Comedy Movies of 1988
Laura Lansing Slept Here
Each of Katharine Hepburn's 1980s TV movies was heralded as the lady's last-ever appearance. We are fortunate ... [ Comedy movie - 1988 ]
Arthur 2: On the Rocks
In this sequel to the 1981 hit comedy Arthur, the story picks up where it left off with the bibulous millionaire hero ... [ Comedy movie - 1988 ]
Working Girl
Unhappy with her job and her loser boyfriend, Melanie Griffith takes a secretarial post at a major Wall Street firm. Her ... [ Comedy movie - 1988 ]
Married to the Mob
Michelle Pfeiffer is Married to the Mob in this comedy. The wife of Mafia hitman Alec Baldwin, Pfeiffer regularly chastizes her husband for his ... [ Comedy movie - 1988 ]
Moon over Parador
Jack Noah (Richard Dreyfuss) is all actor: Self-possessed, obsessive, vulnerable, and an addict for praise, his soul burns with "the craft." ... [ Comedy movie - 1988 ]
Sunset
Director Blake Edwards departed from his customary sex farces to direct an ... [ Comedy movie - 1988 ]
Coming to America
Coming to America casts comedian Eddie Murphy as pampered African prince Akeem, who rebels against an ... [ Comedy movie - 1988 ]
A Fish Called Wanda
In A Fish Called Wanda, Jamie Lee Curtis plays an ambitious con artist who uses every ounce of her sexual wiles to obtain a fortune in jewels stolen by her gangster lover Tom Georgeson. First, she romances Georgeson's dimwitted but ... [ Comedy movie - 1988 ]
Big Business
Thanks to a mix-up at birth, two sets of twins are separated and grow up in radically different social circles. The four baby girls grow up to be Bette Midler and Lily Tomlin-and Bette Midler and Lily ... [ Comedy movie - 1988 ]
Midnight Run
Director Martin Brest, of Going in Style and Beverly Hills Cop fame, was in charge of Midnight Run. Robert De Niro stars as Jack Walsh, a hard-bitten bounty hunter ... [ Comedy movie - 1988 ]
Big
More than anything else, 13-year old New Jerseyite Josh (David Moscow) wants to be "big". That's the wish he makes at an ... [ Comedy movie - 1988 ]
High Spirits
The owner of an Irish castle decides to attract visitors by falsely claiming that the ... [ Comedy movie - 1988 ]
Diary of a Big Man
Internationally renowned filmmaker Tsui Hark produced this amiable screwball romantic comedy from Hong Kong director Chor Yuen. Popular action star Chow Yun-fat plays Chow Ting-fat, a stockbroker who is in ... [ Comedy movie - 1988 ]
Twins
The central "gimmick" of the comedy-adventure Twins is established early on. Unbeknownst to one another, king-sized Arnold ... [ Comedy movie - 1988 ]
Without a Clue
According to Without a Clue, master detective Sherlock Holmes was a wholly fictional character. Well, we knew that; what we didn't know was that Holmes was a figment of the imagination of ... [ Comedy movie - 1988 ]
Bull Durham
A blend of comedy, drama and romance, Bull Durham follows the intertwining of three lives brought together by the great American ... [ Comedy movie - 1988 ]
Caddyshack II
This comedy returns to the exclusive but crazy country club golf course seen in the ... [ Comedy movie - 1988 ]
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is a remake of the 1964 film farce Bedtime Story. Steve Martin and Michael Caine take over the roles originally played by Marlon Brando and David Niven: two ... [ Comedy movie - 1988 ]
The Greatest Lover
Three buffoons from the Chinese Mainland manage to enter Hong Kong illegally. As they are about to meet with a low-life islander who will provide them fake I.D.'s, ... [ Comedy movie - 1988 ]
Big Top Pee-Wee
Paul Reubens's followup to the box-office hit Pee-Wee's Big Adventure is just as outrageous and cartoonish, though not as good. This time, child-man Pee-Wee runs a colorful farm, chock full of talking animals and outsized ... [ Comedy movie - 1988 ]
Scrooged
A darkly comic and surreal contemporization of Charles Dickens's A ... [ Comedy movie - 1988 ]
Cheers: Season 07
Although, at 22 episodes, the seventh season of Cheers' was the series' shortest since 1983, there was no lack of fascinating plot developments nor any shortage of colorful new characters. Having lost her job as manager of Cheers, ... [ Comedy movie - 1988 ]
Johnny Be Good
Johnny Walker (Anthony Michael Hall) is a hot-shot high-school quarterback who ... [ Comedy movie - 1988 ]
The Couch Trip
Michael Ritchie's The Couch Trip follows a long line of Hollywood films (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Disorderly Orderly) in which the psychos are seen as saner than the psychiatrists. Charles Grodin plays Dr. George ... [ Comedy movie - 1988 ]
License to Drive
Les (Corey Haim) is embarrassed when he fails his driving test in this routine teen comedy. His buddies are depending on him to ... [ Comedy movie - 1988 ]
The Naked Gun
We know we're in a 1988 film when we're invited to laugh at O.J. Simpson in an opening slapstick sequence. We can also ... [ Comedy movie - 1988 ]
