The Americans remake yet another French comedy (the 1972 The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe) to provide a fun role for Tom Hanks as Richard, a violinist who cycles to his engagements, taken […]
Writer-director David Seltzer’s talented 1988 comedy drama teams Sally Field with Tom Hanks. Double Oscar-winner Field packs a punch as Lilah Krytsick, a New Jersey housewife with a burning ambition to be a stand-up comedienne. […]
Director Fred Schepisi delightful 1987 comedy is the movie that finally allowed Steve Martin to sniff the sweet smell of success in Britain. He both writes and stars in his own witty updating of Edmond […]
Dan Aykroyd stars in and co-writes director Tom Mankiewicz’s amiable 1987 nostalgic film parody of Jack Webb’s great Fifties TV cop show (1951–1959) and 1954 movie Dragnet. Aykroyd plays Sgt Joe Friday’s bumbling nephew, who […]
Director Gary Marshall’s interesting if slightly awkward 1986 movie stars Jackie Gleason in his last film before he died in 1987, along with Eva Marie Saint and Tom Hanks. Gleason plays a grumpy old dad […]
Tom Hanks and John Candy, the talented comedians from Splash! (1984), sign up together again for director Nicholas Meyer’s cynical but affectionate 1985 spoof comedy set in early Sixties Thailand. There a rich, selfish socialite called Lawrence […]
Writer-director John Patrick Shanley’s 1990 dark-toned romantic comedy, satirising and updating Hollywood’s Forties escapist adventure melodramas, is appealing and engaging, even though it is extremely shakily written by Shanley, the Oscar-winning author of Moonstruck. Nevertheless, […]
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