
Tommy Swerdlow
Writer
Movies11
Movie6.9ComedyScience FictionWhen the nefarious Dark Helmet hatches a plan to snatch Princess Vespa and steal her planet's air, space-bum-for-hire Lone Starr and his clueless sidekick fly to the rescue. Along the way, they meet Yogurt, who puts Lone Starr wise to the power of "The Schwartz." Can he master it in time to save the day?
Spaceballs
1987 · 3.6K votes
Movie6.8HorrorAfter being shot in a toy store, a serial killer transfers his soul into a Good Guy doll. A mother then gifts it to her six-year-old son Andy, which unleashes terror upon the city.
Child's Play
1988 · 3.5K votes
Movie5.5ComedyAdventureA scientific experiment unknowingly brings extraterrestrial life forms to the Earth through a laser beam. First is the cigar-smoking drake, Howard, from the duck's planet. A few kids try to keep him from the greedy scientists and help him back to his planet, but then a much less friendly being arrives through the beam...
Howard the Duck
1986 · 1.2K votes
Movie6.7ComedyRomanceWhen teenage geniuses Mitch Taylor and Chris Knight, working on an advanced laser project, learn that the military wants to use it as a weapon, they decide to thwart the plan.
Real Genius
1985 · 523 votes
Movie6.6WarActionThe men of Bravo Company are facing a battle that's all uphill… up Hamburger Hill. Fourteen war-weary soldiers are battling for a mud-covered mound of earth so named because it chews up soldiers like chopped meat. They are fighting for their country, their fellow soldiers and their lives. War is hell, but this is worse. Hamburger Hill tells it the way it was, the way it really was. It's a raw, gritty and totally unrelenting dramatic depiction of one of the fiercest battles of America's bloodiest war. This happened. Hamburger Hill - war at its worst, men at their best.
Hamburger Hill
1987 · 526 votes
Movie6.1ComedyDramaEighties teen romp involving Bill and his new apartment, Jim and his rebellious antics, Tom and his crazy self, and Anita with her older man David.
The Wild Life
1984 · 67 votes
Movie7.8DocumentaryHorrorThe story of the cult horror empire through interviews with cast, crew, and horror icons such as Don Mancini, Brad Dourif, Jennifer Tilly, Catherine Hicks, Chris Sarandon, John Waters, Fiona Dourif, Perrey Reeves, Gerrit Graham, David Kirschner, and dozens more.
Doc of Chucky
2024 · 5 votes
Movie7.2ComedyShakespeare films Hamlet on a single reel then, after an initial screening, edits it down to the bare bones.
The Fifteen Minute Hamlet
1995 · 6 votes
Movie10.0High school diving champion Buddy Elder (Scott Baio) can't seem to stop drinking and driving.
All The Kids Do It
1984 · 1 votes
Movie7.2ComedyThings grow more and more desperate, and ridiculous, as three heroin addicts drive all over Los Angeles in search of what they need.
A Thousand Junkies
2017 · 13 votes
Movie4.0DramaIn a small town in the 1950s, Ellie Dane loses her musician father, and her mother suddenly turns away from her. She finds solace in wise jazz singer Hattie Cale and learns that she's inherited her dad's skill at the piano. But she also begins to uncover dark truths about her family's past and the reason for her mother's emotional distance. A rich jazz score accompanies this moving drama.
Blueberry Hill
1988 · 4 votes
Series1
TV8.0ComedyCrimeSledge Hammer! is an American satirical police sitcom produced by New World Television that ran for two seasons on ABC from 1986 to 1988. The series was created by Alan Spencer and stars David Rasche as Inspector Sledge Hammer, a preposterous caricature of the standard "cop on the edge" character. Al Jean and Mike Reiss, best known for their work on The Simpsons, wrote for the show and worked as story editors.
Sledge Hammer!
1986 · 182 votes