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The Definitive Top 100 Comedies From the ’90s

100 – Hot Shots! (1991)
The mother of all movies.
Action | Comedy | War
Directed by: Jim Abrahams
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6.70 /10

Recruited to join a top-secret mission for the Air Force, a renegade pilot finds himself coping with an incompetent admiral and a carefully selected squadron of flyers who are either inept or half-blind.

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99 – With Honors (1994)
If you want a degree go to Harvard, If you want an education go to Simon Wilder.
Comedy | Drama
Directed by: Alek Keshishian
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6.71 /10

Convinced he’ll graduate with honors because of his thesis paper, a stuffy Harvard student finds his paper being held hostage by a homeless man, who might be the guy to school the young man in life.

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98 – Postcards from the Edge (1990)
Having a wonderful time, wish I were here.
Comedy | Drama

Directed by: Alek Keshishian

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6.72 /10

Convinced he’ll graduate with honors because of his thesis paper, a stuffy Harvard student finds his paper being held hostage by a homeless man, who might be the guy to school the young man in life.
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97 – Sliding Doors (1998)
What if one split second sent your life in two completely different directions?
Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Romance
Directed by: Peter Howitt
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6.73 /10
London publicist Helen, effortlessly slides between parallel storylines that show what happens when she does or does not catch a train back to her apartment. Love. Romantic entanglements. Deception. Trust. Friendship. Comedy. All come into focus as the two stories shift back and forth, overlap and surprisingly converge.
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96 – Flirting with Disaster (1996)
A comedy about sex, love, family and other accidents waiting to happen.
Comedy
Directed by: David O. Russell
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6.74 /10

Adopted as a child, new father Mel Colpin decides he cannot name his son until he knows his birth parents, and determines to make a cross-country quest to find them. Accompanied by his wife, Nancy, and an inept yet gorgeous adoption agent, Tina, he departs on an epic road trip that quickly devolves into a farce of mistaken identities, wrong turns, and overzealous and love-struck ATF agents.
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95 – Mermaids (1990)
Mom is many things… normal isn’t one of them.
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Directed by: Richard Benjamin
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6.75 /10

Fifteen-year-old Charlotte Flax is tired of her wacky mom moving their family to a different town any time she feels it is necessary. When they move to a small Massachusetts town and Mrs. Flax begins dating a shopkeeper, Charlotte and her 9-year-old sister, Kate, hope that they can finally settle down. But when Charlotte’s attraction to an older man gets in the way, the family must learn to accept each other for who they truly are.
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94 – Life (1999)
Share it with someone you love.
Comedy | Crime
Directed by: Ted Demme
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6.76 /10

Two men in 1930s Mississippi become friends after being sentenced to life in prison together for a crime they did not commit.
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93 – L.A. Story (1991)
Something funny is happening in L.A.
Comedy | Fantasy | Romance
Directed by: Mick Jackson
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6.77 /10

With the help of a talking freeway billboard, a “wacky weatherman” tries to win the heart of an English newspaper reporter, who is struggling to make sense of the strange world of early-90s Los Angeles.
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92 – Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993)
The legend had it coming…
Comedy

Directed by: Mel Brooks

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6.78 /10

Robin Hood comes home after fighting in the Crusades to learn that the noble King Richard is in exile and that the despotic King John now rules England, with the help of the Sheriff of Rottingham. Robin Hood assembles a band of fellow patriots to do battle with King John and the Sheriff.
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91 – Empire Records (1995)
They’re selling music but not selling out.
Comedy | Music | Drama
Directed by: Allan Moyle
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6.79 /10

The employees of an independent music store learn about each other as they try anything to stop the store being absorbed by a large chain.
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90 – Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992)
He’s up past his bedtime in the city that never sleeps.
Comedy | Family | Adventure

Directed by: Chris Columbus

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6.82 /10

Instead of flying to Florida with his folks, Kevin ends up alone in New York, where he gets a hotel room with his dad’s credit card—despite problems from a clerk and meddling bellboy. But when Kevin runs into his old nemeses, the Wet Bandits, he’s determined to foil their plans to rob a toy store on Christmas eve.
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89 – City Slickers (1991)
Yesterday they were businessmen. Today they’re cowboys. Tomorrow they’ll be walking funny.
Comedy | Western
Directed by: Ron Underwood
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6.83 /10

Three New York businessmen decide to take a “Wild West” vacation that turns out not to be the relaxing vacation they had envisioned.
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88 – White Men Can’t Jump (1992)
It ain’t easy being this good.
Comedy | Drama
Directed by: Ron Shelton
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6.84 /10

Billy Hoyle and Sidney Deane are an unlikely pair of basketball hustlers. They team up to con their way across the courts of Los Angeles, playing a game that’s fast dangerous – and funny.
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87 – Addams Family Values (1993)
The family just got a little stranger.
Comedy | Family | Fantasy
Directed by: Barry Sonnenfeld
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6.85 /10

