Comedy Movies of 1987
The Witches of Eastwick
The Witches of Eastwick, a memorable comedy with a dark edge, is based upon a novel by John ... [ Comedy movie - 1987 ]
Moonstruck
When there's a full moon over Brooklyn, anything can happen, and everything happens in the neighborhood where widowed bookkeeper Loretta Castorini (Cher) lives. ... [ Comedy movie - 1987 ]
Nadine
A woman trying to keep a momentary indiscretion quiet finds ... [ Comedy movie - 1987 ]
The Pick-Up Artist
With this rote but well-cast romantic comedy, writer-director James Toback began his long association with actor Robert ... [ Comedy movie - 1987 ]
Baby Boom
Management consultant Diane Keaton has no time in her life for ... [ Comedy movie - 1987 ]
Innerspace
Director Joe Dante infuses this science fiction ... [ Comedy movie - 1987 ]
Roxanne
This modernization of Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac casts Steve Martin as C. D. Bates, the fearless, quick-witted fire chief of a Washington State resort town. Bates' most trusted ... [ Comedy movie - 1987 ]
Raising Arizona
Combining influences from Tex Avery cartoons to Sam Raimi horror movies to 1940s B-movies, Joel Coen and Ethan Coen followed up the stylish film noir of their ... [ Comedy movie - 1987 ]
Dragnet
Dan Aykroyd must have practiced for months to perfect his Jack Webb inflections for Dragnet. Screenwriter Tom Mankiewicz's directorial debut (also written by Mankiewicz, along with Aykroyd, and ... [ Comedy movie - 1987 ]
Amazon Women on the Moon
The 1987 portmanteau comedy feature Amazon Women on the Moon lampoons several film genres in general and the 1954 sci-fi ... [ Comedy movie - 1987 ]
Mannequin
In Mannequin, a lame attempt to revive the style and panache of fantasy-tinged romantic comedies of the '30s and '40s, Andrew McCarthy stars as a department store window-dresser who discovers that one of his ... [ Comedy movie - 1987 ]
Throw Momma From the Train
The "exchange murders" plot gambit, played with utter solemnity in Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train, is used as the launching pad for raucous laughter in Throw Momma From the Train. Director/star Danny DeVito plays Owen Lift, a ... [ Comedy movie - 1987 ]
Overboard
This screwball comedy casts real-life couple Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn in a film that finds the latter returning to her roots in a role reminiscent of Private Benjamin ... [ Comedy movie - 1987 ]
Blind Date
When speaking of Laurel and Hardy's first feature film Pardon Us, Stan Laurel described it as "a ... [ Comedy movie - 1987 ]
Pals
The "pals" of the title, played by Don Ameche and George C. Scott, are Army chums living a sedentary retirement. Occasionally the twosome becomes a threesome when Scott's mother Sylvia Sidney shows ... [ Comedy movie - 1987 ]
Spaceballs
A space bum helps rescue a princess from an evil overlord with the help of a benevolent elder in this Star Wars send-up written and directed by Mel Brooks. Lone Starr ... [ Comedy movie - 1987 ]
Hot Pursuit
Dan Bartlett (John Cusack) is a lovestruck teen who misses his plane to the Caribbean in this engaging comedy. He was to join sweetheart Lori (Wendy Gazelle) and her father Bill (Monte ... [ Comedy movie - 1987 ]
Beverly Hills Cop II
Detroit cop Axel Foley (Eddie Murphy) has seemingly smoothed out his differences ... [ Comedy movie - 1987 ]
Maid to Order
Rich but repulsive teenager Jessie (Ally Sheedy) can't stand the notion ... [ Comedy movie - 1987 ]
Hollywood Shuffle
This satirical look at the ambivalent ... [ Comedy movie - 1987 ]
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Were it not for its profanity-laden opening scenes, John Hughes' Planes, Trains and Automobiles might have been suitable family entertainment: certainly it's heaps less violent and mean-spirited than Hughes' Home Alone. ... [ Comedy movie - 1987 ]
Cheers: Season 06
Fans of Cheers greeted the series' sixth season in a heightened state of anticipation and anxiety: Now that series regular Shelley Long (Diane Chambers) had left the show, would her replacement be on the same lofty, laugh-getting level? And ... [ Comedy movie - 1987 ]
Burglar
Director of the first Police Academy movie, Hugh Wilson is also responsible for the action comedy-caper Burglar. Bernice ... [ Comedy movie - 1987 ]
High Season
Katherine (Jacqueline Bisset) is a photographer who lives in the exotic Greek ... [ Comedy movie - 1987 ]
Like Father, Like Son
Dr. Jack Hammond (Dudley Moore) is a noted heart surgeon whose personality is switched with his teenage son Chris (Kirk Cameron) in this ... [ Comedy movie - 1987 ]
Outrageous Fortune
