1980

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1980s Movies
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1980 Openings

• Ordinary People Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler
  Moore, Timothy Hutton
• Coal Miners Daughter Sissy Spacek, Tommy Lee
  Jones
• The Elephant Man Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt

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Ordinary People

• Teen-aged brothers and best friends Buck and
  Conrad Jarrett were involved in a boating
  accident which claimed Buck's life. Shortly
  thereafter, Conrad tried to commit suicide. After
  a four month hospitalization, Conrad is back in
  his upper middle class suburban Chicago home with
  his parents, Calvin and Beth Jarrett. The
  Jarretts collectively are publicly trying to get
  on with their lives, Conrad who is back at high
  school in his senior year partaking in his old
  activities such as the swim team and choir. But
  things in the Jarrett household are not all
  right. Although stating he is unsure why he
  decides to do so, Conrad restarts his psychiatric
  therapy outside of the hospital with a Dr.
  Berger. This therapy may be able to uncover the
  reasons for the Jarrett's collective unhappiness,
  and leads each to examine not only the overall
  family dynamic but the individual relationships
  with each of the other two. Written by Huggo

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Coal Miners Daughter

• At only thirteen years of age, Loretta Webb
  marries Doolittle Lynn and is soon responsible
  for a sizeable family. Loretta appears destined
  to a life of homemaking, but Doolittle recognizes
  his wife's musical talent, and buys her a guitar
  as an anniversary present one year. This gift
  sets Loretta Lynn on the grueling, tumultuous
  path to country music greatness.

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The Elephant Man

• Based on the true story of Joseph Merrick, a
  19th-century Englishman afflicted with a
  disfiguring congenital disease. With the help of
  kindly Dr. Frederick Treves, Merrick attempts to
  regain the dignity he lost after years spent as a
  side-show freak. Written by Scott Renshaw

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• Raging Bull Robert De Niro
• The Empire Strikes Back Mark Hamill, Carrie
  Fisher, Harrison Ford, Billy Dee Williams
• Urban Cowboy John Travolta, Debra Winger

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Urban Cowboy

• Bud Davis is a country boy who moves to the city
  to visit his uncle. He starts hanging out at
  Gilley's, owned by Mickey Gilley himself. He
  takes a job at the refinery where his uncle
  works. He also meets Sissy, a cowgirl, and they
  fall in love and suddenly get married. And then
  their marriage is shattered when Bud sees Sissy
  allegedly seeing con man Wes, who teaches her how
  to ride the mechanical bull...and plans to rob
  Gilley's. When a bull-riding contest is
  announced, Bud decides to sign up. Can he win the
  contest and save his marriage to Sissy?

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Raging Bull

• When Jake LaMotta steps into a boxing ring and
  obliterates his opponent, he's a prizefighter.
  But when he treats his family and friends the
  same way, he's a ticking time bomb, ready to go
  off at any moment. Though LaMotta wants his
  family's love, something always seems to come
  between them. Perhaps it's his violent bouts of
  paranoia and jealousy. This kind of rage helped
  make him a champ, but in real life, he winds up
  in the ring alone. Written by alfiehitchie

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The Empire Strikes Back

• Fleeing the evil Galactic Empire, the rebels
  abandon their new base on Hoth. Princess Leia,
  Han Solo and the droids R2-D2 and C-3P0 escape in
  the damaged Millenium Falcon, but are later
  captured by Lord Darth Vader on Bespin.
  Skywalker, meanwhile, follows Ben Kenobi's
  posthumous command and receives Jedi training by
  Yoda on Dagobah. Will Skywalker manage to rescue
  his friends from the dark lord? Written by James
  Pearce

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• Private Benjamin Goldie Hawn, Eileen Brennan
• Airplane Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves
• The Shining Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall

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Private Benjamin

• When her husband dies in the wedding night Judy
  decides to join the army. What looks like a bad
  decision at first, turns out not so bad at all.
  That is, until her superior makes sexual
  advances. She is transferred to NATO headquarters
  in Europe and (re)meets the Frenchman Henri. Judy
  and Henri decide to marry, but will they ?
  Written by Berend Meijer

