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Howard the Duck

Howard the Duck (1986) more movies like this

directed by Willard Huyck
featuring Lea Thompson, Jeffrey Jones, Tim Robbins, Ed Gale, Chip Zien

In this sci-fi comedy from executive producer George Lucas, Howard the Duck is an extra-terrestrial fowl who is accidentally beamed to earth by physicist Dr. Jenning (Jeffrey Jones) and his assistant Phil (Tim Robbins). The two go looking for Howard and find him in the home of Beverly Switzer (Lea Thompson), who was rescued by the interstellar ...

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Short Circuit

Short Circuit (1986) more movies like this

directed by John Badham
featuring Ally Sheedy, Steve Guttenberg, Fisher Stevens, Austin Pendleton, G.W. Bailey, Tim Blaney

Struck by lightning, an endearing little robot known only as "Number 5" escapes from an experimental electronics firm. Technician Steve Guttenberg and his indecipherable East Indian assistant Fisher Stevens set out to locate Number 5 before the military can go through with its plans to destroy the robot. Number 5 takes refuge with loopy Ally ...

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The Last Starfighter

The Last Starfighter (1984) more movies like this

directed by Nick Castle, Jr.
featuring Lance Guest, Robert Preston, Dan O'Herlihy, Catherine Stewart, Barbara Bosson

Trailer-park teenager Lance Guest regularly escapes from his humdrum existence by playing the video game Starfighter . His expertise at this recreational endeavor attracts the attention of affable stranger Robert Preston. Before he knows what's happening, Guest is whisked by Preston into the outer reaches of the galaxy! It turns out that the ...

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Short Circuit 2

Short Circuit 2 (1988) more movies like this

directed by Kenneth Johnson
featuring Fisher Stevens, Michael McKean, Cynthia Gibb, Jack Weston, Tim Blaney

Fisher Stevens reprises his role of Ben Jahrvi, the co-inventor of the cute robot Number Five, in this sequel to Short Circuit. Since the last film, Ben has moved to the city, where he lives in a truck and sells toy Number Fives as a street vendor. Ben plies his trade until one day luck strikes in the form of Sandy (Cynthia Gibb), a toy buyer in ...

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Weird Science

Weird Science (1985) more movies like this

directed by John Hughes
featuring Anthony Michael Hall, Kelly LeBrock, Ilan Mitchell-Smith, Bill Paxton, Suzanne Snyder

John Hughes' third directorial effort, Weird Science, follows in the tradition of his previous teen-centered films, Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast Club. Anthony Michael Hall and Ilan Mitchell-Smith play the wannabe hipster Gary and his nebbish weak-willed best friend, Wyatt, a pair of high-school geeks who are hapless with members of the ...

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Men in Black

Men in Black (1997) more movies like this

directed by Barry Sonnenfeld
featuring Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith, Linda Fiorentino, Vincent D'Onofrio, Rip Torn

For his fifth effort as a feature-film director, one-time cinematographer Barry Sonnenfeld brought his cartoonish visual style and darkly humorous sensibilities to this adaptation of, appropriately enough, a tongue-in-cheek sci-fi comic book. Will Smith stars as James Darrel Edwards, a New York City cop with an athletic physique and a flippant, ...

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Idiocracy

Idiocracy (2006) more movies like this

directed by Mike Judge
featuring Luke Wilson, Maya Rudolph, Dax Shepard, Terry Crews

Mike Judge wrote and directed this offbeat sci-fi comedy which gives a new meaning to the expression "people are getting dumber all the time." In 2005, Pvt. Joe Bowers (Luke Wilson) is a soldier chosen to take part in a secret military scientific experiment in which he will be put into induced hibernation for one year, along with a woman named ...

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Galaxy Quest

Galaxy Quest (1999) more movies like this

directed by Dean Parisot
featuring Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Alan Rickman, Tony Shalhoub, Sam Rockwell, Enrico Colantoni

A team of intrepid adventurers travels through the outer reaches of the galaxy, each week finding excitement and adventure on Galaxy Quest ! Or at least that's the way it was in the mid-1970s, when brave if reckless Captain Peter Quincy Taggart, lovely Lieutenant Tawny Madison, and inscrutable alien Dr. Lazarus were the leaders of an interstellar ...

