Comedy Drama Movies of 1998
Mike Nichols directed this Elaine May screenplay adapted from the 1996 bestseller by "Anonymous" (Joe Klein), who fictionalized Bill Clinton's first presidential campaign. In the New ...
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The Swede (Marlon Brando), a prison warden, rules his family and ...
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William Shakespeare (Joseph Fiennes) is on a cold streak. Not only is he writing for ...
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Actor Vincent Gallo (The Funeral, Palookaville) made his feature directorial debut with this drama about convict Billy Brown (Gallo), released after half a decade spent behind bars. Drifting into downtown ...
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Mrs. Doubtfire director Chris Columbus continues to explore the family turmoil of divorce in the tearjerker Stepmom, a story that pits the birth mother ...
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During her valedictorian address at her high school graduation, Renata Devereaux (Shanee ...
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Noted screenwriter Richard LaGravenese made his directorial debut with this dramatic comedy about two unlikely people who find each other while looking for love. Judith Nelson (Holly Hunter) is suddenly single after discovering her husband of ...
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Peter Weir directed this comedy-drama, a commentary on all-pervasive media manipulation. Scripted by Andrew M. Niccol (Gattaca), the film plays like a combination of the ...
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Actor John Turturro, who made his directorial debut with ...
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After the highly acclaimed independent film Bottle Rocket, director Wes Anderson followed up with a quirky Touchstone Studios film entitled Rushmore. Written by Anderson and friend Owen Wilson (an actor ...
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Don McKellar wrote and directed this comedy-drama about the last night of the world, part of the 12-film Arte series of movies about the Millennium. Set in Toronto, ...
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After his 1995 breakthrough, Welcome to the ...
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Telecast on American cable television as Sweet Revenge, this wickedly black comedy was produced for British TV under the title The Revengers' Comedies, which was also the name of the Alan Ayckbourn ...
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Actor/director Forest Whitaker (Waiting to Exhale) helmed this romantic drama about a one-time ...
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Made by and for the TNT cable network, this sharp, satirical courtroom drama ...
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Freely adapted from a novel by Jane Austen, this period drama is set in the early 1800s, as a girl named Fanny ...
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Morgan J. Freeman directed this comedy-drama that takes place in the desert town of Baxter Beach, California, where the locals, ...
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This comedy-drama features a narration by Jim Carrey, looking back to childhood in a manner similar to the narration on TV's The Wonder Years. ...
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Nicholas Hytner (The Crucible) directed this Wendy Wasserstein screenplay, adapted from Stephen McCauley's novel, about the romantic mismatch of a gay man and a young pregnant ...
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Brandon Cole directed this romantic comedy-drama with a revenge angle. Schoolteacher Rachel (Lili Taylor) leaves her car at the O.K. Garage run by small-time crook Yannick (Olek Krupa) who rips off his ...
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Terry McMillan and Ron Bass wrote this ...
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Shimon Dotan directed this Canadian comedy-drama from Oren Safdie's screenplay based on Safdie's play, Hyper-Allergenic, set in ...
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Roger Hedden wrote and directed this indie romantic comedy about a group of New Yorkers on the Upper West Side as Christmas nears. Unemployed actor Jimmy (Eric Stoltz), who owes $900 to local bookie Fatty (Charles ...
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Two young adults who are coping with the deaths of their partners try to move forward with their lives and start a relationship ...
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Jennifer Leitzes made her directorial debut with this gangster comedy. Claire (Kyra Sedgwick) and terminally ill Nick (Stanley Tucci) kidnap ...
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In this film by writer-director M. Night Shyamalan, a young boy learns lessons about life and God during a trying year of discovery in fifth grade at a Catholic boys' school. As the school year opens, Joshua Beal ...
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Actor Jacques Weber made his directorial debut with this film adaptation of Don Juan written in 1665 by Moliere (1622-1673). ...
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The fact-based story of an unconventional physician who attempted to heal patients with laughter, based on ...
