Comedy > Hiller, Arthur Comedy

Advantages: Strong storyline and plenty of laughs!
Disadvantages: None

Anyone who likes James Belushi will enjoy this film - he is at his best playing a happy-go-lucky, slightly zany convict who comes across the filofax (this film also goes under the title of "Filofax") of workaholic businessman Spencer Barnes - played spectacularly well by the underated Charles Grodin. Not only is the humour on top form but the storyline is strong and all the ancillary characters are strong as well. This makes for a quality film which ... Read review

Advantages: good entertainment and some funny scenes
Disadvantages: some people may not like it.

Director: Arthur Hiller Producer: Marvin Worth Writers: Earl Barret, Arne Sultan, Marvin Worth, Andrew Kurtzman, Eliot Wald and Gene Wilder. Stars: Richards Pryor, Gene Wilder, Joan Severance and Kevin Spacey. Released in 1989 as more of a comedy than a thriller. **BRIEF PLOT** Wally Kerew, (played by Richard Pryor), is a blind man with a need for independence, whilst Dave Lyons, (played by Gene Wilder) is a deaf man who runs a small store and ...
...enters Dave's shop in the hope of getting the job he doesn't realise that his life is going to change for ever. A coin left inside the tips jar causes mayhem as a customer in Dave's store is shot dead leaving the deaf and blind men as prime suspects. But with Dave hearing nothing, only seeing a long legged lady leaving the store and Wally seeing nothing but hearing the gunshot and an exchange of voices the pair must stick together to prove their ... Read review

Advantages: great comical combination of Pryor and Wilder
Disadvantages: none

Director: Arthur Hiller Producer: Edward K. Milkis Writer: Colin Higgins Stars: Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor Jill Clayburgh, Ned Beatty and Pattrick McGoohan Released in late 1976 this near two hour movie takes us on a train journey which we will never forget…. **BRIEF PLOT** When George Caldwel, (played by Gene Wilder) starts his journey on the 'Silver Streak', a train running from Los Angelis to Chicago it is not long before he realises that ...
...thought… Whilst on the train, George meets the beautiful Hilly Burns, (played by Jill Clayburgh) and sees her art dealer boss murdered, but unfortunately for George he ends up disembarking the train earlier than he bargained for and ends up being suspected for the murder… Meanwhile, it turns out that FBI agent Bob Sweet, (played by Ned Beatty) is investigating the art dealings involving Roger Devereaux, (played by Patrick Mcgoohan), another art ... Read review

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...forward to see it. Outrageous Fortune is one of those silly comedies that could be a good thriller as well, if the script was written well enough, and different actors were playing the parts. Even though the thriller part of this film would’ve been good, it wouldn’t have been as good as the comedy! Outrageous Fortune is the sort of film you can watch over and over and never get sick of! I’ve watched it at least five times, and ...
...little as a disadvantage, but Outrageous Fortune is so entertaining that I can’t fault it at all! Not only is this a comedy, but also it does have a big twist in the middle. At parts it’s like an Agatha Christie novel because you can see why some things happened! Thankfully though, Poirot’s not there investigating! If you don’t like Bette Midler, you probably won’t like Outrageous Fortune, but there is chance it might ... Read review

Advantages: Easy to watch and an array of well known actors
Disadvantages: It isn't the most interesting film you'll ever watch

I bought the family stone for one reason only and that was because the cast was a mix of well known faces! I know I should look for more than this but, being a Sex and the City fan I am always keen to watch anything with Sarah Jessica Parker in! Along with a variety of others who I have seen in other films and enjoyed then it was surely to be a winner wasn't it? Released in 2005 the film was written and directed by Thomas Bezucha. The story: The ...
...every year. When the favourite son, Everett, decides to bring his girlfriend Meredith with him to meet his family it doesn't quite go to plan! He has plans to ask his mother for his grandmother's ring to propose to Meredith but, his family pretty much take an instant dislike to her and find Meredith to be too uptight for Everett. Desperate and needing support, Meredith calls on her sister Julie to come and help. Things just seem to go from bad to ... Read review