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Spaceballs

Spaceballs (1987) more movies like this

directed by Mel Brooks
featuring Mel Brooks, John Candy, Rick Moranis, Bill Pullman, Daphne Zuniga

A space bum helps rescue a princess from an evil overlord with the help of a benevolent elder in this Star Wars send-up written and directed by Mel Brooks. Lone Starr (Bill Pullman) and his half-man, half-dog co-pilot, Barf the Mawg (John Candy), are content to scour the galaxy living the easy life. But they reluctantly come to the rescue when ...

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Mars Attacks!

Mars Attacks! (1996) more movies like this

directed by Tim Burton
featuring Jack Nicholson, Glenn Close, Annette Bening, Pierce Brosnan, Danny DeVito, Jim Brown

This quirky science fiction comedy is a characteristic feature by iconoclastic director Tim Burton, known to moviegoers for Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, and The Nightmare Before Christmas. The storyline affectionately harkens back to the deadpan sincerity of such '50s and '60s science-fiction films as The Day the Earth Stood Still and War ...

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Lilo & Stitch (2002) more movies like this

directed by Chris Sanders, Dean DeBlois
featuring Daveigh Chase, Chris Sanders, Tia Carrere, David Ogden Stiers, Kevin McDonald, Ving Rhames

A lonely little girl makes a very unusual friend -- a ukulele-playing alien who likes to toss around small automobiles -- in this antic animated comedy from Walt Disney Studios. Lilo (voice of Daveigh Chase) is a young Hawaiian girl being raised by her teenaged sister Nani (voice of Tia Carrere) after the unexpected death of their parents in an ...

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Brazil (1985) more movies like this

directed by Terry Gilliam
featuring Jonathan Pryce, Michael Palin, Kim Greist, Robert De Niro, Katherine Helmond

Brazil constitutes Terry Gilliam's enormously ambitious follow-up to his 1981 Time Bandits. It also represents the second installment in a trilogy of Gilliam films on imagination versus reality, that began with Bandits and ended in 1989 with The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. To create this wild, visually audacious satire, Gilliam combines ...

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Ghostbusters (1984) more movies like this

directed by Ivan Reitman
featuring Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis, Ernie Hudson, Rick Moranis, Annie Potts

Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis and Ernie Hudson star as a quartet of Manhattan-based "paranormal investigators". When their government grants run out, the former three go into business as The Ghostbusters, later hiring Hudson on. Armed with electronic paraphernalia, the team is spectacularly successful, ridding The Big Apple of dozens of ...

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Men in Black II (2002) more movies like this

directed by Barry Sonnenfeld
featuring Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith, Rip Torn, Lara Flynn Boyle, Rosario Dawson, Tony Shalhoub, Johnny Knoxville

Otherworldly villains are on the loose again, and it's up to Earth's interstellar police force to bring them to justice in this sequel to the sci-fi comedy blockbuster Men in Black. Agent Jay (Will Smith) has become a high-ranking member of the Men in Black, the secret government task force designed to deal with unruly visitors from other worlds, ...

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*batteries not included (1987) more movies like this

directed by Matthew Robbins
featuring Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy, Frank McRae, Elizabeth Peņa, Michael Carmine

Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy are among the impoverished residents of a slum tenement threatened with demolition by evil land developers. Only a miracle can save Cronyn, Tandy, and their friends -- and that miracle manifests itself in the form of a "family" of extraterrestrial flying saucers, who need the electricity provided by the tenement to ...

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Bicentennial Man (1999) more movies like this

directed by Chris Columbus
featuring Robin Williams, Sam Neill, Wendy Crewson, Embeth Davidtz, Oliver Platt

If a robot spends enough time around humans, can he learn to become one of them? The Martin family purchases a domestic android as a servant and names him Andrew (Robin Williams). Andrew comes to know the man of the house as Sir (Sam Neill), his wife as Ma'am Wendy Crewson, and their daughter as Portia (Embeth Davidtz); before long, the Martins ...

