Best Comedy movies of 1989

Actors : Kevin McCarthy, Michael Richards, Victoria Jackson, 'Weird Al' Yankovic,
Directors : Jay Levey,

An unemployed visionary becomes the manager of a local public station. The station becomes a success, with all sorts of hilarious sight gags and wacky humor.

Actors : Antonio Banderas, Victoria Abril, Julieta Serrano, Loles León,
Directors : Pedro Almodóvar,

An unbalanced but alluring former mental patient takes a porn star prisoner in the hopes of convincing her to marry him.

Actors : Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy, Redd Foxx, Danny Aiello,
Directors : Eddie Murphy,

During the 1930s, a New York illegal gambling house owner and his associates must deal with strong competition, gangsters and corrupt cops in order to stay in business.

Actors : Kevin Spacey, Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, Joan Severance,
Directors : Arthur Hiller,

Dave is deaf, and Wally is blind. They witness a murder, but it was Dave who was looking at her, and Wally who was listening.

Actors : Julia Roberts, Sally Field, Shirley MacLaine, Olympia Dukakis,
Directors : Herbert Ross,

A young beautician, newly arrived in a small Louisiana town, finds work at the local salon, where a small group of women share a close bond of friendship and welcome her into the fold.

Actors : Mare Winningham, Craig T. Nelson, Tom Hanks, Reginald VelJohnson,
Directors : Roger Spottiswoode,

A detective must adopt the dog of a dead man to help him find the murderer.

Actors : Chris Cooke, Julia McNeal, Robert John Burke, Adrienne Shelly,
Directors : Hal Hartley,

A man returns to his home town after serving a prison sentence for homicide, and finds that the details of the crime have been forgotten and replaced with local legends and rumors.

Actors : Mark Hadlow, Donna Akersten, Danny Mulheron, Stuart Devenie,
Directors : Peter Jackson,

Multiple animals and insects experience the sleazier side of show business while working on a variety show.

Actors : Nick Nolte, Woody Allen, Marvin Chatinover, Rosanna Arquette,

A middle-aged artist obsessed with his pretty young assistant, a precocious 12 year old living in a hotel, and a neurotic lawyer with a possessive mother make up three Gotham tales.

Actors : Jenny Lewis, Fred Savage, Vince Trankina, Luke Edwards,
Directors : Todd Holland,

A boy and his brother run away from home and hitch cross country with the help of a girl they meet to compete in the ultimate video game championship.

Actors : Mary Stuart Masterson, Robert Downey Jr., Ryan O'Neal, Cybill Shepherd,
Directors : Emile Ardolino,

A reincarnated man unknowingly falls in love with his own daughter from his previous life. Once he realizes this, he tries to end their relationship before angels erase his memory.

Actors : Heather Langenkamp, John Tesh, Mitch Pileggi, Michael Murphy,
Directors : Wes Craven,

After being sent to the electric chair, a serial killer uses electricity to come back from the dead and carry out his vengeance on the football player who turned him in to the police.

Actors : Mickey Rooney, Tim Robbins, Eartha Kitt, John Cleese,
Directors : Terry Jones,

Erik the Viking and his men travel across the sea to find Valhalla to ask the gods to end the Age of Ragnarok.

Actors : David Johansen, Jennifer Tilly, Teri Garr, Richard Dreyfuss,
Directors : Joe Pytka,

A nosy cab driver gets a hot tip on a race horse and wins big, but he can't seem to stop gambling. Will he go broke or walk home with a pretty penny?

Actors : Betty Thomas, Shelley Long, Craig T. Nelson, Mary Gross,
Directors : Jeff Kanew,

A soon to be divorced Beverly Hills socialite is determined to prove to her husband and herself that she can finish what she starts out to do, by becoming a den mother to a troop of Beverly Hills Girl Scouts.

Actors : Fabiana Udenio, Claude Earl Jones, Bruce Abbott, Jeffrey Combs,
Directors : Brian Yuzna,

Doctors Herbert West and Dan Cain discover the secret to creating human life and proceed to create a perfect woman from dead tissue.

Actors : Tiffany Gail Robinson, Clint Eastwood, Timothy Carhart, Bernadette Peters,
Directors : Buddy Van Horn,

Skip tracer Tommy Nowak is tracking Lou Ann McGuinn for a bail bondsman in California. Lou Ann is also being chased by her husband Roy McGuinn and his birth right/neo-nazi friends for ...

Actors : Noble Willingham, Brandon Call, Terry O'Quinn, Rutger Hauer,
Directors : Phillip Noyce,

A blind Vietnam vet, trained as a swordfighter, comes to America and helps to rescue the son of a fellow soldier.

Actors : Harry Dean Stanton, Dylan McDermott, Suzy Amis, Crispin Glover,
Directors : Michael Almereyda,

Delusional and spoiled Maureen and her eccentric brother Howdy decide to track down and meet their estranged mother, all while the drama of dysfunctional relationships, disastrous weather conditions and a dark family secret ensue.

Actors : Annie Potts, John Candy, Tim Thomerson, Jeffrey Jones,
Directors : Paul Flaherty,

Harry Crumb is a bumbling and inept private investigator who is hired to solve the kidnapping of a young heiress which he's not expected to solve because his employer is the mastermind behind the kidnapping.