Comedy Movies of 1989
When Harry Met Sally
Rob Reiner's romantic comedy When Harry Met Sally stars Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan as the title pair. The film opens with the two strangers, both newly graduated from the University of Chicago, share a car trip from Chicago to New ... [ Comedy movie - 1989 ]
Look Who's Talking
Though its PG-13 rating is well earned, Look Who's Talking has some elements that might appeal to a family audience. Chief among them, of course, is the "talking baby" protagonist. The product of an ... [ Comedy movie - 1989 ]
Parenthood
This feel-good ensemble comedy tracks a quartet of suburban siblings and their families ... [ Comedy movie - 1989 ]
The January Man
This offbeat police thriller with heavy doses of humor was written by John Patrick Shanley, ... [ Comedy movie - 1989 ]
Erik the Viking
An unusually principled young Viking becomes increasing uncomfortable with all the ... [ Comedy movie - 1989 ]
We're No Angels
In this comedy, escaped prisoners Ned (Robert DeNiro) and Jim (Sean Penn) take refuge in a monastery where they pose as priests to ... [ Comedy movie - 1989 ]
The 'Burbs
Ward and June Cleaver have nothing on suburban couple Tom Hanks and Carrie Fisher. Together with their perfect son, Hanks and Fisher are so clean that they squeak. Thus, when new neighbors ... [ Comedy movie - 1989 ]
Earth Girls Are Easy
In this madcap comedy, Geena Davis plays Valerie, a manicurist living in the valley with her ... [ Comedy movie - 1989 ]
The War of the Roses
Divorce lawyer Danny De Vito warns his prospective ... [ Comedy movie - 1989 ]
Going Overboard
Two years before he joined the cast of Saturday Night Live, Adam Sandler starred in this comedy as Shecky Moskowitz, who wants to get a job as a comedian on a cruise ship, but when that job is taken, signs on ... [ Comedy movie - 1989 ]
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Eddie Murphy
Few Saturday Night Live regular rose to stardom with such skyrocket force as Eddie Murphy, who was brought in as a second-string comic in 1981 and within a year was ruling the roost. This hour-long video shows off Murphy at his PG-rated ... [ Comedy movie - 1989 ]
Let It Ride
Joe Pytka's comedy stars Richard Dreyfuss as Trotter, a cab driver who gets a hot tip on a horse race and soon finds himself on the ... [ Comedy movie - 1989 ]
Disorganized Crime
When a conniving Montana thief (Corbin Bernsen) decides to rob the local bank, he organizes a gang of four to meet at a remote cabin to ... [ Comedy movie - 1989 ]
Lobster Man from Mars
This farcical send-up of the movie business borrows a plot from the classic 1968 Mel Brooks film The Producers. It stars Tony Curtis as J.P. Sheldrake, a movie producer sorely in need of a flop for tax purposes. Imagine his delight when ... [ Comedy movie - 1989 ]
See No Evil, Hear No Evil
The third pairing of comic actors Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder was much less successful than their previous team-ups, Silver Streak(1976) and Stir Crazy (1980). Wilder ... [ Comedy movie - 1989 ]
Chances Are
Handsome young Washington attorney Louie Jeffries (Chris McDonald) has it all: a promising career, a beautiful wife, and a baby on the way. But after discovering a local judge is in cahoots with ... [ Comedy movie - 1989 ]
She-Devil
Susan Seidelman directed this loose adaptation of Fay Weldon's novel The Life and Loves of a She-Devil concerning the extreme revenge exacted by a dumpy housewife on her philandering husband. Mary ... [ Comedy movie - 1989 ]
The Dream Team
