TOP TEN COMEDY FILMS

ON DISNEY+

1. CALENDAR GIRLS

Helen Mirren and Julie Walters lead an excellent cast in the fact-based feelgood story of a group of middleaged women who produce a nude calendar to raise money for charity.

2. 10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU

The 1999 teen romcom retelling of Shakespeare’s The Taming Of The Shrew made stars of Julia Stiles and Heath Ledger.

3. SISTER ACT

When Whoopi Goldberg’s nightclub singer witnesses a mob murder, for her own protection she has to hide out in a convent headed by Maggie Smith’s Mother Superior. Cue hilarity in a habit.

4. THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL

Wes Anderson directs an all-star cast including Ralph Fiennes, Adrien Brody and Saoirse Ronan in an eccentric, fantastical fable about the concierge of a celebrated hotel.

5. GOOD MORNING, VIETNAM

An irreverent DJ broadcasting to US forces in Vietnam during the war falls foul of his superiors. Robin Williams (above) at his mercurial, ad-libbing best.

6. GROSSE POINTE BLANK

John Cusack and Minnie Driver star in this 1997 black comedy about a professional hitman attending a ten-year reunion at his old high school while he’s also on a job.

7. BIG

The 1988 fantasy comedy, about a 12-year-old boy whose wish to be grown-up is granted, earned Tom Hanks his first Oscar nomination.

8. THE SIMPSONS MOVIE

The dysfunctional Simpson family are as funny as ever in this story about Homer causing Springfield to be sealed off from the rest of the world.

9. HIGH FIDELITY

The big-screen adaptation of Nick Hornby’s bestseller stars John Cusack as a list-making music snob.

10. THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA

Anne Hathaway’s Andy is an aspiring journalist who lands a job as an assistant to Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep), the terrifying editor-in-chief of Runway, a posh fashion magazine.