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Tamara Jenkins wrote and directed this comedy-drama depicting the experience of growing up poor in the 90210 zip code, told from the point of view of Vivian Abramowitz (Natasha Lyonne), a teen who lives a nomadic existence in ...
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Tom Musca directed this social satire on the United States electoral system. The comedy-drama explores how class and race divisions impact on the process when a ...
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This episodic adaptation of Will Kern's seriocomic play follows ...
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Shot in Lisbon, this drama examines the issue of aging as seen from the viewpoints of five women facing middle age -- self-destructive actress-singer Branca (Guesch Patti), losing the respect of her daughter; single ...
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Oregon pot dealer David (Luke Wilson) is ...
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Los Angeles suburbanites Quinn (James Wilder) and Laura (Kimberly ...
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Theresa Connelly makes her directorial debut with her own screenplay, a semi-autobiographical romantic comedy-drama, set in working-class Detroit, about a large Polish-American ...
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South Korean-born Wonsuk Chin, a NYC resident for eight years, made his directorial debut with this hip comedy, shown at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival. With ...
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British actor Peter Howitt wrote and directed this British romantic comedy-drama with a "road not taken" premise recalling the 1921 ...
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Tony Gerber made his directorial debut with this anthology film, a comedy-drama that opens with a 1950s black-and-white newsreel focusing on the ethnic ...
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Dan Ireland directed this romantic comedy-drama ...
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Richard Schenkman, who debuted with the disappointing The Pompatus of Love (1996), returned with this ...
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Minnie Driver, her sister Kate Driver, and Nigel Hawthorne teamed as the executive producers of this $2.5 million romantic comedy about a ...
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Cedric Kahn directed this erotic French drama about sexual obsession. Separated from his wife, Martin (Charles Berling) is intrigued when he sees an elderly painter with plump teen ...
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Love at first sight leads to a difficult and dangerous liaison in this romantic drama. Owen Springer (Robson Green) is a young surgeon whose father is in ...
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Guy Ferland directed this comedy-thriller about aspiring cartoonist and pizza-delivery guy Will Sherman (David Strickland). College dropout Will delivers a pizza to murderer Reed (Ron Eldard), who later realizes Will can connect ...
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Robert DeFranco directed this comedy-drama about two New Jerseyites who graduated from college only to operate the oven at Lombardo's Pizza. Phil (Peter Facinelli) and Dennis (Dash Mihok) soon realize that the guys ...
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Rapper/ actor Ice Cube directed this urban comedy-drama about African-American single mother Diana (Lisa Raye), who aims for a career as a broadcast journalist. To finance her education, she works as a stripper at the raucous Players Club, ...
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Daphna Kastner directed this romantic comedy-drama, set in Spain. Interviewing Madrid men, journalist Zoe (Kastner) intends to expand her magazine article into a book. Her own experiences with men, however, haven't ...
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Tara (Jennifer Tilly) hosts a dinner party. When she discusses the ...
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Maria Ripoll made her feature directorial debut with this witty Spanish-British romantic comedy, set in London, where actor Victor (Scottish ...
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Tod Williams made his feature directorial debut with this ...
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East meets West in the changing landscape of Beijing on the cusp of the 21st century in this romantic comedy-drama. Leah Quinn (Catherine Kellner) is an American in her early 20s who has decided to spend some time in China. While studying ...
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An independent romantic comedy, Next Stop, Wonderland (1998) made headlines at the ...
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This dramatic feature was written, directed, and co-produced by Native ...
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Bermuda-born Alison Swan, a NY documentary filmmaker, made her dramatic feature directorial debut with this comedy-drama, a low-budget look at racial identities. With divorced parents (white attorney ...
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One of Japan's hottest young directors, Takashi Miike ...
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Alex Cox directed this comedy-fantasy screenplay by Tod Davies in a variety of locations ...
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Hermine Huntgeburth wrote and directed this German comedy-drama about a trio ...