The eponymous team consists of four residents of a New Jersey psychiatric hospital: ex-postal worker Henry Sikorsky (Christopher Lloyd), who fancies himself a doctor; one-time ad agency exec Jack McDermott (Peter Boyle), suffering ... [ Comedy movie - 1989 ]
Dream a Little Dream
In 1987-88, a quartet of films with the same basic body-switching premise deluged theaters: Like Father, Like Son (1987), Big (1988), Vice Versa (1988), and 18 ... [ Comedy movie - 1989 ]
Out Cold
Dave (John Lithgow), a meek, unassuming man who's ... [ Comedy movie - 1989 ]
Cutting Class
This reject from slasher-movie remedial school -- featuring copious amounts of teen sex and ... [ Comedy movie - 1989 ]
Turner and Hooch
One by-product of two consecutive Oscar wins is that Tom Hanks no ... [ Comedy movie - 1989 ]
Cheers: Season 08
As Cheers entered its eighth season, viewers began to wonder if the long-awaited romance between Sam Malone (Ted Danson) and Rebecca Howe (Kirstie ... [ Comedy movie - 1989 ]
The Big Picture
Another "get even with Hollywood" satire in the tradition of SOB and Movers and Shakers, The Big Picture is an elongated inside joke complete with un-billed celebrity cameos. In this first feature-film directorial effort by ... [ Comedy movie - 1989 ]
Major League
Inheriting the Cleveland Indians baseball team from her late husband, covetous ex-showgirl Margaret Whitton wants to move the franchise to Miami, primarily to take advantage of the many personal perks she's been promised ... [ Comedy movie - 1989 ]
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Chevy Chase, star of National Lampoon's Vacation and its sequel, is back as the paterfamilias of the Griswold family (including Beverly D'Angelo as his missus) to skewer ... [ Comedy movie - 1989 ]
The Golden Girls: Season 05
The Golden Girls begins its fifth season minus several of its longtime writers, but with the basic cast intact: Bea Arthur as Dorothy, Betty White as Rose, Rue McClanahan as Blanche, and Estelle Getty as Dorothy's mom, Sophia, four ... [ Comedy movie - 1989 ]
Three Fugitives
Another of Disney's Touchstone Pictures rehashes of a lightweight French farce, Three ... [ Comedy movie - 1989 ]
Breaking In
In this comedy (which claims a strong pedigree -- it was written by John Sayles and directed by Bill Forsyth), Burt Reynolds plays Ernie, an aging career burglar who knows just ... [ Comedy movie - 1989 ]
Fletch Lives
Though the original Fletch was drubbed by critics, it proved a major success for star Chevy Chase. It was inevitable, then, that a sequel would make an appearance. Surprisingly, Fletch Lives didn't come ... [ Comedy movie - 1989 ]
George Carlin: What am I Doing in New Jersey?
George Carlin: What Am I Doing in New Jersey? was taped before a live audience. Carlin's conceptual brand of humor encompasses ... [ Comedy movie - 1989 ]
Love at Large
Director Alan Rudolph's 1989 model mood piece stars Tom Berenger ... [ Comedy movie - 1989 ]
K-9
James Belushi stars in this cop actioner about a loner narcotics officer who has to break in a new partner. The twist here is that the new partner is barely housebroken, but he's still sharp and keeps his nose close to the ... [ Comedy movie - 1989 ]
The Rachel Papers
A teen sex comedy derived from the arch debut novel of author Martin Amis by debut director Damian Harris (son of actor Richard Harris). Dexter Fletcher stars as Charles Highway, a 19-year-old computer nerd in London who has created a program ... [ Comedy movie - 1989 ]
The Tall Guy
Dexter King (Jeff Goldblum) is an actor who spends his nights on-stage in London's West End as a comedic ... [ Comedy movie - 1989 ]
Troop Beverly Hills
Shelly Long stars in this comedy as a spoiled Beverly Hills wife who decides--wanting to prove her husband's ... [ Comedy movie - 1989 ]
Who's Harry Crumb?
