The Best of Friends (1982)
romantic comedy

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romantic comedy
romantic comedy
Michael Ashburn is the chief assistant to Rufus Trent, a wealthy London loan broker. Michael is socially prominent, but works for a living. He is engaged to Trent's daughter, Roberta.
Comedy drama, romantic comedy
Maggie (Smithey) lives alone and spends her days writing lists and talking to fruits and vegetables that have come to life. The arrival of Martin (Kim), via a blind date set up by Maggie's mother (Blake), sparks a romantic relationship that threatens the routine and quiet order of Maggie's daily life as she labors to keep Martin from discovering her inner world.
Action, Comedy
Comedy
Hoping to get an early start on a fishing trip to the East River, the gang boards a double-decker bus at the crack of dawn. Alas, the kids' bulky fishing equipment causes nothing but discomfort for the rest of the passengers, to say nothing of the irascible bus conductor. Thanks to the gang's unintentional interference, the bus' regular pick-up and drop-off schedule is thoroughly disrupted, and even worse, it turns out that the kids are on the wrong bus.
musical film, musical comedy
J. P. O'Hara owns the Beacon Recording Company, with studio and distribution facilities.
Comedy
Madge and Lois take the train from New York City to Reno, NV to get quickie divorces from their husbands.
Comedy
Comedy
musical film, musical comedy
Vaudeville is in Joanne Leeds's blood, but when she applies for admission at prestigious Upton College, she is accepted because it is mistakenly believed she hails from a prominent family. A rivalry begins immediately with Upton student Gloria Campbell, who resents boyfriend Bill Brewster's interest in the new girl. Joanne is humiliated by Gloria during a college pledge party.
Comedy
Tjokkie Herington (Bill Flynn) and Crispin Wentzel (Paul Slabolepszy) are watching a rugby match in a bar. When Crispin sees that the Springboks are losing, in a blind rage he destroys the bar's television. The bar-goers decide to steal Crispin's own TV to replace the one he broke.
Comedy, LGBTQ-related film
Margaret is a down-on-her-luck hooker in training, who meets up with Jo, a beautiful and self-assured grifter from a wealthy family and an expert on servicing women, even as she considers herself proudly heterosexual.
Comedy
Comedy
The story presents a fictionalized origin of the popular radio series National Barn Dance, which aired from 1924 to 1968. In Chicago, Johnny Burke pitches an idea to the Mitcham Advertising Agency: use a hillbilly group from Midvale to promote Garvey Soup on the radio. Mitcham throws Johnny out, but the determined promoter travels south to Midvale to recruit talent.
musical film, musical comedy
Action Comedy
Louie is owed money by a stable owner and sends Slip and the boys to collect the debt. They return with a horse called My Girl as payment. Local gangsters want the horse and switch their horse, Tarzana, for My Girl.
Comedy
Comedy
The film tells the story of Graham, a balding man living under the glare of his overbearing mother and their pet talking jackdaw in their home and Christian bookshop. Graham orders a blow-up doll, which explodes to form a mural of God on his ceiling. With the encouragement of his pet jackdaw, he calls a sex line and tells them he wants to have sex with God, after which they hang up.
Comedy
Comedy, musical film
Mary (Zoe Laskari) is a rich young lady that challenges problems in a traditional folk neighbourhood in Plaka, Athens, when she moves to play modern music in a store opposite a traditional taverna, where Fotis (Faidon Georgitsis), a bouzouki player, works along with Kostas (Kostas Voutsas), Sofia (Mary Chronopoulou) and others. The gang of the taverna soon turns against Mary, for the reason that she alters the character of the neighbourhood. Eventually, Fotis falls in love with Mary, but his friends margin him as he seems willing to sacrifice everything for her in order to be accepted by her social circles.
Comedy
musical film, romantic comedy
Grace Hayes—essentially playing herself—has been playing the vaudeville circuit to finance her son's college education after her wealthy family has shunned her. Tiring of the road, she goes incognito to visit her son, Peter Kendricks (played by her real-life son Peter Lind Hayes) with her personal assistant Mary Healy (played by her real-life daughter-in-law of the same name). She finds her son and the college "going to Hell in a hand basket", despite the earnest efforts of the kindhearted Dean, Prof.
Crime
Tom, Pig, String, Ape, and Rap, collectively known as "The Dead End Kids", are learning to become aeronautical mechanics in the National Youth Administration Work Program plant. The Kids really want to fly and think they have learned enough to become pilots. Their dreams of flight will not come true because the Civil Aeronautics Authority flight school requires them to have completed high school, something none of them have achieved.
spy film
Princess Ann of Truania arrives at Louie's Sweet Shop. She is the daughter of the exiled king and is looking for Louie, whose brother is a valuable assistance to the king back in Truania. They request the boys assistance to safeguard a half-coin for them.