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This Is Spinal Tap
This Is Spinal Tap (1984) is Rob Reiner's mockumentary about a fictional British heavy metal band's disastrous US tour, written with Guest, McKean, and Shearer, almost entirely improvised, and a landmark of the mockumentary genre.
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.
Three Men and a Baby
Three Men and a Baby is a 1987 American comedy directed by Leonard Nimoy, starring Tom Selleck, Steve Guttenberg, and Ted Danson as bachelors raising an abandoned infant.
Three O'Clock High
Three O'Clock High (3 O'Clock High) is a 1987 American teen comedy directed by Phil Joanou, starring Casey Siemaszko and Richard Tyson, about a student forced into a 3 p.m. parking-lot fight, filmed at Ogden High School, Utah.
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.
Tin Men
Tin Men (1987) is Barry Levinson's Touchstone comedy-drama about rival Baltimore aluminum-siding salesmen (Dreyfuss, DeVito) feuding after a car crash; second of his four Baltimore films, released March 6, 1987.
Too Beautiful for You
Too Beautiful for You (Trop belle pour toi) is Bertrand Blier's 1989 French comedy-drama starring Depardieu, Balasko, and Bouquet; a car dealer loves his plain secretary over his beautiful wife. It won the Cannes Grand Prix and five 1990 Césars.
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.
Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man
Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man (La tragedia di un uomo ridicolo) is a 1981 Italian drama by Bernardo Bertolucci starring Ugo Tognazzi as a Parma cheese maker whose son is kidnapped; Tognazzi won Cannes Best Actor 1981.
Troop Beverly Hills
Troop Beverly Hills is a 1989 American comedy directed by Jeff Kanew, starring Shelley Long as Phyllis Nefler, a wealthy housewife leading her daughter's Wilderness Girls troop; a box-office flop that became a cult hit, now getting a TriStar sequel.
Turner & Hooch
Turner & Hooch is a 1989 American buddy-cop comedy starring Tom Hanks as a neat-freak detective partnered with a slobbery dog who is his only murder witness.
Twins (1988 film)
Twins (1988) is an Ivan Reitman comedy starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito as genetically engineered fraternal twins; it grossed $216.6 million worldwide on a $15 million budget under a famous back-end salary deal.
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.
Uncle Buck
Uncle Buck (1989) is a John Hughes comedy starring John Candy as a bachelor babysitting his nieces and nephew in Chicago; it opened number one, grossing $11.9 million in five days, and spawned a short-lived CBS sitcom.
Under the Cherry Moon
Under the Cherry Moon (1986) is Prince's black-and-white directorial debut, a Riviera con-artist romance with Kristin Scott Thomas; it flopped critically (Metascore 36) and won five Razzies, though its Parade soundtrack is well regarded.
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.
Valley Girl (1983 film)
Valley Girl (1983), Martha Coolidge's Romeo-and-Juliet teen romance starring Deborah Foreman and a young Nicolas Cage, cost $350,000, grossed $17 million, and defined 1980s Valley youth culture and its new wave soundtrack.
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.
Weird Science (film)
Weird Science (1985) is a John Hughes teen sci-fi comedy for Universal, starring Anthony Michael Hall, Ilan Mitchell-Smith, and Kelly LeBrock as Lisa, a computer-created perfect woman; released August 2, 1985, Metascore 46, later a 1994 sitcom.
When Harry Met Sally...
When Harry Met Sally... is a 1989 Rob Reiner romantic comedy written by Nora Ephron, starring Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan as friends debating whether men and women can be platonic, famous for the Katz's Deli orgasm scene and $90.4M US gross.
Where Is the Friend's House? (خانه دوست کجاست؟)
Where Is the Friend's House? (خانه دوست کجاست؟) is Abbas Kiarostami's 1987 Iranian film, first of the Koker Trilogy, about a schoolboy returning a classmate's notebook; Locarno Bronze Leopard winner.
Who's Singin' Over There?
Who's Singin' Over There? (Ko to tamo peva) is a 1980 Yugoslav tragicomedy by Slobodan Šijan and Dušan Kovačević about bus passengers heading to Belgrade on April 5, 1941, the day before the Nazi bombing; Serbia's most celebrated classic.
Wildcats (film)
Wildcats is a 1986 American sports comedy directed by Michael Ritchie, starring Goldie Hawn as a track coach who takes over a Chicago high school football team.
Working Girl
Working Girl is a 1988 American romantic comedy-drama directed by Mike Nichols, starring Melanie Griffith as a Staten Island secretary who impersonates her boss, with Harrison Ford and Sigourney Weaver.
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.
Zapped!
Zapped! is a 1982 American teen sex comedy directed by Robert J. Rosenthal, starring Scott Baio as a student who gains telekinetic powers from a lab accident.