Siblings Wednesday and Pugsley Addams will stop at nothing to get rid of Pubert, the new baby boy adored by parents Gomez and Morticia. Things go from bad to worse when the new “black widow” nanny, Debbie Jellinsky, launches her plan to add Fester to her collection of dead husbands.
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86 – Patch Adams (1998)
Laughter is contagious.
Comedy | Drama
Directed by: Tom Shadyac
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6.86 /10

The true story of Dr. Hunter “Patch” Adams, who in the 1970s found that humor is the best medicine, and was willing to do just anything to make his patients laugh—even if it meant risking his own career.
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85 – Beavis and Butt-Head Do America (1996)
Coming to a screen bigger than your TV.
Animation | Comedy
Directed by: Mike Judge
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6.87 /10

Mike Judge’s slacker duo, Beavis and Butt-Head, wake to discover their TV has been stolen. Their search for a new one takes them on a clueless adventure across America where they manage to accidentally become America’s most wanted. 
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84 – Dave (1993)
In a country where anybody can become President, anybody just did.
Comedy
Directed by: Ivan Reitman
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6.88 /10

A sweet-natured Temp Agency operator and amateur Presidential look-alike is recruited by the Secret Service to become a temporary stand-in for the President of the United States.
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83 – Quick Change (1990)
The bank robbery was easy. But getting out of New York was a nightmare.
Comedy | Crime
Directed by: Howard Franklin
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6.89 /10

With the aid of his girlfriend, Phyllis Potter, and best friend, Loomis, Grimm enters a Manhattan bank dressed as a clown, creates a hostage situation and executes a flawless robbery. The only thing left for the trio to do is make their getaway out of the city and to the airport. It sounds simple enough, but it seems that fate deserts them immediately after the bank heist. One mishap after another conspires to keep these robbers from reaching freedom.
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82 – Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994)
He’s the best there is! (Actually, he’s the only one there is.)
Comedy | Adventure
Directed by: Tom Shadyac
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6.90 /10

He’s Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. Jim Carrey is on the case to find the Miami Dolphins’ missing mascot and quarterback Dan Marino. He goes eyeball to eyeball with a man-eating shark, stakes out the Miami Dolphins and woos and wows the ladies. Whether he’s undercover, under fire or underwater, he always gets his man… or beast!
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81 – The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (1991)

If you see only one movie this year…you ought to get out more often
Comedy | Crime
Directed by: David Zucker
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6.90 /10

Bumbling lieutenant Frank Drebin is out to foil the big boys in the energy industry, who intend to suppress technology that will put them out of business.
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80 – Private Parts (1997)
Never before has a man done so much with so little.
Comedy | Drama
Directed by: Betty Thomas
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6.90 /10

The auto-biographical story of Howard Stern, the radio-rebel who is now also a TV-personality, an author and a movie star.
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79 – The Mask (1994)
From zero to hero.
Romance | Comedy | Crime | Fantasy
Directed by: Chuck Russell
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6.91 /10

When timid bank clerk Stanley Ipkiss discovers a magical mask containing the spirit of the Norse god Loki, his entire life changes. While wearing the mask, Ipkiss becomes a supernatural playboy exuding charm and confidence which allows him to catch the eye of local nightclub singer Tina Carlyle. Unfortunately, under the mask’s influence, Ipkiss also robs a bank, which angers junior crime lord Dorian Tyrell, whose goons get blamed for the heist.
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78 – Kingpin (1996)
You wouldn’t want to meet these pinheads in an alley.
Comedy
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6.91 /10

After bowler Roy Munson swindles the wrong crowd and is left with a hook for a hand, he settles into impoverished obscurity. That is, until he uncovers the next big thing: an Amish kid named Ishmael. So, the corrupt and the hopelessly naïve hit the circuit intent on settling an old score with Big Ern.
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77 – Get Shorty (1995)
The mob is tough, but it’s nothing like show business.
Comedy | Crime | Thriller
Directed by: Barry Sonnenfeld
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6.92 /10

Chili Palmer is a Miami mobster who gets sent by his boss, the psychopathic “Bones” Barboni, to collect a bad debt from Harry Zimm, a Hollywood producer who specializes in cheesy horror films. When Chili meets Harry’s leading lady, the romantic sparks fly. After pitching his own life story as a movie idea, Chili learns that being a mobster and being a Hollywood producer really aren’t all that different.
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76 – The Addams Family (1991)
Weird Is Relative
Comedy | Fantasy
Directed by: Barry Sonnenfeld
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6.92 /10

When a man claiming to be long-lost Uncle Fester reappears after 25 years lost, the family plans a celebration to wake the dead. But the kids barely have time to warm up the electric chair before Morticia begins to suspect Fester is fraud when he can’t recall any of the details of Fester’s life.
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75 – Liar Liar (1997)
Trust me.
Comedy
Directed by: Tom Shadyac
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6.93 /10

Fletcher Reede is a fast-talking attorney and habitual liar. When his son Max blows out the candles on his fifth birthday he has just one wish – that his dad will stop lying for 24 hours. When Max’s wish comes true, Fletcher discovers that his mouth has suddenly become his biggest liability.
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