Best Comedy movies of 1998

Actors : Ed Harris, Laura Linney, Noah Emmerich, Jim Carrey,
Directors : Peter Weir,

An insurance salesman/adjuster discovers his entire life is actually a television show.

Actors : Tom Wilkinson, Geoffrey Rush, Joseph Fiennes, Gwyneth Paltrow,
Directors : John Madden,

A young Shakespeare, out of ideas and short of cash, meets his ideal woman and is inspired to write one of his most famous plays.

Actors : Bill Murray, Jason Schwartzman, Seymour Cassel, Olivia Williams,
Directors : Wes Anderson,

The extracurricular king of Rushmore preparatory school is put on academic probation.

Actors : Julianne Moore, John Goodman, Steve Buscemi, Jeff Bridges,

"The Dude" Lebowski, mistaken for a millionaire Lebowski, seeks restitution for his ruined rug and enlists his bowling buddies to help get it.

Actors : Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman, Woody Allen, Sylvester Stallone,

A rather neurotic ant tries to break from his totalitarian society while trying to win the affection of the princess he loves.

Actors : Cameron Diaz, Lee Evans, Ben Stiller, Matt Dillon,

A man gets a chance to meet up with his dream girl from high school, even though his date with her back then was a complete disaster.

Actors : Tobey Maguire, Reese Witherspoon, Jeff Daniels, Joan Allen,
Directors : Gary Ross,

Two 1990s teenage siblings find themselves in a 1950s sitcom where their influence begins to profoundly change that complacent world.

Actors : Jason Statham, Dexter Fletcher, Jason Flemyng, Nick Moran,
Directors : Guy Ritchie,

A botched card game in London triggers four friends, thugs, weed-growers, hard gangsters, loan sharks and debt collectors to collide with each other in a series of unexpected events, all for the sake of weed, cash and two antique shotguns.

Actors : Parker Posey, Greg Kinnear, Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan,
Directors : Nora Ephron,

Two business rivals who despise each other in real life unwittingly fall in love over the Internet.

Actors : Antonio Banderas, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Anthony Hopkins, José María de Tavira,
Directors : Martin Campbell,

A young thief, seeking revenge for the death of his brother, is trained by the once great, but aged Zorro, who also pursues vengeance of his own.

Actors : Tom Wilkinson, Ken Leung, Jackie Chan, Chris Tucker,
Directors : Brett Ratner,

A loyal and dedicated Hong Kong inspector teams up with a reckless and loudmouthed LAPD detective to rescue the Chinese Consul's kidnapped daughter, while trying to arrest a dangerous crime lord along the way.

Actors : Ed Harris, Julia Roberts, Susan Sarandon, Jena Malone,
Directors : Chris Columbus,

A terminally ill woman has to settle on her former husband's new lover, who will be their children's stepmother.

Actors : Allen Covert, Drew Barrymore, Christine Taylor, Adam Sandler,
Directors : Frank Coraci,

Robbie, a singer, and Julia, a waitress, are both engaged, but to the wrong people. Fortune intervenes to help them discover each other.

Actors : Halle Berry, Warren Beatty, Kimberly Deauna Adams, Vinny Argiro,
Directors : Warren Beatty,

A suicidally disillusioned liberal politician puts a contract out on himself and takes the opportunity to be bluntly honest with his voters by affecting the rhythms and speech of hip-hop music and culture.

Actors : Kathy Bates, Larry Hagman, Emma Thompson, John Travolta,
Directors : Mike Nichols,

A man joins the political campaign of a smooth-operator candidate for president of the USA.

Actors : Lindsay Lohan, Natasha Richardson, Dennis Quaid, Elaine Hendrix,
Directors : Nancy Meyers,

Identical twins Annie and Hallie, separated at birth and each raised by one of their biological parents, later discover each other for the first time at summer camp and make a plan to bring their wayward parents back together.

Actors : Mickey Rourke, Christina Ricci, Ben Gazzara, Vincent Gallo,
Directors : Vincent Gallo,

After being released from prison, Billy is set to visit his parents with his wife, whom he does not actually have. This provokes Billy to act out, as he kidnaps a girl and forces her to act as his wife for the visit.

Actors : Stockard Channing, Nicole Kidman, Dianne Wiest, Sandra Bullock,
Directors : Griffin Dunne,

Two witch sisters, raised by their eccentric aunts in a small town, face closed-minded prejudice and a curse which threatens to prevent them ever finding lasting love.

Actors : Magda Szubanski, Elizabeth Daily, Mickey Rooney, James Cromwell,
Directors : George Miller,

Babe, fresh from his victory in the sheepherding contest, returns to Farmer Hoggett's farm, but after Farmer Hoggett is injured and unable to work, Babe has to go to the big city to save the farm.

Actors : Jeanne Tripplehorn, John Hannah, John Lynch, Gwyneth Paltrow,
Directors : Peter Howitt,

A London woman's love life and career both hinge, unknown to her, on whether or not she catches a train. We see it both ways, in parallel.