Category Archives: Comedy

A Fish Called Wanda

IMDB Rating: 7.70
27726 votes

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Sexy American diamonds lover Wanda and her boyfriend Otto are in England to plot alongside George and Ken the robbery of a diamond collection. Wanda and Otto want the stolen diamonds for themselves, and inform the police about George not knowing that he has already moved the diamonds to another secret place. Wanda thinks the best way to find out is by getting close to George's lawyer - Archie Leach.
Actors
Archie LeachJohn Cleese
Wanda GershwitzJamie Lee Curtis
OttoKevin Kline
Also posted in 1988, Crime, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Cocktail

IMDB Rating: 5.20
11314 votes

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After leaving the Army, Brian Flanagan (Tom Cruise) tries to get a marketing job in New York. But without a college degree, this was not possible. He then decides to start studying for a business degree at the local City College and gets a part time job as a bartender. He realizes that its not that easy, but when his new boss Douglas Coughlin (Brian Brown) teaches him the secrets of the bar trade and they become the most famous bartenders in town. Both Brian & Doug Coughlin want their own top class cocktail bars someday and Brian's Cocktail Bar is to be called 'Cocktails & Dreams', and in order to get the necessary money to open it, Brian travels to Jamaica to work as a bartender at a resort Tiki Bar, and the pay is good. There he meets Jordan Mooney (Elisabeth Shue), a young and pretty, up and coming American artist on vacation with her girlfriend from New York, staying at the Island resort. Jordan and Brian spend some quality time together and fall in love. But when Brian takes a dare from his old buddy, Doug Coughlin to sleep with an older woman, who is also staying at the resort. Jordan, herself the daughter of wealthy parents back in New York, leaves the Island overnight, after seeing Brian and the older woman together after closing... Will Jordan ever forgive Brian and will they get back together???
Actors
Brian FlanaganTom Cruise
Douglas 'Doug' CoughlinBryan Brown
Jordan MooneyElisabeth Shue
Also posted in 1988, Drama, Romance | Comments (0)

Red Heat

IMDB Rating: 5.40
6822 votes

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Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a Russian policeman sent after a Russian drug dealer who has escaped to the United States and is awaiting extradition in Chicago. Jim Belushi plays his temporary partner on the Chicago police. When the drug dealer escapes, the two police must overcome their differences in order to recapture him.
Actors
Capt. Ivan DankoArnold Schwarzenegger
Det. Sgt. Art RidzikJames Belushi
Cmdr. Lou DonnellyPeter Boyle
Also posted in 1988, Action, Crime, Thriller | Comments (0)

Overboard

IMDB Rating: 6.10
6025 votes

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Joanna Stayton (Hawn) is a rich snotty millionairess and Dean Proffitt (Russell) is a struggling carpenter trying to get by with 4 obnoxious children. After doing a job which Joanna is dissatisfied with, she tosses Dean overboard and refuses to pay him, then Joanna gets amnesia and Dean decides to get back at her by claiming her as his "wife" and mother of his 4 brats.
Actors
Joanna Stayton/Annie ProffittGoldie Hawn
Dean ProffittKurt Russell
Grant Stayton IIIEdward Herrmann
Also posted in 1987, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (0)

Spaceballs

IMDB Rating: 6.70
23300 votes

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King Roland of the planet Druidia is trying to marry his daughter Princess Vespa (Daphne Zuniga) to Prince Valium, but Vespa is kidnapped by the evil race of the Spaceballs. The Spaceballs ask Roland a tremendous ransom: all the air of Druidia (you see, the air of Spaceball had serious pollution problems...). The King decides to offer a generous amount of money to a space rogue, Lone Star, to persuade him to save Vespa. What follows is the parody of a _LOT_ of famous SF movies.
Actors
President Skroob/YogurtMel Brooks
Dark HelmetRick Moranis
Lone StarrBill Pullman
Also posted in 1987, High IMDB rating, Sci-Fi | Comments (0)

Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol

IMDB Rating: 3.60
6299 votes

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Commandant Eric Lassard decides that the police force is overworked and understaffed, so he comes up with the idea of recruiting civilian volunteers to work side-by-side with officers in a program called "Citizens On Patrol" (COP). Carey Mahoney and his friends Moses Hightower, Larvell Jones, Eugene Tackleberry, Laverne Hooks, and Debbie Callahan are in charge of training the civilians. The civilians include Tommy "House" Conklin, Lois Feldman, Kyle, and Arnie. Captain Thaddeus Harris wants to take over Lassard's job, and that's why Harris is determined to see the COP program fail. But it's Harris and his right hand man Proctor who mess up by unintentionally allowing every inmate at the precinct 19 jail to escape.
Actors
Sgt. Carey MahoneySteve Guttenberg
Sgt. Moses HightowerBubba Smith
Sgt. Larvell JonesMichael Winslow
Also posted in 1987, Crime | Comments (0)

Outrageous Fortune

IMDB Rating: 5.80
1710 votes

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Lauren and Sandy are total opposites who end up in the same acting class and who don't know they are sharing a lover. When he disappears under mysterious circumstances they refuse to believe that he is dead and are the only ones who are searching for him across several states. Ending up in the western US., they discover he had other interests as they find their lives in danger.
Actors
Lauren AmesShelley Long
Sandy BrozinskyBette Midler
Michael SandersPeter Coyote
Also posted in 1987, Mystery | Comments (0)

Innerspace

IMDB Rating: 6.40
10097 votes

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Cocky space ace Tuck Pendelton volunteers to be minaturized and injected into a lab rabbit. Some techno-terrorists foul up these plans and Tuck is mistakenly injected into hypochondriac Jack Putter instead. Now the terrorists are after Jack with all-American hero Tuck shrunk inside him. Their only hope is Tuck's journalist girl- friend Lydia, but Jack has developed a crush on her.
Actors
Lt. Tuck PendletonDennis Quaid
Jack PutterMartin Short
Lydia MaxwellMeg Ryan
Also posted in 1987, Action, Adventure, High IMDB rating, Sci-Fi | Comments (0)

Planes, Trains & Automobiles

IMDB Rating: 7.40
17679 votes

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All that Neal Page wants to do is to get home for Thanksgiving. His flight has been cancelled due to bad weather, so he decides on other means of transport. As well as bad luck, Neal is blessed with the presence of Del Griffith, Shower Curtain Ring Salesman and all-around blabbermouth, who is never short of advice, conversation, bad jokes, or company. And when he decides that he is going the same direction as Neal....
Actors
Neal PageSteve Martin
Del GriffithJohn Candy
Susan PageLaila Robins
Also posted in 1987, Adventure, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

The Golden Child

IMDB Rating: 5.20
8800 votes

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Eddie Murphy plays a detective with a speciality of finding lost children. He is told he is the 'Chosen one' who will find and protect the Golden Child, a Bhuddist mystic who was kidnapped by an evil sorcerer. Murphy disbelieves the mysticism but finds more and more evidence of demon worship as he investigates.
Actors
The Golden ChildJ.L. Reate
Chandler JarrellEddie Murphy
Sardo NumspaCharles Dance
Also posted in 1986, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Mystery | Comments (0)
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