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Three Amigos
¡Three Amigos! is a 1986 American comedy-western directed by John Landis, in which silent-film cowboy stars Chevy Chase, Steve Martin, and Martin Short must fight a real bandit.
Throw Momma from the Train
Throw Momma from the Train (1987) is an American dark comedy, Danny DeVito's directorial debut, starring DeVito, Billy Crystal, and Oscar-nominated Anne Ramsey, reworking Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train as a murder-swap farce that grossed $57.9 million.
Tootsie
Tootsie (1982) is Sydney Pollack's Columbia Pictures comedy starring Dustin Hoffman as actor Michael Dorsey, who poses as Dorothy Michaels for a soap opera role; ten Oscar nominations, Jessica Lange win, National Film Registry 1998, Broadway musical 2019.
Top Secret!
Top Secret! is a 1984 Paramount parody comedy by ZAZ (Abrahams, the Zucker brothers) spoofing Cold War spy films, WWII dramas, and Elvis musicals; Val Kilmer's film debut as Nick Rivers, a $8 million Pinewood production that underperformed but gained a cult following.
Trading Places
Trading Places (1983) is a John Landis comedy starring Eddie Murphy, Dan Aykroyd, and Jamie Lee Curtis, in which the Duke brothers' $1 bet swaps a broker and a hustler, ending on the NYMEX orange juice floor.
UHF (film)
UHF, also known as The Vidiot from UHF, is a 1989 American comedy film starring "Weird Al" Yankovic, whose bizarre programming revives a bankrupt TV station.
Used Cars
Used Cars: pre-owned motor vehicles sold through dealers, rental fleets, and private sales; also a 1980 Robert Zemeckis comedy starring Kurt Russell. Covers market economics, the lemons problem, and the film.
Vivement dimanche!
Vivement dimanche! (Confidentially Yours), 1983 French black-and-white police comedy, François Truffaut's last film, adapted from Charles Williams' The Long Saturday Night, starring Fanny Ardant and Jean-Louis Trintignant, released 10 August 1983.
Weekend at Bernie's
Weekend at Bernie's is a 1989 American comedy directed by Ted Kotcheff, starring Andrew McCarthy and Jonathan Silverman as employees who pretend their murdered boss is alive.
Yellowbeard
Yellowbeard is a 1983 comedy film directed by Mel Damski, written by Graham Chapman, Peter Cook, and Bernard McKenna, starring Chapman as a pirate escaping prison to recover buried treasure.
Young Doctors in Love
Young Doctors in Love is a 1982 American comedy film spoofing hospital soap operas, directed by Garry Marshall and starring Michael McKean and Sean Young.