Biography: Louise Lasser |
Fey, flaky comic actress Louise Lasser majored in political science at Brandeis University before studying acting at New York's Neighborhood Playhouse. She proved an excellent improvisational comedienne in the Elaine May revue The Third Ear, which led... more
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Tags: Romantic Comedy Comedy Drama Psychological Drama
Length: 103min
An elderly man falls in love with a woman young enough to be his daughter -- and that's not the least of their differences -- in this offbeat romantic comedy. Horace (Victor Argo) is a retired police officer who now works for a travel agency....
National Lampoon's Gold Diggers (2004)
Cast: Renée Taylor
Tags: Black Comedy Comedy
Length: 87min
American independent filmmaker Gary Preisler makes his film debut as a writer/director with the lack comedy National Lampoon's Gold Diggers. Twentysomethings Calvin Menhoffer (Will Friedle) and Leonard Smallwood (Chris Owen) get arrested for the...
Cast: Louise Lasser Amos Kollek
Tags: Urban Comedy Comedy Drama Romantic Comedy
Length: 95min
Amos Kollek directs this quiet, understated comedy about lonely hearts and empty pockets in New York. Pushing 40, Bella (Anna Thomson) works as a waitress at small downtown diner in Manhattan. Her elderly regulars include Paul (Robert Modica), a...
Tags: Black Comedy Comedy Horror Horror Comedy
Length: 90min
Adventurous viewers not repelled by the title of this horror exploitation-comedy from Frank Henenlotter (director of the splatter cult classic Basket Case) will find a fair share of laughs on display, thanks to Henenlotter's typically energetic...
Tags: Teen Movie Drama
Length: 111min
In this tuneful teen drama, two disparate high school students, he a street-wise Italian rebel and she a sweet naive Jewish girl, fall in love while preparing for the annual "Sing," a competition between seniors and the other grades attending Brooklyn...
Tags: Urban Comedy Mystery Comedy Comedy Thriller
Length: 89min
In the bizarre style of director Hal Hartley, for whom she performed in The Unbelievable Truth and Trust, actress Adrienne Shelly's debut as a director and screenwriter is a story about a group of young Manhattanites trying desperately to figure out...
Cast: Ethan Coen Sam Raimi Joel Coen
Tags: Slapstick Screwball Comedy Comedy Crime Comedy
Length: 83min
In a slapstick spoof of hitmen and crime stories, the head of a security systems company (Hamid Dana) is bumped off by two gonzo exterminators (Brion James and Paul L. Smith) who have gone from stomping out pesky varmints to stomping out human...
Cast: Edie Falco
Tags: Crime Comedy Comedy Crime
Length: 96min
In this crime comedy, a wastrel is helping his girlfriend move into a new apartment and accidentally stumbles into a drug theft gone awry that leaves his girlfriend dead and him literally holding the bag. Within that bag is a fortune in illegal...
Cast: Richard Pryor Peter Boyle Marty Feldman Wilfrid Hyde-White
Tags: Comedy
Length: 97min
Comedian Marty Feldman directed and co-wrote this satire of the less-scrupulous side of organized religion. Brother Ambrose (Marty Feldman) is a monk who has spent nearly his entire life within the walls of his monastery and knows little of the...
Nightmare at Shadow Woods (1987)
Tags: Slasher Film Horror
Length: 87min
The highlight of this sometimes humorous horror film is the performance of Louise Lasser. Maddy (Lasser) is the mother of ten-year-old twins Todd and Terry (Mark Soper). Terry sneaks out of the car at a drive-in movie and slashes the throat of an...
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