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Subgenre Sampler
Funeral, The (1984)- Dir. Juzo Itami
Feat. Tsutomu Yamazaki, Nobuko Miyamoto - A Buddhist funeral service for a brothel owner makes an ideal vehicle for both fiendish black comedy and social satire. An assured debut from the…
Ghostbusters (1984)
- Dir. Ivan Reitman
Feat. Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver… - Blockbuster supernatural comedy follows the lives of three flaky paranormal investigators who find themselves in countless gooey situations. The…
Girls on Top (TV Series) (1984-1985)- Feat. Dawn French, Tracey Ullman, Jennifer Saunders…
- Dawn French gets more than she bargained for in recruiting three cantankerous roommates in order to accord the rent on her Chelsea flat. Among the…
Gremlins (1984)- Dir. Joe Dante
Feat. Hoyt Axton, Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates… - Comedy–horror gold just mild enough for the kids, about a boy's new pet that spawns a legion of furry, unruly monsters.
Hardbodies (1984)- Dir. Mark Griffiths
Feat. Grant Cramer, Teal Roberts, Courtney Gains… - Amazingly trashy American sex comedy in which three middle–aged daddies on a beach holiday enlist the help of a local student to help them…
Ice Pirates, The (1984)- Dir. Stewart Raffill
Feat. Robert Urich, Mary Crosby, Michael D. Roberts… - Goofy sci–fi comedy set in a distant future where water is scarce on the planet earth. After a band of space pirates get caught raiding ice,…
Johnny Dangerously (1984)- Dir. Amy Heckerling
Feat. Michael Keating, Joe Piscopo, Marilu Henner… - Michael Keaton turns to a life of crime to support his ailing mother in this zany spoof of 1930's gangster films.
Ladies On the Rocks (1984)- Dir. Christian Thomsen
Feat. Gotha Anderson, Bruno Bjorn, Peter Boesen - Two women cabaret performers win the hearts of provincial audiences with their raucous brand of feminist humour. Ironically, their increasing…
Lust in The Dust (1984)- Dir. Paul Bartel
Feat. Divine, Tab Hunter, Geoffrey Lewis… - Imitating the tone of mid–period John Waters (POLYESTER), dir. Bartel spoofs the Western melodrama with heaving cleavages, abysmal musical…
Magnificent Evans, The (TV Series) (1984)- Feat. Ronnie Barker
- Long–forgotten BBC comedy concerning 'Genius, Photographer And Man Of Letters' Plantagenet Evans (Barker), who lives in a Welsh village and…
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