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Risky Business
Risky Business is a 1983 American comedy-drama directed by Paul Brickman, starring Tom Cruise as a high school senior who turns his parents' house into a brothel.
Roxanne (film)
Roxanne is a 1987 American romantic comedy directed by Fred Schepisi, starring Steve Martin and Daryl Hannah, adapted from Edmond Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac.
Ruthless People
Ruthless People is a 1986 American black comedy film directed by the ZAZ team. It stars Danny DeVito and Bette Midler, and was Disney's highest-grossing movie of that year.
Say Anything...
Say Anything... is a 1989 American romantic comedy-drama written and directed by Cameron Crowe. It stars John Cusack and Ione Skye, and features a memorable boombox scene.
Scrooged
Scrooged (1988) is a Richard Donner Christmas comedy starring Bill Murray as TV executive Frank Cross in a modern A Christmas Carol adaptation; Metascore 38, IMDb 6.9, Paramount.
Security Unlimited (摩登保镳)
Security Unlimited (摩登保鑣) is a 1981 Hong Kong Cantonese comedy directed by and starring Michael Hui with brothers Sam and Ricky, their last film together; it topped the 1981 Hong Kong box office and won Michael Hui the first HK Film Awards Best Actor.
See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989 film)
See No Evil, Hear No Evil is a 1989 American comedy directed by Arthur Hiller, starring Richard Pryor as a blind man and Gene Wilder as a deaf man.
Shanghai Blues (上海之夜)
Shanghai Blues (上海之夜) is Tsui Hark's 1984 Hong Kong romantic comedy, the debut production of Film Workshop, starring Kenny Bee, Sylvia Chang, and Sally Yeh in a wartime Shanghai love triangle, with music by James Wong and a 2024 Cannes 4K restoration.
She-Devil
She-Devil (1989) is Susan Seidelman's comedy adaptation of Fay Weldon's novel, starring Roseanne Barr as vengeful housewife Ruth Patchett and Meryl Streep as romance novelist Mary Fisher; released December 8, 1989 by Orion Pictures, 99 minutes, PG-13, $12.8 million US gross, distinct from the 1957 sci-fi She Devil.
She's Gotta Have It
She's Gotta Have It, Spike Lee's 1986 debut feature, follows Brooklyn artist Nola Darling dating three men; shot in 12 days for $175,000, it grossed $7.1 million and spawned a 2017 Netflix series.
She's Having a Baby
She's Having a Baby is John Hughes's 1988 Paramount comedy-drama, his first adult film, starring Kevin Bacon, Elizabeth McGovern, and Alec Baldwin; released 5 February 1988, 106 minutes, PG-13, $14.4M US gross, mixed reviews.
Shirley Valentine (film)
Shirley Valentine (1989) is a Lewis Gilbert romantic comedy for Paramount, written by Willy Russell from his one-woman play, starring Pauline Collins as a Liverpool housewife rediscovering life in Greece; Oscar-nominated, BAFTA-winning.
Sixteen Candles
Sixteen Candles (1984) is John Hughes's directorial debut teen comedy starring Molly Ringwald as Samantha Baker, whose family forgets her 16th birthday; it grossed over $25 million on a $6.5 million budget.
Some Kind of Wonderful (film)
Some Kind of Wonderful is a 1987 Paramount teen romantic comedy-drama directed by Howard Deutch and written and produced by John Hughes, a gender-reversed reworking of Pretty in Pink starring Eric Stoltz, Mary Stuart Masterson, and Lea Thompson, ending with Keith choosing Watts over Amanda Jones.
Something Wild (1986 film)
Something Wild (1986) is Jonathan Demme's comedy-thriller starring Jeff Daniels, Melanie Griffith, and Ray Liotta, released November 7, 1986 by Orion; a screwball road comedy that turns into a violent thriller when Lulu's ex-con husband appears.
Somewhere in Time (film)
Somewhere in Time (1980), also known by its source novel Bid Time Return, is a Jeannot Szwarc romantic fantasy starring Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour, filmed at Grand Hotel, Mackinac Island; a box office flop that became a cable-TV cult classic.
Soul Man (film)
Soul Man (1986) is an American comedy directed by Steve Miner, starring C. Thomas Howell as a white student who uses tanning pills to pose as black for a Harvard Law scholarship; protested by the NAACP, grossing $27.3 million.
Spies Like Us
Spies Like Us is a 1985 John Landis Cold War comedy starring Chevy Chase and Dan Aykroyd as fake CIA decoys in Soviet Central Asia; Warner Bros. release grossed $60 million domestically with poor reviews.
Splash (film)
Splash (1984) is a Ron Howard romantic comedy starring Tom Hanks and Daryl Hannah about a man in love with a mermaid; it was the first Touchstone film, Disney's mature-themes label, released March 9, 1984.
Static (1985 film)
Static (1985) is Mark Romanek's independent comedy-drama debut, co-written with star Keith Gordon, about Ernie Blick, who builds a TV said to show heaven. Premiered at Chicago 1985, US release 1986; Romanek later disowned it.
Steel Magnolias
Steel Magnolias is a 1989 American comedy-drama film directed by Herbert Ross, adapted from Robert Harling's play, about six women who gather at a Louisiana beauty shop; it earned Julia Roberts an Academy Award nomination.
Stir Crazy (film)
Stir Crazy (1980) is a Sidney Poitier comedy starring Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor as friends wrongfully imprisoned for a bank robbery, escaping via a prisoners' rodeo. It grossed $101.3 million domestically for Columbia and ranks among AFI's 100 funniest films.
Strange Brew
Strange Brew (1983), full title The Adventures of Bob & Doug McKenzie: Strange Brew, is an MGM comedy co-directed by Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas, loosely based on Hamlet, about two SCTV hosers foiling a brewery mind-control plot.
Stranger Than Paradise
Stranger Than Paradise is Jim Jarmusch's 1984 black-and-white indie comedy-drama about Willie, Eddie, and Hungarian cousin Eva in New York, Cleveland, and Florida; winner of the 1984 Cannes Caméra d'Or and a landmark of American independent cinema.
Stripes (film)
Stripes is a 1981 American military comedy directed by Ivan Reitman and starring Bill Murray as a cab driver who enlists in the U.S. Army with friend Harold Ramis.
Stroker Ace
Stroker Ace: 1983 Hal Needham NASCAR comedy starring Burt Reynolds, based on the novel Stand on It; a $14 million Universal-Warner Bros. co-venture that flopped with $13 million gross and 18% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Summer Rental
Summer Rental is a 1985 American comedy film directed by Carl Reiner and starring John Candy as Jack Chester, whose family vacation in Florida leads to a sailing race.
Switching Channels
Switching Channels is a 1988 American screwball romantic comedy directed by Ted Kotcheff, starring Kathleen Turner, Burt Reynolds, and Christopher Reeve, adapted from the 1928 play The Front Page.
Tampopo (タンポポ)
Tampopo (タンポポ) is a 1985 Japanese "ramen western" comedy, the second film by writer-director Juzo Itami, starring Nobuko Miyamoto and Tsutomu Yamazaki; released by Toho on 23 November 1985, it spurred Japan's ramen boom and holds a 100% Rotten Tomatoes score.
Teen Witch
Teen Witch is a 1989 American teen fantasy comedy film directed by Dorian Walker, in which an unpopular high-school girl gains witch powers on her sixteenth birthday.