Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Comedy: 5459 Films to Rent
Square Pegs (TV Series) (1982-1983)
- Feat. Sarah Jessica Parker, Amy Linker, Jami Gertz…
- Sassy high school comedy from the early 1980's centred around Sarah Jessica Parker and Amy Linker as two awkward teenage girls desperate to be…
Starstruck (1982)
- Dir. Gillian Armstrong
Feat. Jo Kennedy
- A fabulous, overlooked Aussie musical in which an ambitious barmaid lives out her dreams to be a singing star in the new wave–inflected early…
Suite in Two Keys : Come Into the Garden Maud / A Song at Twilight (The Noel Coward Collection - Disc 7) (1982)
- Feat. Paul Scofield, Geraldine McEwan, Deborah Kerr
- – Come Into The Garden Maud (82') Dubious comedy centred on a husband and wife keen to get ahead who become entranced by a prince and…
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1982)
- Dir. Terry Hughes
Feat. Angela Lansbury, George Hearn, Cris Groenendaal
- TV movie of the 1979 Broadway hit, originally staged by Harold Prince, with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Set in London in 1846, where Barber…
They Call Me Bruce? (A Fistful of Chopsticks) (1982)
- Dir. Elliott Hong
Feat. Johnny Yune
- An early, if fumbled, attempt at Asian vs. American humour sees a Mafioso's chef (Yune) sent on a drug–smuggling mission and being mistaken for…
Things Are Tough All Over (1982)
- Dir. Thomas K. Avildsen
Feat. Cheech and Chong
- The fourth outing for smokesters Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong in their usual guises, this time tangling with a pair of Arabs (also played by C & C)…
Tootsie (1982)
- Dir. Sydney Pollack
Feat. Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange, Bill Murray
- Much–loved classic, with unemployed actor Dustin Hoffman donning a dress to pay the bills. Unfortunately, his TV–soap character, Dorothy…
Trail of the Pink Panther (1982)
- Dir. Blake Edwards
Feat. Peter Sellers, David Niven, Herbert Lom…
- Inspector Clouseau is back again despite the death of the star, Peter Sellers. Using previously unseen footage and newly created linking material,…
Victor Victoria (1982)
- Dir. Blake Edwards
Feat. Julie Andrews, James Garner, Lesley Ann Warren…
- Blake Edwards boudoir–farce with Julie Andrews playing a male impersonator in 30s Paris.
Whoops Apocalypse (TV Series) (1982)
- Dir. John Reardon
Feat. John Cleese, Richard Griffiths, Rik Mayall…
- An assortment of crusty politicians weigh up the future of their careers against the stability of all life itself in this 6 part ITV satire. This…