Comedy Movies of 1982
Tootsie
Michael Dorsey (Dustin Hoffman), a brilliant but troublesome New York actor, has managed to alienate every producer on both coasts. Michael's agent George Fields (Sydney Pollack) can't even get his client a commercial since ... [ Comedy movie - 1982 ]
Tempest
This comedy is set upon a remote Greek island and is very loosely based on Shakespeare's classic play. The tale centers on a middle-aged New York architect who abandons his wife and moves to the island with his teen-age ... [ Comedy movie - 1982 ]
George Burns in Concert
"I'm happy to be here. At my age I'm happy to be anywhere." Thus did octogenarian George Burns ... [ Comedy movie - 1982 ]
Kiss Me Goodbye
Robert Mulligan directed this Americanized re-make of the successful Brazilian comedy Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands. Sally Field ... [ Comedy movie - 1982 ]
Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip
Just recovered from his notorious free-basing accident, ... [ Comedy movie - 1982 ]
Victor/Victoria
On the verge of starvation in 1930s Paris, erstwhile entertainer ... [ Comedy movie - 1982 ]
Deathtrap
Sidney Lumet provides another of his film ... [ Comedy movie - 1982 ]
A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy
Woody Allen brings a diverting whimsy and a hopeful innocence to this period ... [ Comedy movie - 1982 ]
Author! Author!
Successful playwright Al Pacino can't get any work done as long as he is pestered by his wacko wife Tuesday Weld. Making things worse are the couple's obstreperous children, many of them products of her previous marriages. Just as ... [ Comedy movie - 1982 ]
One From the Heart
After completing Apocalypse Now, Francis Ford Coppola initially planned for his next picture to be an intimate romantic musical shot on a low budget in Las Vegas. Three years later, One from the Heart had mushroomed into a big-budget ... [ Comedy movie - 1982 ]
The Missionary
Michael Palin wrote and stars in this comedy as The Reverend Charles Fortescue, an unassuming missionary called back to England after spending ten years in Africa teaching children in a native ... [ Comedy movie - 1982 ]
O'Hara's Wife
This ghostly made-for-television romance tells the story of a struggling widower who finds that life becomes easier once his beloved comes back from the grave to assist ... [ Comedy movie - 1982 ]
The Toy
In The Toy, director Richard Donner and screenwriter Carol Sobieski update the 1976 Pierre Richard farce Le Jouet as a vehicle for comedian Richard Pryor. Pryor stars as out-of-work ... [ Comedy movie - 1982 ]
Airplane II: The Sequel
With the Jerry Zucker-Jim Abrahams-David Zucker team absent, this sequel to the cash-cow 1980 spoof Airplane once again finds garrulous ... [ Comedy movie - 1982 ]
Hanky Panky
Gene Wilder stars as Michael Jordon, an architect on the run from false murder charges, who hooks up with Kate Hellman (Gilda Radner), the sister of a recent suicide victim. ~ Jason Ankeny, All ... [ Comedy movie - 1982 ]
Jinxed!
Jinxed is an apt name for this disastrous project which, sadly, turned out ... [ Comedy movie - 1982 ]
Britannia Hospital
This dark comedy charts the chaos that results when the panicked staff of a major English hospital attempts to prepare for a visit by the Queen Mother, only to face every problem imaginable. Britannia Hospital ... [ Comedy movie - 1982 ]
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
In this post-modernist exercise, star/writer Steve Martin and director Carl Reiner spoof the film noir yarns ... [ Comedy movie - 1982 ]
My Favorite Year
Richard Benjamin's directorial debut is an engaging slice of nostalgia, ... [ Comedy movie - 1982 ]
Wrong Is Right
Based on Charles McCarry's 1979 novel The Better Angels, Wrong is Right is set in a near future in which violence has become something of a ... [ Comedy movie - 1982 ]
Young Doctors in Love
In this comedy, a group of randy young interns turn City Hospital upside down with their romantic ... [ Comedy movie - 1982 ]
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Amy Heckerling's adaptation of Cameron Crowe's Fast Times at Ridgemont High is often considered one of the finest films of a ... [ Comedy movie - 1982 ]
Grease 2
Given the runaway success of Grease, which became the biggest-grossing movie musical of all time, it was all but ... [ Comedy movie - 1982 ]
A Little Sex
In this made-for-TV comedy, a womanizer (Tim Matheson) ... [ Comedy movie - 1982 ]
Losin' It
There is hardly any variation on the stereotyped teens-and-sex movie in this story about four high school seniors who ... [ Comedy movie - 1982 ]
Family Ties: Season 01
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Night Shift
Straight-laced Henry Winkler takes a night-shift job as a morgue attendant. Winkler falls under the spell of ... [ Comedy movie - 1982 ]
Cheers: Season 01
Seldom has a television sitcom opened with such assurance as Cheers. Within the very first episode, the basic setting was firmly established, the characters ... [ Comedy movie - 1982 ]
