80s Comedies Underrated Unknown
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1. Breaking All the Rules (1985)
R | 91 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance
The story of two guys and two girls who meet and fall in love in an amusement park on the last day of summer. All the while outwitting three moronic would-be jewel thieves.
Director: James Orr | Stars: Carl Marotte, Thor Bishopric, Carolyn Dunn, Rachel Hayward
Votes: 741
2. Weekend at Bernie's (1989)
PG-13 | 97 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Two idiots try to pretend that their murdered employer is really alive, leading the hitman to attempt to track him down to finish him off.
Director: Ted Kotcheff | Stars: Andrew McCarthy, Jonathan Silverman, Catherine Mary Stewart, Terry Kiser
Votes: 62,935 | Gross: $30.22M
3. Earth Girls Are Easy (1988)
PG | 100 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A Southern California girl befriends three furry aliens after their spaceship lands in her swimming pool.
Director: Julien Temple | Stars: Geena Davis, Jeff Goldblum, Jim Carrey, Damon Wayans
Votes: 25,223 | Gross: $3.92M
4. The Return of Swamp Thing (1989)
PG-13 | 88 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
In this tongue-in-cheek sequel, the benevolent bog creature falls for the vegetarian, plant-loving daughter of the evil scientist who created him.
Director: Jim Wynorski | Stars: Dick Durock, Heather Locklear, Louis Jourdan, Sarah Douglas
Votes: 6,309 | Gross: $0.19M
5. Fast Food (1989)
PG-13 | 92 min | Comedy
What would happen if a sex drug ended up in the Secret Sauce of a new burger joint?
Director: Michael A. Simpson | Stars: Clark Brandon, Randal Patrick, Tracy Griffith, Michael J. Pollard
Votes: 800 | Gross: $0.47M
6. Loverboy (1989)
PG-13 | 98 min | Comedy
Randy is still unfocused after 2 years in college. When his dad refuses to keep paying his tuition, he gets a job delivering pizzas. Several alluring cougars pay him $200 for pizza delivery and "services rendered." As for their husbands.
Director: Joan Micklin Silver | Stars: Patrick Dempsey, Kate Jackson, Robert Ginty, Nancy Valen
Votes: 8,802 | Gross: $3.96M
7. Summer Job (1989)
R | 92 min | Comedy
A less-than-elite group of college coeds pursue sexual adventure and bits of revenge, and actually do some of the work they are expected to do at a resort over the summer.
Director: Paul Madden | Stars: Sherrie Rose, James Summer, Amy Lynn Baxter, Cari Mayor
Votes: 634
8. Dangerous Curves (1988)
PG | 93 min | Comedy
A college graduate is offered a deal of a lifetime - deliver a Porsche for a client and join the company of your dreams in return. When the car gets stolen, he and his friend must go to a beauty pageant run by the thief to get it back.
Director: David Lewis | Stars: Tate Donovan, Grant Heslov, Danielle von Zerneck, Valerie Breiman
Votes: 555
9. Who's Harry Crumb? (1989)
PG-13 | 94 min | Comedy, Mystery
Harry Crumb is a bumbling and inept private investigator who is hired to solve the kidnapping of a young heiress which he's not expected to solve because his employer is the mastermind behind the kidnapping.
Director: Paul Flaherty | Stars: John Candy, Jeffrey Jones, Annie Potts, Tim Thomerson
Votes: 17,796 | Gross: $10.98M
10. The Experts (1989)
PG-13 | 94 min | Comedy
Two NYC guys get jobs starting a nightclub in Smalltown, USA. They don't know it's a spy training model town in USSR .
Director: Dave Thomas | Stars: John Travolta, Arye Gross, Kelly Preston, Deborah Foreman
Votes: 2,727 | Gross: $0.17M
11. Tapeheads (1988)
R | 93 min | Comedy, Music
A couple of creative losers accidently become big shots in the video music industry.
