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The Definitive Top 100 Comedies From the ’90s – Part Two

74 – Muppet Treasure Island (1996)
Trust me.
Action | Comedy | Music | Family | Adventure | Romance
Directed by: Brian Henson
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6.94 /10

After telling the story of Flint’s last journey to young Jim Hawkins, Billy Bones has a heart attack and dies just as Jim and his friends are attacked by pirates. The gang escapes into the town where they hire out a boat and crew to find the hidden treasure, which was revealed by Bones before he died. On their voyage across the seas, they soon find out that not everyone on board can be trusted.
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73 – The Wedding Singer (1998)
He’s gonna party like it’s 1985.
Comedy | Romance
Directed by: Frank Coraci
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6.95 /10

Robbie, a local rock star turned wedding singer, is dumped on the day of his wedding. Meanwhile, waitress Julia finally sets a wedding date with her fiancée Glenn. When Julia and Robbie meet and hit it off, they find that things are more complicated than anybody thought.
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72 – My Girl (1991)
When your Dad’s an undertaker, your Mom’s in heaven, and your Grandma’s got a screw loose…it’s good to have a friend who understands you. Even if he is a boy.
Comedy | Drama
Directed by: Howard Zieff
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6.96 /10

Vada Sultenfuss is obsessed with death. Her mother is dead, and her father runs a funeral parlor. She is also in love with her English teacher, and joins a poetry class over the summer just to impress him. Thomas J., her best friend, is “allergic to everything”, and sticks with Vada despite her hangups. When Vada’s father hires Shelly, and begins to fall for her, things take a turn to the worse…
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71 – Bottle Rocket (1996)
They’re not criminals, but everybody’s got to have a dream.
Comedy | Crime
Directed by: Wes Anderson
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6.97 /10

Dysfunctional friends Dignan and Anthony plan and execute a robbery with their pot-growing friend, Bob. The short film that inspired Wes Anderson’s feature debut.
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70 – That Thing You Do! (1996)
In every life there comes a time when that dream you dream becomes that thing you do.
Comedy | Drama | Romance | Music
Directed by: Tom Hanks
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6.98 /10

A Pennsylvania band scores a hit in 1964 and rides the star-making machinery as long as it can, with lots of help from its manager.
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69 – Clueless (1995)
Sex. Clothes. Popularity. Is there a problem here?
Comedy | Romance
Directed by: Amy Heckerling
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6.99 /10

Shallow, rich and socially successful Cher is at the top of her Beverly Hills high school’s pecking scale. Seeing herself as a matchmaker, Cher first coaxes two teachers into dating each other. Emboldened by her success, she decides to give hopelessly klutzy new student Tai a makeover. When Tai becomes more popular than she is, Cher realizes that her disapproving ex-stepbrother was right about how misguided she was — and falls for him.
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68 – American Pie (1999)
There’s nothing like your first piece.
Comedy | Romance
Directed by: Paul Weitz
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7.01 /10

At a high-school party, four friends find that losing their collective virginity isn’t as easy as they had thought. But they still believe that they need to do so before college. To motivate themselves, they enter a pact to all “score” by their senior prom.
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67 – Grumpy Old Men (1993)
The best of enemies until something came between them.
Comedy
Directed by: Donald Petrie
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7.01 /10

For decades, next-door neighbors and former friends John and Max have feuded, trading insults and wicked pranks. When an attractive widow moves in nearby, their bad blood erupts into a high-stakes rivalry full of naughty jokes and adolescent hijinks.
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66 – Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)
If he were any cooler, he’d still be frozen, baby!
Comedy | Science Fiction | Crime
Directed by: Jay Roach
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7.02 /10

As a swingin’ fashion photographer by day and a groovy British superagent by night, Austin Powers is the ’60s’ most shagadelic spy, baby! But can he stop megalomaniac Dr. Evil after the bald villain freezes himself and unthaws in the ’90s? With the help of sexy sidekick Vanessa Kensington, he just might.
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65 – Rush Hour (1998)
The Fastest Hands in the East Meet the Biggest Mouth in the West.
Comedy | Action | Crime
Directed by: Brett Ratner
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7.03 /10

When Hong Kong Inspector Lee is summoned to Los Angeles to investigate a kidnapping, the FBI doesn’t want any outside help and assigns cocky LAPD Detective James Carter to distract Lee from the case. Not content to watch the action from the sidelines, Lee and Carter form an unlikely partnership and investigate the case themselves.
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64 – Peter’s Friends (1992)
Love, friendship, and other natural disasters…
Comedy | Drama
Directed by: Kenneth Branagh
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7.04 /10

After inheriting a large country estate from his late father, Peter invites his friends from college: married couple Roger and Mary, the lonely Maggie, fashionable Sarah, and writer Andrew, who brings his American TV star wife, Carol. Sarah’s new boyfriend, Brian, also attends. It has been 10 years since college, and they find their lives are very different.
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63 – Mallrats (1995)
They’re not there to shop. They’re not there to work. They’re just there.
Comedy | Romance
Directed by: Kevin Smith
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7.05 /10

