John Turturro as Barton Fink is deadly, boringly serious about himself as a creative artist. He fails to notice everyone and everything about him is insane from his producer who wants him to write Wally Beery pictures to a killer in his hotel (John Goodman) to a hotel that oozes, literally, creativity. Hilarious satire on the creative artist. Coen Brothers film.

Christopher Guest film which answer the question once and for all if dog owners pick dogs who are like themselves in this hilarious satire of dog shows. Answer: Yes.

Woody Allen's comedy set around the Broadway stage mileu back in the '30s. A criminal who is a better playwright than the actual playwrignt. A mobster's girlfriend who is the worst actress possible and is bumped off for the good of the play. The sublime Dianne Wiest as the grand dame of the theater, insufferable beyond belief.

Woody Allen's film where we see him playing the film self we got used to over the decades. He is older, no wiser, and continues to make the same hilarious, angst filled mistakes, one after another. Still a disaster in love but a master at the stinging one liner.

Nick Nolte, a homeless sage, moves into the home of a screwed up Beverly Hills family who need a new slant on life. Richard Dreyfus is his hilarious foil. Paul Mazursky directs.

Billy Wilder film stars Jack Lemmon as a photographer who is injured slightly and temporarily at a Cleveland Browns football game. His old friend Whiplash Willie (Matthau who won the Oscar) talks him into claiming he has been seriously injured and asking for a ton of damages. Matthau steals the show.

Charles Grodin is hilarious as a newlywed on his honeymoon who falls for another woman! He is Woody Allen level neurotic. Remade recently with Ben Stiller, same title.

Kevin Kline's wife, Tracey Ullman, tries to kill him but he hilariously remains in love with her despite her deadly intent and attempts.

Robert Morse as the employee of a mortuary in Evelyn Waugh's wicked satire of the funeral industry. Located in L.A. and Forest Lawn Cemetery is strongly suggested.

Jack Lemmon, a neat freak and domestic doyenne of the masculine persuasion, is thrown out by his wife. Slob friend Walter Matthau is forced to take him in as a roommate.

Nicolas Cage who meets his future wife while in lockup--policewoman Holly Hunter. Only problem is that she can't conceive and he has to find her a baby any way he can. Early Coen Brothers movie.

Denis Leary needs to hide out after a botched jewelry robbery. He, unfortunately, picks a couple who have even driven their marriage counselor to distraction--Kevin Spacey and Judy Davis. He has to referee their fights while holding them hostage.

Al Pacino is washed up as a filmmaker. He's lost his family and his work. He gets it all back by constructing a fake woman on a computer, Simone, and putting her in his films.

Billy Wilder's film stars Marilyn Monroe as the singer in an all girl band which Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon join (masquerading as women) when they are on the run from the mob after witnessing murders.

Jim Jarmusch's first career making film of 3 people eking out a living in New York journeying together first to Cleveland and then to Florida. Very dry, droll, deadpan off the wall humor.

Bill Murray is the ultimate neurotic who hilariously stalks his psychiatrist (Richard Dreyfus) when the psychiatrist takes his annual cabin by the lake vacation. Murray manages to charm everyone else.