Genre: Comedy
Comedy is built to make you laugh — through wit, absurdity, timing, and characters whose flaws and schemes keep tripping them up. Underneath the jokes, the best of it still says something true.
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Look Who’s Talking (1989)
1989 Amy Heckerling comedy with John Travolta and Kirstie Alley. Bruce Willis voices a sarcastic infant narrator. -
Look Who’s Talking Too (1990)
1990 sequel with Travolta, Alley, Roseanne Barr as new baby. Diminishing returns on the talking-baby concept. -
Get Shorty (1995)
1995 Barry Sonnenfeld crime comedy adapting Elmore Leonard. Travolta as Miami loan shark who becomes a Hollywood producer. -
Risky Business (1983)
1983 Paul Brickman comedy with Tom Cruise as a Chicago teen who turns his parents' empty house into a brothel for one weekend. -
Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life (1983)
1983 Terry Jones comedy sketch film. The Pythons tackle life's stages from birth to death. Mr. Creosote and the Crimson Permanent Assurance. -
Click (2006)
2006 Frank Coraci comedy with Adam Sandler as a workaholic who gets a magic remote that fast-forwards through his life. -
Wedding Crashers (2005)
2005 David Dobkin comedy with Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn as divorce mediators who crash weddings to pick up bridesmaids. -
Casino Royale (1967)
1967 non-Eon Bond spoof with David Niven, Peter Sellers, Woody Allen. Multiple directors, chaotic production, cult oddity. -
My Cousin Vinny (1992)
1992 Jonathan Lynn comedy with Joe Pesci as a New York personal-injury lawyer defending his cousin in rural Alabama. Marisa Tomei Oscar. -
Liar Liar (1997)
1997 Tom Shadyac comedy with Jim Carrey as a defense lawyer cursed to tell the truth for twenty-four hours after his son's birthday wish.