RipDelight This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Keeley Coleman The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

RjsMovie Harry Anderson was comedy gold in night court but even more than they were those scenes where he showed heart and compassion and helped his friends . This show will always have a place in my heart I remember first seeing it as a young kid with my grandma and loved it then although not fully understands all the comedy . As an adult it's even better . I've bought the first three seasons on DVD and recommend it if you enjoy great characters and a slick jazzy opening

Aaron1375 This show had a lot of cast changes during its first one or two seasons. Then it settled into a groove until the last season where it just got very strange and then had one of the worst finale episodes ever. Still, it was funny as Harry Anderson as the judge, John Larroquette as Dan the womanizing D.A. and Richard Moll as the dense, but good hearted Bull the bailiff were like the only three cast members to be in the show during its entire run and were the best characters. Mac, played by Charles Robinson and Markie Post as the public defender would also settle in and do well. The show had its problems with the second bailiff during its early run losing two older actresses as I believed both passed away, they would finally go with someone different in the form of Marsha Warfield. The show was simply about a court that operates at night (duh), and at times some very crazy things happen, near the end these things would get a bit to crazy. However, for the most part the show was funny as I tend to gravitate towards shows that revolve around a job or place of business more so than to a show that is about a family. A good show that was really funny during the middle stretch, but it did have a hard time getting out of the gate initially and kind of stumbled near the end.

hnt_dnl NIGHT COURT (1984-92) is one of my personal favorite TV comedies. Definitely cracks my top 10. Starring magician-comedian (and Emmy nominee) Harry Anderson as enigmatic, engaging Judge Harold T. Stone, the show was a mostly outlandish, outrageous look at the shenanigans that took place at a NYC municipal courtroom. An eclectic group of characters would come in and out of Judge Stone's court, including those that worked there! In addition to Anderson, the main cast for most of the show's run included Markie Post (as sexy-goofy public defender Christine Sullivan), Charles Robinson (as reliable, wisecracking court clerk Mack), scene-stealing Marsha Warfield (as abrasive, take-no-prisoners bailiff Roz), and the two MVPs of the court: Richard Moll (as lovable giant bailiff Bull) and 4-time Emmy winner John Larroquette (as eternally sex-starved assistant DA Dan Fielding). Larroquette's Dan Fielding is an all-time great character (he'd probably make my top 10 comedy characters!).Anderson, Moll, and Larroquette were part of the original cast and were on the show for it's entire run. Robinson came in Season 2, Post in Season 3, and Warfield in Season 4. Warfield succeeded Season 1 bailiff Selma Diamond and Seasons 2-3 bailiff Florence Halop, who both passed away during the show's run). The court clerk prior to Mack was Lana (played by sultry Karen Austin) and pubic defenders prior to Christine were Liz (played by Paula Kelly) and Billie (played by Ellen Foley). Lana and Billie were potential love interests for Harry, then of course Christine became the obligatory interest when she became a permanent cast member.The standout in watching re-runs of the show is how sharp and true the dialogue feels. It's not just a set up for jokes, but characters really interact and converse with each other, which makes the punchline all the more satisfying. Pay attention to lesser comedies from that time period (and even now!) and most of them focus too much on "the joke" and not in the "getting there". And a lot of the "jokes" don't come across as cheap or one-liners. The show really did an outstanding job of casting actors to play guest roles, mainly plaintiff and defendants who would get to interact with the main cast in eps.My only gripe was the way they wrote the Harry-Christine story; this is one of the rare times when I felt that an obligatory pairing in a TV show would have worked! I didn't care for that coupling of Christine with that cop and the subsequent death knell of TV shows (the baby storyline!). Anyway, ignoring that, NIGHT COURT was a tremendous comedy and deserves a place in the pantheon of TV shows!

bshanjra I agree with Thor2000's comments regarding this series, but I think it went beyond Markie's outstanding figure (you can keep your skinny supermodel types! Markie was va-va-va-VOOMPH!). It was cleverly written, and the cast's sense of timing was uncanny. Everything just clicked and fell into place to deliver the laughs. I think the writers had just exhausted all ideas (a writer's strike during that period didn't exactly help matters, either!) towards the end, and I felt they should have ended it one season earlier, when Harry and Christine were in love and Dan was loony-baloney! While all the actors were outstanding in every way, it was Dan Fielding who stood out as the letch who everyone loved to hate! I personally feel the Selma Diamond season was the funniest, but not by much, since the other seasons had me programming the VCR to record it for posterity. I still own the videos and watch them once in a while. I wish they would bring the remaining seasons to DVD, so I could own them!