Three's Company: Season 07
After all the backstage intrigues and cast changes that had weighed down the previous two seasons of Three's Company, the series regained its former popularity (and comic momentum) ... [ Comedy movie - 1982 ]
Deadly Drifter
Based on a novel by Ronald Sukenick, this off-beat, slyly satirical road movie chronicles two decades in the life of a traveling mercenary who philosophizes about ... [ Comedy movie - 1982 ]
Square Pegs [TV Series]
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Newhart: Season 01
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Eating Raoul
Eating Raoul was celebrated at the time of its release as the perfect marriage between mainstream moviemaking and the so-called "underground" cinema. Cult-film ... [ Comedy movie - 1982 ]
Things Are Tough All Over
Goofy team Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong play chauffeurs hired ... [ Comedy movie - 1982 ]
National Lampoon's Class Reunion
A high school class reunion turns bloody when a former student seeks revenge on his classmates in this black comedy. That mayhem would strike this 20-year reunion seems preordained, given that the name of the school is Lizzie Borden High. ... [ Comedy movie - 1982 ]
Privates on Parade
This kooky British comedy chronicles the zany and occasionally dramatic exploits of the Song and Dance ... [ Comedy movie - 1982 ]
Jekyll and Hyde... Together Again
Robert Louis Stevenson's novel is satirized in this comedy about a scientist (Mark Blankfield) who ... [ Comedy movie - 1982 ]
Mad Mission
A hugely successful crime-comedy from Cinema City and director Eric Tsang, Aces Go Places set records at the box office and made a star of Sam Hui. Hui plays King Kong, a clever thief who steals a cache of diamonds from some gangsters, framing ... [ Comedy movie - 1982 ]
Zapped!
Carrie meets Porky's as Charles in Charge co-stars Scott Baio and Willie Aames re-team for this mischievous-minded teen comedy about a hormonal high school science student suddenly bestowed with telekinetic powers. ... [ Comedy movie - 1982 ]
Lonely Hearts
Effusive piano tuner Norman Kaye is on the less sunny side of forty and still unattached. Shy and self-effacing office worker Wendy Hughes is likewise getting on in years sans a lifetime ... [ Comedy movie - 1982 ]
The Junkman
H.B. Halicki, who wrote and directed the car chase classic Gone in 60 Seconds, returned with this action-comedy, in which Halicki claimed to have wrecked no fewer than 150 cars onscreen (a record confirmed by the Guinness Book ... [ Comedy movie - 1982 ]
Homework
Michael Morgan stars as a teen obsessed with losing his virginity, and who gets his wish with Joan Collins, the mother of one of his best friends. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide [ Comedy movie - 1982 ]
Big Meat Eater
This deranged low-budget Canadian production seems specifically tailored to midnight-movie patrons, among which the filmmakers must have thought it could find a solid cult ... [ Comedy movie - 1982 ]
I Was a Zombie for the FBI
In this satire, evil aliens plot to kill ... [ Comedy movie - 1982 ]
The Pee-Wee Herman Show
Paul Reubens' Pee-Wee Herman character first attracted widespread notice as a result of this HBO special, which preceded both the Tim Burton-directed film Pee-Wee's Big Adventure and the ... [ Comedy movie - 1982 ]
Preppies
In this sexploitation film, made in conjunction with the Playboy Channel, struggling law student and heir Chip Thurston cannot inherit his fortune until he graduates. If he does not finish, his cousin will get all ... [ Comedy movie - 1982 ]
Starstruck
Star Struck is a light, frothy pop-culture musical comedy from Australia, where Jackie (Jo Kennedy) dreams of becoming a singing star and her cousin Angus (Ross O'Donovan) thinks he has what it ... [ Comedy movie - 1982 ]
Ferocious Female Freedom Fighters
The folks at Troma Pictures have served up a variation on a theme previously plunked out in Woody Allen's What's Up Tiger Lily. Ferocious Female Freedom Fighters is the American title of a 1982 Indonesian martial-arts epic. Rather ... [ Comedy movie - 1982 ]
Dixie Changing Habits
In this crime comedy, Dixie's life changes completely after the prostitution ring she runs is raided. She too is arrested and ends ... [ Comedy movie - 1982 ]
Home Sweet Home
Stan (Eric Richard), Gordon (Timothy Spall), and Harold (Tim Barker) are postmen who work together as they sort the mail each morning before they go on ... [ Comedy movie - 1982 ]
Police Squad [TV Series]
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Carry on Pickpocket
Popular Hong Kong actor-filmmaker Sammo Hung directed himself in this amusing action-comedy in which he stars as Rice Pot, a highly skilled pickpocket who falls in love with a beautiful female police inspector. The inspector (Deanie Yip) ... [ Comedy movie - 1982 ]
El Ratero de la Vecindad
In this caper outing, a pair of thieves pull off a grand robbery but then find themselves having to deal with some ... [ Comedy movie - 1982 ]
