The 1990s were a transitional period when the bombast of the 80s hit the dawn of the technology age full blast. I went to see a lot of movies in the theater and I watched even more on home video. Here is my list of ten forgotten comedy gems of the early 90s.
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Bill Murray plays Bob, the extremely phobic mental patient who tracks down his vacationing doctor to continue his therapy.
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Dana Carvey is a con man who assumes the identity of a house sitter to steal some money to pay off a gangster.
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Martin Short plays a precocious boy whose only goal is to go to the Dinosaur World theme park.
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Chris Elliot plays a “fancy lad” who accidentally boards the wrong boat.
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Martin Short takes his family on a crappy sailboat adventure with Kurt Russell as their eccentric captain.
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Mike Myers wonders if his new wife is actually a serial axe murderer.
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Frank Whaley is an idiot overnight janitor at a Target and encounters a love interest and two thieves in one crazy shift.
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Dana Carvey plays a private investigator with amnesia that prevents him from remembering what happened the previous day.
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Chevy Chase and Demi Moore are a couple who take a wrong turn on a road trip and find themselves in deep hillbilly doo-doo.
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Martin Short is the world’s second most unlucky person. Danny Glover enlists his help to find the world’s most unlucky person.