemistry right in a reprise of the classic Absent–Minded Professor, the inadvertent inventor of…
For Roseanna (Roseanna's Grave) (1997)
- Dir. Paul Weiland
Feat. Mercedes Ruehl, Jean Reno
- Terminally–ill Mercedes Ruehl's dying wish is to be buried in the local cemetary, but the plots are filling up fast, thus sending off her…
Full Monty, The (1997)
- Dir. Peter Cattaneo
Feat. Robert Carlyle, Mark Addy, William Snape…
- British success story of the decade is small but perfected–formed tale of triumphant underdogs.
That it convinces that five pretty unsexy…