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Anyone watch "screwball comedies?"


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The Devlish Redhead

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Any children of the 80s here?

 

Did anyone grow up with screwball comedies from the 80s / 90s? Stuff like Porky's and such?

 

At one time I saw all of those series. Lots of screwball movies with people like Jennifer Jason Leigh, Pheobe Cates and stuff.

 

Things I remember

 

My Tutor

Private School with Emmanuelle as a teacher, she of the Emmanuelle movies and Pheobe Cates.

 

Joysticks

How To Marry A Millionaire

Loverboy

Once Bitten

Fast Times At Ridgemont High



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I associate "screwball" with the older films from the like Bringing Up Baby and Some Like It Hot, not the 80s sexromps.

An overlooked modern version of the screwball if you looking for something similar is Intolerable Cruelty with Catherine Zeta Jones and George Clooney.  It's a Coen brothers' movie so there's a lot of really smart takes on some of the old tropes from the genre.


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What is a screwball comedy?



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Would any of the Mel Brooks films count? If so I have seen Spaceballs enough times to literally quote the entire movie.



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What is a screwball comedy?


Wikipedia has the answer!

Answering the OP's question: Yes. His Girl Friday is one of my most favourite movies.
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I instantly thought of these guys after seeing 'screwball comedies'.

 

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FTARH, My Tutor, Porky's, and Joystick aren't screwball. They're ribald/blue comedies.

 

Nothing Sacred is a good screwball comedy. I also liked Arsenic and Old Lace. Pretty good Cary Grant film (though that is more of a dark comedy than screwball).


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FTARH, My Tutor, Porky's, and Joystick aren't screwball. They're ribald/blue comedies.

 

 

 

 

My bad...

 

Speaking of which I just watched My Tutor the other day and It's nowhere near as funny as I remember.  Aside from Caren Kaye who was lovely it's pretty much trash.



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The Devlish Redhead

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I associate "screwball" with the older films from the like Bringing Up Baby and Some Like It Hot, not the 80s sexromps.

An overlooked modern version of the screwball if you looking for something similar is Intolerable Cruelty with Catherine Zeta Jones and George Clooney.  It's a Coen brothers' movie so there's a lot of really smart takes on some of the old tropes from the genre.

 

I might actually go find that. I like Catherine Zeta Jones, and I like George Clooney too.   I love American Sweethearts.

 

How To Marry A Millionaire is good too and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes


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The Devlish Redhead

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What about a movie like Weird Science?

 

http://www.imdb.com/...090305/combined

 

BTW it was fun



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Loverboy

 

Extra anchovies

 

 

 

Times At Ridgemont High

 

This is still the best highschool flick to me. 



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This is still the best highschool flick to me. 

 

And it had Jennifer Jason Leigh and Pheobe Cates who at the time were popular with teenage boys. Who needed acting skills haha?

 

Pheobe Cates funnily enough would not do nude scenes in Private School but she did in Fast Times At Ridgemont High

 

Jennifer Jason Leigh is so short ... She was in the movie  existenz and still looked hot, but she looked very short..



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And it had Jennifer Jason Leigh and Pheobe Cates who at the time were popular with teenage boys. Who needed acting skills haha?

 

Pheobe Cates funnily enough would not do nude scenes in Private School but she did in Fast Times At Ridgemont High

 

Jennifer Jason Leigh is so short ... She was in the movie  existenz and still looked hot, but she looked very short..

 

That Phoebe Cates scene is still hot. J J Leigh turned out to be a pretty serious actress later on. I haven't seen her in much lately though.



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Fast Times at Ridgemont High Isn't a screwball comedy



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I've never even used the term before. I Wiki'ed and it's a bunch of classic movies. "Some Like It Hot". I've seen that... But then it mentions Raising Arizona too. I don't see the resemblance.



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Fast Times at Ridgemont High Isn't a screwball comedy

I did acknowledge that Olivia Wilde ....

 

OW is hot