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Airplane

• This is a spoof of the airport disaster movies.
  When the crew of an airplane are struck by some
  form of virus, the fate of the passengers depends
  on an ex-war pilot who is the only one able to
  land the plane safely! The passengers represent a
  selection of interesting wacky characters who
  seem to take every word for its literal meaning.
  Written by Sami Al-Taher

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The Shining

• A novelist - Jack Torrance take a job interview
  as winter caretaker of the isolated, old, huge
  and beautiful Overlook Hotel. In the interview,
  Jack is told by the manager himself, that the
  previous caretaker - Grady, chopped his family
  and later killed himself with a shotgun. Ignoring
  the story, Jack brings his wife - Wendy and his
  son Danny. It happens that Danny, has a
  mysterious power known as "The Shining" that
  shows him things from the past and future. Some
  of the visions come from Tony - "the little boy
  who lives in Danny's mouth". Danny meets
  Hallorann - the hotel cook in their first day
  arriving at the Overlook, who also has this
  "Shining" and he warns him about the hotel and
  the sinister Room 237. As the days go by, Danny
  has visions of previous guests and employees who
  died at the hotel years before, meanwhile Jack
  starts driving into insanity, turning more and
  more aggressive, at the point that Danny and
  Wendy gets convinced that Jack might try to do
  the same thing, Grady did. Written by matheus
  marchetti

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Top Box Office Stars

• Burt Reynolds, Robert Redford, Clint Eastwood,
  Jane Fonda, Dustin Hoffman, John Travolta, Sally
  Field, Sissy Spacek, Barbra Streisand, Steve
  Martin

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1981 Openings

• Chariots of Fire Ben Cross, Ian Charleson
• Reds Diane Keaton, Warren Beatty, Jack
  Nicholson
• On Golden Pond Henry Fonda, Katherine Hepburn,
  Jane Fonda

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• Raiders of the Lost Ark Harrison Ford, Karen
  Allen
• Arthur Dudley Moore, Liza Minnelli, John
  Gielgud
• Superman II Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman,
  Margot Kidder

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Chariots of Fire

• The story, told in flashback, of two young
  British sprinters competing for fame in the 1924
  Olympics. Eric, a devout Scottish missionary runs
  because he knows it must please God. Harold, the
  son of a newly rich Jew runs to prove his place
  in Cambridge society. In a warmup 100 meter race,
  Eric defeats Harold, who hires a pro trainer to
  prepare him. Eric, whose qualifying heat is
  scheduled for a Sunday, refuses to run despite
  pressure from the Olympic committee. A compromise
  is reached when a nobleman allows Eric to compete
  in his 400 meter slot. Eric and Harold win their
  respective races and go on to achieve fame as
  missionary and businessman/athletic advocate,
  respectively. Written by Joe Jurca

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Arthur

• Arthur is a happy drunk with no pretensions at
  any ambition. He is also the heir to a vast
  fortune which he is told will only be his if he
  marries Susan. He does not love Susan, but she
  will make something of him the family expects.
  Arthur proposes but then meets a girl with no
  money who he could easily fall in love with.
  Written by John Vogel

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Superman II

• Picking up where "Superman The Movie" left off,
  three criminals from the planet Krypton are
  released from the Phantom Zone by a nuclear
  explosion in space. They descend upon Earth where
  they could finally rule. Superman, meanwhile, is
  in love with Lois Lane, who finds out who he
  really is. Lex Luthor escapes from prison and is
  determined to destroy Superman by joining forces
  with the three criminals. Written by Keith Howley

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Top Box Office Stars

• Burt Reynolds, Clint Eastwood, Dudley Moore,
  Dolly Parton, Jane Fonda, Harrison Ford, Alan
  Alda, Bo Derek, Goldie Hawn, Bill Murray

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1982 Openings

• Gandhi Ben Kingsley, John Gielgud
• Tootsie Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange
• The Verdict Paul Newman
• E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial Henry Thomas, Drew
  Barrymore

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Gandhi

• Biography of Mahatma Gandhi, the lawyer who
  became the famed leader of the Indian revolts
  against the British through his philosophy of
  non-violent protest

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E.T.

