The best Ryan O'Neal’s comedy movies

Ryan O'Neal

Ryan O'Neal

20/04/1941 (83 años)
We present our ranking of the best Ryan O'Neal’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 Ryan O'Neal.
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Paper Moon

Paper Moon
8.1/10
During the Great Depression, a con man finds himself saddled with a young girl—who may or may not be his daughter—and the two forge an unlikely partnership.

Zero Effect

Zero Effect
6.9/10
Daryl Zero is a private investigator and—along with his assistant, Steve Arlo—he solves impossible crimes and puzzles. Although Daryl's a master investigator, when he's not working he doesn't know what to do with himself. He has no social skills, writes bad music and drives Steve crazy.

Nickelodeon

Nickelodeon
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 21/12/1976
  • Character: Leo Taylor Harrigan
Going from a lawyer to a writer, and then to a film director, is the career path on which we find the bashful Leo Harrigan. But Leo has problems as well, such as being hopelessly smitten with his leading lady, who chooses to reward his attentions by getting herself hitched to Harrigan's vulgar leading man, Buck Greenaway!

Malibu's Most Wanted

Malibu's Most Wanted
5.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 10/04/2003
  • Character: Bill Gluckman
A senator arranges for his son, a rich white kid who fancies himself black, to be kidnapped by a couple of black actors pretending to be murderers to try and shock him out of his plans to become a rapper.

Hacks

Hacks
4.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 19/09/1997
  • Character: Dr. Applefield
Brian is a television writer-producer who has to script a 22-episode anthology, but lacks inspiration. He witnesses a strange romantic encounter between two figures on the balcony of hotel near his flat and decides to write scripts with his writer friends based on what he saw.

Chances Are

Chances Are
6.5/10
Louie Jeffries is happily married to Corinne. On their first anniversary, Louie is killed crossing the road. Louie is reincarnated as Alex Finch, and twenty years later, fate brings Alex and Louie's daughter, Miranda, together. It's not until Alex is invited to Louie's home that he begins to remember his former life, wife and best friend. Of course, there's also the problem that he's attracted to Louie's/his own daughter.

What's Up, Doc?

What's Up, Doc?
7.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 09/03/1972
  • Character: Howard Bannister
The accidental mix-up of four identical plaid overnight bags leads to a series of increasingly wild and wacky situations.

Partners

Partners
5.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 30/04/1982
  • Character: Sgt. Benson
Benson is a police detective. After a series of murders in the Gay community he is ordered to go undercover with a gay police clerk named Kerwin as his partner. In order to be noticed they have to be flamboyant enough to attract attention which Benson finds rather disturbing. Can an uptight heterosexual and a mousey homosexual form a meaningful relationship?

Irreconcilable Differences

Irreconcilable Differences
5.8/10
Alternating between the past and the present, a precocious little girl sues her selfish, career-driven parents for emancipation, surprising them both.

So Fine

So Fine
5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 25/09/1981
  • Character: Bobby Fine
While trying to get his father out of a financial jam, a man comes up with an idea that turns into an unexpected overnight financial fashion success - the bottomless pants.

Faithful

Faithful
5.8/10
A depressed housewife whose husband is having an affair contemplates suicide, but changes her mind when she faces death by a killer hired to do her in.

The Main Event

The Main Event
5.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 22/06/1979
  • Character: Eddie 'Kid Natural' Scanlon
Hillary Kramer, successful Perfume magnate awakes one morning to find that her accountant has robbed her blind and left for South America. Going through all of her remaining assets she finds a boxer, purchased as a tax write off. She decides to take Kid Natural, (Eddie Scanlon) who is much more at home giving driving lessons, into the ring and use him as her key to riches. Eddie thinks this will only get him killed and resists.

Tough Guys Don't Dance

Tough Guys Don't Dance
4.9/10
Writer, ex-con and 40-something bottle-baby Tim Madden, who is prone to black-outs, awakens from a two-week bender to discover a pool of blood in his car.

Coming Soon

Coming Soon
4.5/10
Privileged teenage friends Jenny, Nell and Stream spend their senior year on a quest to rid Stream of her virginity. However, Stream wants more than just her first sexual experience. She wants to have an orgasm -- but achieving this proves problematic, as the boys she meets are hardly sensitive enough to provide her the release she seeks. When it becomes clear that Nell and Jenny have never experienced an orgasm either, all three set out to get one.

An Alan Smithee Film: Burn, Hollywood, Burn

An Alan Smithee Film: Burn, Hollywood, Burn
3.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 20/02/1998
  • Character: James Edmunds
Filmmaker Alan Smithee finds himself the unwilling puppet of a potentially bad, big budget action film which he proceeds to steal the reels and leave the cast and crew in a frenzy.

The Thief Who Came to Dinner

The Thief Who Came to Dinner
6.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 01/03/1973
  • Character: Webster McGee
A computer programmer decides to become a thief. And when he starts making waves an insurance investigator hounds him. He also meets a woman who becomes his accomplice.

The Man Upstairs

The Man Upstairs
6.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 06/12/1992
  • Character: Mooney Polaski
Hepburn plays an elderly woman whose house becomes a hideaway for an escaped convict (O'Neal), and the pair strike up an unlikely friendship.

My Best Friend's Famous

My Best Friend's Famous
6.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 06/09/2019
  • Character: Himself
After Sean Reilly, an earnest, self-deprecating, NY to LA transplant learns his slothful, less talented best friend gets a starring role on a hit TV show, he must battle his own insecurities and jealousy as well as the egocentric, spray-tanned male star of the show that is threatening his childhood friendship.

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