Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
Directed by Frank Oz
Seymour Krelborn is a nerdy orphan working at Mushnik's, a flower shop in urban Skid Row. He harbors a crush on fellow co-worker, Audrey Fulquard, and is berated by Mr. Mushnik daily. One day, Seymour finds a very mysterious unidentified plant which he calls Audrey II. The plant seems to have a craving for blood and soon begins to sing for its supper.
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For a while it's hard to tell whether director Frank Oz is adapting off-Broadway Corman or remaking King Vidor's Street Scene as the great American slum musical, but soon enough he leaves the social-realist window dressing behind to get on with the real business of staring down assorted Muppet maws.
Aside from the likes of Little Shop of Horrors (1986), the Disney animated films, and Evita (1996), there have been few memorable, big-budget motion picture musicals since Grease.
Rick Moranis, the SCTV veteran and co-star of Strange Brew and Ghostbusters, makes an ideal Seymour - someone who's gentle, lovesick, and ineffectual.
Rick Moranis, the "Ghostbusters" keymaster, works a variation on the neighborly nebbish as a flower store nerd who raises the cruciferous carnivore and names it Audrey II after the girl next door.