Comedy Movies of 1984
Cannonball Run II
(Burt Reynolds) as J.J. McClure takes off across the country again in this rickety sequel to Cannonball Run. A sheik has offered $1,000,000 to the first driver to reach a destination in Connecticut from Redondo ... [ Comedy movie - 1984 ]
Broadway Danny Rose
A smaller, amusing comedy from writer/director Woody Allen, Broadway Danny Rose begins with a bunch of ... [ Comedy movie - 1984 ]
Edwin
Though we never see him, Edwin is the pivotal character in this British comedy. Alec Guinness stars as a retired British barrister Sir Fennimore Truscott, who discovers that his wife Renee Ashershon has been ... [ Comedy movie - 1984 ]
Johnny Dangerously
This spoof of the 1930s and '40s crime stories ranges from the ridiculous to the sublime as it tells the story of ... [ Comedy movie - 1984 ]
Rhinestone
After a big-time country singer (Dolly Parton) brags that she can turn anybody in to a country-singin' star, she's out to prove she can live up to her talk when she recruits a cab-driver (Sylvester ... [ Comedy movie - 1984 ]
Best Defense
Dudley Moore and Eddie Murphy try but fail to bring ... [ Comedy movie - 1984 ]
Splash
"I'm in love with a mermaid!" read the opening line of Leonard Maltin's original review for Splash. And with the ... [ Comedy movie - 1984 ]
Top Secret!
The second of Zucker-Abraham-Zucker's theatrical-feature spoofs (Airplane was the first, discounting the patchwork Kentucky Fried Movie), Top Secret! ... [ Comedy movie - 1984 ]
Unfaithfully Yours
This remake of the 1948 Preston Sturges classic stars Dudley Moore as the symphony conductor who imagines ways to get back at the wife he believes is unfaithful to him. Moore plays Claude Eastman, the conductor of a prestigious sympathy, ... [ Comedy movie - 1984 ]
All of Me
On her deathbed, mean-spirited millionairess Lily Tomlin has her will amended so that her soul will ... [ Comedy movie - 1984 ]
Oh, God! You Devil
In the third and final film in the Oh, God! franchise, Bobby Shelton (Ted Wass) is a struggling musician who can't get a break, ... [ Comedy movie - 1984 ]
A Private Function
A British couple's attempts to circumvent local ... [ Comedy movie - 1984 ]
No Small Affair
This run-of-the-mill teen romantic comedy's main attraction is 22-year-old Demi Moore as Laura Victor, an aspiring rock singer. The slightly younger Jon Cryer is Charles Cummings, a dedicated photographer ... [ Comedy movie - 1984 ]
The Muppets Take Manhattan
Jim Henson's Muppets find themselves in Manhattan yearning to get a musical on Broadway in this charming film that also ... [ Comedy movie - 1984 ]
Bachelor Party
Tom Hanks stars in this raunchy teen comedy from veteran ... [ Comedy movie - 1984 ]
Beverly Hills Cop
What's that wisecracking young black guy (Eddie Murphy) in that beat-up Chevy Nova doing in lily-white Beverly Hills? He's Axel Foley, a Detroit detective who's been sent on involuntary vacation because he refuses to drop his ... [ Comedy movie - 1984 ]
Blame It on Rio
This attempt to remake the clever 1977 French farce Un Moment ... [ Comedy movie - 1984 ]
Lust in the Dust
A controversial spoof on the Spaghetti western (some love it, some hate it), Lust in the Dust features the 300-pound Divine as the inimitable Rosie Velez, riding into view in full drag on a poor donkey as solemn ... [ Comedy movie - 1984 ]
Protocol
In this routine spoof of government and media foibles, Sunny (Goldie Hawn) is an ordinary cocktail waitress, ... [ Comedy movie - 1984 ]
Not for Publication
If the Perils of Pauline were set in a campy New York City with a dash of trash added in, Not for Publication would result, though the awful jokes and kinky characters are not going to be entertaining to everyone. Lois (Nancy Allen) is a reporter ... [ Comedy movie - 1984 ]
This Is Spinal Tap
Largely improvised by director Rob Reiner and his cast, This Is Spinal Tap looks and sounds like a "real" documentary, with Michael ... [ Comedy movie - 1984 ]
The Ice Pirates
In this undistinguished parody of the sci fi genre, Robert Urich is Jason who leads a band of pirates in redistributing the wealth of the few to the coffers of the needy. He also joins up with ... [ Comedy movie - 1984 ]
The Woman in Red
Gene Wilder's remake of this 1976 French comedy is a Hollywood version of what happens when Theodore ... [ Comedy movie - 1984 ]
Family Ties: Season 03
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Police Academy