Both dumped by their girlfriends, two best friends seek refuge in the local mall.
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62 – Out of Sight (1998)
Opposites attract.
Crime | Comedy | Romance
Directed by: Steven Soderbergh
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7.06 /10

Meet Jack Foley, a smooth criminal who bends the law and is determined to make one last heist. Karen Sisco is a federal marshal who chooses all the right moves … and all the wrong guys. Now they’re willing to risk it all to find out if there’s more between them than just the law.
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61 – What About Bob? (1991)
Bob’s a special kind of friend. The kind that drives you crazy!
Comedy
Directed by: Frank Oz
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7.07 /10

Before going on vacation, self-involved psychiatrist Dr. Leo Marvin has the misfortune of taking on a new patient: Bob Wiley. An exemplar of neediness and a compendium of phobias, Bob follows Marvin to his family’s country house. Dr. Marvin tries to get him to leave; the trouble is, everyone loves Bob. As his oblivious patient makes himself at home, Dr. Marvin loses his professional composure and, before long, may be ready for the loony bin himself.
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60 – Cool Runnings (1993)
One dream. Four Jamaicans. Twenty below zero.
Comedy | Adventure | Drama
Directed by: Jon Turteltaub
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7.08 /10

When a Jamaican sprinter is disqualified from the Olympic Games, he enlists the help of a dishonoured coach to start the first Jamaican bobsled team.
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59 – Happy Gilmore (1996)
He doesn’t play golf… he destroys it.
Comedy
Directed by: Dennis Dugan
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7.09 /10

Failed hockey player-turned-golf whiz Happy Gilmore — whose unconventional approach and antics on the grass courts the ire of rival Shooter McGavin — is determined to win a PGA tournament so he can save his granny’s house with the prize money. Meanwhile, an attractive tour publicist tries to soften Happy’s image.
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58 – Wayne’s World (1992)
You’ll laugh. You’ll cry. You’ll hurl.
Comedy | Music
Directed by: Penelope Spheeris
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7.09 /10

The adventures of two amiably aimless metal-head friends, Wayne and Garth. From Wayne’s basement, the pair broadcast a talk-show called “Wayne’s World” on local public access television. The show comes to the attention of a sleazy network executive who wants to produce a big-budget version of “Wayne’s World”—and he also wants Wayne’s girlfriend, a rock singer named Cassandra. Wayne and Garth have to battle the executive not only to save their show, but also Cassandra.
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57 – There’s Something About Mary (1998)
Love Is In The Hair.
Comedy | Romance
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7.10 /10

For Ted, prom night went about as bad as it’s possible for any night to go. Thirteen years later, he finally gets another chance with his old prom date, only to run up against other suitors including the sleazy detective he hired to find her.
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56- Pretty Woman (1990)
She walked off the street, into his life and stole his heart.
Comedy | Romance
Directed by: Garry Marshall
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7.11 /10

When a millionaire wheeler-dealer enters a business contract with a Hollywood hooker Vivian Ward, he loses his heart in the bargain.
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55 – Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)
Five good reasons to stay single.
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Directed by: Mike Newell
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7.12 /10

Over the course of five social occasions, a committed bachelor must consider the notion that he may have discovered love.
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54 – Wag the Dog (1997)
A comedy about truth, justice and other special effects.
Comedy | Drama
Directed by: Barry Levinson
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7.13 /10

During the final weeks of a presidential race, the President is accused of sexual misconduct. To distract the public until the election, the President’s adviser hires a Hollywood producer to help him stage a fake war.
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53 – Tremors (1990)
The monster movie that breaks new ground.
Horror | Comedy | Action | Science Fiction
Directed by: Ron Underwood
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7.14 /10

Hick handymen Val McKee and Earl Bassett can barely eke out a living in the Nevada hamlet of Perfection, so they decide to leave town — despite an admonition from a shapely seismology coed who’s picking up odd readings on her equipment. Before long, Val and Earl discover what’s responsible for those readings: 30-foot-long carnivorous worms with a proclivity for sucking their prey underground.
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52 – Mrs. Doubtfire (1993)
She makes dinner. She does windows. She reads bedtime stories. She’s a blessing… in disguise.
Comedy | Family | Drama
Directed by: Chris Columbus
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7.15 /10

Loving but irresponsible dad Daniel Hillard, estranged from his exasperated spouse, is crushed by a court order allowing only weekly visits with his kids. When Daniel learns his ex needs a housekeeper, he gets the job — disguised as an English nanny. Soon he becomes not only his children’s best pal but the kind of parent he should have been from the start.
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51 – Benny & Joon (1993)
A romance on the brink of reality.
Comedy | Drama
Directed by: Jeremiah S. Chechik
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7.16 /10

A mentally ill young woman finds her love in an eccentric man who models himself after Buster Keaton.
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50 – Tommy Boy (1995)
If at first you don’t succeed, lower your standards.
Comedy
Directed by: Peter Segal
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7.19 /10

To save the family business, two ne’er-do-well traveling salesmen hit the road with disastrously funny consequences.
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