• Elliot is your normal boy, until one day, when he
  meets a little lost alien. Elliot decides to keep
  the alien, in which he gives the name E.T. Elliot
  works with E.T. in trying to find him a way to
  get back home. Elliot must make the difficult
  sacrifice. Whether to help his new friend or to
  lose him? Whatever the decision is, Elliot must
  keep him hidden, as someone else is out to look
  for him. Written by simon

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The Verdict

• Frank Galvin is a down-on-his luck lawyer,
  reduced to drinking and ambulance chasing. Former
  associate Mickey Morrissey reminds him of his
  obligations in a medical malpractice suit that he
  himself served to Galvin on a silver platter all
  parties willing to settle out of court.
  Blundering his way through the preliminaries, he
  suddenly realizes that perhaps after all the case
  should go to court to punish the guilty, to get
  a decent settlement for his clients, and to
  restore his standing as a lawyer. Written by
  Murray Chapman

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Tootsie

• Michael Dorsey is an unemployed actor with an
  impossible reputation. In order to find work and
  fund his friend's play he dresses as a woman,
  Dorothy Michaels, and lands the part in a daytime
  drama. Dorsey loses himself in this woman role
  and essentially becomes Dorothy Michaels,
  captivating women all around the city and
  inspiring them to break free from the control of
  men and become more like Dorsey's initial
  identity. This newfound role, however, lands
  Dorsey in a hot spot between a female
  friend/'lover,' a female co-star he falls in love
  with, that co-star's father who falls in love
  with him, and a male co-star who yearns for his
  affection. Written by Bryan Kuniyoshi

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• Victor/Victoria Julie Andrews, James Garner,
  Robert Preston
• An Officer and a Gentleman Richard Gere, Debra
  Winger
• Poltergeist JoBeth Williams, Heather O-Rourke

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An Officer and a Gentleman

• Zack Mayo is a young man who has signed up for
  Navy Flight School. He is a Navy brat who has a
  bad attitude problem. GySgt Foley is there to
  train and evaluate him and will clearly find Zack
  wanting. Zack meets Paula, a girl who has little
  beyond family and must decide what it is he wants
  to do with his life. Written by John Vogel

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• Sophies Choice Meryl Streep and Kevin Kline
• Star Trek II The Wrath of Khan William
  Shatner, Leonard Nimoy
• 48 Hours Eddie Murphy and Nick Nolte

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Sophies Choice

• Sophie is the survivor of Nazi concentration
  camps, who has found a reason to live in Nathan,
  a sparkling if unsteady American Jew obsessed
  with the Holocaust. They befriend Stingo, the
  movie's narrator, a young American writer new to
  New York City. But the happiness of Sophie and
  Nathan is endangered by her ghosts and his
  obsessions. Written by Reid Gagle

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• Conan the Barbarian Arnold Schwarzeneggar
• Rocky III Sylvester Stallone, Mr. T

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Rocky III

• Boxer Rocky Balboa enjoys the wealth he has as
  world-champion. He only fights against easy
  opponents. Then he is challenged by the arrogant
  Clubber Lang. Rocky accepts the challenge to
  proove once more that there is only one
  world-champion. But Lang wins and becomes the new
  champion. Nobody believes in Rocky anymore,
  except one man former world-champion Appolo
  Creed. And Creed tries to the stimulate his
  fighting spirit and get Rocky back in top-form.
  Written by R. Kessen

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Top Box Office Stars

• Burt Reynolds, Clint Eastwood, Sylvester
  Stallone, Dudley Moore, Richard Pryor, Dolly
  Parton, Jane Fonda, Richard Gere, Paul Newman,
  Harrison Ford

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1983

• Terms of Endearment Shirley MacLaine, Debra
  Winger, Jack Nicholson
• The Big Chill Tom Berenger, Glenn Close,
  William Hurt, Kevin Kline, JoBeth Williams, Jeff
  Goldblum

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Terms of Endearment

• Aurora and Emma are mother and daughter who march
  to different drummers. Beginning with Emma's
  marriage, Aurora shows how difficult and loving
  she can be. The movie covers several years of
  their lives as each finds different reasons to go
  on living and find joy. Aurora's interludes with
  Garrett Breedlove, retired astronaut and next
  door neighbor are quite striking. In the end,
  different people show their love in very
  different ways. Written by John Vogel

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The Big Chill

• A seminal Thirty-Something movie in which a group
  of old college friends who are now all grown up
  and hardened by the big wide world come together
  for the funeral of Alex, a barely glimpsed
  corpse, who was at one time the brightest and the
  best of them, and yet who never managed to
  achieve half as much as any of the others. The
  friends use the occasion to reacquaint themselves
  with each other and to speculate as to what
  happened to their idealism which had been
  abundant when they were younger. Written by Mark
  Thompson