Two women with serious differences are forced to look out for each other in this anarchic comedy. ... [ Comedy movie - 1987 ]
Radio Days
Woody Allen's gentle and nostalgic tribute to the glory days of radio and coming-of-age during World War II plays like Fellini's Amarcord filtered through Neil Simon. The nominal star is Seth Green as Joe, a ... [ Comedy movie - 1987 ]
The Golden Girls: Season 03
The third season of The Golden Girls continues to chronicle the ... [ Comedy movie - 1987 ]
Forever, Lulu
In this comedy, a young German woman named Elaine Hines (Hanna Schygulla) moves to New York City with dreams of becoming a writer. Elaine becomes entangled in a mystery and falls in with a group of gangsters who lead ... [ Comedy movie - 1987 ]
Hello Again
Writer Susan Isaacs and director Frank Perry of Compromising Positions re-team for this unsuccessful resurrection fantasy comedy. Shelley Long plays Lucy Chadman, the accident-prone wife ... [ Comedy movie - 1987 ]
The Mikado
This adaptation of the Gilbert & Sullivan opera is set in England during the depression. ~ All Movie Guide [ Comedy movie - 1987 ]
Prince of Bel Air
In this racy made-for-TV comedy, a handsome hunk ... [ Comedy movie - 1987 ]
Three Men and a Baby
Three Men and a Baby is an Americanized remake of the 1985 French comedy hit Three Men and a Cradle. Tom Selleck, Ted Danson and Steve ... [ Comedy movie - 1987 ]
Making Mr. Right
This sci-fi comedy from Desperately Seeking Susan (1985) director Susan Seidelman stars John Malkovich along with several other actors from his Steppenwolf ... [ Comedy movie - 1987 ]
The Secret of My Success
Released at the height of his popularity on Family Ties and in the wake of Back to the Future and Teen Wolf, Michael J. Fox stars in this "country boy in the big city" ... [ Comedy movie - 1987 ]
Leonard, Part 6
CIA director Snyderburn (Joe Don Baker) talks former agent Leonard (Bill Cosby) into returning to the job ... [ Comedy movie - 1987 ]
Date with an Angel
In this romantic comedy fantasy, an angel (Emmanuelle Beart) with a heavenly body falls into the swimming pool of Jim Sanders (Michael E. Knight). Hung over from ... [ Comedy movie - 1987 ]
Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol
In the third sequel to the hit comedy Police Academy, Commandant Lassard (George Gaynes) ... [ Comedy movie - 1987 ]
Jocks
Richard Roundtree stars as tennis-coach Chip Williams in this uneven adolescent comedy. Coach Williams must whip his players into shape for the big ... [ Comedy movie - 1987 ]
Born in East L.A.
Richard "Cheech" Marin, of Cheech & Chong fame, directed and starred in Born in East L.A.. Inspired by Marin's music-video parody of Bruce ... [ Comedy movie - 1987 ]
Walk Like a Man
In this lively comedy, an animal behaviorist is out studying wolves and she finds a young man who has been raised by the wild canines. Intrigued, she takes him back to the city to tame him. Later she learns that Bobo, ... [ Comedy movie - 1987 ]
Star Slammer
Gorgeous space traveller Taura (Sandy Brooke) is captured on the planet Arous (as in "The Brain From..."?) Taura is accused of a murder she didn't commit by Bantor (Ross Hagen) , chief ... [ Comedy movie - 1987 ]
The Romancing Star
One misunderstanding after another seems to plague the efforts ... [ Comedy movie - 1987 ]
Back to the Beach
Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello not only starred in the delightfully "retro" Back to the Beach, but also served as executive producers. Appropriately set 25 years after ... [ Comedy movie - 1987 ]
Love at Stake
John Moffitt directed this silly Canadian comedy about a falsely accused Salem witch (Kelly Preston). Terry Sweeney's script seems to find most of its humor in sex, drugs, and bathroom jokes, none of which are ... [ Comedy movie - 1987 ]
Sam Kinison: Breaking the Rules
The late Sam Kinison was a comedian who observed no boundaries of good taste or political correctness, ... [ Comedy movie - 1987 ]
The Dame Edna Christmas Experience
As his well-known alter-ego, actor Barry Humphries stars in Dame Edna's Christmas Experience. The holiday special finds the outrageous Dame Edna Everage playing host to a number of celebrity guests. Among those who stop by ... [ Comedy movie - 1987 ]
Ernest Goes to Camp
Ernest (Jim Varney) gets a job as a fix-it man at a summer camp for troubled boys, but what he really wants to be is a counselor. This juvenile comedy, filled with potty humor and slapstick, chronicles his ... [ Comedy movie - 1987 ]
Real Men
A CIA agent recruits a meek family man for a secret ... [ Comedy movie - 1987 ]
Harry and the Hendersons
While vacationing in the Pacific Northwest, the Henderson clan's dad George (John ... [ Comedy movie - 1987 ]
Who's That Girl?
