Comedy
Q: How many surrealists does it take to change a light bulb? A: The fish. Much like that joke, comedy comes down to personal taste and what one finds funny or not. Some like their humour light and frothy and very generalised, while others like it to have an edge and go for a more twisted, darker humour. The motherlode of this genre can be scrolled below. Either way, we're sure there will be something for everybody in the subsections on the left.
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The World According to Garp (1982)
7.2/10
Director: George Roy Hill
Starring: Glenn Close, Mary Beth Hurt, Robin Williams, John Lithgow
Robin Williams is writer, wrestler and family man T S Garp in this George Roy Hill adaptation of the John Irving bestseller. With Glenn Close as his m... Read more
Night Shift (1982)
6.5/10
Director: Ron Howard
Starring: Henry Winkler, Michael Keaton, Shelley Long
Henry Winkler shines as a straight-arrow city morgue worker whose staid worklife is hilariously disrupted with the arrival of off-the-wall assistant M... Read more
Bognor (1981)
6.1/10
Starring: David Horovitch
Simon Bognor, the accident-prone investigator for the Department of Trade, has to contend with double-dealing, murders, dismissive bosses and his fier... Read more
Porky's/Porky's II: The Next Day (1981)
6.2/10
Director: Bob Clark
Starring: Dan Monahan, Kim Cattrall, Nancy Parsons, Susan Clark, Alex Karras, Kaki Hunter,...
Porky's (1981): This raunchy comedy hit that spawned two sequels takes an unblushing look at teenage adolescence in the 1950s. It follows the comic mi... Read more
Neighbors (1981)
6.3/10
Director: John G. John G. Avildsen
Starring: Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, Kathryn Walker
One man's quiet suburban life takes a sickening lurch for the worse when a young couple move into the deserted house next door. From the word go it is... Read more
The Cannonball Run (Blu-Ray) (1981)
6.2/10
Director: Hal Needham
Starring: Burt Reynolds, Farrah Fawcett, Roger Moore
Burt Reynolds leads a pack of wacky racers across the country in this road comedy that features zany stunts, loads of crashes and stars galore. With R... Read more
The Incredible Shrinking Woman (1981)
5.4/10
Director: Joel Schumacher
Starring: Charles Grodin, Henry Gibson, Lily Tomlin, Ned Beatty
The loveable and laughable Lily Tomlin stars in this high-spirited sci-fi comedy satire. Exposed to a bizarre mix of household chemicals, ordinary hou... Read more
All Night Long (1981)
5.9/10
Director: Jean-Claude Tramont
Starring: Barbra Streisand, Dennis Quaid, Diane Ladd, Gene Hackman
Screen legends Gene Hackman and Barbra Streisand star in this offbeat comedy that proves a man can lose everything and still love happily ever after.... Read more
S.O.B. (1981)
6.4/10
Director: Blake Edwards
Starring: Julie Andrews, Larry Hagman, Loretta Swit, Marisa Berenson, Robert Preston, Robe...
In this biting comedy satirizing Hollywood cynicism from writer-director Blake Edwards, Felix Farmer (Richard Mulligan) is a motion picture director w... Read more
Bustin' Loose (1981)
6.1/10
Director: Oz Scott
Starring: Richard Pryor, Cicely Tyson, George Coe, Robert Christian
Starring comic genius Richard Pryor, this raucous, light-hearted comedy is the entertaining tale of shifty ex-con Joe Braxton who after finding himsel... Read more