question: Who directed the movie in 1988 featuring the actress who starred in Gidget and the Flying nun?
answer: David Seltzer
context: Title: Jayrem Records
  Passage: Jayrem Records is a New Zealand record company which has been operating since the early 1980s.  Initially concentrating on alternative rock and indie music, the Wellington-based company was, for many years, the main rival to South Island based Flying Nun Records, and produced records which had a similar sound to its southern compatriot, though concentrating less in the Dunedin Sound groups, which were a major part of Flying Nun's repertoire.  In place of these sounds, Jayrem's repertoire extended into Urban Pasifika and Māori music, as well as folk/roots and reggae.
  Title: Columbia Ranch
  Passage: The former Columbia Ranch is located at 411 N. Hollywood Way in Burbank, California and is now called the Warner Bros.  Ranch.  It was the backdrop for many of the Columbia Pictures movies and Screen Gems/Columbia Pictures Television shows, including "Father Knows Best", "The Donna Reed Show", "Dennis the Menace", "Hazel", "Bewitched", "Gidget", "I Dream of Jeannie", "The Monkees", "The Flying Nun", "Here Come the Brides", "The Partridge Family", "The Hathaways", "Lost Horizon", "High Noon", "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town", "You Were Never Lovelier", "The Wild One", and "Autumn Leaves".  Only the front facades of the houses and buildings were built; the interiors were always shot at other locations or studios.  The streets were constructed and arranged in such a way as to allow shooting at multiple angles to create the illusion of a much larger area, though the lot only spans across about six city blocks.
  Title: Punchline (film)
  Passage: Punchline is a 1988 American comedy film written and directed by David Seltzer and starring Tom Hanks as a talented young comic who helps a housewife, played by Sally Field, who wants to break into stand-up comedy.
  Title: Sally Field
  Passage: Sally Margaret Field (born November 6, 1946) is an American actress and director.  Field began her career on television, starring on the sitcoms "Gidget" (1965–66), "The Flying Nun" (1967–70), and "The Girl with Something Extra" (1973–74).  She ventured into film with "Smokey and the Bandit" (1977) and later "Norma Rae" (1979), for which she received the Academy Award for Best Actress.  She later received Golden Globe Award nominations for her performances in "Absence of Malice" (1981) and "Kiss Me Goodbye" (1982), before receiving her second Academy Award for Best Actress for "Places in the Heart" (1984).  Field received further nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress for "Murphy's Romance" (1985) and "Steel Magnolias" (1989).
  Title: The Stones (band)
  Passage: The Stones were a New Zealand band from Dunedin named after the Rolling Stones.  One of the earliest bands to record on the Flying Nun label, they helped form the style of music known as the Dunedin Sound, along with label mates such as the Chills, the Verlaines and Sneaky Feelings, all of whom appeared alongside the Stones on the seminal Flying Nun release "The Dunedin Double EP".
  Title: Gidget (film)
  Passage: Gidget is a 1959 Columbia Pictures CinemaScope feature film.  It stars Sandra Dee, Cliff Robertson, and James Darren in a story about a teenager's initiation into the California surf culture and her romance with a young surfer.  The film was directed by Paul Wendkos.  The movie featured the first of many screen appearances by the character "Gidget", created by Hollywood writer Frederick Kohner (and based on his own daughter).  The screenplay was written by Gabrielle Upton, a nom de plume of Gillian Houghton who was then head writer of the soap opera "The Secret Storm".  This would be Upton's sole contribution to the Gidget canon.  The story was based on Kohner's 1957 novel "Gidget, the Little Girl with Big Ideas".
  Title: Harry Ackerman
  Passage: Harry Stephen Ackerman (November 17, 1912 - February 3, 1991) was an American TV producer.  He was known for many shows that went on to achieve iconic status, such as "Bewitched", "The Flying Nun", and "Gidget".
  Title: In Love with These Times
  Passage: In Love With These Times is a compilation of previously released songs by artists on New Zealand based Flying Nun Records.  It was released by Flying Nun in 1990 and re-released in a 2CD package with the 1991 compilation "Pink Flying Saucers Over the Southern Alps".  The CD version released by Flying Nun Europe contained an additional six tracks which were omitted from the re-release.
  Title: Mainly Spaniards
  Passage: Mainly Spaniards were a 1980s New Zealand pop group led by guitarist/singer Richard James, who released an early 45, "That's what friends are for", on the Flying Nun label.  A follow-up was recorded but never released after James moved to Auckland to work as a schoolteacher in late 1983.  He went on to perform and record in The Pterodactyls and The Letter 5.  In 2008, he formed The South Tonight with John Kelcher, late of Flying Nun band Sneaky Feelings, and with other Christchurch musicians.
  Title: Tuatara (album)
  Passage: Tuatara – A Flying Nun Compilation is a compilation of previously released songs by artists on New Zealand based Flying Nun Records.  It was released as a vinyl album by Flying Nun in 1985 (catalogue number FN045) and on CD with additional tracks.  The Chills track was mistakenly attributed to "The Cills".
citations: Sally Field Punchline (film)