Joe Dirt and Dickie Roberts. Neither one was very successful, but i really enjoy them both.
Student Bodies is a hilarious film! Made in 1981 it was a spoof of slasher films like Halloween & Friday the 13[sup]th[/sup]. Predates ‘Scary Movie’ by almost two decades! Also, although Something About Mary claims to have been the first non X film to show, ahem, jiz, this film beat them to it (sort of) again by almost 20 years!
And Return of the Living Dead, written & directed by the great Dan O’Bannon, is one of the funniest movies of all time! Don’t bother with any of the sequels though.
Can I put in a plug for, And God Spoke*? (think this is the correct title)
That’s a wonderful, wonderful film. I’ve been wishing, ever since I saw it, to watch it at a movie theater (not at home) again. It’s like Roald Dahl metts Jules Verne meets Charles Dickens and then they do some really strange drugs and decide to make a movie together.
I loved **Made in Heaven ** , Quick Change and **Night on Earth ** which have already been mentioned.
I’ll add Eve’s Bayou, Heartbreakers , Sliding Doors and Lake Placid
I did a thread like this before anyway I’m going to mention two, one was “Megiddo” by TBN Films, great movie but not enough promotion and I think reviewers were biased because TBN a religous cable network funded the movie and the other was “Freddy Got Fingered” in order to get that movie you have to *get * Tom Green and apparently a lot of people don’t get Tom Green eventhough his show was popular on MTV.
84 Charing Cross Road (1986): A very charming movie about a book-loving woman in New York City (Anne Bancroft) who writes to a bookstore in London that specializes in rare books. The owner of the store, Frank (Anthony Hopkins), gets the letter and sends her the book, but the two start writing more letters back and forth to each other. Their friendship spans about twenty years (late 1940s to late 1960s, I believe). She also develops friendships with the other employees in the shop, without Frank’s knowledge.
It has a sort of downer ending.
The two never get to meet each other. Bancroft’s character almost gets to fly out to London, but has to use the money on an emergency surgery for her teeth (the scene where Frank gets the letter saying she can’t come is great acting because he looks devestated but can’t show it in front of his employees). Frank dies in the late '60s, before they could meet.
But it’s a great movie anyway.