Category: Comedy

Foul Play

Foul Play VHS cover art. Movie starring Goldie Hawn, Chevy Chase, Burgess Meredith. With Rachel Roberts, Eugene Roche, Dudley Moore. Written and directed by Colin Higgins. 1978.

Foul Play on VHS. Starring Goldie Hawn, Chevy Chase, Burgess Meredith. With Rachel Roberts, Eugene Roche, Dudley Moore. Written and directed by Colin Higgins. 1978.

From the box:

“Beware of the Dwarf”, whispers the hitchhiker to the beautiful librarian (Goldie Hawn) as he dies midway through a screening of This Gun Is Mine. Suddenly Hawn is propelled into a world of wild chases, bizarre attempts on her life, and deadly encounters with an assortment of weird underworld characters. Academy Award winner Hawn teams with Chevy Chase (in his first starring motion picture assignment) — and with hilarious results. Chase plays the handsome San Francisco detective who becomes personally and professionally involved with all the odd things happening to Hawn. Costarring a pre-Arthur Dudley Moore in one of his most delightful comic turns.

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Super Dave Ultimate Stuntman

Super Dave Ultimate Stuntman VHS cover art. Video starring Super Dave Osborne aka Bob Einstein. 1996.

Super Dave Ultimate Stuntman on VHS. Starring Super Dave Osborne (Bob Einstein). 1996.

He’s brave. He’s fearless. And although his crack crew does everything possible to prepare him to face the most challenging and life threatening stunts ever devised, sometimes he has an accident.

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Slap Shot

Slap Shot VHS cover art. Movie starring Paul Newman. With Strother Martin, Michael Ontkean, Jennifer Warren, Lindsay Crouse, M. Emmet Walsh, Jerry Houser, David Hanson, Steve Carlson, Jeff Carlson. Directed by George Roy Hill. 1977.

Slap Shot on VHS. Starring Paul Newman. With Strother Martin, Michael Ontkean, Jennifer Warren, Lindsay Crouse, M. Emmet Walsh, Jerry Houser, David Hanson, Steve Carlson, Jeff Carlson. Directed by George Roy Hill. 1977.

From the box:

This irreverent and outrageously funny look into the world of professional ice hockey has Paul Newman as the coach of the Chiefs, a third-rate minor league hockey team. To build up attendance at their games, management signs up three odd-looking players whose job it is to literally attack and demolish the opposition, to the delight and cheers of a steadily increasing throng of fans. Slap Shot‘s hockey sequences, reminiscent of the football games in MASH and The Longest Yard, offer a freewheeling mixture of slapstick humor and grisly physical violence.

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Ghost Chase

Ghost Chase VHS cover art. Movie starring Jason Lively, Tim McDaniel, Leonard Lansink. Directed by Roland Emmerich. 1987.

Ghost Chase on VHS. Starring Jason Lively, Tim McDaniel, Leonard Lansink. Directed by Roland Emmerich. 1987.

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Teenage filmmakers Warren, Fred and Lori know that money makes movies and that they desperately need more of it. They are counting on a hefty insurance from Warren’s grandfather, but receive only a pawn ticket, which they exchange for a suitcase full of junk and an old clock.

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Silent Movie

Silent Movie VHS cover art. Movie starring Mel Brooks, Marty Feldman, Dom DeLuise, Sid Caesar, Bernadette Peters. With Harold Gould, Ron Carey, Burt Reynolds, James Caan, Liza Minnelli, Anne Bancroft, Marcel Marceau, Paul Newman. Directed by Mel Brooks. 1976.

Silent Movie on VHS. Starring Mel Brooks, Marty Feldman, Dom DeLuise, Sid Caesar, Bernadette Peters. With Harold Gould, Ron Carey, Burt Reynolds, James Caan, Liza Minnelli, Anne Bancroft, Marcel Marceau, Paul Newman. Directed by Mel Brooks. 1976.

From the box:

Mel Brooks, Dom DeLuise and Marty Feldman pay affectionate, hilarious tribute to Hollywood’s Silent Era in this classic parody of the movie business. Attempting to save his studio from the conglomerate “Engulf and Devour,” a has-been movie director (Brooks) casts some of the hottest movie stars in town (all of whom spoof themselves) in one huge blockbuster film.

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Anchorman: The Legend Of Ron Burgundy

Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy VHS cover art. Movie starring Will Ferrell, Christina Applegate, Steve Carell. With Paul Rudd, David Koechner, Fred Willard, Seth Rogen, Danny Trejo, Fred Armisen. Directed by Adam McKay. 2004.

Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy on VHS. Starring Will Ferrell, Christina Applegate, Steve Carell. With Paul Rudd, David Koechner, Fred Willard, Seth Rogen, Danny Trejo, Fred Armisen. Directed by Adam McKay. 2004.

From the box:

Will Ferrell (Old School, Elf) is Ron Burgundy, a top-rated 1970’s San Diego anchorman who believes women have a place in the newsroom–as long as they stick to covering fashion shows or late-breaking cooking stories. So when Ron is told he’ll be working with a bright young newswoman (Christina Applegate) who’s beautiful, ambitious and smart enough to be more than eye candy, it’s not just a clash of two TV people with really great hair–it’s war! Filled with wicked wit and slapstick humor, Anchorman is the year’s most wildly irreverent, must-see comedy hit!

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So I Married An Axe Murderer

So I Married An Axe Murderer VHS cover art. Movie starring Mike Myers, Nancy Travis, Anthony LaPaglia, Brenda Fricker, Amanda Plummer, Charles Grodin, Phil Hartman, Debi Mazar, Steven Wright. Directed by Thomas Schlamme. 1993.

So I Married An Axe Murderer on VHS. Starring Mike Myers, Nancy Travis, Anthony LaPaglia, Brenda Fricker, Amanda Plummer, Charles Grodin, Phil Hartman, Debi Mazar, Steven Wright. Directed by Thomas Schlamme. 1993.

From the box:

Comedy sensation Mike Myers stars with Nancy Travis in this hatchet-driven romantic comedy about a wedlock-shy coffee house poet who finally meets the perfect woman. When it comes to love, Charlie MacKenzie (Myers) has had his share of bad luck… When Charlie meets Harriet Michaels (Travis) everything changes. Harriet’s not like the others. She’s smart, sexy and crazy about Charlie. This time Charlie is determined to overcome the fears that sabotaged his past relationships. This time, he’s ready for some commitment. Sure, Harriet may have her shortcomings–but so what? After all those other women, what’s the worst she could be? An axe murderer?

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Heathers

Heathers VHS cover art. Movie starring Winona Ryder, Christian Slater, Shannen Doherty. Directed by Michael Lehmann. 1988.

Heathers on VHS. Starring Winona Ryder, Christian Slater, Shannen Doherty. Directed by Michael Lehmann. 1988.

From the box:

Life at Westerburg High is a rat race–where getting ahead is more important than getting along. Life here is no game… it’s a full-scale war for popularity. And like the saying goes, all’s fair in love and war. All’s fair, that is, until students start dying.

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The Bad News Bears

The Bad News Bears on VHS. Starring Walter Matthau, Tatum O'Neal. With Vic Morrow, Joyce Van Patten. Directed by Michael Ritchie. 1976.

The Bad News Bears on VHS. Starring Walter Matthau, Tatum O’Neal. With Vic Morrow, Joyce Van Patten. Directed by Michael Ritchie. 1976.

From the box:

A major surprise as one of 1976’s top grossing films, The Bad News Bears is a movie about children that is refreshing, utterly believable, and quite cleverly funny. Walter Matthau is at his absolute best as the grumbling beer-guzzling former minor-league pitcher who gets roped into coaching a band of half-pint misfits somewhat loosely called a team. With this bunch in uniform, it’s impossible to get caught up in the suburban competitive spirit that drives other adults to extremes of parental discipline. So, instead, the Bears have a good time.

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The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!

The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! VHS cover art. Movie starring Leslie Nielsen, Priscilla Presley. With Ricardo Montalban, George Kennedy, O.J. Simpson, 'Weird Al' Yankovic, Reggie Jackson. Directed by David Zucker. 1988.

The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! on VHS. Starring Leslie Nielsen, Priscilla Presley. With Ricardo Montalban, George Kennedy, O.J. Simpson, ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic, Reggie Jackson. Directed by David Zucker. 1988.

From the box:

Those screw-loose Airplane! creators have done it again! Leslie Nielsen stars as Police Squad’s own granite-jawed, rock-brained cop Frank Drebin, who bumbles across a mind-control scheme to assassinate Queen Elizabeth. Priscilla Presley, O.J. Simpson, a stuffed-beaver, two baseball teams and an odd assortment of others join the wacko goings-on and blow the laugh-o-meter to smithereens.

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