The best Garry Marshall’s comedy movies

Garry Marshall

Garry Marshall

13/11/1934- 19/07/2016
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Garry Marshall’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 Garry Marshall.
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Pretty Woman

Pretty Woman
7.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 23/03/1990
  • Character: Bum Tour Guide (uncredited)
When a millionaire wheeler-dealer enters a business contract with a Hollywood hooker Vivian Ward, he loses his heart in the bargain.

Chicken Little

Chicken Little
5.7/10
When the sky really is falling and sanity has flown the coop, who will rise to save the day? Together with his hysterical band of misfit friends, Chicken Little must hatch a plan to save the planet from alien invasion and prove that the world's biggest hero is a little chicken.

Hocus Pocus

Hocus Pocus
6.9/10
After 300 years of slumber, three sister witches are accidentally resurrected in Salem on Halloween night, and it is up to three kids and their newfound feline friend to put an end to the witches' reign of terror once and for all.

Runaway Bride

Runaway Bride
5.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 30/07/1999
  • Character: First Baseman in Softball (uncredited)
Ike Graham, New York columnist, writes his text always at the last minute. This time, a drunken man in his favourite bar tells Ike about Maggie Carpenter, a woman who always flees from her grooms in the last possible moment. Ike, who does not have the best opinion about females anyway, writes an offensive column without researching the subject thoroughly.

Orange County

Orange County
6.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 10/01/2002
  • Character: Arthur Gantner
Shaun Brumder is a local surfer kid from Orange County who dreams of going to Stanford to become a writer and to get away from his dysfunctional family household. Except Shaun runs into one complication after another, starting when his application is rejected after his dim-witted guidance counselor sends in the wrong form.

A League of Their Own

A League of Their Own
7.3/10
As America's stock of athletic young men is depleted during World War II, a professional all-female baseball league springs up in the Midwest, funded by publicity-hungry candy maker Walter Harvey. Competitive sisters Dottie Hinson and Kit Keller spar with each other, scout Ernie Capadino and grumpy has-been coach Jimmy Dugan on their way to fame.

Never Been Kissed

Never Been Kissed
6/10
Josie Geller, a baby-faced junior copywriter at the Chicago Sun-Times, must pose as a student at her former high school to research contemporary teenage culture. With the help of her brother, Rob, Josie infiltrates the inner circle of the most popular clique on campus. But she hits a major snag in her investigation -- not to mention her own failed love life -- when she falls for her dreamy English teacher, Sam Coulson.

Valentine's Day

Valentine's Day
5.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 10/02/2010
  • Character: Musician (uncredited)
More than a dozen Angelenos navigate Valentine's Day from early morning until midnight. Three couples awake together, but each relationship will sputter. A grade-school boy wants flowers for his first true love. Two high school seniors plan first-time sex at noon. A TV sports reporter gets the assignment to find romance in LA. A star quarterback contemplates his future. Two strangers meet on a plane. Grandparents, together for years, face a crisis. An 'I Hate Valentine's Day' dinner beckons the lonely and the lied to.

The Majestic

The Majestic
6.9/10
Set in 1951, a blacklisted Hollywood writer gets into a car accident, loses his memory and settles down in a small town where he is mistaken for a long-lost son.

Tomcats

Tomcats
5.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 30/03/2001
  • Character: Uncle Murray (uncredited)
College buddies chip in and promise that the group's last unmarried man will collect a cash pot. Seven years later, the kitty is worth $500,000 -- money Michael needs to pay a gambling debt. Problem is, the only other single guy is a hopeless womanizer!

Beaches

Beaches
7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 21/12/1988
  • Character: Audition Director (uncredited)
A privileged rich debutante and a cynical struggling entertainer share a turbulent, but strong childhood friendship over the years.

Soapdish

Soapdish
6.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 31/05/1991
  • Character: Edmund Edwards
Celeste Talbert is the star of the long-running soap opera "The Sun Also Sets." With the show's ratings down, Celeste's ruthlessly ambitious co-star, Montana Moorehead, and the show's arrogant producer, David Seton Barnes, plot to aggravate her into leaving the show by bringing back her old flame, Jeffrey Anderson, and hiring her beautiful young niece, Lori Craven.

Jumpin' Jack Flash

Jumpin' Jack Flash
5.9/10
Terry works for a bank, and uses computers to communicate with clients all over the world. One day, she gets a strange coded message from an unknown source. After decoding the message, Terry becomes embroiled in an espionage ring. People are killed, and Terry is chased. Throughout, she remains in contact with this mysterious person, who needs Terry's help save his life.

Dear God

Dear God
5.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/11/1996
  • Character: Preston Sweeney, Postmaster
A judge gives con-man Tom Turner a choice—a jail sentence, or a year of honest work. But when he gets a job in the U.S. Post Office's dead letter office, he starts a Good Samaritan con by answering letters written to God. His seemingly virtuous work inspires his co-workers to do the same, but their good deeds are frowned upon by the postmaster general—and the cops.

Scooby-Doo! and Kiss: Rock and Roll Mystery

Scooby-Doo! and Kiss: Rock and Roll Mystery
6.4/10
Get ready to Rock! Scooby-Doo and the Mystery Inc. Gang team up with the one and only KISS in this all-new, out-of-this-world adventure! We join the Gang at Kiss World – the all-things-Kiss theme park, as they investigate a series of strange hauntings. With help from Kiss, they discover that the Crimson Witch has returned to summon The Destroyer from the alternate dimension of Kissteria! The evil duos ghastly plan, to destroy the earth! Can the Gang's cunning and Kiss's power of rock save the day?!

Life After Beth

Life After Beth
5.7/10
Zach is devastated by the unexpected death of his girlfriend, Beth. When she mysteriously returns, he gets a second chance at love. Soon his whole world turns upside down...

Grand Theft Auto

Grand Theft Auto
5.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 16/06/1977
  • Character: Underworld Boss
A rich girl steals her dad's Rolls Royce and heads off to Las Vegas to get married. However, her angry parents, a jealous suitor, and a bunch of reward seekers are determined to stop her.

Exit to Eden

Exit to Eden
4.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrimeThriller
  • Release: 14/10/1994
  • Character: Priscilla's Client (voice) (uncredited)
Elliot is going to the island of Eden to live out his submissive fantasies, but inadvertently photographs diamond smugglers at work. Smugglers, and detectives, follow him to the island, where they try to retrieve the film. Elliot begins falling in love with Lisa, the head mistress of the island, and Lisa must evaluate her feelings about Elliot and her own motivations.

Lost in America

Lost in America
7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 08/02/1985
  • Character: Casino Manager
David and Linda Howard are successful yuppies from LA. When he gets a job disappointment, David convinces Linda that they should quit their jobs, liquidate their assets, and emulate the movie Easy Rider, spending the rest of their lives traveling around America...in a Winnebago.

Finding Bliss

Finding Bliss
5.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/01/2009
  • Character: Garry Marshall
Jody Balaban, an aspiring filmmaker, is fresh to L.A. with New York film school accolades and the dream of making her movie. Unable to get a job where she can use the skills she so finely honed, Jody must edit adult entertainment to make ends meet. The uncompromising desire to make her movie, leads Jody to secretly film in the porn studio facilities at night - until she is caught in the act.

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