Director: Bill Fishman | Stars: John Cusack, Tim Robbins, Mary Crosby, Clu Gulager
Votes: 4,357 | Gross: $0.34M
12. Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (1988)
PG-13 | 96 min | Comedy, Horror
"Elvira: Mistress of the Dark" is a 1988 comedy, horror movie - upon arriving in a small town where Elvira has inherited a rundown mansion, the famous horror host must battle an evil uncle, and townspeople who want her burned at the stake.
Director: James Signorelli | Stars: Cassandra Peterson, Phil Rubenstein, Larry Flash Jenkins, Damita Jo Freeman
Votes: 20,864 | Gross: $5.60M
13. Hot to Trot (1988)
PG | 83 min | Comedy, Fantasy
An insecure stockbroker teams up with Don the Talking Horse, a chatty four-legged financial advisor.
Director: Michael Dinner | Stars: Bobcat Goldthwait, Dabney Coleman, John Candy, Virginia Madsen
Votes: 3,586 | Gross: $6.44M
14. Big Top Pee-wee (1988)
PG | 86 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Pee-wee Herman is now a small-town farmer with a fiancée, but when a traveling circus comes to town, he finds himself falling for the trapeze artist.
Director: Randal Kleiser | Stars: Paul Reubens, Penelope Ann Miller, Kris Kristofferson, Valeria Golino
Votes: 10,150 | Gross: $15.12M
15. Short Circuit 2 (1988)
PG | 110 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Robot Johnny Five comes to the city and gets manipulated by criminals who want him for their own purposes.
Director: Kenneth Johnson | Stars: Fisher Stevens, Michael McKean, Tim Blaney, Cynthia Gibb
Votes: 26,870 | Gross: $21.63M
16. License to Drive (1988)
PG-13 | 88 min | Comedy
A teen decides to go for a night on the town with his friends despite flunking his driver's test.
Director: Greg Beeman | Stars: Corey Haim, Corey Feldman, Carol Kane, Richard Masur
Votes: 22,633 | Gross: $22.43M
17. Dudes (1987)
R | 90 min | Adventure, Comedy
Three punk-loving New York City dudes need a change and drive a VW Beetle to California. After rednecks kill one of them in Arizona, they want justice. A cute girl helps them.
Director: Penelope Spheeris | Stars: Jon Cryer, Daniel Roebuck, Flea, Lee Ving
Votes: 1,701
18. The Great Outdoors (1988)
PG | 91 min | Comedy
A Chicago man and his family go camping with his obnoxious brother-in-law.
Director: Howard Deutch | Stars: Dan Aykroyd, John Candy, Stephanie Faracy, Annette Bening
Votes: 51,509 | Gross: $41.46M
19. Funny Farm (1988)
PG | 101 min | Comedy
A couple swap city life for the country, but their picturesque new hometown turns out to be just a little bit different to what they were expecting.
Director: George Roy Hill | Stars: Chevy Chase, Madolyn Smith Osborne, Kevin O'Morrison, Joseph Maher
Votes: 25,019 | Gross: $25.54M
20. Assault of the Killer Bimbos (1988)
R | 85 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Two go-go dancers, Lulu and Peaches, are framed for the murder of their employer by the real killer, sleazy gangster Vinnie. Picking up waitress Darlene along the way, the three are ... See full summary »
Director: Anita Rosenberg | Stars: Elizabeth Kaitan, Christina Whitaker, Tammara Souza, Nick Cassavetes
Votes: 658
21. Dead Heat (1988)
R | 84 min | Action, Comedy, Horror
A cop is killed investigating a strange case of resurrected corpses. His partner and a pathologist resurrect him, but he only has a limited time before he starts to decompose, and he uses it to chase down the diabolical man who killed him.
Director: Mark Goldblatt | Stars: Treat Williams, Joe Piscopo, Lindsay Frost, Darren McGavin
Votes: 9,240 | Gross: $3.59M
22. 18 Again! (1988)
PG | 93 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
An aging ruthless businessman swaps bodies with his grandson in the wake of getting into a car accident.
Director: Paul Flaherty | Stars: Charlie Schlatter, George Burns, Tony Roberts, Anita Morris
Votes: 5,033 | Gross: $2.57M
23. Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers (1988)
R | 75 min | Comedy, Horror
A detective embarks on a mission to track down a woman in L.A.'s seedy nightclubs, only to come face-to-face with a blood-thirsty cult of lethally beautiful prostitutes. Is he the next victim of Hollywood's demented Chainsaw Hookers?
