The best James Coburn’s fantasy movies

James Coburn

James Coburn

31/08/1928- 18/11/2002
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best James Coburn’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 James Coburn.

The Nutty Professor

The Nutty Professor
5.7/10
Eddie Murphy stars as shy Dr. Sherman Klump, a kind, brilliant, 'calorifically challenged' genetic professor. When beautiful Carla Purty joins the university faculty, Sherman grows desperate to whittle his 400-pound frame down to size and win her heart. So, with one swig of his experimental fat-reducing serum, Sherman becomes 'Buddy Love', a fast-talking, pumped-up , plumped down Don Juan.

Candy

Candy
5.1/10
Based on Terry Southern's satirical novel, a send-up of Voltaire's Candide. Young Candy is a high school girl who seeks truth and meaning in life, encountering a variety of kookie characters and humorous sexual situations in the process.

The Muppets: A Celebration of 30 Years

The Muppets: A Celebration of 30 Years
8.1/10
  • Genre: FamilyFantasy
  • Release: 21/01/1986
  • Character: Self (archive footage)
For the first time in their careers, all the Muppets (except the ones that couldn't make it, like the Doozers, Gorgs and most of the Fraggles) have gathered together in one place to celebrate their thirtieth anniversary and honor the one who brought them together: Kermit the Frog (and by doing so, Jim Henson).

Digital Dreams

Digital Dreams
5.5/10
  • Genre: FantasyMusic
  • Release: 01/01/1983
  • Character: God's Gift to Wyman
An amalgam of documentary and cinema verité, this movie outlines the life, loves and music of Rolling Stones bass guitarist Bill Wyman. After leaving the Stones in 1981, Wyman tried to establish his own separate musical identity, conveyed here through a stream of hallucinatory images and animated sequences.

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