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Writer-directors Felix Sabroso and Dunia Ayaso made this Spanish comedy-drama with an "inside television" angle. TV host Miranda Vega (Maria Conchita Alonso) heads a ...
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East is East, a fast-moving comedy drama of mixed-race manners, is set in Salford, England in 1970. It centers on the Anglo-Pakistani alliance of the Khan ...
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Robert Jan Westdijk directed this Dutch drama about two Amsterdam roommates, Hugo (Hugo Metsers) and Goof (Roeland Fernhout), who charm, seduce, and rob female tourists, saving passport ID pages as souvenirs. While Hugo is liberating ...
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This gay coming-of-age drama from Britain was screened at many film festivals including Toronto, Edinburgh, and the 1999 Sundance Film Festival (World Cinema section). ...
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Following up on his acclaimed and Cannes Grand Prix-winning Unagi, veteran iconoclast Shohei Imamura ...
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Stewart Sugg made his directorial debut with this ...
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Also known as Pick a Card, this Israeli comedy-drama, set in a Tel Aviv slum, focuses on garage electrician David (Zvika Hadar), from the northern Israel capital of Afula, who dreams of becoming a magician. His girlfriend Batya (Esti Zackheim), ...
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In this Spanish comedy-drama, yuppie Eva (Christina Marcos), employed in TV production, is kept awake by her baby. Real estate salesman Juan (Ernesto ...
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Belgian director Alain Berliner, who made the popular Ma Vie ...
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Texas-born documentary filmmaker Stephen Purvis made his feature directorial debut ...
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At the 1998 Cannes Film Festival, this Taiwanese-French drama won a FIPRESCI Award, given by ...
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This Danish comedy drama won the Jury Prize at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival. It opens in rural Denmark as family members assemble for the 60th birthday celebration of patriarch Helge (Henning Moritzen). At the family estate are Helge's ...
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Playing like a combination of Todd Solondz, John Waters, and ...
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This adaptation of three stories from Irvine Welsh's short-story collection of the same name reunites Annie Louise Ross, Kevin McKidd, and Ewen Bremner from the author's previous cinematic success, Trainspotting, ...
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Paul Kostick wrote and directed this comedic commentary on the art world. Settling in at a Seattle art museum, impulsive ...
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A Eurythmics-obsessed, small-town Ohio youth comes to terms with his sexual identity and his ...
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Following his Cannes award-winning performance in Ken Loach's My Name is Joe, ...
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Fucking Åmål is a coming-of-age comedy set in a sleepy little Swedish town called Åmål -- the most boring place on earth according to adolescent Agnes, who moved there a year and a half ago. Agnes is not able to make friends at ...
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Amos Gitai directed this Israeli-French family comedy-drama, the second film in a trilogy about contemporary Israeli cities. A Jewish woman, Hanna (Hanna ...
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Rejecting current trends in mainstream genres and the conventions of commercial ...
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Fernando Colomo directed this fact-based Spanish comedy-drama about leftist ...
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The suicide of grunge-rock icon Kurt Cobain inspires a pair of ...
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Jasmin Dizdar's debut feature takes place in London on October 13, ...
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A Parisian ladies' man discovers an America full of shocking violence and destructive forces in The New Yorker, ...
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Eyal Halfon directs this comedy-drama about a Russian circus that disrupts a volatile community of irate Palestinians, high-strung Israeli settlers, and shifty hucksters on either side. ...
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In this comedy-drama with music, Babloo (Shahrukh Khan) is a good-hearted but absent-minded man who has just gotten a job as a chef in a luxury hotel where the woman he loves, ...
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One kind hearted reverend must see to the elaborate funeral arrangements requested by Sister Glen ...
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Yukino Miyazawa is a perfectionist. She strives at every moment to be the most beautiful, most popular, most scholarly girl in her high school and she succeeds at it. That is, until ...
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An aging ex-prostitute comes to terms with her ...
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Cesc Gay and Daniel Gimelberg's Hotel Room tells three different stories ...
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Six friends in their mid- to late twenties are forced to deal with ...
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