The best Dennis Quaid’s comedy movies

Dennis Quaid

Dennis Quaid

09/04/1954 (70 años)
We present our ranking of the best Dennis Quaid’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Dennis Quaid.
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The Parent Trap

The Parent Trap
6.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyFamily
  • Release: 28/07/1998
  • Character: Nick Parker
Hallie Parker and Annie James are identical twins separated at a young age because of their parents' divorce. Unknowingly to their parents, the girls are sent to the same summer camp where they meet, discover the truth about themselves, and then plot with each other to switch places.

Movie 43

Movie 43
4.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/01/2013
  • Character: Charlie Wessler (segment "The Pitch")
Fifteen directors and an all-star cast created this twisted comedy that follows three teens on the hunt for the world's most banned film.

A Dog's Purpose

A Dog's Purpose
7.2/10
A dog goes on quest to discover his purpose in life over the course of several lifetimes with multiple owners.

Stripes

Stripes
6.8/10
  • Genre: ActionComedy
  • Release: 25/06/1981
  • Character: Extra at Graduation Ceremony
John Winger, an indolent sad sack in his 30s, impulsively joins the U.S. Army after losing his job, his girlfriend and his apartment.

Innerspace

Innerspace
6.8/10
Test pilot Tuck Pendleton volunteers to test a special vessel for a miniaturization experiment. Accidentally injected into a neurotic hypochondriac, Jack Putter, Tuck must convince Jack to find his ex-girlfriend, Lydia Maxwell, to help him extract Tuck and his ship and re-enlarge them before his oxygen runs out.

What to Expect When You're Expecting

What to Expect When You're Expecting
5.7/10
Challenges of impending parenthood turn the lives of five couples upside down. Two celebrities are unprepared for the surprise demands of pregnancy; hormones wreak havoc on a baby-crazy author, while her husband tries not to be outdone by his father, who's expecting twins with his young trophy wife; a photographer's husband isn't sure about his wife's adoption plans; a one-time hook-up results in a surprise pregnancy for rival food-truck owners.

Caveman

Caveman
5.8/10
In this comedy, Atouk becomes leader of the misfit cavemen. Disgraced and cast out of his tribe for lusting after Lana, the mate of tribe's head muscle man, Atouk stumbles along gathering other misfits and learning a bit about the world outside of his cave. Eventually he and friends Lar, and Tala learn the secrets of fire, cooked meat, and how to defend themselves from the brutal, yet very stupid

Crazy Mama

Crazy Mama
5.5/10
Melba Stokes, her mother Sheba and daughter Cheryl embark on a crime spree after their California beauty parlor is repossessed. Their destination is Arkansas, where the three generations of women want to reclaim the family farm.

American Dreamz

American Dreamz
5.5/10
The new season of "American Dreamz," the wildly popular television singing contest, has captured the country's attention, as the competition looks to be between a young Midwestern gal and a showtunes-loving young man from Orange County. Recently awakened President Staton even wants in on the craze, as he signs up for the potential explosive season finale.

Yours, Mine & Ours

Yours, Mine & Ours
5.5/10
Admiral Frank Beardsley returns to New London to run the Coast Guard Academy, his last stop before a probable promotion to head the Guard. A widower with eight children, he runs a loving but tight ship, with charts and salutes. The kids long for a permanent home. Helen North is a free spirit, a designer whose ten children live in loving chaos, with occasional group hugs. Helen and Frank, high school sweethearts, reconnect at a reunion, and it's love at first re-sighting. They marry on the spot. Then the problems start as two sets of kids, the free spirits and the disciplined preppies, must live together. The warring factions agree to work together to end the marriage.

In Good Company

In Good Company
6.5/10
Dan Foreman is a seasoned advertisement sales executive at a high-ranking publication when a corporate takeover results in him being placed under naive supervisor Carter Duryea, who is half his age. Matters are made worse when Dan's new supervisor becomes romantically involved with his daughter an 18 year-old college student Alex.

Something to Talk About

Something to Talk About
5.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 04/08/1995
  • Character: Eddie Bichon
Grace Bichon, who is managing her father's riding-stable, discovers that her husband Eddie is deceiving her with another woman. After confronting him in the middle of the night on the streets of their small home town, she decides to stay at her sister Emma Rae's house for a while to make up her mind. Breaking out of her everyday life, she starts to question the authority of everyone.

Smart People

Smart People
6.1/10
Professor Lawrence Wetherhold (Dennis Quaid) might be imperiously brilliant, monumentally self-possessed and an intellectual giant -- but when it comes to solving the conundrums of love and family, he's as downright flummoxed as the next guy.

Undercover Blues

Undercover Blues
6/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 10/09/1993
  • Character: Jefferson 'Jeff' Blue
When fun-loving American agents Dennis Quaid and Kathleen Turner are called back from maternity leave for a special assignment in New Orleans, the spy parents decide to skip the sitter and give their bouncing baby girl the adventure of a lifetime. There's nothing to the dumb story about a deadly arms dealer in the Louisiana Bayou, but you'd be hard put to find a friskier pair of doting parents.

Playing for Keeps

Playing for Keeps
5.7/10
A former sports star who's fallen on hard times starts coaching his son's soccer team in an attempt to get his life together.

Breaking Away

Breaking Away
7.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 24/05/1979
  • Character: Mike
Dave, nineteen, has just graduated high school, with his 3 friends, The comical Cyril, the warm hearted but short-tempered Moocher, and the athletic, spiteful but good-hearted Mike. Now, Dave enjoys racing bikes and hopes to race the Italians one day, and even takes up the Italian culture, much to his friends and parents annoyance.

Postcards From the Edge

Postcards From the Edge
6.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 14/09/1990
  • Character: Jack Faulkner
Substance-addicted Hollywood actress, Suzanne Vale is on the skids. After a spell at a detox centre her film company insists as a condition of continuing to employ her that she live with her mother, herself once a star and now a champion drinker. Such a set-up is bad news for Suzanne who has struggled for years to get out of her mother's shadow, and who still treats her like a child. Despite these and other problems, Suzanne begins to see the funny side of her situation, and also realises that not only do daughters have mothers—mothers do too.

Gorp

Gorp
3.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/05/1980
  • Character: Mad Grossman
Gorp is a delighfully silly send up of summer camp movies. It is set in a Catskills style resort for wealty Jewish kids. The main source of plot movement is from the following elements: camp waiters vs. camp management; camp guests vs. waiters; waiters vs. waiters. There are many memorable moments from young actors who later became major stars.

All Night Long

All Night Long
5.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 06/03/1981
  • Character: Freddie Dupler
Executive George Dupler loses his temper and is demoted to the night manager at a 24 hour drugstore. After he suggests to his teenage son Freddie that he stop having an affair with suburban housewife Cheryl Gibbons, who is a distant cousin, Cheryl tries to seduce George. At home, in front of his mother, Freddie accuses his dad of stealing his girl, because he found Cheryl serving George a meal in the middle of the night, while her husband Bobby was on duty at the fire station. George then separates from his wife Helen, quits his job, moves into a warehouse, and asks Cheryl to move in with him.

The Seniors

The Seniors
4.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/01/1978
  • Character: Alan Darby
Four college seniors open a bogus sex clinic, which unexpectedly mushrooms into a multi-million dollar business. Featuring a young Dennis Quaid in one of his earliest roles and Alan Reed (the original voice of Fred Flintstone) in his final film appearance.

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