Category: Comedy

Morons from Outer Space

Morons from Outer Space VHS cover art. Movie starring Griff Rhys Jones, Mel Smith, James Sikking, Dinsdale Landen. With Joanne Pearce, Jimmy Nail, Paul Bown. Directed by Mike Hodges. 1985.

Morons from Outer Space on VHS. Starring Griff Rhys Jones, Mel Smith, James Sikking, Dinsdale Landen. With Joanne Pearce, Jimmy Nail, Paul Bown. Directed by Mike Hodges. 1985.

From the box:

Hilarious invasion from four extraordinary aliens.

The hilarious adventures of four ordinary aliens who crash land on Earth may give new dimension to the word “Moron.”

The aliens are quite human, and entirely uncurious about Earth and what they find there. Conversely, Earthling interest in them is so intense that they soon become international celebrities and pop superstars.

This could just be the beginning for the Morons From Outer Space.

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2001: A Space Travesty

2001: A Space Travesty VHS cover art. Movie starring Leslie Nielsen. With Ophélie Winter, Ezio Greggio, Peter Egan, Alexandra Kamp-Groeneveld. Directed by Allan A. Goldstein. 2000.

2001: A Space Travesty on VHS. Starring Leslie Nielsen. With Ophélie Winter, Ezio Greggio, Peter Egan, Alexandra Kamp-Groeneveld. Directed by Allan A. Goldstein. 2000.

From the box:

The Most Outer Spaced-Out Comedy Ever!

When the president of the United States is kidnapped by aliens and replaced with a clone, the police call on Marshall “Dick” Dix of the International Security Force to help rescue him–and quickly, before they clone the rest of the world’s leaders.

With the fate of the world in his clumsy hands, Dix heads to the planet Vegan, a very strange place run by an evil doctor and inhabited by aliens who, having learned to speak English from watching television, all talk like different Hollywood movie stars. After engaging in some freaky lunar socializing, Dix joins forces with sexy officer Cassandra Menage and master of disguise Captain di Pasquale to rescue the saxophone-playing president. They return to Washington, D.C. and accomplish their mission of replacing the cloned president with the real president. Or did they?

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Eat The Rich

Eat the Rich VHS cover art. Movie starring Ronald Allen, Sandra Dorne, Jimmy Fagg, Lemmy Kilmister, Lanah Pellay, Nosher Powell, Fiona Richmond, Ron Tarr. With Kevin Allen, Dave Beard, Rowena Bently, Robbie Coltrane, Angela Bowie, Bill Wyman, Steve Walsh, Paul McCartney, Shane MacGowan, Hugh Cornwell, Miles A. Copeland III, Miranda Richardson, Nigel Planer, Rik Mayall, Jools Holland, Koo Stark, Dawn French, Kathy Burke, Jennifer Saunders, Adrian Edmondson. Directed by Peter Richardson. 1988.

Eat the Rich on VHS. Starring Ronald Allen, Sandra Dorne, Jimmy Fagg, Lemmy Kilmister, Lanah Pellay, Nosher Powell, Fiona Richmond, Ron Tarr. With Kevin Allen, Dave Beard, Rowena Bently, Robbie Coltrane, Angela Bowie, Bill Wyman, Steve Walsh, Paul McCartney, Shane MacGowan, Hugh Cornwell, Miles A. Copeland III, Miranda Richardson, Nigel Planer, Rik Mayall, Jools Holland, Koo Stark, Dawn French, Kathy Burke, Jennifer Saunders, Adrian Edmondson. Directed by Peter Richardson. 1988.

From the box:

You are what you eat!

“You are what you eat,” is given new meaning when a trendy London restaurant is suddenly taken over by maniacal subversives in the outrageous Eat The Rich. Nosher Powell stars as an ex-boxer, beer-gulping bully elected to the elitist position of Home Security, second in command to the Prime Minister. Tired of watching his country be terrorized by undesirables, Nosher kicks butts…bashes baddies…and still finds time to flirt with the Queen. Meanwhile, a surly but sensitive ex-waiter Alex (Lanah Pellay) has assembled a small band to join his people’s uprising-while suave Commander Fortune (Ronald Allen), a Soviet double agent, and his sidekick Spider (Lemmy), are plotting Nosher’s downfall. It’s might versus mincemeat, where the strongest, sexiest, or just plain silliest wind up eating eating their words-or each other-in this unforgettable spoof of the upper crust featuring music by “Motorhead,” and cameos by Paul McCartney, Koo Stark and Bill Wyman.

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Little Shop of Horrors

Little Shop of Horrors VHS cover art. Movie starring Rick Moranis, Ellen Greene, Vincent Gardenia, Steve Martin. With Tichina Arnold, Tisha Campbell-Martin, James Belushi, John Candy, Christopher Guest, Bill Murray. Directed by Frank Oz. 1986.

Little Shop of Horrors on VHS. Starring Rick Moranis, Ellen Greene, Vincent Gardenia, Steve Martin. With Tichina Arnold, Tisha Campbell-Martin, James Belushi, John Candy, Christopher Guest, Bill Murray. Directed by Frank Oz. 1986.

From the box:

“The looniest, nuttiest, most outrageous movie musical comedy in years.”

Business is blooming at Mushnik’s Flower Shop. Customers are rushing in to see the exotic potted plant called Audrey II. But if they knew the truth, they’d rush right out. Audrey II is more vampire than vegetable. It’s a “mean, green mother from outer space” who’s about to fill Mushnik’s little shop with kooky horrors.

