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Comedy movies can be hit or miss for critical and audience success, as the genre isn't typically taken as seriously as other films. This means each decade has a litany of overlooked comedic movies that should be better remembered for their hilarious plots and campy visuals. While the Brat Pack movies of the 1980s have come to define this period of cinema because of their popularity, they don't capture the full humor and cultural moment of the '80s.
Cusak would prove to have an affinity for projects like Better Off Ted, taking on roles that featured characters with dark impulses and tendencies of self-loathing. He shows his strength as an actor in Better Off Ted, and though the film underperformed at the box office and didn't land with critics, it's enjoyed a second life as a cult classic.
8 Night Shift Directed by Ron Howard Night Shift RComedy Night Shift is a comedy film directed by Ron Howard, featuring Henry Winkler and Michael Keaton in leading roles. The story follows an uptight morgue worker whose dull life takes an unexpected turn when he partners with a free-spirited new colleague to operate a nighttime prostitution ring out of the morgue.
7 Earth Girls Are Easy Directed by Julien Temple Close Geena Davis and Jeff Goldblum make a hilarious pair in Earth Girls Are Easy, a rom-com with an intergalactic twist. When a trio of aliens crash-land in Valerie's backyard, she and her friend Candy realize the potential the young aliens have to be their new love interests after an intense makeover scene.
Dempsey's chemistry with Amanda Peterson, who plays his love interest, Cindy, is undeniable, and it's clear the actors are having a lot of fun together. Overall, despite some of the dated elements of the period that are rarely avoided in these films, Can't Buy Me Love has positive messages about being yourself and not capitulating to the pressures to assimilate to certain cliques in high school.
Before Mark Harmon played Gibbs on NCIS for years and became defined by this role, he had a brief turn as a movie star in the little-known film Summer School. His character, Freddy Shoop, has a classic case of arrested development, as the high school gym teacher behaves as if he's still mentally a student.
2 Top Secret! Directed by David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, & Jerry Zucker Top Secret! Top Secret! is a 1984 satirical comedy directed by Jim Abrahams and David Zucker. Starring Val Kilmer as Nick Rivers, an American rock star, who becomes embroiled in a resistance movement in East Germany. The film humorously blends elements from spy thrillers and musical comedies, delivering a quirky narrative set against a Cold War backdrop.
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