A year after appearing in the box-office sleeper Shanghai Surprise, pop superstar Madonna starred in the screwball comedy Who's That Girl? She plays Nikki Finn, who is being released from prison after serving a four-year ... [ Comedy movie - 1987 ]
Can't Buy Me Love
Borrowing a chapter from the John Hughes school of teen ... [ Comedy movie - 1987 ]
The Monster Squad
A group of adolescent monster movie enthusiasts form a club that meets in a treehouse in this pre-teen ... [ Comedy movie - 1987 ]
Summer School
On the eve of his Hawaiian vacation, irresponsible high school teacher Mark Harmon is forced into teaching a summer school class. His students are all malcontents and ... [ Comedy movie - 1987 ]
Married... With Children: Season 01
The Fox network's very first sitcom launches its very first season, as Married...With Children invades the sanctity of the American home. We waste no time introducing the Bundys of Chicago, headed by cloddish, chauvinistic ... [ Comedy movie - 1987 ]
Married... With Children: Season 02
Firmly established as the fledgling Fox network's most successful (and most outrageous) sitcom, Married...With Children sails into its second season with more ... [ Comedy movie - 1987 ]
The Garbage Pail Kids Movie
Sometimes kids like to do things to gross out or shock their parents. This is ... [ Comedy movie - 1987 ]
Straight to Hell
This bizarre comedy spoof on spaghetti westerns was made in a hurry on ... [ Comedy movie - 1987 ]
The Cosby Show: Season 04
Most of the familiar characters established during the first three seasons of The Cosby Show are still in attendance as the series launches its fourth season: obstetrician Cliff ... [ Comedy movie - 1987 ]
Full House: Season 01
Season one of Full House swiftly sets up both its premise ... [ Comedy movie - 1987 ]
Adventures in Babysitting
Teenager Chris Parker (Elisabeth Shue) would rather party with her boyfriend, but when her beau breaks their date she reluctantly accepts a babysitting job. It isn't all TV and icebox-raiding when Chris' best friend Brenda (Penelope Ann ... [ Comedy movie - 1987 ]
Withnail & I
Screenwriter Bruce Robinson made his directorial debut with this British comedy. Withnail (Richard E. Grant) is an unsuccessful, pill-popping actor; "I," or Marwood (Paul McGann), is Withnail's ... [ Comedy movie - 1987 ]
Disorderlies
A conniving nephew (Anthony Geary) wishes to get rid of his elderly uncle (Ralph Bellamy) to collect a large inheritance, so he hires the three worst orderlies he can find (played by the Fat Boys). ~ John ... [ Comedy movie - 1987 ]
Bad Taste
Extraterrestrial fast-food franchisers come to earth to pick up food supplies-in this case, human flesh. After wiping out a few small towns, the aliens must contend with a team of government assassins, headed by Pete ... [ Comedy movie - 1987 ]
Campus Man
Todd Barrett (John Dye) is an Arizona State University student who needs money for tuition in this teen comedy. ... [ Comedy movie - 1987 ]
Funland
In this black comedy, the mysterious death of the owner of an amusement park prompts his widow to sell the property to a group of mobsters, the ... [ Comedy movie - 1987 ]
Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama
This parody of horror movies centers upon an impish little genie who was accidentally released from its bowling-trophy home by a lively group of curvaceous coeds after they end up trapped in a shopping mall. To stop the mischievous demon, the ... [ Comedy movie - 1987 ]
Twelfth Night
Part of the Thames Shakespeare Collection, this production of ... [ Comedy movie - 1987 ]
Three O'Clock High
The first feature film from director Phil Joanou (State of ... [ Comedy movie - 1987 ]
Hunk
Bradley Brinkman (Steve Levitt) is a computer nerd who makes a deal with the Devil (James Coco) in this teen comedy. He is transformed into Hunk Golden (John Allen Nelson), the muscular blonde-haired, blue-eyed California ... [ Comedy movie - 1987 ]
Entre Ficheras Anda El Diablo
An all-star cast of popular Mexican comics appears in this uneven sex comedy. A wife paints a nude picture of her husband who suspects infidelity when ... [ Comedy movie - 1987 ]
Kingsajz
Try pronouncing the title of the Polish comedy-fantasy Kingsajz and you'll tumble to its English-language title. That's right . . . Kingsize. The hero lives in the dwarf land of Shuflandia, a microscopic ... [ Comedy movie - 1987 ]
Sledge Hammer!: Season 02