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Planes, Trains and Automobiles

Planes, Trains and Automobiles VHS cover art. Movie starring Steve Martin, John Candy. With Laila Robins, Olivia Burnette, Kevin Bacon, Diana Castle, Michael McKean. Written and directed by John Hughes. 1987.

Planes, Trains and Automobiles on VHS. Starring Steve Martin, John Candy. With Laila Robins, Olivia Burnette, Kevin Bacon, Diana Castle, Michael McKean. Written and directed by John Hughes. 1987.

From the box:

Neal Page is an advertising executive who just wants to fly home to Chicago to spend Thanksgiving with his family. But all Neal Page gets is misery. Misery named Del Griffith — a loud mouthed, but nevertheless loveable, salesman who leads Neal on a cross-country, wild goose chase that keeps Neal from tasting his turkey.

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Pushing Tin

Pushing Tin VHS cover art. Movie starring John Cusack, Billy Bob Thornton. With Cate Blanchett, Angelina Jolie, Jake Weber. Directed by Mike Newell. 1999.

Pushing Tin on VHS. Starring John Cusack, Billy Bob Thornton. With Cate Blanchett, Angelina Jolie, Jake Weber. Directed by Mike Newell. 1999.

From the box:

“A High-Flying Comedy”

In the tradition of Grosse Point Blank comes an unconventional comedy about two air traffic controllers whose intense rivalry and penchant for one-upmanship causes hilarious havoc with their careers, their marriages–and the planes in their airspace!

Nick Falzone (John Cusack) is the busiest, and the best, air traffic controller on Long Island — until Russell Bell (Billy Bob Thornton) roars into town like a motorcycle-riding cowboy. Fueled by caffeine and machismo, the two men embark upon an uproarious contest of wit and wills that can ultimately only have one winner.

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Better Off Dead

Better Off Dead VHS cover art. Movie starring Starring John Cusack, David Ogden Stiers, Diane Franklin, Kim Darby. With Curtis Armstrong, Demian Slade, Amanda Wyss. Directed by Savage Steve Holland. 1985.

Better Off Dead on VHS. Starring Starring John Cusack, David Ogden Stiers, Diane Franklin, Kim Darby. With Curtis Armstrong, Demian Slade, Amanda Wyss. Directed by Savage Steve Holland. 1985.

From the box:

Teenage life has never been darker… or funnier.

After his girlfriend (Amanda Wyss) ditches him for a boorish ski jock, Lane (John Cusack) decides that suicide is the only answer. However, his increasingly inept attempts bring him only more and more agony and embarrassment. Filled with the wildest teen nightmares, a family you can’t help but identify with and a host of wonderful comic characters, Savage Steve Holland’s directorial debut is a masterful look at those painfully funny teen years.

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Being John Malkovich

Being John Malkovich VHS cover art. Movie starring John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, Catherine Keener. With John Malkovich, Ned Bellamy, Mary Kay Place, Orson Bean. Directed by Spike Jonze. 1999.

Being John Malkovich on VHS. Starring John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, Catherine Keener. With John Malkovich, Ned Bellamy, Mary Kay Place, Orson Bean. Directed by Spike Jonze. 1999.

From the box:

Ever want to be someone else? Now you can.

[obscured by sticker] …clerk. One day he accidentally discovers a door — a portal into the brain of John Malkovich (played by John Malkovich)! For 15 minutes, he experiences the ultimate head trip–HE is being John Malkovich! Then he’s dumped onto the New Jersey turnpike! With his beautiful office mate Maxine (Catherine Keener) and his pet-obsessed wife (Cameron Diaz), they hatch a plan to let others into John’s brain for just $200 a trip.

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Sleepy Heads

Sleepy Heads VHS cover art. Movie starring Eugene Nomura, Toshiya Nagasawa, Takihiro Fujita, Nick Feyz, Sayuri Higuchi Emerson. Directed by Yoshifumi Hosoya. 1997.

Sleepy Heads on VHS. Starring Eugene Nomura, Toshiya Nagasawa, Takihiro Fujita, Nick Feyz, Sayuri Higuchi Emerson. Directed by Yoshifumi Hosoya. 1997.

From the box:

“A cross between ‘Stranger Than Paradise’ and ‘After Hours.'”

24 hours to escape the mob, fall in love, and bury his dead friend’s body.

Sleepy Heads is a comedy about young Japanese living in NYC caught between two different cultures. It portrays their dreams and struggles and the differences between young Japanese.

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Drowning By Numbers

Drowning By Numbers VHS cover art. Movie starring Bernard Hill, Joan Plowright, Juliet Stevenson, Joely Richardson. With Jason Edwards. Written and directed by Peter Greenaway. 1988.

Drowning By Numbers on VHS. Starring Bernard Hill, Joan Plowright, Juliet Stevenson, Joely Richardson. With Jason Edwards. Written and directed by Peter Greenaway. 1988.

From the box:

Three women who have the same name methodically rid themselves of unwanted husbands in Peter Greenaway’s visually dazzling mixture of metaphors and murder. When Cissie 1 (Joan Plowright) finds her husband with another woman, she impulsively drowns him in a bathtub. Her daughter, Cissie 2 (Juliet Stevenson), later drowns her husband at sea, and Cissie 3 (Joely Richardson) ultimately dispatches hers in a community swimming pool. The local coroner, Madgett (Bernard Hill), who’s an obsessive game player, agrees to declare the deaths accidental drownings in return for sexual favors. But when things don’t go exactly as planned, Madgett devises a final game that could be the undoing of them all, in the surprising climax of this fascinating film from the director of “The Thief, The Cook, His Wife and Her Lover.”

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