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10 (1979 film)
10 is Blake Edwards' 1979 Orion romantic comedy starring Dudley Moore, Julie Andrews, and Bo Derek, in which composer George Webber pursues a woman he rates a perfect 10; it grossed about $75 million and earned two Oscar nominations.
1941 (film)
1941 is a 1979 Steven Spielberg comedy about Los Angeles invasion panic after Pearl Harbor, written by Zemeckis, Gale, and Milius, starring Belushi and Aykroyd, with three Oscar nominations and a $90 million worldwide gross.
An Unmarried Woman
An Unmarried Woman is Paul Mazursky's 1978 American comedy-drama starring Jill Clayburgh as Erica Benton, a divorced Manhattan woman seeking independence; Oscar-nominated, Cannes Best Actress winner, distributed by Twentieth Century-Fox.
Animal House
National Lampoon's Animal House (1978) is a John Landis comedy starring John Belushi, the first National Lampoon film, about the Delta fraternity versus Dean Wormer at Faber College in 1962; a $3.5 million film that grossed over $90 million and entered the National Film Registry in 2001.
Annie Hall
Annie Hall (1977), also briefly titled Anhedonia, is Woody Allen's romantic comedy starring Diane Keaton as his ex-girlfriend character; it won four Oscars including Best Picture and ranks #35 on AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies.
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes is a 1978 American comedy-horror film spoofing 1950s creature features, directed by John De Bello on a budget under $100,000.
Autumn Marathon (Осенний марафон)
Autumn Marathon (Осенний марафон), a 1979 Mosfilm "sad comedy" by Georgiy Daneliya from Aleksandr Volodin's script, stars Oleg Basilashvili as indecisive Leningrad translator Buzykin torn between wife and mistress; Golden Shell winner, San Sebastián 1979.
Being There
Being There is Hal Ashby's 1979 satirical comedy-drama, also known by its hero's alias Chauncey Gardiner, adapted from Jerzy Kosinski's 1971 novel. Peter Sellers plays Chance, a TV-educated gardener mistaken for a sage; Shirley MacLaine and Melvyn Douglas co-star; released December 20, 1979.
Between the Lines
Between the Lines (1977) is Joan Micklin Silver's ensemble comedy-drama about the staff of a fictional Boston alt-weekly, the Back Bay Mainline, facing a corporate buyout; starring John Heard, Lindsay Crouse, and Jeff Goldblum, Golden Bear-nominated at Berlin.
California Suite
California Suite is Neil Simon's 1976 four-playlet comedy set in rooms 203-204 of the Beverly Hills Hotel, following Plaza Suite; it ran 445 performances on Broadway and became Herbert Ross's 1978 all-star film, which won Maggie Smith a supporting-actress Oscar.
Chapter Two (film)
Chapter Two (1979) is Robert Moore's film of Neil Simon's semi-autobiographical Broadway comedy, starring James Caan and Marsha Mason as newlyweds; 857-performance stage hit, Mason Oscar-nominated, Columbia/Rastar release.
Chilly Scenes of Winter
Chilly Scenes of Winter, released as Head Over Heels in 1979, is Joan Micklin Silver's adaptation of Ann Beattie's debut novel about an obsessed civil servant in Salt Lake City; re-released in 1982 with a darker ending and now a Criterion cult film.
Corvette Summer
Corvette Summer is a 1978 American comedy film directed by Matthew Robbins, starring Mark Hamill as a graduate tracking his shop class's stolen custom Corvette.
Debbie Does Dallas
Debbie Does Dallas (1978) is a Golden Age pornographic film directed by Jim Clark, starring Bambi Woods, famous for the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders trademark suit and its 1987 public-domain status.
El Puente
El puente (1977) is a Spanish road movie comedy-drama by Juan Antonio Bardem starring Alfredo Landa as a Madrid mechanic riding to Torremolinos; it won the 1977 Moscow Film Festival Grand Prize.