John Candy's popularity from his appearances on the Canadian television series Second City TV did not translate into film success until he made the John Hughes comedy Uncle Buck. Who's Harry Crumb? was released just before the more well-known ... [ Comedy movie - 1989 ]
Beverly Hills Brats
In this comedy, a wealthy teen convinces a burglar to kidnap ... [ Comedy movie - 1989 ]
Bloodhounds of Broadway
Produced for theatrical released by PBS' American ... [ Comedy movie - 1989 ]
Uncle Buck
In this cheerful, lightweight comedy, excruciatingly ... [ Comedy movie - 1989 ]
A Fool and His Money
Religion, Inc. was originally -- and very briefly -- released as A Fool and His Money. While watching TV, ex-adman Morris Codman ... [ Comedy movie - 1989 ]
Loverboy
Joan Micklin Silver's farce stars Patrick Dempsey as a pizza delivery boy who begins satisfying the romantic needs of a group of bored Beverly Hills housewives. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide [ Comedy movie - 1989 ]
My Mom's a Werewolf
An average housewife (Susan Blakely) is transformed into a werewolf after being seduced by a stranger (John Saxon). Only her daughter and friend can save her from remaining an animal forever. ~ John ... [ Comedy movie - 1989 ]
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
With only a few days before their high-school graduation, it looks like ... [ Comedy movie - 1989 ]
Her Alibi
A frustrated writer helps save a woman being railroaded by the law -- or ... [ Comedy movie - 1989 ]
She's Out of Control
Director Stan Dragoti, whose forte is plumbing the depths of the male psyche, plumbs those depths once again in She's Out of ... [ Comedy movie - 1989 ]
Worth Winning
A self-centered womanizer makes a wager that he will be able to propose to three women in a three month time and have each one accept in this ... [ Comedy movie - 1989 ]
Roseanne: Season 02
The second season of Roseanne allowed for a lot less ... [ Comedy movie - 1989 ]
UHF
UHF is the film debut of comedy-rock satirist Weird Al Yankovic, who also co-wrote the screenplay. George Newman (Yankovic) and his friend, Bob (David Bowe from The Cable Guy), are fired from their jobs at Burger World. So George decides to ... [ Comedy movie - 1989 ]
Heathers
A deliciously nasty black comedy, Heathers is set at a cliquish high school in Ohio. The most exclusive of those cliques is the Heathers, comprised of the prettiest and most popular girls in town. ... [ Comedy movie - 1989 ]
Pink Cadillac
For his third film as a director and his third film directing Clint Eastwood, stunt-man Buddy Van Horn helmed this action comedy involving a skip tracer, some neo-nazis, and the titular vehicle. ... [ Comedy movie - 1989 ]
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
Erstwhile inventor Rick Moranis has been experimenting with an electro-magnetic shrinking machine. He ... [ Comedy movie - 1989 ]
Weekend at Bernie's
When two bumbling businessmen, Larry Wilson (Andrew McCarthy) and ... [ Comedy movie - 1989 ]
True Love
Independent filmmaker Nancy Savoca's True Love stars Annabella Sciorra as a none-too-bright young lady who evinces untapped brilliance in getting her boyfriend Ron Eldard to the altar. Sciorra's work is certainly cut out for her: Eldard, who ... [ Comedy movie - 1989 ]
Andy Kaufman: I'm from Hollywood
Performance footage and interviews combine to offer a ... [ Comedy movie - 1989 ]
Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death
Buxom Playboy foldout Shannon Tweed plays a sexy college professor assigned to investigate a sudden, disastrous avocado shortage; her ... [ Comedy movie - 1989 ]
Police Academy 6: City Under Siege
Who do you send after a gang of stump-dumb crooks? Who else but the most ... [ Comedy movie - 1989 ]
Married... With Children: Season 04
One significant cast change occurs during season four of Married...With Children -- namely, the departure of Steve Rhoades (David Garrison), ... [ Comedy movie - 1989 ]
Full House: Season 03
Season three of Full House finds Lori Loughlin matriculating from "recurring" to "regular" status in the role of Becky Donaldson, co-host of Danny Tanner's (Bob Saget) San Francisco TV show and ... [ Comedy movie - 1989 ]
The Cosby Show: Season 06
The sixth season of The Cosby Show marks the full-time return of actress Lisa Bonet in the role of Denise Huxtable, second of four daughters of obstetrician Cliff Huxtable (Bill Cosby) and his attorney wife, Clair (Phylicia ... [ Comedy movie - 1989 ]
Assault of the Party Nerds
It's Nerds vs. Frats (again) when the Nerds use a wing-ding party as a recruiting tactic. The ... [ Comedy movie - 1989 ]
Skin Deep
Blake Edwards, mining the same territory as in his 10, ... [ Comedy movie - 1989 ]
The Kids in the Hall: The Pilot Episode
Eagerly-anticipated and long unavailable on video, this pilot episode of the famous Canadian sketch comedy series Kids in the Hall prompted a half-decade run for the SNL and Flying Circus-inspired ... [ Comedy movie - 1989 ]
How I Got into College
This teen comedy from Savage Steve Holland stars Corey Parker as an underachieving high schooler who hatches a crazy plot with valedictorian Lara Flynn Boyle to gain acceptance into a prestigious ... [ Comedy movie - 1989 ]
How to Get Ahead in Advertising
After years of capitalizing on the weaknesses of a gullible public, a London advertising executive finds that his worst qualities have literally taken on a life of their own in this scathing satire. Successful copywriter Dennis ... [ Comedy movie - 1989 ]
Get Smart, Again!