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• Return of the Jedi Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford,
  Carrie Fisher
• Flashdance Jennifer Beals
• Mr. Mom Michael Keaton
• Yentl Barbra Streisand, Mandy Patinkin

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Flashdance

• Alex Owens is a female dynamo steel worker by
  day, exotic dancer by night. Her dream is to get
  into a real dance company, though, and with
  encouragement from her boss/boyfriend, she may
  get her chance. The city of Pittsburgh co-stars.
  What a feeling! Written by Stewart M. Clamen

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Mr. Mom

• Jack and Caroline are a couple making a decent
  living When Jack suddenly loses his job. They
  agree that he should stay at home and look after
  the house while Caroline works. It's just that
  he's never done it before, and really doesn't
  have a clue... Written by Murray Chapman

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Return of the Jedi

• Darth Vader and the Empire are building a new,
  indestructible Death Star. Meanwhile, Han Solo
  has been imprisoned, and Luke Skywalker has sent
  R2D2 and C3PO to try and free him. Princess Leia
  - disguised as a bounty hunter - and Chewbacca go
  along as well. The final battle takes place on
  the moon of Endor, with its natural inhabitants,
  the Ewoks, lending a hand to the rebels. Will
  Darth Vader and the dark side overcome the rebels
  and take over the universe ? Written by Colin
  Tinto

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• War Games Matthew Broderick

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War Games

• A young computer whizz kid accidentally connects
  into a top secret super-computer which has
  complete control over the U.S. nuclear arsenal.
  It challenges him to a game between America and
  Russia, and he innocently starts the countdown to
  World War 3. Can he convince the computer he
  wanted to play a game and not the real thing ?
  Written by Colin Tinto

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Top Box Office Stars

• Clint Eastwood, Eddie Murphy, Sylvester Stallone,
  Burt Reynolds, John Travolta, Dustin Hoffman,
  Harrison Ford, Richard Gere, Chevy Chase, Tom
  Cruise

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1984 Openings

• Amadeus F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce
• The Killing Fields Sam Waterston, Haing S Ngor
• Places in the Heart Sally Field, John Malkovich

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Amadeus

• Antonio Salieri believes that Mozart's music is
  divine. He wishes he was himself as good a
  musician as Mozart so that he can praise the Lord
  through composing. But he can't understand why
  God favored Mozart, such a vulgar creature, to be
  his instrument. Salieri's envy has made him an
  enemy of God whose greatness was evident in
  Mozart. He is set to take revenge. Written by
  Khaled Salem

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Places in the Heart

• Edna Spalding finds herself alone and broke on a
  small farm in the midst of the Great Depression
  when her husband the Sheriff is killed in an
  accident. A wandering black man, Moses, helps her
  to plant cotten to try and keep her farm and her
  kids together. She also takes on a blind border,
  Mr. Will, who lost his sight in the first World
  War. She must endure storms and harsh labor to
  try and make her mortage payment on time. Written
  by Susan Southall

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• Beverly Hills Cop Eddie Murphy
• Ghostbusters Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd
• Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom Harrison
  Ford

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Beverly Hills Cop

• Axel Foley is a Detroit cop who after the murder
  of his friend travels to California to
  investigate and track down the killer, who he
  believes operate an arts dealership as a cover in
  Beverly Hills. He teams up with two reluctant
  detectives from the Beverly Hills police force
  who were supposed to keep a watch on him,
  especially after seeing Foley's different
  approach to tackling the situations which is not
  acceptable by the chief of the local police.
  Written by Sami Al-Taher

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Ghostbusters

• Three odd-ball scientists get kicked out of their
  cushy positions at a university in New York City
  where they studied the occult. They decide to set
  up shop in an old firehouse and become
  Ghostbusters, trapping pesky ghosts, spirits,
  haunts, and poltergeists for money. They
  wise-crack their way through the city, and
  stumble upon a gateway to another dimension, one
  which will release untold evil upon the city. The
  Ghostbusters are called on to save the Big Apple.
  Written by Greg Bole

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Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

