Best Comedy Drama Films of 1988
Punchline
Sally Field goes the ... the film lively and unpredictable throughout. The supporting cast, coincidentally including future Roseanne star John Goodman, is uniformly superb. [ best comedy drama films - 1988 ]
Cocoon: The Return
Cocoon 2: The Return, ... plot involves an insidious secret government plan to exploit the Antareans, which is foiled by sympathetic researcher Courteney Cox. [ best comedy drama films - 1988 ]
The Accidental Tourist
Director Lawrence Kasdan and ... competition, she makes moves to get him back. But he has by now become accustomed to Muriel's unfettered lifestyle. [ best comedy drama films - 1988 ]
The Moderns
In the expatriate-littered Paris ... The Moderns in Montréal and would go on to lens the similarly intellectual Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle. [ best comedy drama films - 1988 ]
Full Moon in Blue Water
Written by playwright Bill ... (Elias Koteas). Strange and unexpected events follow, the upshot of which may leave Floyd even worse off than before. [ best comedy drama films - 1988 ]
Memories of Me
The bittersweet comedy Memories ... before. One of the film's highlights is a brief celebrity cameo by one of Alan King's "close personal friends." [ best comedy drama films - 1988 ]
Rocket Gibraltar
On the occasion of ... Cusack, John Glover, Bill Pullman and Kevin Spacey -does full justice to Amos Poe's whimsical, often deeply touching script. [ best comedy drama films - 1988 ]
She's Having a Baby
An aspiring writer faces ... faces and voices to a series of closing-credits shots in which each suggests a name for the titular baby. [ best comedy drama films - 1988 ]
The Milagro Beanfield War
It's advisable to know ... "liberal-tract" film of the 1980s. Robert Redford's appropriately Capraesque direction is matched by Dave Grusin's vibrant Oscar-winning musical score. [ best comedy drama films - 1988 ]
Mystic Pizza
Three teenagers learn a ... supporting role as Leona, the proprietor of the pizza parlor, who zealously guards the secret formula of her sauce. [ best comedy drama films - 1988 ]
Torch Song Trilogy
Harvey Fierstein's Pulitzer Prize-winning ... is by turns touching and outrageous, Torch Song Trilogy works well despite its somewhat soft-pedaled approach to the material. [ best comedy drama films - 1988 ]
Moonlighting: Season 05
The fifth season of ... final season, Moonlighting comes to a halt as the doors of the Blue Moon Detective Agency are permanently closed. [ best comedy drama films - 1988 ]
Biloxi Blues
Biloxi Blues was the ... wit and poignancy of the theatrical original--except towards the end, which pointlessly emphasizes a showdown between Eugene and Toomey. [ best comedy drama films - 1988 ]
Behaving Badly
Based on a novel ... standard" fashion -- thoroughly scandalizes her family and friends. Behaving Badly first aired in 1988 over Britain's Channel 4. [ best comedy drama films - 1988 ]
Satisfaction
TV's sitcom teen (Family ... for the summer. That memorable summer, with all its emotions, plans and pains, provides the substance of the film. [ best comedy drama films - 1988 ]
Maybe Baby
The 1988 TV movie ... Maybe Baby ends with Julia settling upon her third thoughts, and deciding to shoulder the burdens of late motherhood. [ best comedy drama films - 1988 ]
For Keeps
Young, ambitious high school ... themselves; however they are unprepared for the myriad of decisions and responsibilities that they are forced to deal with. [ best comedy drama films - 1988 ]
Fun Down There
A young homosexual leaves ... down to a hedonistic life in Greenwich Village where he learns to get down in more ways than one. [ best comedy drama films - 1988 ]
Side by Side
Three giants of early ... and early 1960s, is here cast as Sid Caesar's spouse. Side By Side first aired on March 6, 1988. [ best comedy drama films - 1988 ]
