The best Penny Marshall’s comedy movies

Penny Marshall

Penny Marshall

15/10/1943- 17/12/2018
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Penny 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 Penny Marshall.
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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.

Get Shorty

Get Shorty
6.9/10
Chili Palmer is a Miami mobster who gets sent by his boss, the psychopathic "Bones" Barboni, to collect a bad debt from Harry Zimm, a Hollywood producer who specializes in cheesy horror films. When Chili meets Harry's leading lady, the romantic sparks fly. After pitching his own life story as a movie idea, Chili learns that being a mobster and being a Hollywood producer really aren't all that different.

Mother's Day

Mother's Day
5.6/10
Intersecting stories with different moms collide on Mother's Day.

1941

1941
5.8/10
  • Genre: ActionComedyWar
  • Release: 14/12/1979
  • Character: Miss Fitzroy (uncredited)
In the days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, panic grips California, where a military officer leads a mob chasing a Japanese sub.

The Hard Way

The Hard Way
6.3/10
Seeking to raise his credibility as an actor and to land a role as a tough cop on a new show, Hollywood action star Nick Lang works a deal with New York City Police Capt. Brix, who by chance is one of his fans. Nick will be paired with detective Lt. John Moss and learn how to act like a real cop. But when Nick drives John crazy with questions and imitating him, he gets in the way of John's pursuit of a serial killer.

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?!

She's Having a Baby

She's Having a Baby
5.9/10
Jake and Kristy Briggs are newlyweds. Being young, they are perhaps a bit unprepared for the full reality of marriage and all that it (and their parents) expect from them. Do they want babies? Their parents certainly want them to. Is married life all that there is? Things certainly aren't helped by Jake's friend Davis, who always seems to turn up just in time to put a spanner in the works.

Blonde Ambition

Blonde Ambition
3.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 21/12/2007
  • Character: Bolo Executive
A young professional woman (Simpson) unwittingly becomes the pawn of two business executives in their bid to oust the head of a mega-conglomerate.

Staten Island Summer

Staten Island Summer
5.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 30/06/2015
  • Character: Dolores
Pals Danny and Frank spend the summer after high school working as lifeguards while figuring out their future.

How Sweet It Is!

How Sweet It Is!
5.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 21/08/1968
  • Character: Tour Girl
All-American couple who try to bridge the generation gap with their free-spirited son on a trip, frisky business and misunderstandings galore ensue, all funny, vibrant and charming.

Jackie's Back!

Jackie's Back!
7.1/10
A mockumentary of Jackie Washington, a fictional pop diva and actress, played by Jenifer Lewis. Jackie tells the story of her rise to stardom and fall from grace as she prepares for her comeback concert. Full of cameo appearances and funny interviews from stars like Dolly Parton, Whoopi Goldberg, Liza Minnelli, Bette Midler, Diahann Carroll, Chris Rock, Rosie O'Donnell, and many others.

Movers & Shakers

Movers & Shakers
4.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 03/05/1985
  • Character: Reva
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.

Everybody Wants to Be Italian

Everybody Wants to Be Italian
5.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 18/09/2007
  • Character: Teresa the Florist
Are all relationships based on lies? Jake Bianski runs a fish market in north Boston, surrounded by Italians. For years, he's carried a torch for Isabella, an ex-girlfriend now married with three children and no interest in Jake. Yet, he tells everyone she's his girlfriend, including Marisa, a veterinarian his employees set him up with at the Italian singles club. She's interested in him until he tells her about his girlfriend, then he's persistent in asking her to be his friend. As the friendship bumps along, Jake realizes that reality may be better than fantasy, but what if Isabella changes her mind about Jake, and what if it comes out that Marisa, like Jake, isn't Italian?

In Name Only

In Name Only
5.7/10
In this romantic comedy, an unwed couple who run a wedding planning business discover, to their horror, that the Justice of the Peace who had officiated their first three weddings was only an actor. Hilarity ensues as they set about trying to get these marrieds married...again.

Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes All-Star 50th Anniversary

Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes All-Star 50th Anniversary
7.2/10
Celebrities are interviewed about the social and working lives of Bugs, Daffy, Porky and the rest of the Looney Tunes.

The Feminist and the Fuzz

The Feminist and the Fuzz
5.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 26/01/1971
  • Character: Liberation Lady
A dedicated women's libber and a male chauvinist cop become roommates.

Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World

Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World
5.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 15/12/2005
  • Character: Penny Marshall
To improve its relations with Muslim countries, the United States government sends comedian Albert Brooks to south Asia to write a report on what makes followers of Islam laugh.

Classic TV Bloopers Uncensored

Classic TV Bloopers Uncensored
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/01/2011
  • Character: Herself
A compilation of television's biggest and best stars as they are caught in hilarious moments while filming. See stars and blooper moments from such hits as I Love Lucy, The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Happy Days, M*A*S*H*, The Andy Griffith Show, Laverne and Shirley and so many more! Its a nonstop marathon of outtakes, goofs, blunders and gag reels that will have you laughing out loud. You'll see such megastars as Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Dick Van Dyke, William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Ron Howard, Elizabeth Taylor and many more. A collection to show you that stars aren't quite as perfect as they would have us believe! Sit back, relax and enjoy the show!

The Couple Takes a Wife

The Couple Takes a Wife
6.7/10
A couple decides to hire a second "wife"--somebody who looks good and works hard around the house--but complications ensue.

Love Thy Neighbor

Love Thy Neighbor
6.5/10
When Danny’s wife and Linda’s husband run away together, the two neighbors form an unlikely bond.

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