• Set in 1935, a professor, archaeologist, and
  legendary hero by the name of Indiana Jones is
  back in action in his newest adventure. But this
  time he teams up with a night club singer named
  Wilhelmina "Willie" Scott and a twelve-year-old
  boy named Short Round. They end up in an Indian
  small distressed village, where the people
  believe that evil spirits have taken all their
  children away after a sacred precious stone was
  stolen! They also discovered the great mysterious
  terror surrounding a booby-trapped temple known
  as the Temple of Doom! Thuggee is beginning to
  attempt to rise once more, believing that with
  the power of all five Sankara stones they can
  rule the world! Now, it's all up to Indiana to
  put an end to the Thuggee campaign, rescue the
  lost children, win the girl and conquer the
  Temple of Doom. Written by Anthony Pereyra

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• The Natural Robert Redford
• Romancing the Stone Michael Douglas, Kathleen
  Turner
• The Terminator Arnold Schwarzeneggar
• The Karate Kid Ralph Macchio, Noriyuki (Pat)
  Morita

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The Natural

• An unknown middle-aged batter named Roy Hobbs
  with a mysterious past appears out of nowhere to
  take a losing 1930s baseball team to the top of
  the league in this magical sports fantasy. With
  the aid of a bat cut from a lightning struck
  tree, Hobbs lives the fame he should have had
  earlier when, as a rising pitcher, he is
  inexplicably shot by a young woman. Written by
  Keith Loh

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The Terminator

• A cyborg is sent from the future on a deadly
  mission. He has to kill Sarah Connor, a young
  woman whose life will have a great significance
  in years to come. Sarah has only one protector -
  Kyle Reese - also sent from the future. The
  Terminator uses his exceptional intelligence and
  strength to find Sarah, but is there any way to
  stop the seemingly indestructible cyborg ?
  Written by Colin Tinto

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The Karate Kid

• Daniel and his mother move from New Jersy to
  California. She has a wonderful new job but
  Daniel discovers that a dark haired Italian boy
  with a Jersey accent doesn't fit into the blond
  surfer crowd, especially when he tries to date
  one of their girl friends. Daniel manages to talk
  his way out of some fights but is finally
  cornered by several who belong to the same karate
  school. As Daniel is passing out from the beating
  he sees Miyagi, the elderly gardner leap into the
  fray and save him by outfighting a half dozen
  teenagers. Miyagi and Daniel find the real
  motivator behind the boys' violent attitude is
  the their karate teacher. Miyagi promises to
  teach Daniel to fight and arranges a fight at a
  karate contest some months off. When his training
  begins, Daniel can't understand what he is being
  shown. Miyagi seems more interested in having
  Daniel paint fences and wax cars than teaching
  him Karate. Written by John Vogel

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Top Box Office Stars

• Clint Eastwood, Bill Murray, Harrison Ford, Eddie
  Murphy, Sally Field, Burt Reynolds, Robert
  Redford, Prince, Dan Aykroyd, Meryle Streep

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1985

• Out of Africa Robert Redford, Meryl Streep
• The Color Purple Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey
• Prizzis Honor Jack Nicholson, Kathleen Turner

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Out of Africa

• Karen Blixen, a Danish woman, marries a friend
  for the title of Baroness and they move to Africa
  and start a coffee plantation. Things unfold when
  her husband begins cheating on her and is away on
  business often, so she's at home alone, working
  on the farm and bonding with two men she met in
  her first day in Africa. She eventually falls in
  love with the one, Denys Finch-Hatton and goes on
  safari and whatnot with him. Later, she begins to
  want more from him than the simple
  friendship/relationship they have and pushes
  marriage, but Denys still wants his freedom. By
  the end, she's gained a much better understanding
  and respect for the African culture than when she
  came. Written by KKaliforniApril22

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The Color Purple

• This film follows the life of Celie, a young
  black girl growing up in the early 1900's. The
  first time we see Celie, she is 14 - and pregnant
  - by her father. We stay with her for the next 30
  years of her tough life... Written by Colin Tinto

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Prizzis Honor

• Charley Partanna is a hit-man who works for the
  Prizzis, one of the richest crime syndicate
  families in the country. Unbeknownst to
  Charley,the Prizzis just hired Irene Walker, a
  free-lance killer, to eliminate someone who
  double-crossed them. When Irene and Charley fall
  in love their jobs become complicated. Their jobs
  become impossible when each is given a contract
  that neither can go through with. Written by Tiff
  Banks

