Best Comedy movies of 1989

Actors : Michael Keaton, Peter Boyle, Stephen Furst, Christopher Lloyd,
Directors : Howard Zieff,

Four mental patients on a field trip in New York must save their caring chaperon, who ends up being taken to a hospital in a coma after accidentally witnessing a murder, before the killers can find him and finish the job.

Actors : Kevin Tighe, James Belushi, Ed O'Neill, Mel Harris,
Directors : Rod Daniel,

To stop an elusive criminal, a maverick detective enlists the aid of a police dog who's an unusually intelligent smart alec.

Actors : William Daniels, Paulina Porizkova, Tom Selleck, James Farentino,
Directors : Bruce Beresford,

A writer of BAD detective novels is in full writers' block. He pretends to be the alibi of a beautiful woman who was arrested for murder at first thinking her innocent, but as she shows ...

Actors : David Graf, Michael Winslow, Leslie Easterbrook, Bubba Smith,
Directors : Peter Bonerz,

Those bumbling cadets take to the streets when three inept goons successfully orchestrate a metropolitan crime wave.

Actors : Nick Nolte, Sarah Rowland Doroff, Martin Short, James Earl Jones,
Directors : Francis Veber,

A reformed bank robber is taken hostage by a desperate man during a bank hold up, but is forced to go on the run with his captor when they're both mistakenly thought to be in cahoots.

Actors : Cinqué Lee, Masatoshi Nagase, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Yûki Kudô,
Directors : Jim Jarmusch,

Three stories are connected by a Memphis hotel and the spirit of Elvis Presley.

Actors : Demi Moore, Robert De Niro, Hoyt Axton, Sean Penn,
Directors : Neil Jordan,

Two escaped cons only prayer to escape is to pass themselves off as priests and pass by the police blockade at the border into the safety of Canada.

Actors : Ben Meyerson, Billy Warlock, Devin DeVasquez, Evan Richards,
Directors : Brian Yuzna,

An ordinary teenage boy discovers his family is part of a gruesome orgy cult for the social elite.

Actors : Howie Mandel, Daniel Stern, Fred Savage, Margaret Whitton,
Directors : Richard Greenberg,

A boy discovers an incredible and gruesome world of monsters under his bed.

Actors : Julia McKenzie, Alison Steadman, Tom Conti, Pauline Collins,
Directors : Lewis Gilbert,

Shirley's a middle-aged Liverpool housewife, who finds herself talking to the wall while she prepares her husband's chip'n'egg, wondering what happened to her life. She compares scenes in ...

Actors : Kevin Bacon, Jennifer Jason Leigh, J.T. Walsh, Emily Longstreth,
Directors : Christopher Guest,

Film school grad Nick Chapman thought his career was made after his award winning short film, but discovered Hollywood wasn't as easy as it seems.

Actors : Vincent Gardenia, Joel Brooks, John Ritter, Alyson Reed,
Directors : Blake Edwards,

A womanizing, drunken, allelic writer, whose life seems to be falling apart at the seams, repeatedly finds himself in trouble of one sort or another with the law, ex-girlfriends, and jealous boyfriends.

Actors : Roseanne Barr, Meryl Streep, Linda Hunt, Ed Begley Jr.,
Directors : Susan Seidelman,

A cunning and resourceful housewife vows revenge on her husband when he begins an affair with a wealthy romance novelist.

Actors : Lena Farugia, N!xau, Eiros, Hans Strydom,
Directors : Jamie Uys,

Xixo is back again. This time, his children accidentally stow away on a fast-moving poachers' truck, unable to get off, and Xixo sets out to rescue them. Along the way, he encounters a ...

Actors : Bryan Madorsky, Mary Beth Hurt, Sandy Dennis, Randy Quaid,
Directors : Bob Balaban,

A young boy living in 1950s suburbia suspects his parents are cannibalistic murderers.

Actors : Joshua John Miller, Robyn Lively, Caren Kaye, Dan Gauthier,
Directors : Dorian Walker,

High school misfit Louise, at a loss for romance, discovers magical abilities, but the teenage witch finds that she cannot conjure herself true love, so what?

Actors : Billy Zane, Burt Young, Billy Bob Thornton, Adam Sandler,
Directors : Valerie Breiman,

A struggling young comedian takes a menial job on a cruise ship where he hopes for his big chance to make it in the world of cruise ship comedy.

Actors : Richard E. Grant, Jacqueline Tong, Rachel Ward, Richard Wilson,
Directors : Bruce Robinson,

Dennis Dimbleby Bagley is a brilliant young advertising executive who can't come up with a slogan to sell a revolutionary new pimple cream. His obsessive worrying affects not only his ...

Actors : Rowan Atkinson, Emma Thompson, Jeff Goldblum, Geraldine James,
Directors : Mel Smith,

Dexter King plays straight man to unpleasant comedian Ron Anderson. He falls in love with Kate, a pretty nurse he meets when he is receiving injections for hay fever. When Anderson fires ...

Actors : Dick O'Neill, Tony Danza, Wallace Shawn, Catherine Hicks,
Directors : Stan Dragoti,

When an average-looking teenage girl gets a makeover, it's enough to turn make her father become overprotective of her.