Director: Fred Olen Ray | Stars: Gunnar Hansen, Linnea Quigley, John Henry Richardson, Dawn Wildsmith
Votes: 3,980
24. Police Academy 5: Assignment: Miami Beach (1988)
PG | 90 min | Comedy, Crime
The Police Academy's commandant will be honored at a police convention in Miami Beach. At the airport he picks a wrong bag with stolen diamonds. The "owners" want them back.
Director: Alan Myerson | Stars: Bubba Smith, David Graf, Michael Winslow, Leslie Easterbrook
Votes: 38,392 | Gross: $4.24M
25. Vice Versa (1988)
PG | 98 min | Comedy, Fantasy
Divorced executive Marshall and his 11-year-old son Charlie casually touch a magical Tibetan skull, releasing a mysterious power that transfers Marshall's mind to Charlie's body and vice versa. Their problems have just begun.
Director: Brian Gilbert | Stars: Judge Reinhold, Fred Savage, Corinne Bohrer, Swoosie Kurtz
Votes: 10,580 | Gross: $13.66M
26. Alien from L.A. (1988)
PG | 87 min | Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
A nerdy young woman with a childish voice travels to Africa looking for her missing archaeologist father, and stumbles into a strange subterranean civilization.
Director: Albert Pyun | Stars: Kathy Ireland, William R. Moses, Richard Haines, Don Michael Paul
Votes: 4,362
27. Hell Comes to Frogtown (1988)
R | 86 min | Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
After a worldwide nuclear war, where 68% of the male population was wiped out and virile men becoming a rarity, Sam Hell, a scavenger and a highly virile man, is assigned to help rescue a group of fertile women kidnapped by humanoid frogs.
Directors: Donald G. Jackson, R.J. Kizer | Stars: Julius LeFlore, RCB, Roddy Piper, William Smith
Votes: 7,321
28. Can't Buy Me Love (1987)
PG-13 | 94 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
An outcast secretly pays the most popular girl in school one thousand dollars to pretend to be his girlfriend for a month.
Director: Steve Rash | Stars: Patrick Dempsey, Amanda Peterson, Courtney Gains, Tina Caspary
Votes: 42,033 | Gross: $31.62M
29. Summer School (1987)
PG-13 | 97 min | Comedy, Romance
Freddy the gym teacher has to teach remedial English in summer (high) school, if he wants tenure. As he can only teach gym and his students want fun, emphasis is on "field trips" - until he's fired unless all his students pass the test.
Director: Carl Reiner | Stars: Mark Harmon, Kirstie Alley, Robin Thomas, Patrick Labyorteaux
Votes: 22,152 | Gross: $35.66M
30. Adventures in Babysitting (1987)
PG-13 | 102 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
A babysitter must battle her way through the big city after being stranded there with the kids she's looking after.
Director: Chris Columbus | Stars: Elisabeth Shue, Maia Brewton, Keith Coogan, Anthony Rapp
Votes: 49,149 | Gross: $34.37M
31. Spaceballs (1987)
PG | 96 min | Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
A star-pilot for hire and his trusty sidekick must come to the rescue of a princess and save Planet Druidia from the clutches of the evil Spaceballs.
Director: Mel Brooks | Stars: Mel Brooks, John Candy, Rick Moranis, Bill Pullman
Votes: 206,645 | Gross: $38.12M
32. Harry and the Hendersons (1987)
PG | 110 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
The Henderson family adopt a friendly Sasquatch but have a hard time trying to keep the legend of 'Bigfoot' a secret.
Director: William Dear | Stars: John Lithgow, Melinda Dillon, Margaret Langrick, Joshua Rudoy
Votes: 38,299 | Gross: $29.76M
33. Ernest Goes to Camp (1987)
PG | 92 min | Comedy, Family
Ernest, a lovable loser who works as a summer camp handyman and dreams of becoming a guidance councilor, must find a way to inspire a group of juvenile delinquents as well as stop a shady strip mining company from closing the camp.
