Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Comedy: 5452 Films to Rent
Chef! (TV Series) (1993)
- Feat. Lenny Henry
- Comedian Lenny Henry plays a tyrannical Michelin star chef (a la Gordon Ramsey) in this well–received BBC dramedy, remembered for Henry's…
Clerks (1993)
- Dir. Kevin Smith
Feat. Brian O'Halloran, Jeff Anderson, Jason Mewes…
- Made for $27,000 in the convenience store where the director (then) worked, this follows a rude and bizarre day in the lives of two lowly grocery…
Comic Strip Presents: Five Go Mad in Dorset / Susie (1993)
- Dir. Bob Spiers
Feat. Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders, Peter Richardson…
- Two 'Comic Strip' comedies on one tape. 'Five Go Mad...' hilariously sends up the po–faced adventures of Enid Blyton's childrens books, while…
Coneheads (1993)
- Dir. Steve Barron
Feat. Dan Aykroyd, Jane Curtin
- Slightly strained attempt at stretching a five–minute sketch idea with its one–note 'alien' novelty. Dan Aykroyd and Jane Curtin reprise…
Dallas Doll (1993)
- Dir. Ann Turner
Feat. Sarah Bernhardt
- Sandra Bernhardt plays a free–spirited American who turns the lives of a middle–class Sydney family on its ear with her unbridled…
Dave (1993)
- Dir. Ivan Reitman
Feat. Kevin Kline, Sigourney Weaver
- Kline makes a few policy changes as an average Joe presidential lookalike who gets a shot as president after the real McCoy has a stroke. Thoroughly…
Dazed and Confused (1993)
- Dir. Richard Linklater
Feat. Jason London, Rory Cochrane, Matthew McConaughey…
- Set on campus in 1976, this is a marvellous youth–movie/nostalgia–trip which treats the hopelessly insignificant as a source of constant…
Deadly Advice (1993)
- Dir. Mandie Fletcher
Feat. Jane Horrocks, Brenda Fricker, Jonathan Pryce…
- A wicked little black comedy about murder in small, genteel provincial town on the Welsh borders. The twist is to have the bickering ghosts of…
Desperate Remedies (1993)
- Dir. Peter Wells, Stewart Main
Feat. Michael Hurst, Cliff Curtis, Kevin Smith…
- An audacious, decadent soap–opera which proudly flaunts its contempt for traditional local film–making with drugs, kinky sex,…
Director's Cut, The (The Pickle) (1993)
- Dir. Paul Mazursky
Feat. Danny Aiello, Shelley Winters, Dyan Cannon…
- Yet another film about film–making. Danny Aiello portrays the alter–ego of director Paul Masursky, a self–obsessed and aging film…