 | The Impostors
Buy new: $9.98 / Used from: $2.79 Stanley Tucci writes, directs, and stars (alongside Oliver Platt) in this film about 2 struggling actors who end up as stowaways on a ship full of crazy characters, including a mad bomber, a rich widower and her sulking daughter, a suicidal musician, and a blowhard actor the two are on the run from. A terrific throwback to the screwball comedies of the past.
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 | Brain Donors
Buy used from: $18.79 Another screwball comedy throwback, this one an update of the Marx Bros.' A NIGHT AT THE OPERA. John Turturro is priceless as the Groucho character, and Pat Proft (co-writer of films like the NAKED GUN and HOT SHOTS! movies) crafts some hilarious dialogue.
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 | National Lampoon's Class Reunion
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $2.73 ANIMAL HOUSE, the VACATION movies, and VAN WILDER are really the only NATIONAL LAMPOON films that are widely known, but this horror spoof (scripted by John Hughes himself) is an unknown hoot.
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 | Puddle Cruiser
Buy new: $12.49 / Used from: $1.99 Broken Lizard is fairly famous now (SUPER TROOPERS & BEERFEST were their hits, I'd say), but their 1996 original film about college shenanigans is quite funny and is definitely worth a look.
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 | Used Cars
Buy new: $8.49 / Used from: $4.51 The same year as AIRPLANE! and CADDYSHACK, Robert Zemeckis, soon to hit it big with films like BACK TO THE FUTURE & FORREST GUMP, made this raunchy piece of comic gold starring Kurt Russell as a sleazy car salesman who suddenly has to save his lot from competition.
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 | The Three Musketeers
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $5.10 The challenge: make a Disney version of Alexandre Dumas' classic novel that isn't too kid-friendly, doesn't ruin thoughts of Richard Lester's 1973 version, and will involve Chris O'Donnell but still be good. Bravo.
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 | From Beyond (Unrated Director's Cut)
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $4.94 This semi-reunion of the RE-ANIMATOR cast isn't quite the cult hit that that previous movie was, but this film is some fine gooey entertainment.
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 | Fierce Creatures
Buy used from: $21.69 All right, I don't own this one yet, but I shall soon enough. The FISH CALLED WANDA cast reunites in this clever, quite funny film about a zoo filled with lovable animals that becomes filled with (get this) fierce creatures, then lovable ones again, all for some $$$.
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 | The Ten
Buy used from: $2.98 Paul Rudd brings us 10 comical stories based on those darn Commandments, most of which are very, very funny (the stories, not the Commandments themselves). It's WET HOT AMERICAN COMMANDMENTS. Except it's funnier than that joke.
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 | Jackie Brown (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $3.77 Pam Grier, Robert De Niro, Samuel L. Jackson, Michael Keaton, Bridget Fonda, and Robert Forster (getting a nice comeback and Supporting Actor Oscar nod) round out the cast of this Elmore Leonard adaptation and underrated Tarantino film. Hopefully with INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS making Tarantino relevant again, this movie will get more of the spotlight that it deserves.
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