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Urban Comedy

An urban comedy is just what it sounds like it might be: a comedy that highlights the eccentricities and foibles, the loves and lives of urban dwellers. Just as the urban drama, the particular personality of a specific city is as prominant as an character. Much of Woody Allen's ouevre such as including Anne Hall and Manhattan could not be separated from New York, such as inspired noodle-centric mania of Tampopo be decouple from Tokyo. A reoccurring motif in the urban comedy is the naive out-of-towner who looks upon the hustle and bustle of the big city with a mixture of awe and befuddlement as seen in such films as The Out-of-Towners and Mystery Train.

Major Works
Rating
Year
 Title
 
 Director
  9 Stars 1989 When Harry Met Sally   Rob Reiner
  9 Stars 1979 Manhattan   Woody Allen
  9 Stars 1960 La Dolce Vita   Federico Fellini
  9 Stars 1986 Hannah and Her Sisters   Woody Allen
  9 Stars 1931 City Lights   Charles Chaplin
  9 Stars 1960 The Apartment   Billy Wilder
  9 Stars 1977 Annie Hall   Woody Allen
  8 Stars 1996 Irma Vep   Olivier Assayas
  8 Stars 1993 Six Degrees of Separation   Fred Schepisi
    8 Stars 1965 A Thousand Clowns   Fred Coe
  8 Stars 1986 She's Gotta Have It   Spike Lee
  8 Stars 1955 The Seven Year Itch   Billy Wilder
  8 Stars 1985 The Purple Rose of Cairo   Woody Allen
  8 Stars 1992 Husbands and Wives   Woody Allen
  8 Stars 1988 Big   Penny Marshall
  7 Stars 2000 High Fidelity   Stephen Frears
  7 Stars 1998 Living Out Loud   Richard LaGravenese
  7 Stars 1998 Last Night   Don McKellar
  7 Stars 1997 As Good As It Gets   James L. Brooks
  7 Stars 1996 Swingers   Doug Liman
  7 Stars 1996 Walking and Talking   Nicole Holofcener
  7 Stars 1994 Bullets Over Broadway   Woody Allen
  7 Stars 1991 Riff-Raff   Ken Loach
  7 Stars 1975 Ironiya Sudby ili S Legkim Parom   Eldar Ryazanov
    7 Stars 1960 Zazie Dans Le Metro   Louis Malle
  7 Stars 1984 Splash   Ron Howard
  7 Stars 1987 Radio Days   Woody Allen
  7 Stars 1989 Mystery Train   Jim Jarmusch
  7 Stars 1984 The Muppets Take Manhattan   Frank Oz
  7 Stars 1993 Manhattan Murder Mystery   Woody Allen
  7 Stars 1991 L.A. Story   Mick Jackson
  7 Stars 1968 I Love You, Alice B. Toklas   Hy Averback
  7 Stars 1977 The Goodbye Girl   Herbert Ross
  7 Stars 1988 A Fish Called Wanda   Charles Crichton
  7 Stars 1986 Ferris Bueller's Day Off   John Hughes
  7 Stars 1986 Crocodile Dundee   Peter Faiman
  7 Stars 1979 Osenny Marafon   Georgi Daneliya
  6 Stars 2000 Born Romantic   David Kane
  6 Stars 1998 The Dinner Game   Francis Veber
  6 Stars 1998 Next Stop Wonderland   Brad Anderson
  6 Stars 1998 The Object of My Affection   Nicholas Hytner
  6 Stars 1997 Mr. Jealousy   Noah Baumbach
  6 Stars 1997 Career Girls   Mike Leigh
  6 Stars 1997 Love Jones   Theodore Witcher
    6 Stars 1996 When the Cat's Away...   Cedric Klapisch
  6 Stars 1995 Mighty Aphrodite   Woody Allen
  6 Stars 1994 Eat Drink Man Woman   Ang Lee
  6 Stars 1994 Crooklyn   Spike Lee
  6 Stars 1967 Playtime   Jacques Tati
    6 Stars 1987 Sammy and Rosie Get Laid   Stephen Frears
  6 Stars 1991 Night on Earth   Jim Jarmusch
  6 Stars 1982 Night Shift   Ron Howard
    6 Stars 1991 London Kills Me   Hanif Kureishi
  6 Stars 1984 Full Moon in Paris   Eric Rohmer
  6 Stars 1985 Echo Park   Robert Dornhelm
  6 Stars 1957 Desk Set   Walter Lang
  6 Stars 1984 Broadway Danny Rose   Woody Allen
  6 Stars 1987 Boyfriends and Girlfriends   Eric Rohmer
  6 Stars 1994 Barcelona   Whit Stillman
  6 Stars 1985 After Hours   Martin Scorsese
  5 Stars 2000 Love & Sex   Valerie Breiman
  5 Stars 1999 Human Traffic   Justin Kerrigan
  5 Stars 1999 Trick   Jim Fall
  5 Stars 1998 You've Got Mail   Nora Ephron
  5 Stars 1998 Woo   Daisy von Scherler Mayer
  5 Stars 1997 Little City   Roberto Benabib
  5 Stars 1995 Les Apprentis   Pierre Salvadori
  5 Stars 1995 Friday   F. Gary Gray
    5 Stars 1995 Les Rendez-vous de Paris   Eric Rohmer
  5 Stars 1995 Party Girl   Daisy von Scherler Mayer
  5 Stars 1994 Double Happiness   Mina Shum
    5 Stars 1948 So This Is New York   Richard Fleischer
  5 Stars 1981 La Femme de l'Aviateur   Eric Rohmer
  5 Stars 1992 Singles   Cameron Crowe
  5 Stars 1974 The Prisoner of Second Avenue   Melvin Frank
  5 Stars 1970 The Out-of-Towners   Arthur Hiller
  5 Stars 1989 New York Stories   Woody Allen
  5 Stars 1991 Frankie and Johnny   Garry Marshall
  4 Stars 1998 The Players Club   Ice Cube
  4 Stars 1998 Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss   Tommy O'Haver
  4 Stars 1996 She's the One   Edward Burns
  4 Stars 1996 A Couch In New York   Chantal Akerman
  4 Stars 1994 Naked in New York   Dan Algrant
    4 Stars 1965 The Secret of My Success   Andrew L. Stone
  4 Stars 1974 Uptown Saturday Night   Sidney Poitier
  4 Stars 1988 Torch Song Trilogy   Paul Bogart
    4 Stars 1931 The Sidewalks of New York   Zion Myers
  4 Stars 1987 The Secret of My Success   Herbert Ross
    4 Stars 1942 The Magnificent Dope   Walter Lang
  4 Stars 1992 Home Alone 2: Lost in New York   Chris Columbus
  4 Stars 1974 For Pete's Sake   Peter Yates
  4 Stars 1990 Alice   Woody Allen
  3 Stars 1999 The Out-of-Towners   Sam Weisman
  3 Stars 1998 Dog Park   Bruce McCulloch
  3 Stars 1997 Addicted to Love   Griffin Dunne
    3 Stars 1996 Come Mi Vuoi   Carmine Amoroso
  3 Stars 1996 If Lucy Fell   Eric Schaeffer
  3 Stars 1993 Kika   Pedro Almodóvar
  2 Stars 2000 Next Friday   Steve Carr
  2 Stars 1997 B.A.P.S.   Robert Townsend
  2 Stars 1996 Joe's Apartment   John Payson
  2 Stars 1989 Slaves of New York   James Ivory
 
 
 
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