The first season of the lampoonish cop show Sledge Hammer! ended as the title character, a thick-muscled, thick-witted Los Angeles police detective (played by David Rasche), ... [ Comedy movie - 1987 ]
Assault of the Killer Bimbos
With a title like Assault Of The Killer Bimbos, the viewer gets pretty much what he or she would expect: a dumb-but-hip instant cult favorite ... [ Comedy movie - 1987 ]
Russkies
This children's movie is set in sunny Key West during a Fourth of July celebration. Three buddies sneak off to their secret fort and to their ... [ Comedy movie - 1987 ]
ALF: Season 02
The beleaguered Tanner family continues to conceal the presence of their resident space alien from the ... [ Comedy movie - 1987 ]
Boyfriends and Girlfriends
Boyfriends & Girlfriends is the sixth of French director Eric Rohmer's "Comedies et ... [ Comedy movie - 1987 ]
Dutch Girls
In this sophomoric comedy, a lusty adolescent British hockey team ... [ Comedy movie - 1987 ]
Eat the Rich
A restaurant worker (Lanah Pellay) is fired from a posh ... [ Comedy movie - 1987 ]
Eddie Murphy: Raw
Filmed in front of a packed New York City crowd, the concert film Eddie Murphy: Raw presents the comedian (near the height of his popularity) performing his standup material. The energetic and often extremely raunchy ... [ Comedy movie - 1987 ]
Esta Noche Cena Pancho
Pancho Medrano (Alfonso Zayas) is an attorney married ... [ Comedy movie - 1987 ]
Firehouse
A trio of female firefighters uncover an arson conspiracy in this insipid sex comedy. Gianna Rains, Martha Peterson, and Renee Raiford expose political candidate Warren Frump (Henry David Keller) as the mastermind ... [ Comedy movie - 1987 ]
Galactic Gigolo
In this comedy, a broccoli-shaped alien named Eoj (Carmine Capobianco) lives on the planet Crowak, which is populated entirely by vegetable life forms. When Eoj wins a two-week trip to Earth, he transforms himself into a ... [ Comedy movie - 1987 ]
Ghost Chase
A seldom-seen freshman effort from Roland Emmerich, ... [ Comedy movie - 1987 ]
Huevos Rancheros
Huevos Rancheros features two comical stories with a sexy edge. The first, "A Real Good Wot," tells the tale of a beautiful housewife who ... [ Comedy movie - 1987 ]
Los Cacos
When 11 friends work together to steal a fortune they encounter adversity. ~ All Movie Guide [ Comedy movie - 1987 ]
The Puppetoon Movie
The Puppetoon Movie is a tribute to the genius of special-effects ... [ Comedy movie - 1987 ]
Street Trash
This shocker will most likely appeal to fans of pitch-black beyond-bad-taste comedy. Others may find it highly offensive and gory as it chronicles the fate of ... [ Comedy movie - 1987 ]
Surf Nazis Must Die
A group of crazed young neo-Nazi vigilantes try to take over California's beaches in a campy apocalyptic saga that takes place after a devastating earthquake wipes out half of the Golden State's population. A rival gang of ... [ Comedy movie - 1987 ]
La Casita del Pecado
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La Lechería de Zacarías
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El Mofles Y Los Mecanicos
El Mofles (Rafael Inclan) is a poor mechanic who works at the Los Pits garage in this low-budget comedy. When he finds a bag full of ... [ Comedy movie - 1987 ]
Mr. Vampire 3
Ricky Lau continues his profitable Mr. Vampire series with this outing about Uncle Ming (Richard Ng), a crook posing as a Taoist priest who tricks the gullible into thinking that he has vanquished malevolent spirits. His con is aided in ... [ Comedy movie - 1987 ]
El Dia de los Albañiles 3
The mystery-comedy El Dia de los Albaniles 3 features Alfonso Zayas as a horny laborer who is employed ... [ Comedy movie - 1987 ]
Urusei Yatsura OVA [Anime OVA Series]
Even after a nearly 200-episode run on television ... [ Comedy movie - 1987 ]
West is West
Vikram (Ashotosh Gowariker) is an Indian immigrant from Bombay who lands in San Francisco. His happiness over his arrival in the United States ... [ Comedy movie - 1987 ]
H.M. Deserters
A diverse group of soldiers defending the Austro-Hungarian empire are ... [ Comedy movie - 1987 ]
Howling III: The Marsupials
Professor Harry Bechmeyer (Barry Otto) goes searching for a rare breed of ... [ Comedy movie - 1987 ]
L'Italiana in Algeri
This production of Gioacchino Rossini's comic opera 'Italiana ... [ Comedy movie - 1987 ]
'Allo 'Allo: Series 04
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Juan Polainas: El Rey del Salón
Juan Polainas El Rey Del Salon concern a lothario who spends his ... [ Comedy movie - 1987 ]
