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My Twentieth Century
My Twentieth Century (Az én XX. századom) is Ildikó Enyedi's 1989 Hungarian black-and-white debut feature, winner of the Cannes Caméra d'Or, about separated twins Dóra and Lili reunited on the Orient Express around 1900.
Mystic Pizza
Mystic Pizza (1988) is an American coming-of-age romantic comedy directed by Donald Petrie, starring Julia Roberts, Annabeth Gish, and Lili Taylor as waitresses in Mystic, Connecticut; based on the real 1973 pizzeria, grossing about $12.8 million.
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989) is the third Griswold family comedy, directed by Jeremiah S. Chechik and written by John Hughes from his story "Christmas '59." Chevy Chase's Clark seeks a perfect Christmas; it grossed $71.3 million domestically and became a holiday staple.
Night Shift (1982 film)
Night Shift is a 1982 American comedy directed by Ron Howard, in which morgue attendants Chuck Lumley and Bill Blazejowski run a prostitution business out of their morgue.
Nine to Five
Nine to Five is a 1980 American comedy directed by Colin Higgins, starring Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, and Dolly Parton as office workers who take revenge on their sexist boss.
Nothing in Common
Nothing in Common is a 1986 American comedy-drama directed by Garry Marshall and starring Tom Hanks, Jackie Gleason, and Eva Marie Saint, Gleason's final film role.
Nothing Personal (1968 film)
Nothing Personal: 1980 George Bloomfield comedy (not 1968) written by Robert Kaufman, starring Donald Sutherland and Suzanne Somers as a professor and lawyer saving Alaska harbor seals from a military-base developer; AFI Catalog, 96 min, PG.
Ödipussi
Ödipussi (Loriots Ödipussi) is Loriot's 1988 West German comedy debut, starring Loriot and Evelyn Hamann as a 56-year-old mama's boy and a psychologist; it premiered simultaneously in East and West Berlin and drew 4.6 million admissions.
One Crazy Summer
One Crazy Summer is a 1986 American teen comedy written and directed by Savage Steve Holland, starring John Cusack, Demi Moore, and Bobcat Goldthwait; a Nantucket summer romp and follow-up to Better Off Dead.
Otto – Der Außerfriesische
Otto – Der Außerfriesische is a 1989 West German comedy starring and co-directed by Otto Waalkes, whose character travels from East Frisia to Miami to save his lighthouse.
Otto – Der Film
Otto – Der Film (1985) is Otto Waalkes' feature debut, a West German slapstick comedy co-directed with Xaver Schwarzenberger, written with the Titanic gag team, drawing about 14.5 million West and East German admissions, the most-attended German film.
Overboard (1987 film)
Overboard is a 1987 American romantic comedy directed by Garry Marshall and starring Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell as an amnesiac heiress and the carpenter who deceives her.
Parenthood (film)
Parenthood is a 1989 American comedy-drama film directed by Ron Howard, starring Steve Martin as Gil Buckman, and following four adult Buckman siblings raising children.
Passion (1982 film)
Passion (le travail et l'amour) is Jean-Luc Godard's 1982 French-Swiss drama, 88 minutes, starring Huppert, Schygulla, Piccoli, and Radziwilowicz, about a Polish director lighting painted tableaux amid factory and hotel conflicts; in competition at Cannes 1982.
Paternity
Paternity (1981) is an American romantic comedy directed by David Steinberg, starring Burt Reynolds as Buddy Evans, a Madison Square Garden manager who hires Beverly D'Angelo as a surrogate mother; released October 2, 1981 by Paramount.
Pepi, Luci, Bom
Pepi, Luci, Bom y otras chicas del montón (Pepi, Luci, Bom and Other Girls on the Heap) is Pedro Almodóvar's 1980 Spanish comedy debut, an 80-minute Figaro Films cult film about three Madrid women during La Movida, shot on 16mm for about 500,000 pesetas.
Perfect (1985 film)
Perfect (1985) is a James Bridges drama starring John Travolta and Jamie Lee Curtis, based on Aaron Latham's 1983 Rolling Stone story 'Looking for Mr. Goodbody' about health clubs as singles bars; critically panned, it grossed about $13 million.
Personal Services
Personal Services is a 1987 British comedy-drama directed by Terry Jones, written by David Leland, starring Julie Walters as a madam inspired by Cynthia Payne, released 12 February 1987.
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Planes, Trains and Automobiles is a 1987 American comedy directed by John Hughes, starring Steve Martin and John Candy as mismatched travelers trying to get home for Thanksgiving.
Police Academy (film)
Police Academy is a 1984 American comedy film directed by Hugh Wilson and starring Steve Guttenberg and Kim Cattrall, about misfit recruits admitted under a mayor's open hiring policy.
Polyester (film)
Polyester (1981) is John Waters's black comedy starring Divine as Baltimore housewife Francine Fishpaw, with Tab Hunter. Waters's tenth film, first in 35mm, under a $1 million New Line budget, known for its Odorama scratch-and-sniff card gimmick.
Prancer (film)
Prancer is a 1989 American Christmas drama-fantasy film directed by John Hancock, in which a young girl finds an injured reindeer she believes is Santa's Prancer.
Pretty in Pink
Pretty in Pink is a 1986 Paramount teen romance written by John Hughes, directed by Howard Deutch, starring Molly Ringwald, Andrew McCarthy, and Jon Cryer; its Andie-ends-with-Duckie original ending was reshot after test audiences.
Private Benjamin (1980 film)
Private Benjamin is a 1980 American comedy film starring Goldie Hawn as a sheltered young woman who enlists in the Army after her husband dies.
Private Lessons (1981 film)
Private Lessons (1981) is an American sex comedy directed by Alan Myerson, starring Sylvia Kristel, Eric Brown, and Howard Hesseman; a blackmail plot around a teenage boy and his housemaid that grossed $26.2 million and spawned Private School.
Private School (film)
Private School (also known as Private School... for Girls) is a 1983 American teen sex comedy directed by Noel Black, starring Phoebe Cates, Betsy Russell, and Matthew Modine.
Punchline
Punchline is a 1988 American comedy-drama written and directed by David Seltzer, starring Sally Field as aspiring comedienne Lilah Krytsick and Tom Hanks as comic Steven Gold at a New York club; released 30 September 1988 by Columbia Pictures.
Real Genius
Real Genius is a 1985 American teen science-fiction comedy directed by Martha Coolidge, starring Val Kilmer as a prodigy student at a California institute for gifted teens.
Revenge of the Nerds
Revenge of the Nerds (1984) is a Jeff Kanew college comedy starring Robert Carradine and Anthony Edwards as nerd freshmen fighting the Alpha Beta fraternity at Adams College; a Fox hit grossing over $30 million that spawned sequels and later controversy.
Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise
Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise is a 1987 American comedy sequel directed by Joe Roth, following the Tri-Lambda fraternity to Fort Lauderdale.