_Twelve Monkeys_--Terry Gilliam (or _The Fisher King_ or _TAOBM_) _Kamillions_--Mikel B. Anderson _Time After Time_--Nicholas Meyer _The Navigator: A Mediaeval Odyssey_--Vincent Ward _Toto Lost in New York_--Stephen J. Anderson, Thomas E. Decker, Rhoydon Shishido _The Human Vapor_--Ishiro Honda _Benny & Joon_--Jeremiah Chechik James Cameron's _Terminator_ films _Masters of the Universe_--Gary Goddard _Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home_--Leonard Nimoy _Holy Matrimony_--Leonard Nimoy _Army of Darkness_--Sam Raimi _Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure_--Stephen Herek _A Kid in King Arthur's Court_--Michael Gottlieb (or any other adaptation of Clemens's Conetticut Yankee) _Escape Through Time_--Michael Linn _Somewhere in Time_--Jeanot Szwarc _Unidentified Flying Oddball_--Russ Mayberry _The Brave Little Toaster_--Jerry Rees _Delicatessen_--Jean-Pierre Jeunet et Marc Caro (_La Cite des enfants perdus_ and _Alien Resurrection_ would also work here) _Edward Scissorhands_--Tim Burton _Frankenweenie_--Tim Burton _El Gato con Botas_--Roberto Rodrigues _The Great Dictator_--Charles Chaplin _The Hudsucker Proxy_--Joel Coen _The Man in the White Suit_--Alexander Mackendrick _Mon Oncle_--Jacques Tati _Hayat Sevince Guzel_--Temel Gursu I see there is now _Les Couloirs du temps: les Visiteurs 2_ from Jean-Marie Poire' That's all I can think of right now... Scott On Tue, 28 Apr 1998, Ulf Dalquist wrote: > A colleague of mine is looking for films and TV series, mainly comedies, > featuring characters not aware of everday social rules, e.g CONEHEADS, > CATWEAZLE or LES VISITEURS. It doesn't matter whether it's about aliens > visiting earth, time-travellers, or just plain anti-social characters, the > main issue is that they break unwritten social rules. Suggestions? > > Ulf > > Ulf Dalquist Phone: +46 46 2229572 > Dept. of Sociology Fax: +46 46 2224794 > Box 114 221 00 Lund SWEDEN E-mail: [log in to unmask] > http://www.soc.lu.se/~socuda/ > "Only sick music makes money today." - Friedrich Nietzsche, 1888 > > ---- > Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite > http://www.tcf.ua.edu/screensite > ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.tcf.ua.edu/screensite