Airheads 1994  PG-13, 91 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Musical
Director: Michael Lehmann
Cast: Brendan Fraser, Steve Buscemi, Adam Sandler, Chris Farley, Michael McKean, Judd Nelson, Ernie Hudson, Amy Locane, Joe Mantegna, Nina Siemaszko, Marshall Bell, Reg E. Cathey, David Arquette, Michael Richards, Michelle Hurst
"The Lone Rangers" is a rock band, and its three members–Chazz," Rex, and Pip (Brendan Fraser, Steve Buscemi, and Adam Sandler)–are trying to get their demo tape heard, but to no avail. They decide to take matters into their own hands by holding a local radio station hostage–using water pistols as weapons.
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David Copperfield 2000  TV, 150 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Peter Medak
Cast: Hugh Dancy, Max Dolbey, Michael Richards, Sally Field, Nigel Davenport, Eileen Atkins, Anthony Andrews, Frank MacCusker, Freddie Jones, Edward Hardwicke, Emily Hamilton, Julie Cox, Sarah Smart, Alan Howard, Alec McCowen
In this made-for-TV, two-part Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation, Max Dolbey takes on the role of young David Copperfield while Hugh Dancy plays the adult David as Charles Dickens' semi-autobiographical novel is once again presented on film. The setting, filmed in Ireland, gives the look and feel of Copperfield's 19th-century England in which he grew up under the thumb of his cruel stepfather Murdstone (Anthony Andrews) but with support from others such as Aunt Betsy (Sally Field).
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London Suite 1996  TV, 120 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: Neil Simon's London Suite
Director: Jay Sandrich
Cast: Kelsey Grammer, Michael Richards, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jonathan Silverman, Madeline Kahn, Richard Mulligan, Patricia Clarkson, Julie Hagerty, Kristen Johnston, Jane Carr, Paxton Whitehead, Margot Steinberg
In this made-for-TV sequel to "California Suite" (1978), Neil Simon has placed his characters in a London hotel where four different stories are told.
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 Pinocchio 1984 TV, 85 min.
Genre: Family / Comedy / Adventure / Fantasy
Director: Peter Medak
Cast: Carl Reiner, Paul Reubens, James Belushi, Lainie Kazan, Vincent Schiavelli, James Coburn, Don Novello, Vito Scotti, Michael Richards, Helena Kallianiotes, Avery Schreiber
The Carlo Collodi story comes to the screen again via TV as part of "Faerie Tale Theater" series. Carl Reiner takes the role of woodcarver Geppetto who dreams of having a son when he creates a wooden puppet, Pinocchio (Paul Reubens). The Blue Fairy (Lainie Kazan) appears on the scene and grants Geppetto's wish by turning Pinocchio into a living marionette. But, Pinocchio must prove himself to be a good boy and must never lie or his nose will grow. Problems lie ahead, but, by story's end, Pinocchio proves that he has a good soul.
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Problem Child 1990  PG, 81 min.
Genre: Family / Comedy / Action / Fantasy
Director: Dennis Dugan
Cast: John Ritter, Jack Warden, Michael Oliver, Gilbert Gottfried, Amy Yasbeck, Michael Richards, Peter Jurasik, Charlotte Akin, Anna Marie Allred, Adam Anderly, Robert A. Anderson, Cody Beard
This movie is AWFUL–so terrible that it spawned a sequel, an animated TV series, and a TV movie. Ben (John Ritter) works for his father, Big Ben (Jack Warden), a tough–and crooked–sporting goods dealer. Ben and his wife (Amy Yasbeck) decide to adopt a son and are conned into taking Junior (Michael Oliver) from the orphanage. They have more than they can handle with the mean, destructive demon. And then there's the bow-tie killer. Low-class humor.
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 So I Married an Axe Murderer 1993 PG-13, 93 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Thomas Schlamme
Cast: Mike Myers, Nancy Travis, Anthony LaPaglia, Amanda Plummer, Alan Arkin, Brenda Fricker, Charles Grodin, Debi Mazar, Phil Hartman, Matt Doherty, Steven Wright, Patrick Bristow, Cintra Wilson, Michael Richards
San Francisco poet Charlie Mackenzie (Mike Myers) has not been able to commit to a relationship when he falls in love with butcher Harriet (Nancy Travis) and marries her. Then, he is told about an axe murderer who has been killing her husbands in Atlantic City and Miami. Harriet has spent time in both cities, and Charlie's paranoia sets in. Did she, or didn't she? That is what Charlie (Mike Myers) wonders about Harriet in this comedy.
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Transylvania 6-5000 1985 PG, 94 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Rudy De Luca
Cast: Jeff Goldblum, Ed Begley Jr., Carol Kane, Joseph Bologna, Jeffrey Jones, Geena Davis, Norman Fell, John Byner, Michael Richards, Teresa Ganzel
A pair of reporters (Jeff Goldblum and Ed Begley Jr.) is sent to Transylvania to look into the rebirth of the Transylvania monster. This spoof isn't very funny–nor scarry.
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 Trial and Error 1997  PG-13, 106 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Jonathan Lynn
Cast: Michael Richards, Jeff Daniels, Alexandra Wentworth, Rip Torn, Charlize Theron, Jessica Steen, Austin Pendleton, Jennifer Coolidge, Max Casella, Dale Dye
Lawyer Charles Tuttle (Jeff Daniels) is sent by his soon-to-be father-in-law's law firm to defend con man Benny Gibbs (Rip Torn) in a Nevada court case. Tuttle's friend, Richard Rietti (Michael Richards), is an actor who hosts a bachelor party at which Tuttle gets drunk and fails to appear for Gibb's court case, but Rietti uses his skills, appears in court, and pretends to be Tuttle. Now he must play out the charade or risk being arrested for impersonating a lawyer.
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UHF 1989 PG-13, 97 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Jay Levey
Cast: Weird Al Yankovic, Victoria Jackson, Kevin McCarthy, Michael Richards, David Bowe, Stanley Brock, Anthony Geary, Trinidad Silva, Gedde Watanabe, Billy Barty, John Paragon, Fran Drescher
Loser George (Weird Al Yankovic) is put in charge of a failing UHF station that his uncle won in a poker game. After the frustrated George walks out during a program, the dimwitted janitor finishes the show. The show is a hit, and the recipe of stupid programming saves the struggling station. But an unethical rival station doesn't like the success George's station is enjoying.
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Unstrung Heroes 1995 PG, 93 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Diane Keaton
Cast: Andie MacDowell, John Turturro, Michael Richards, Maury Chaykin, Nathan Watt, Kendra Krull, Anne DeSalvo, Joey Lauren Adams, Candice Azzara, Celia Weston
Based on the Franz Lidz autobiographical novel, this story is set in the early 1960s. The story is about a young boy (Nathan Watt) who seeks refuge with his eccentric uncles while his family tries to deal with his mother's (Andie MacDowell) diagnosis of cancer.
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| 1. Airheads (1994)
2. David Copperfield (2000)
3. London Suite (1996)
aka: Neil Simon's London Suite
4. Pinocchio (1984)
5. Problem Child (1990)
6. So I Married an Axe Murderer (1993)
7. Transylvania 6-5000 (1985)
8. Trial and Error (1997)
9. UHF (1989)
10. Unstrung Heroes (1995)
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