Foul Play (1978 film)
Foul Play (1978) is a Colin Higgins comedy-thriller starring Goldie Hawn and Chevy Chase as a librarian and detective facing a plot to assassinate the Pope in San Francisco; a Hitchcock homage that ranked among 1978's top-grossing films.
Get Out Your Handkerchiefs
Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (Préparez vos mouchoirs) is Bertrand Blier's 1978 French-Belgian comedy-drama starring Depardieu, Dewaere, and Carole Laure; it won the 1979 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.
High Anxiety
High Anxiety is Mel Brooks's 1977 Twentieth Century-Fox comedy spoofing Alfred Hitchcock films such as Spellbound, Psycho, and Vertigo, starring Brooks as an acrophobic psychiatrist, with Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman, and Harvey Korman.
Ice Castles
Ice Castles is a 1978 American romantic drama directed by Donald Wrye, starring skater Lynn-Holly Johnson as a partly blinded figure skater aiming for the Olympics.
Jabberwocky (1977 film)
Jabberwocky (1977), also released in the US as Monty Python's Jabberwocky, is Terry Gilliam's first solo-directed feature, a British medieval comedy fantasy starring Michael Palin as reluctant hero Dennis Cooper, loosely based on Lewis Carroll's poem.
La Cage aux Folles (film)
La Cage aux Folles (Il vizietto) is a 1978 French-Italian comedy by Édouard Molinaro, adapted from Jean Poiret's 1973 play, starring Ugo Tognazzi and Michel Serrault as a Saint-Tropez gay couple; it earned three Oscar nominations, a Golden Globe, and record foreign-language U.S. box office.
La Zizanie
La Zizanie is a 1978 French comedy by Claude Zidi starring Louis de Funès and Annie Girardot: an anti-pollution-machine manufacturer's home expansion drives his wife to run against him for mayor.
Les Bronzés
Les Bronzés (French Fried Vacation), 1978 French comedy by Patrice Leconte adapting the Splendid troupe's play Amour, coquillages et crustacés; filmed in Côte d'Ivoire, drew about 2.3-2.5 million admissions and spawned a 1979 ski sequel.
Love on the Run
Love on the Run (L'Amour en fuite) is François Truffaut's 1979 French comedy-drama, the fifth and final Antoine Doinel film starring Jean-Pierre Léaud, following Doinel's divorce, new romance, and flashbacks to earlier films.
Manhattan (1979 film)
Manhattan (1979) is Woody Allen's black-and-white romantic comedy-drama about TV writer Isaac Davis, co-written with Marshall Brickman, shot by Gordon Willis, scored with Gershwin, and released 25 April 1979.
Meatballs (film)
Meatballs is a 1979 Canadian summer camp comedy directed by Ivan Reitman, starring Bill Murray in his first lead film role as head counselor Tripper Harrison.
Mimino (Мимино)
Mimino (Мимино, Georgian მიმინო, "falcon") is a 1977 Mosfilm comedy by Georgiy Daneliya starring Vakhtang Kikabidze and Frunzik Mkrtchyan; 24.4 million viewers, Golden Prize at the 1977 Moscow film festival.
Monty Python's Life of Brian
Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979), Terry Jones-directed British satire starring Graham Chapman as a man mistaken for the Messiah; financed by George Harrison's HandMade Films, banned in Ireland and Norway, home of "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life."
Office Romance (Служебный роман) (1977 film)
Office Romance (Служебный роман) is a 1977 Mosfilm two-part comedy by Eldar Ryazanov and Emil Braginsky, based on their play Co-Workers, starring Alisa Freindlikh and Andrey Myagkov; it drew 58.4 million Soviet viewers and won the 1979 RSFSR State Prize.
Real Life (1979 film)
Real Life (1979) is Albert Brooks's mockumentary feature debut, a Paramount comedy satirizing An American Family; Brooks films a Phoenix family and interferes, grossing $364,642.