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• Witness Harrison Ford, Kelly McGillis
• Back to the Future Michael J. Fox
• Cocoon Con Ameche, Jessica Tandy, Hume Cronyn

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Witness

• Young Amish widow Rachel Lapp is taking her young
  son Samuel to Philadelphia for the first time.
  While in a washroom at the train station, Samuel
  sees two men savagely murder a third. The
  detective assigned to the homicide case is Det.
  John Book who informs them that the murdered man
  was a police officer. It isn't long before the
  young boy fingers Philadelphia narcotics officer
  McFee as the murderer. Book soon discovers that
  McFee was involved in the theft of something
  called P2P, an ingredient used in the making of
  methamphetamine. Shortly after Book tells his
  boss this information, McFee comes after Book and
  wounds him in a shootout. Book determines that
  the best way to avoid detection is to blend in
  with the Amish community, which he does, working
  with them on their farms and helping with
  building a new barn. But the corrupt cops Book
  has exposed are determined to keep their dirty
  work a secret, and they come looking for Book
  Samuel to silence them for good.... Written by
  Derek O'Cain

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Back to the Future

• It is the year 1985. Marty McFly, a mild-mannered
  high school student, stopped by Dr. Emmett L.
  Brown's laboratory to play around with an
  amplifier. Then he receives a message from Doc
  that he needs help from him for Doc's latest
  invention, a time machine made out of a DeLorean
  sports car that can travel through time
  instantaneously when it reaches a speed velocity
  of 88 MPH. Then, Doc was gunned down by Libyan
  Nationalists, Marty makes an effort to escape
  from the Lybians by using the time machine. Then
  Marty accidentally warps himself into 1955. Where
  he meets both of his parents when they were
  teenagers, then Marty unintentionally interrupts
  his parent's first meeting together, he then
  finds a younger version of Doc and together they
  try to find a way to get Marty's parents-to-be
  back together, and to get Marty back to 1985.
  Written by John Wiggins

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Cocoon

• Meet Art, Ben and Joe. Three simple, aging senior
  citizens who like to swim in an unguarded
  swimming pool next door from the old folks home
  they live in. So one day when they go swimming,
  they feel energized and "ready to take on the
  world!" What they don't know is that the pool was
  recently bought by four alien Antereans incognito
  as humans. Art, Ben, Joe and their friends soon
  discover this and offer to help the Antereans
  return the cocoons back to Antarea and as a
  reward, they offer something magnificent. Written
  by Dylan Self

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• Rambo First Blood Part II Sylvester Stallone
• The Breakfast Club Molly Ringwald, Anthony
  Michael Hall
• Desperately Seeking Susan Rosanna Arquette,
  Madonna

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Rambo First Blood Part II

• John Rambo is removed from prison by his former
  superior, Colonel Samuel Troutman, for a
  top-secret operation to bring back POW's still
  held in Vietnam. Rambo's assignment is to only
  take pictures of where the POWs are being held,
  but Rambo wants to get the POWs out of Vietnam.
  Teamed up with female Vietnamese freedom fighter
  Co Bao, Rambo embarks on a mission to rescue the
  POWs, who are being held by sadistic Vietnamese
  Captain Vinh and his Russian comrade, Lieutenant
  Colonel Padovsky. Rambo falls in love with Co
  Bao, and when Co Bao is killed by Captain Vinh,
  Rambo wants revenge, so he starts killing every
  enemy in sight while still focusing on his
  intentions to rescue the POWs. There are also
  corrupt American officials involved in the
  mission, including Marshall Murdock, one of
  Rambo's superiors. Written by Todd Baldridge

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The Breakfast Club

• The plot follows five students at fictional
  Shermer High School in the widely used John
  Hughes setting of Shermer, Illinois (a fictitious
  suburb of Chicago based on Hughes' hometown of
  Northbrook, Illinois, which was originally called
  Shermerville Shermer is a street in Northbrook,
  and the school in Northbrook, Glenbrook North
  High School is on Shermer), as they report for
  Saturday detention on March 24, 1984. While not
  complete strangers, the five teenagers are all
  from a different clique or social group John
  Bender (Judd Nelson) "The Criminal" Claire
  Standish (Molly Ringwald) "The Princess" Brian
  Johnson (Anthony Michael Hall) "The Brain" Andy
  Clark (Emilio Estévez) "The Athlete" and Allison
  Reynolds (Ally Sheedy) "The Basket Case".

