The best Tony Roberts’s comedy movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Tony Roberts’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 Tony Roberts.
Annie Hall
8/10
New York comedian Alvy Singer falls in love with the ditsy Annie Hall.
Switch
5.8/10
Steve Brooks, a sexist womanizer, is killed by a group of his angry former lovers. In heaven, he makes a bargain with God for redemption and agrees to return to Earth. Once there, he must have a sincere relationship with a female and make her fall in love with him. If not, Steve's soul will become the property of the devil. But the devil hedges his bet, and Steve is reincarnated as a woman named Amanda Brooks.
Radio Days
7.4/10
The Narrator tells us how the radio influenced his childhood in the days before TV. In the New York City of the late 1930s to the New Year's Eve 1944, this coming-of-age tale mixes the narrator's experiences with contemporary anecdotes and urban legends of the radio stars.
Stardust Memories
7.2/10
While attending a retrospect of his work, a filmmaker recalls his life and his loves: the inspirations for his films.
Hannah and Her Sisters
7.8/10
Between two Thanksgivings, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her sister Holly.
A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy
6.6/10
A nutty inventor, his frustrated wife, a philosopher cousin, his much younger fiancée, a randy doctor, and a free-thinking nurse spend a summer weekend in and around a stunning - and possibly magical - country house.
The Longest Week
5.4/10
Left broke and homeless by his wealthy parents' divorce, a young man moves in with an old friend and finally meets the woman of his dreams -- only to discover she's already dating his friend.
Play It Again, Sam
7.6/10
A mild mannered film critic is dumped by his wife and his ego is crushed. His hero persona is the tough guy played by Humphrey Bogart in many of his movies and the apparition of Bogart begins showing up to give him advice. With the encouragement of his two married friends, he actually tries dating again, with less than satisfactory results, until he relaxes.
The Million Dollar Duck
5.8/10
Professor Dooley takes home a duck from his research laboratory as a toy for his son, but soon finds out that it lays golden eggs.
Lovers Like Us
6.5/10
A young Frenchwoman fleeing her Italian fiancé in Caracas thrusts herself and those around her into madcap events.
18 Again!
5.7/10
18 Again! is a 1988 comedy film starring George Burns and Charlie Schlatter. The plot involves a grandson switching souls with his grandfather by means of an accident. This was one of a series of unrelated films, including Like Father, Like Son and Vice Versa, produced in the late 1980s involving a similar plotline.
Victor/Victoria
7.7/10
Out-of-work singer Victoria Grant meets a just-fired, flamboyant gay man in a diner in 1920s Paris. He convinces her to pretend to be a man who is a female impersonator in order to get a job. The act is a hit in a local nightclub, but things get complicated when a gangster and nightclub owner from Chicago, King Marchan, falls in love with "him." Filmed live on Broadway, 1995.
My Best Friend's Wife
5.2/10
Two friends are about to learn that they are "Grownups."
Sounds from a Town I Love
6.4/10
Short film celebrating New York City after the events of September 11.
Just Tell Me What You Want
5.4/10
A television producer woman tries to let down her overbearing boyfriend who is her boss. She wants to marry with a young writer.
Star Spangled Girl
5.3/10
A pair of 60's hippies fall in love with the girl next door, who is exactly the kind of square that they are fighting against.
The Girls in the Office
6/10
Four women employed by a chic department store discover that they must choose between love and a career.
Dinner with Family with Brett Gelman and Brett Gelman's Family
7.6/10
Brett Gelman throws his parents a dinner and show for their 40th anniversary.
Packin' It In
5.6/10
In quest of a wholesome place to live: at first the Webbers laugh at their neighbors when they leave L.A. for the mountains of Oregon. But when they recognize the same symptoms in their family that made the neighbors leave, they follow them. However their new domicile is a bit more apart from the civilization than expected. Even then it's not a paradise: their neighbors are weird, the next shop is miles away and their house lacks even the most basic comfort. How long will it take until they're packin' it in again?
