Comedy Drama Movies of 1989
Woody Allen spent most of the 1980s and '90s veering between comedy and drama, and he rarely ...
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A hot tamale tries to throw off a different sort of heat in this comedy of small-town manners. Carnelle Scott (Holly Hunter) is best-known in her hometown of Yazoo City, MS, for ...
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Eddie Murphy, in addition to starring as Quick, the son of 1930s Harlem gambling-house ...
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Xavier Quinn (Denzel Washington) is police chief of a tiny Caribbean island. Quinn's efforts to straddle the fence between the local blacks and the moneyed whites have lost him the respect of both groups. When a murder is committed, Quinn ...
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The omnibus film New York Stories is the product of three ...
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Whoopi Goldberg stars in this TV movie as a single ...
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In this romantic comedy, two people brought together by marriage are brought even closer by their mates. Maria Hardy (Isabella Rossellini) and Larry Konzinski ...
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Hume Cronyn and Vincent Gardenia star as two ...
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American humorist Jules Feiffer and French director Alain Resnais are oddly paired for this satirical comedy about an American cartoonist in Paris. Adolph Green is a stunner as Joey Wellman, a ...
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Bertrand Blier's films have explored the sometimes misogynistic sexuality of younger men, but here he offers an absorbing, funny, and moving take on a middle-aged man's adulterous ...
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Ron Silver stars as Herman, a Holocaust survivor who believes ...
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Don't mistake this movie for the stormy special-effects blockbuster of the same name; the two films are light years apart. Based on Mary Robison's novel
Oh!, this Twister was the quirky first feature from ...
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Ione Skye plays Diane Court, high-school valedictorian on the verge of heading to England on a prestigious scholarship. This is especially thrilling to Diane's divorced father, James (John ...
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This Hong Kong film is inspired by two of Frank Capra's films: the 1933 classic Lady for a Day, and ...
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In the 18th century, English aristocrats had, among their better known strange customs, one really strange one: they kept "ornamental hermits" for their gardens. These were actual people who were willing to live in squalid conditions and ...
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Since its London and Broadway stage debut, playwright Willy Russell's Shirley Valentine has proven an excellent showcase for any number of talented actresses (Loretta Swit won the 1989 Sarah Siddons Award for her ...
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After winning an Academy Award for their documentary Down and Out in America (1986), actress-director Lee Grant and her producer-husband ...
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Gross Anatomy is to medical school what Paper Chase was to law school, with perhaps a little less sobriety. Mathew Modine plays a blue-collar kid attending a posh school of medicine, where everyone--teacher and student alike--seems ...
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Blaze is a comic-strip re-telling of the curious late-1950s ...
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Jeff Daniels stars in this tedious situation comedy concerning the middle-aged terror of illness and mortality. ...
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Although 16-year-old prodigy Doogie Howser (Neil Patrick Harris) is America's youngest ...
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The road movie gets a smart update with this seriocomic tale of two Cheyenne men traveling from their reservation in Montana to New Mexico. For one of them, ...
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British retiree John Thaw and his wife Lindsay Duncan spend a Year in ...
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Based on the stories by Tama Janowitz, this film follows the ...
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Written and directed by the ever-unpredictable Jim Jarmusch, Mystery Train is comprised of three short anecdotes involving foreign tourists in Tennessee. Each story is set in a fleabag Memphis hotel which has been ...
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Wendell B. Harris wrote, directed, and stars in Chameleon Street, a sly comedy based loosely on the real-life exploits of conman William Douglas Street, who demonstrates a gift for becoming ...
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Eat a Bowl of Tea is set in New York's Chinatown during the immediate postwar years. After a seeming eternity of separation, Chinese immigrants are finally allowed to bring their ...
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Australian filmmaker Jane Campion directs the darkly humorous ...
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The Spanish-language drama Arriba el Telón follows the exploits of many different actors and behind-the-scenes workers who make a living in the theater. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide
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Sandy Duncan, Judith Light, and Jill Eikenberry star in director Paul Schneider's made-for-television ...
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The kids of DeGrassi Junior High anxiously prepare ...
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This eight episode OVA was released over the course of almost three years, and the placement of each episode along the timeline of the original Kimagure Orange Road TV series ranges from near the beginning to past the ...
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