Director: John R. Cherry III | Stars: Jim Varney, Victoria Racimo, John Vernon, Iron Eyes Cody
Votes: 12,464 | Gross: $23.51M
34. Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol (1987)
PG | 88 min | Comedy, Crime
The misfit Police Academy (1984) graduates now are assigned to train a group of civilian volunteers to fight crime once again plaguing the streets.
Director: Jim Drake | Stars: Steve Guttenberg, Bubba Smith, Michael Winslow, David Graf
Votes: 45,772 | Gross: $28.06M
35. The Malibu Bikini Shop (1986)
R | 99 min | Comedy, Romance
Two brothers who have just graduated from college inherit a bikini store from their aunt.
Director: David Wechter | Stars: Michael David Wright, Bruce Greenwood, Amanda Horan Kennedy, Debra Blee
Votes: 1,207
36. One Crazy Summer (1986)
PG | 93 min | Comedy, Romance
An aspiring teenage cartoonist and his friends come to the aid of a singer trying to save her family property from developers.
Director: Savage Steve Holland | Stars: John Cusack, Demi Moore, Linda Warren, Joel Murray
Votes: 16,761 | Gross: $13.43M
37. Hamburger: The Motion Picture (1986)
R | 90 min | Comedy
Russell Proco has been expelled from several schools for lewd, crude and nude conduct. Busterburger University is his last chance for an education and pleasing his disappointed parents.
Director: Mike Marvin | Stars: Leigh McCloskey, Dick Butkus, Randi Brooks, Chuck McCann
Votes: 1,983
38. My Chauffeur (1986)
R | 97 min | Comedy
A free-spirited young woman (Deborah Foreman) upsets the status quo at a stuffy Brentwood limousine service.
Director: David Beaird | Stars: Deborah Foreman, Sam J. Jones, Sean McClory, Howard Hesseman
Votes: 2,141 | Gross: $4.78M
39. Troll (1986)
PG-13 | 82 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
A wicked troll king in search of a mystical ring that will transform him to human form invades a San Francisco apartment complex where a powerful witch lives.
Director: John Carl Buechler | Stars: Michael Moriarty, Shelley Hack, Noah Hathaway, Jenny Beck
Votes: 11,510 | Gross: $5.45M
40. Screwballs II (1985)
R | 92 min | Comedy
In the original tradition of "Screwballs," four horny teens try to get a shot at the sexy new French teacher.
Director: Rafal Zielinski | Stars: Bryan Genesse, Lance Van Der Kolk, Alan Deveau, Jason Warren
Votes: 1,517
41. Paradise Motel (1985)
R | 89 min | Comedy
Sam Kehoe moves from Seattle to a new school in California. Trying to make friends, Sam manages to free up the honeymoon suite in his dad's motel so his friends are able to use the room for sex.
Director: Cary Medoway | Stars: Gary Hershberger, Robert Krantz, Jonna Leigh Stack, Bob Basso
Votes: 203
42. Screwball Hotel (1988)
R | 101 min | Comedy
Three boys drop out of military school. They get jobs working at a hotel, but it's about to go under. They decide to help the owner raise enough money to stay in business. They prove that ... See full summary »
Director: Rafal Zielinski | Stars: Michael Bendetti, Andrew Zeller, Jeff Greenman, Lori Deann Pallett
Votes: 346
43. Surf II (1983)
R | 86 min | Comedy
A disgruntled nerd, who was bullied in high school, creates Buzz Cola, a soft drink that turns surfers into mindless zombies.
Director: Randall M. Badat | Stars: Eddie Deezen, Linda Kerridge, Terry Kiser, Eric Stoltz
Votes: 1,115
44. Honky Tonk Freeway (1981)
PG | 107 min | Action, Comedy
A satire of American progression in which a mayor tries to bribe an official to ensure a ramp connects Ticlaw to an up-and-coming intrastate. When his plan fails, the town residents are forced to take matters into their own hands.
Director: John Schlesinger | Stars: David Rasche, Paul Jabara, Howard Hesseman, Teri Garr
Votes: 1,175 | Gross: $2.00M
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