The Golden Girls: Season 04
Roommates Dorothy (Betty White), Blanche (Rue McClanahan), Rose (Betty White), and Sophia (Estelle Getty) continue to prove that there ... [ Comedy movie - 1988 ]
Tapeheads
In this high-energy satire of the music biz, Ivan Alexov (John Cusack) and Josh Tager (Tim Robbins) lose their jobs as security guards, and they decide to start their own video production ... [ Comedy movie - 1988 ]
My Stepmother Is an Alien
An astrophysicist falls in love with a beautiful woman who is actually a disguised extraterrestrial in this high-concept comedy. Dan Aykroyd plays Steven Mills, a dedicated and harmlessly odd scientist ... [ Comedy movie - 1988 ]
Pee-Wee's Playhouse Christmas Special
The secret word is "Happy New Year" as Pee-Wee Herman (Paul Reubens) and the Playhouse gang hold a Christmas party. Things threaten to get out of hand fairly ... [ Comedy movie - 1988 ]
Crossing Delancey
Can an independent, contemporary woman find happiness with a guy who sells pickles? Isabelle ... [ Comedy movie - 1988 ]
The Prince of Pennsylvania
Set in a remote Pennsylvania coal-mining town, this off-beat comedy follows the friendship between an old hippie woman and a depressive teenage punk rocker who feels ... [ Comedy movie - 1988 ]
I'm Gonna Git You Sucka!
Keenen Ivory Wayans wrote, directed, and starred in this ... [ Comedy movie - 1988 ]
18 Again!
On his 81st birthday, grandpa George Burns, bemoans the fact that ... [ Comedy movie - 1988 ]
Shag
Shag is a beach flick set in 1963. The years have passed, but the old Where the Boys Are formula holds firm: Four attractive young lasses ... [ Comedy movie - 1988 ]
Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach
America's most inept law enforcement team mixes business with pleasure as they head to sunny Florida in this comedy. The aging and often-confused head of the Police Academy, ... [ Comedy movie - 1988 ]
Dixie Lanes
This gentle comedy hearkens back to 1945, just after the war's end where a crazy ... [ Comedy movie - 1988 ]
Illegally Yours
Rob Lowe stars in this screwball comedy as Richard Dice, the college dropout who comes back home to St. ... [ Comedy movie - 1988 ]
Trouble in Paradise
"Paradise" is actually Australia, where this made-for-TV adventure was filmed. Raquel Welch stars as a rich, spoiled socialite who is shipwrecked on a desert island. Her ... [ Comedy movie - 1988 ]
Roseanne: Season 01
The first season of Roseanne served as an introduction to the working-class Conner family and their humorous struggles to get through the day in Lanford, IL. Roseanne is presented as the sarcastic head of the household, snapping rude ... [ Comedy movie - 1988 ]
Short Circuit 2
Fisher Stevens reprises his role of Ben Jahrvi, the co-inventor of the cute robot Number Five, in this ... [ Comedy movie - 1988 ]
Vice Versa
A magical jeweled skull makes the wish of 11-year-old Charlie (Fred Savage) come true in this routine but entertaining situation comedy. Charlie wishes ... [ Comedy movie - 1988 ]
The Wrong Guys
In this comedy, a group of former Cub Scouts (Louie Anderson, Richard Belzer, and Richard Lewis) get together for a reunion over twenty years later and land themselves in a ... [ Comedy movie - 1988 ]
School Daze
Fraternity and sorority members clash with the other students at a historically black university in this politically charged musical, which marked the sophomore feature from director Spike Lee. ... [ Comedy movie - 1988 ]
Some Girls
Michael (Patrick Dempsey) is a college student invited to spend Christmas vacation in Quebec City with his sweetheart Gabby (Jennifer Connelly) and her family. The wide-eyed Michael sees the city as a fairytale land with the splendid ... [ Comedy movie - 1988 ]
Tricks of the Trade
A prim and proper housewife from Beverly Hills sets off with a Hollywood prostitute to nab the party responsible for ... [ Comedy movie - 1988 ]
Murphy Brown: Season 01
Fresh from a stay at the Betty Ford Clinic, hard-driving (but no longer hard-drinking) TV personality Murphy Brown (Candice Bergen) launches the first season of the CBS sitcom bearing her name. ... [ Comedy movie - 1988 ]
The Great Outdoors
In the John Hughes-scripted The Great Outdoors, John Candy stars as Chet Ripley, an oafish paterfamilias who takes his family on a vacation at a lakeside resort. Their enjoyment is ... [ Comedy movie - 1988 ]
Night Court: Season 06
Just as season five of Night Court opened by resolving the cliffhanger set up at the end of season four, so too does the opener of the series' sixth season tie up a plotline left dangling at ... [ Comedy movie - 1988 ]
Heartbreak Hotel
Johnny Wolfe (Charlie Schlatter) is an Ohio teen whose alcoholic mother Marie (Tuesday Weld) has been a huge Elvis Presley fan since the 1950s. To ... [ Comedy movie - 1988 ]
Return of the Killer Tomatoes!
