The best Frances Bay’s comedy movies

Frances Bay

Frances Bay

23/01/1919- 15/09/2011
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Frances Bay’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Frances Bay.
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Happy Gilmore

Happy Gilmore
7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 16/02/1996
  • Character: Grandma Gilmore
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.

Twins

Twins
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 08/12/1988
  • Character: Mother Superior
Julius and Vincent Benedict are the results of an experiment that would allow for the perfect child. Julius was planned and grows to athletic proportions. Vincent is an accident and is somewhat smaller in stature. Vincent is placed in an orphanage while Julius is taken to a south seas island and raised by philosophers. Vincent becomes the ultimate low life and is about to be killed by loan sharks.

Inspector Gadget

Inspector Gadget
4.2/10
John Brown is a bumbling but well-intentioned security guard who is badly injured in an explosion planned by an evil mastermind. He is taken to a laboratory, where Brenda, a leading robotics surgeon, replaces his damaged limbs with state-of-the-art gadgets and tools. Named "Inspector Gadget" by the press, John -- along with his niece, Penny, and her trusty dog, Brain -- uses his new powers to discover who was behind the explosion.

Critters 3

Critters 3
4.4/10
In what appears to be a cross between Critters and The Towering Inferno, the residents of a shoddy L.A. apartment block are chased up to the roof by hoards of the eponymous hairy horrors.

Wild at Heart

Wild at Heart
7.2/10
After serving prison time for a self-defense killing, Sailor Ripley reunites with girlfriend Lula Fortune. Lula's mother, Marietta, desperate to keep them apart, hires a hitman to kill Sailor. But he finds a whole new set of troubles when he and Bobby Peru, an old buddy who's also out to get Sailor, try to rob a store. When Sailor lands in jail yet again, the young lovers appear further than ever from the shared life they covet.

Arachnophobia

Arachnophobia
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyHorror
  • Release: 20/07/1990
  • Character: Evelyn Metcalf
A large spider from the jungles of South America is accidentally transported in a crate with a dead body to America where it mates with a local spider. Soon after, the residents of a small California town disappear as the result of spider bites from the deadly spider offspring. It's up to a couple of doctors with the help of an insect exterminator to annihilate these eight legged freaks.

The Wedding Planner

The Wedding Planner
5.3/10
San Francisco's premiere wedding planner, Mary Fiore is rescued from an accident by the man of her dreams, paediatrician Steve Edison, only to find he is the fiancé of her latest client. As Mary continues making the wedding arrangements, she and Steve are put into a string of uncomfortable situations that force them to face their mutual attraction.

Private School

Private School
5.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 29/06/1983
  • Character: Birdie Fallmouth
Private-school student Christine loves Jim. But her classmate, Jordan, is also vying for Jim's attention and trying to end his relationship with Christine. Meanwhile, Jim's friend Bubba embarks on a series of sexual escapades, including dressing up as a woman to access the girls' locker room. Despite Jim and Christine's efforts to spend some time alone, various shenanigans and schemes interfere.

Foul Play

Foul Play
6.8/10
A shy San Francisco librarian and a bumbling cop fall in love as they solve a crime involving albinos, dwarves, and the Catholic Church.

Big Top Pee-wee

Big Top Pee-wee
5.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyFamily
  • Release: 22/07/1988
  • Character: Mrs. Haynes
Paul Reubens stars as Pee-wee Herman in his second full-length film about a farmer who joins the circus after a storm drops a big tent in his front yard. Pee-wee, along with an outlandish cast of animals and circus performers, puts on the best show ever.

Goodbye Lover

Goodbye Lover
5.6/10
Police investigate when a man having an affair with his brother's wife disappears suddenly.

Buddy Buddy

Buddy Buddy
6.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 11/12/1981
  • Character: Female Patient
During a high profile Mafia testimony case, a contract killer checks-in a hotel room near the courthouse while his next door depressed neighbor wants to commit suicide due to marital problems.

Krippendorf's Tribe

Krippendorf's Tribe
5.1/10
After squandering his grant money, despondent and recently widowed anthropologist James Krippendorf must produce hard evidence of the existence of a heretofore undiscovered New Guinea tribe. Grass skirts, makeup, and staged rituals transform his three troubled children into the Shelmikedmu, a primitive culture whose habits enthrall scholars. But when a spiteful rival threatens to blow the whistle on Krippendorf's ruse, he gets into the act as well.

Repo Chick

Repo Chick
3.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 09/09/2009
  • Character: Grandma De La Chasse
As a repo chick, wealthy bad-girl Pixxi and her entourage get mixed up in a devious kidnapping plot that threatens to wipe out the city of Los Angeles. Sequel to Alex Cox's 1984 cult film 'Repo Man.'

Honky Tonk Freeway

Honky Tonk Freeway
5.2/10
  • Genre: ActionComedy
  • Release: 21/08/1981
  • Character: Mrs. Lewenowski
Ticlaw, a small town in Florida, has only one attraction: a safari park. The government constructs a freeway that passes near Ticlaw, but decides not to put an exit into the town. The people of Ticlaw, leaded by it's Mayor, will do anything in order to convince the governor to alter the project.

Movers & Shakers

Movers & Shakers
4.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 03/05/1985
  • Character: Betty Gritz
Joe Mulholland, Head of Production at a Hollywood studio, makes a rather fool-hardy promise to a dying friend. He undertakes to make a major movie using the title - if not the content - of a best-selling sex manual "Love in Sex". Enlisting the help of depressed screenwriter Herb Derman and rather off-centre director Sid Spokane to try and come up with an idea or two, Joe soon wishes he was not one of those people who always try to keep their promises.

Sparkler

Sparkler
5.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 19/03/1999
  • Character: Raspy
Melba is a Californian trailer-park girl who is told to look for three kings by a phone psychic, and when she meets three guys - Trent, Brad and Joel traveling to Las Vegas, she decides they are those kings and joins them on a trip. In Vegas she meets her old high school pal Dottie.

Chilly Scenes of Winter

Chilly Scenes of Winter
7/10
Charles is a bored civil servant struggling through a harsh Utah winter. He spends most of his time reflecting on his romance with Laura, a coworker who left Charles to return to her husband, an A-Frame salesman.

Never Too Late

Never Too Late
5.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 26/08/1996
  • Character: Elisabeth Kronner
Four old friends reunite to investigate the death of a good friend.

The Movie Hero

The Movie Hero
6.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 08/03/2003
  • Character: Wise Old Woman
A man believes his life is a movie watched by an audience only he can see.

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