The second feature-length revival of the Get Smart television series (1965-1970) of blessed memory, Get Smart Again ... [ Comedy movie - 1989 ]
A Warm Summer Rain
When a suicidal woman meets up with a wayward young man, the two develop a strong relationship as they find comfort and ... [ Comedy movie - 1989 ]
Hot Times at Montclair High
The students of Ridgemont High have got nothing on these hard partying high schoolers, ... [ Comedy movie - 1989 ]
Andrew Dice Clay: One Night with Dice
This comedy performance video is not for all tastes. The controversial Andrew Dice Clay, known for his foul obscenities and sexism, performs with a "Guarantee to offend." ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide [ Comedy movie - 1989 ]
The Big Dis
All poor JD wants to do during his weekend military furlough is get laid; ... [ Comedy movie - 1989 ]
Spring Break USA
Will movies like this ever stop being made? Like its dozens of predecessors, Lauderdale is worth watching only when the requisite bikini babes flounce past the camera. Darrel Guilbeau and Jeff Greenman are among the thousands of ... [ Comedy movie - 1989 ]
Louie Anderson: Mom! Louie's Looking at Me Again!
Corpulent comic Louie Anderson once more fractures his audience with trenchant recollections of his checkered childhood in this made-for-cable concert video. Using nothing more than his voice, his expressive hands, and his ... [ Comedy movie - 1989 ]
Monster High
When a monster named Armageddon (David Marriott) is ... [ Comedy movie - 1989 ]
Red Skelton: King of Laughter
Red Skelton: King of Laughter provides a comedy collection of master comedian Red Skelton performing some of his most well-loved characters, skits, monologues, and ad-libs from his days in Vaudeville, as well ... [ Comedy movie - 1989 ]
The Toxic Avenger, Part II
Ron Fazio returns as The Toxic Avenger, "the first hideously deformed monster hero of superhuman size and strength ever to come from New Jersey," in Troma's mercenary sequel to its hit film The Toxic ... [ Comedy movie - 1989 ]
Las Calenturas De Juan Camaney II
The sexy comedy Las Calenturas De Juan Camaney II features Luis De Alba as a bell boy who does anything he can to satisfy the various needs of the hotel's female guests. ~ ... [ Comedy movie - 1989 ]
Magic Cop
Lam Ching-ying stars in this wild and woolly supernatural crime ... [ Comedy movie - 1989 ]
Creature Comforts
Creature Comforts is an Oscar-winning animated short from Aardman Animations and ... [ Comedy movie - 1989 ]
Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Crawling Hand
MST3K's humble beginnings -- original set and theme song intact -- are preserved in "Crawling Hand," in which Josh Weinstein provides the voice of Tom and the role ... [ Comedy movie - 1989 ]
The Toxic Avenger Part III: The Last Temptation of Toxie
Upon temptation from Satan himself, Melvin Junko (aka the Toxic Avenger) has ... [ Comedy movie - 1989 ]
Assemble: Insert [Anime OVA]
Maron Namikaze is all the rage; she's everyone's favorite pop idol and even though she can't really sing or dance, she's sweet, adorable, and very charismatic. And on top of all that innocent charm, she's the perfect candidate ... [ Comedy movie - 1989 ]
The Inspector Wears Skirts II
Wellson Chin returns to direct this follow-up to his ... [ Comedy movie - 1989 ]
The Simpsons: Season 01
Beginning with The Simpsons Christmas Special, the first ... [ Comedy movie - 1989 ]
The Kids in the Hall: Season 01
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Straight Tripping, Vol. 2
Straight Tripping, Vol. 2 offers footage of African American stand-up ... [ Comedy movie - 1989 ]
Los Verduleros 3
The mystery-comedy Los Verduleros 3 features Alfonso Zayas as Roberto, a private detective who finds success even though he rarely ... [ Comedy movie - 1989 ]
Only Fools and Horses: Series 06
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Bob Hope: Christmas on TV
Legendary funnyman Bob Hope is joined by glamorous screen beauty Ginger Rogers and popular comic Jerry Colonna in a Christmas celebration originally broadcast in ... [ Comedy movie - 1989 ]
La Corneta de Mi General
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Starzan: Shouting Star of the Jungle
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Coach: Season 01
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Coach: Season 02
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