Public safety takes a turn for the worse in this hit comedy, which spawned a long-running franchise. As a crime wave sweeps through a major city, the mayor decides that part of the problem may stem from overly restrictive ... [ Comedy movie - 1984 ]
The Lonely Guy
In a comedy as flat as the cardboard cut-outs of movie stars that appear in one scene, Steve Martin plays Larry Hubbard, a wild and lonely guy who has been dumped by his girlfriend. Since misery loves ... [ Comedy movie - 1984 ]
Sixteen Candles
On the eve of her sister's wedding, suburban teenager Samantha (Molly Ringwald) suffers silently as her family forgets her birthday. Even worse, some total dork (Anthony Michael Hall) ... [ Comedy movie - 1984 ]
Henry IV
This Italian version of Henry IV is based on the Luigi Pirandello play rather than ... [ Comedy movie - 1984 ]
Cheers: Season 03
There was good news and bad news for Cheers during its ... [ Comedy movie - 1984 ]
Night Patrol
Essentially a knock-off of the "Police Academy" series, this slapstick comedy tells the idiotic tale that contains humor to ... [ Comedy movie - 1984 ]
Cheech & Chong's The Corsican Brothers
Filmed on location "Somewhere in France", this umpteenth version of Dumas' The Corsican Brothers stars the zoned-out comedy team of Cheech and Chong. Perhaps inspired by the Ritz Bros.' spin on The Three Musketeers, the duo retains enough of ... [ Comedy movie - 1984 ]
American Dreamer
In this farcical look at a female detective/mystery story writer, Cathy Palmer (JoBeth Williams) is an ordinary housewife ... [ Comedy movie - 1984 ]
The Rosebud Beach Hotel
In a thinly-plotted story about redeeming a failing hotel by turning it into an optional brothel (depending ... [ Comedy movie - 1984 ]
Gremlins
"Don't expose him to bright light. Don't ever get him wet. And don't ever, ever feed him after midnight." This sage advice is ignored midway through Gremlins, with devastating results. This comic Joe Dante effort is set in a Norman ... [ Comedy movie - 1984 ]
Revenge of the Nerds
Revenge of the Nerds is the juvenile sex comedy ... [ Comedy movie - 1984 ]
Repo Man
Alex Cox's directorial debut was a wickedly funny and willfully bizarre story that became a major cult item once it began making the art-house rounds a year after its release (an initial run in a string of Southern ... [ Comedy movie - 1984 ]
Who's the Boss?: Season 01
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Night Court: Season 01
Tune in and settle down for some hearty chuckles as baby-faced, delightfully irreverent Judge Harry T. Stone (Harry Anderson) lifts his gavel and raps for order as Night Court begins its first season. ... [ Comedy movie - 1984 ]
The Cosby Show: Season 01
In the first episode of the long-running sitcom The Cosby Show, Brooklyn obstetrician Cliff Huxtable (Bill Cosby) is asked by his attorney wife, Clair (Phylicia Ayers-Allen), "Why do ... [ Comedy movie - 1984 ]
Dark Habits
In this Pedro Almodóvar film, a singer at a low-end nightclub hides out at a convent after her lover dies of a bad dose of drugs, and she meets a group of off-the-wall nuns while in hiding. The nuns range ... [ Comedy movie - 1984 ]
Making the Grade
The time-worn clash between the rich and poor, brought out by switched identities, is the ploy used here to put a ... [ Comedy movie - 1984 ]
Frankenstein 90
Yet another incarnation of Mary Shelley's 1818 Frankenstein, this uneven spoof by Alain Jessua casts Victor Frankenstein as a cybernetics ... [ Comedy movie - 1984 ]
Almost You
After Griffin Dunne's wife Brooke Adams is injured in a car crash, Dunne ... [ Comedy movie - 1984 ]
Mad Mission 3: Our Man from Bond Street
After appearing in cameos in the first two Aces Go Places movies, it was only a matter of time before ... [ Comedy movie - 1984 ]
Stranger Than Paradise
Although Jim Jarmusch made his directorial debut with Permanent Vacation (1982), Stranger than Paradise (1984) marked his ... [ Comedy movie - 1984 ]
Sex Mission
Co-writer and director Juliusz Machulski has come up with a hybrid sex sci fi comedy that defies categorization -- a humorous, male-fantasy that is set ... [ Comedy movie - 1984 ]
Punky Brewster: Season 01
Abandoned by her parents, eight-year-old Penelope "Punky" Brewster and her little dog, Brandon, set up a home of their own in an abandoned Chicago apartment, where they are discovered by the building's manager, Henry Warnimont ... [ Comedy movie - 1984 ]
The Brother from Another Planet
Filmmaker John Sayles' first bonafide box-office success, Brother from Another Planet centers on a black escaped slave from a faraway planet ... [ Comedy movie - 1984 ]
What Have I Done to Deserve This?
Filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar, the Luis Buñuel of the 1980s, ... [ Comedy movie - 1984 ]
Splitz
The members of an all-girl rock band, hoping to make it big, team up with the members of a sorority house to beat boys at a number of sporting events in order to keep their house ... [ Comedy movie - 1984 ]
Charles in Charge: Season 01
Season one of Charles in Charge finds the title character, a 19-year-old ... [ Comedy movie - 1984 ]
Anna Russell: The (First) Farewell Concert
This video, directed by Franco Zeffirelli, presents the inimitable Anna Russell in a live performance at Baltimore's Museum of Art in November 1984. Ms. Russell has been delighting audiences ... [ Comedy movie - 1984 ]
The Best Legs in the 8th Grade
This made-for-television movie stars Tim Matheson as a good-looking attorney who runs into the girl of his childhood dreams who, way back ... [ Comedy movie - 1984 ]
Billions for Boris
While glued to his TV, Boris (Scott Tiler) discovers ... [ Comedy movie - 1984 ]
Carlin on Campus
The college campus is the perfect venue for the witty humor of George Carlin. The free-wheeling atmosphere of the campus and the informed audiences are a good match for the topical satire that have made ... [ Comedy movie - 1984 ]
Mixed Blood
Off-the-wall humor, casual or premeditated violence, and larger-than-life characters are featured in this Paul Morrisey film about drugs and two street gangs in "Alphabet City," the lower east side of New York (Avenues A, B, and C). When the ... [ Comedy movie - 1984 ]
Sky High
Daniel Hirsch, Clayton Norcross and Frank Schultz play three ... [ Comedy movie - 1984 ]
Snowballing
Teenagers enter a downhill skiing contest and end up stopping an avaricious, crooked resort owner from cheating their school in this adolescent adventure. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide [ Comedy movie - 1984 ]
Urusei Yatsura Movie 2: Beautiful Dreamer
Hapless adolescent Ataru Moroboshi and his schoolmates at Tomobiki High School are being forced to relive the day before their School Festival a number of times in this Japanese ... [ Comedy movie - 1984 ]
Video Vixens
Video Vixens purports to be a satire of the phony liberalism that resulted in the permissiveness of the 1980s. A libidinous TV executive decides to ... [ Comedy movie - 1984 ]
Weekend Pass
In this light, standard comedy about four sailors (D.W. Brown, Peter Ellenstein, Patrick Houser and Chip McAllister) out for a fun weekend in Los Angeles, the men have several ... [ Comedy movie - 1984 ]
Sapar Nashim
Comedian and director Ze'ev Revach has a stock formula for the films he creates, namely a dual role for himself with much mugging for the camera and no real storyline. In this comedy of errors strictly ... [ Comedy movie - 1984 ]
'Allo 'Allo: Series 01
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Lupin the 3rd: TV 3 [Anime Series]
Three separate series with the same characters and premise have aired under the name Lupin III. They are all relatively the same, but can be differentiated by noting what color jacket Lupin, the title ... [ Comedy movie - 1984 ]