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Multiplicity (1996) more movies like this

directed by Harold Ramis
featuring Michael Keaton, Andie MacDowell, Harris Yulin, Richard Masur, Eugene Levy

In this zany comedy, Michael Keaton is Doug Kinney, a man with too many tasks and not enough time to complete them. When he feels too much pressure, his temper explodes with disastrous results. So when researcher Dr. Owen Leeds (Harris Yulin) offers him a somewhat unusual remedy for his problem, he gives it a try. Soon, a fully grown clone of Doug ...

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Small Soldiers (1998) more movies like this

directed by Joe Dante
featuring Kirsten Dunst, Gregory Smith, Jay Mohr, Phil Hartman, Kevin Dunn

Joe Dante directed this satirical action-comedy about talking tech toys accidentally juiced-up with military microchips. After the defense industry firm Globotech takes over a small toy company, Heartland Play Systems' CEO Gil Mars (Denis Leary) gives the green light to develop a new line of action figures, requesting an upgrade to more realistic ...

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Space Jam (1996) more movies like this

directed by Joe Pytka
featuring Michael Jordan, Charles Barkley, Wayne Knight, Patrick Ewing, Theresa Randle, Billy West, Muggsy Bogues, Bill Murray, D. Bradley Baker

Warner Bros. attempted to revitalize its animation division with this family adventure that blended live action and animation in the style of Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), reportedly coming in with a price tag of $100 million. Basketball legend Michael Jordan stars as himself, a retired sports hero trying his hand at baseball and failing ...

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The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension! (1984) more movies like this

directed by W.D. Richter
featuring Peter Weller, John Lithgow, Ellen Barkin, Jeff Goldblum, Christopher Lloyd

Despite mixed reviews and a disastrous initial release that dumped the film into theaters for a week in the midst of the 1984 Summer Olympics, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eight Dimension went on to become one of the major cult films of the 1980s, developing a rabid following after its release on videotape. Drifting between satire ...

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Slaughterhouse-Five (1972) more movies like this

directed by George Roy Hill
featuring Michael Sacks, Ron Leibman, Eugene Roche, Sharon Gans, Valerie Perrine

"Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time." These opening words of Kurt Vonnegut's famous novel make an effective and short summary of a haunting, funny film. For the screen, director George Roy Hill faithfully renders Vonnegut's black anti-war comedy about Pilgrim (well played in a low key by Michael Sacks), who survives the horrendous 1945 fire ...

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Sleeper (1973) more movies like this

directed by Woody Allen
featuring Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, John Beck, Mary Gregory, Don Keefer

In 1973, health-food store owner Miles Monroe (Woody Allen) enters the hospital for a routine gall bladder operation. When he expires on the operating table, Miles' sister requests permission to cryogenically freeze her brother's body. After 200 years, Miles is unwrapped by a group of scientists and awakens to a "brave new world" of deadening ...

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The Nutty Professor (1996) more movies like this

directed by Tom Shadyac
featuring Eddie Murphy, Jada Pinkett Smith, James Coburn, Larry Miller, Dave Chappelle

Eddie Murphy gives one of Jerry Lewis' best-remembered vehicles a 1990s overhaul in this hit comedy. Sherman Klump (Murphy) is a college professor and respected biochemistry researcher who is kind, considerate, and a genuinely nice guy. Sherman is also appallingly overweight; coupled with the fact that he's painfully shy and a bit clumsy, his ...

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005) more movies like this

directed by Garth Jennings
featuring Martin Freeman, Mos Def, Sam Rockwell, Zooey Deschanel, Warwick Davis

Douglas Adams' oft-adapted tale of an normal guy making his way through the universe (it's already been presented as a novel, a radio serial, a television series, and a comic book) finally makes its way to the big screen in this endearingly goofy sci-fi comedy. Arthur Dent (Martin Freeman) is a very ordinary man who is having a truly unusual day - ...

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Robots (2005) more movies like this

directed by Carlos Saldanha, Chris Wedge
featuring Ewan McGregor, Halle Berry, Robin Williams, Greg Kinnear, Mel Brooks

For this follow-up to their mega-hit Ice Age, directors Carlos Saldanha and Chris Wedge team with the screenwriting duo behind Parenthood and City Slickers, Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel. Robots stars Ewan McGregor as the voice of Rodney Copperbottom, an idealistic robot who wants to convince his electronic brethren to come together and work ...

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