It has been 25 years since the last Killer Tomato has been squished into sauce. To this day the tasty red fruit are banned, and some ... [ Comedy movie - 1988 ]
Married... With Children: Season 03
The third season of Married...With Children might not have happened if a certain Michigan housewife had had her way. Outraged by the excessive sex talk and overall lack of good taste on the series, the woman from Michigan launched a ... [ Comedy movie - 1988 ]
Hairspray
Forever interested in the kitsch built into past eras, director John Waters chooses the TV dance show craze of the early '60s for his playful focus in Hairspray. Ricki Lake plays Tracy Turnblad, just one ... [ Comedy movie - 1988 ]
The Cosby Show: Season 05
America's number one-rated series for three years running, The Cosby Show manages to hold on to ... [ Comedy movie - 1988 ]
Full House: Season 02
Lori Loughlin joins the Full House cast for the series' second season in the ... [ Comedy movie - 1988 ]
Casual Sex?
In the late '80s, good-time girl Stacy (Lea Thompson) and her timid friend, Melissa (Victoria Jackson), decide ... [ Comedy movie - 1988 ]
Crocodile Dundee II
An evil drug baron rears his ugly head in this sequel to the blockbuster Crocodile Dundee, kidnapping Sue so that Dundee will butt out of the Baron's affairs. Using outback ... [ Comedy movie - 1988 ]
Ernest Saves Christmas
When Santa Claus decides to retire, he appoints a washed-up kiddie show host (Douglas Seale) to take his place. Along the way, the real Santa ends up in the slammer on Christmas Eve, and it's up ... [ Comedy movie - 1988 ]
Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers
One of the few sleaze-horror movies that actually delivers on the lurid promise of its title (and what a ... [ Comedy movie - 1988 ]
Killer Klowns from Outer Space
This low-budget cult classic horror spoof has one of the great movie titles of all time. Mike (Grant Cramer) and his sweetheart, Debbie (Suzanne Snyder), are smooching ... [ Comedy movie - 1988 ]
Lucky Stiff
In this black comedy about cannibalism, an overweight man ... [ Comedy movie - 1988 ]
Elvira, Mistress of the Dark
This lightweight and slightly ribald comedy marks the feature film debut of Elvira (Cassandra Peterson), a buxom seductress best known for hosting a popular syndicated television show that features wonderfully bad old horror movies. ... [ Comedy movie - 1988 ]
Funny Farm
Chevy Chase stars as Andy Farmer, a sportswriter who ... [ Comedy movie - 1988 ]
Doom Asylum
Buxom beauties battle a crazed killer when they are forced to seek ... [ Comedy movie - 1988 ]
Glitch!
