Subgenre Sampler
Classics > Comedy: 912 Films to Buy & Rent
Mannequin (1987)
- Dir. Michael Gottlieb
Feat. Andrew McCarthy, Kim Cattrall, Estelle Getty…
- Andrew McCarthy stars as a department store window–dresser who discovers that one of his mannequins (Kim Cattrall) is actually a woman from…
Moonstruck (1987)
- Dir. Norman Jewison
Feat. Nicolas Cage, Cher, Danny Aiello
- Superb comic drama rivals the best of Woody Allen through vignettes of family life in New York's Italian district, and the cast have never been…
Outrageous Fortune (1987)
- Dir. Arthur Hiller
Feat. Bette Midler, Shelley Long, George Carlin…
- Floozy Bette Midler and straight–gal Shelley Long search for their boyfriend in common.
Overboard (1987)
- Dir. Garry Marshall
Feat. Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell, Roddy McDowall
- Cute and fluffy antics, with a snooty Goldie Hawn suffering amnesia and, being taken–in by ship–repairer Kurt Russell and his chaotic…
Pick-Up Artist, The (Pickup Artist) (1987)
- Dir. James Toback
Feat. Robert Downey Jnr., Molly Ringwald, Dennis Hopper…
- Serial womanizer Downey gets more than he bargained for when he falls for mobster's daughter Ringwald. Teen sex comedy is more thorny than horny with…
Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987)
- Dir. John Hughes
Feat. Steve Martin, John Candy
- Well–matched comic coupling Steve Martin and John Candy go astray in the Midwest transport system. Reliably funny "mature" comedy is a pleasant…
Radio Days (1987)
- Dir. Woody Allen
Feat. Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Julie Kavner
- Woody Allen revisits his childhood days in the golden era of radio.
Rita, Sue and Bob Too (1987)
- Dir. Alan Clarke
Feat. Michelle Holmes, Siobhan Finneran
- Frank sexuality has rarely been as squarely depicted as in this tale of two naive schoolgirls growing up in working class Liverpool. Bleak and darkly…
Roxanne (1987)
- Dir. Fred Schepisi
Feat. Steve Martin, Daryl Hannah
- Steve Martin's splendid update of Cyrano de Bergerac casts him as a fire chief burdened with an enormous nose. Daryl Hannah is the object of his…
Secret of My Success (1987)
- Dir. Herbert Ross
Feat. Michael J. Fox, Helen Slater, Richard Jordan
- Michael J. Fox returns back to the present to climb the Wall Street corporate ladder.