When a pair of inept thieves, Todd (Will Egan) and Bo (Steve Donmeyer), break ... [ Comedy movie - 1988 ]
The Gods Must Be Crazy 2
This sequel to the enormous international hit The Gods Must Be Crazy isn't quite as fresh and enchanting as the original, but it is still a garden of small delights. N!Xau, the ... [ Comedy movie - 1988 ]
Tres Lancheros Muy Picudos
In this wild and uninhibited comedy from Mexico, Armando (Cesar Bono), Tun Tun (Rene Ruiz), and Roberto (Alfonso Zayas) are three friends with more bluster than brains who pilot boats off ... [ Comedy movie - 1988 ]
Young Einstein
The life of legendary scientist Albert Einstein is re-imagined as a slapstick farce in ... [ Comedy movie - 1988 ]
Beachballs
Beach Balls harkens back to the teen surf films of the 1960s, with the only addition being an abundance of nudity and profanity. Even the parents are portrayed the same ... [ Comedy movie - 1988 ]
Brain Damage
Basket Case director Frank Henenlotter explores another bizarre symbiotic human-monster relationship in this surreal horror comedy about a young man named Brian (Rick Herbst) who emerges from a night of bizarre ... [ Comedy movie - 1988 ]
Dr. Alien
This comical, erotic sci-fi adventure is every nerd's fantasy ... [ Comedy movie - 1988 ]
Dr. Hackenstein
In this low-brow combination slasher film and parody of the "Frankenstein" films, a doctor ... [ Comedy movie - 1988 ]
Fictitious Marriage
Eldad (Shlomo Bar-Abba) is a schoolteacher scheduled to fly to New York ... [ Comedy movie - 1988 ]
George Carlin: Playin' with Your Head
This video presents comedian George Carlin at his best, before a live and appreciative audience. In this particular tape, Carlin performs a variety of his classic routines on stage. Also ... [ Comedy movie - 1988 ]
Night of the Demons
A group of teens plan a Halloween party at an abandoned funeral parlor in this well-crafted horror film. The home ... [ Comedy movie - 1988 ]
Not of This Earth
A deliberately campy remake of a Roger Corman low-budget sci-fi outing from 1957, this horror film tells the gruesome story of a bloodthirsty alien who comes to our planet looking to replenish his planet's ... [ Comedy movie - 1988 ]
Rikky and Pete
In the wake of their surprise hit Malcolm, Australian screenwriter/photographer David Parker and director Nadia Tass concocted an ... [ Comedy movie - 1988 ]
Suitors
The New York-based The Suitors represented the directorial debut of Iranian Ghasem Ebrahiman. Though they're living in the Big ... [ Comedy movie - 1988 ]
Troma's War
When a plane filled with residents from Tromaville crash on a desert island, ... [ Comedy movie - 1988 ]
Goddess of Love
First airing on television, this campy romantic fantasy stars Vanna ... [ Comedy movie - 1988 ]
Las Movidas del Mofles
Rafael Inclan stars again as Mofles in this comedy sequel to Mofles Y Los Mecanicos. Mofles and his garage ... [ Comedy movie - 1988 ]
Taquito de Ojo
Two small-town guys get more adventure than they want in the big city in this action comedy from Mexico. ... [ Comedy movie - 1988 ]
Futbol de Alcoba
The popular game of soccer gets an exciting new twist in this sexy Latin comedy starring ... [ Comedy movie - 1988 ]
La Puerta Negra
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La Negra Tomasa
A ravishing black woman sends every man around her into a frenzy of heated passion in this film starring ... [ Comedy movie - 1988 ]
Dance 'til Dawn
While at the high-school prom, a group of students find romance and fun, while their parents enjoy the same. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide [ Comedy movie - 1988 ]
Urusei Yatsura Movie 5: The Final Chapter
Originally titled Uresei Yatsura: Kanketsuhen, ... [ Comedy movie - 1988 ]
Eighth Happiness
Hong Kong filmmaker Johnny To directed this all-star holiday comedy, another in a string of popular Lunar New Year ... [ Comedy movie - 1988 ]
Where's Officer Tuba?
Sammo Hung stars in this supernatural crime comedy directed by Ricky Lau Koon-wai and Phillip Chan Yan-kin. Tuba (Hung) is a fainthearted cop who prefers to play in the brass ... [ Comedy movie - 1988 ]
Faithfully Yours
Hong Kong filmmaker Wong Wah-kei directed this minor comedy which draws upon plot elements from the Three Men and a Baby series for much of its humor. Jacky Cheung top lines as Happy Chan, who opens a ... [ Comedy movie - 1988 ]
It Came From Somewhere Else
Howard Hassler's alien invasion film It Came From Somewhere Else concerns the effects of an alien invasion on the small Canadian border town of Grand Bosh. The ... [ Comedy movie - 1988 ]
Un Paso al Mas Acá
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Los Gatos de Las Azoteas
The Spanish-language comedy Los Gatos de las Azoteas concerns a man who spends his free time spying on his neighbors ... [ Comedy movie - 1988 ]
El Sexo Me Divierte
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Fly Me to the Moon
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Sólo para Adulteros
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