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Top Box Office Stars

• Sylvester Stallone, Eddie Murphy, Clint Eastwood,
  Michael J. Fox, Chevy Chase, Arnold Schwarneggar,
  Chuck Norris, Harrison Ford, Michael Douglas,
  Meryl Streep

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1986

• Platoon Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe
• A Room with a View Maggie Smith, Denholm
  Elliott
• Hannah and Her Sisters Mia Farrow, Woody Allen,
  Dianne Wiest, Michael Caine

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Platoon

• Chris Taylor is a young, naive American who gives
  up college and volunteers for combat in Vietnam.
  Upon arrival, he quickly discovers that his
  presence is quite nonessential, and is considered
  insignificant to the other soldiers, as he has
  not fought for as long as the rest of them and
  felt the effects of combat. Chris has two
  commanding officers, the ill-tempered and
  indestructible Staff Sergeant Robert Barnes and
  the more pleasant and cooperative Sergeant Elias
  Grodin. A line is drawn between the two officers
  and a number of men in the platoon when an
  illegal killing occurs during a village raid. As
  the war continues, Chris himself draws towards
  psychological meltdown. And as he struggles for
  survival, he soon realizes he is fighting two
  battles, the conflict with the enemy and the
  conflict between the men within his platoon.
  Written by Jeremy Thomson

69
Hannah and Her Sisters

• During a Thanksgiving Day party we make
  aquaintance with a numerous and problematic
  family. The leading characters are three sisters
  Lee, the woman of Frederick, an old misanthrope
  painter Holly, who dreams of becoming a writer,
  or an actress, or who knows who... Hannah,
  famous actress, beautiful, intelligent, good
  mother, good wife, good sister, in short perfect,
  the pivot of the family. The balance begins to
  break up when Hannah's husband, Elliot, falls in
  love with Lee, who leaves Frederick. Holly goes
  through a deep crisis and meets Mickey, the
  former husband of Hannah, a hypochondriac TV
  producer. The affairs evolve and at the last
  Thanksgiving ... Written by Maurizio Semolic

70
A Room with a View

• Lucy Honeychurch, a young Englishwoman, makes her
  first visit to Florence, Italy in the early
  1900's. There, she meets a quiet yet eccentric
  young man named George Emerson. Upon her return
  to England, Lucy must decide whether to follow
  through with her marriage to her stotic fiance,
  Cecil, or follow her heart and her growing
  attraction to George. Written by Liza Esser

71

• Children of a Lesser God Marlee Matlin, William
  Hurt
• The Color of Money Paul Newman, Tom Cruise
• Peggy Sue Got Married Kathleen Turner

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Children of a Lesser God

• James is a new speech teacher at a school for the
  deaf. He falls for Sarah, a pupil who decided to
  stay on at the school rather than venture into
  the big bad world. She shuns him at first,
  refusing to read his lips and only using signs.
  Will her feelings change over time? Written by
  Colin Tinto

73
The Color of Money

• Pool hustler Fast Eddie Felson finds the young,
  promising pool player Vincent in a local bar and
  he sees in him a younger version of himself. To
  try and make it as in the old days, Eddie offers
  to teach Vincent how to be a hustler. After some
  hesitations Vincent accepts and Eddie takes him
  and Vincent's girlfriend Carmen on a tour through
  the country to work the pool halls. However,
  Vincent's tendency to show off his talent and by
  doing so warning off the players and losing
  money, soon leads to a confrontation with Eddie.
  Written by Leon Wolters

74
Peggy Sue Got Married

• Peggy Sue was one of the most popular girls in
  high school, enjoying life with her friends and
  her boyfriend Charlie. It was the typical high
  school dream, until she finds herself married to
  Charlie and becomming a young mother. However,
  her life takes a serious turn, leaving her
  depressed and facing divorce when Charlie runs
  off with another woman. At her high school
  reunion, Peggy Sue faints and wakes up back in
  high school. Despite her confusion about what has
  happened and how to get back to her own time,
  Peggy realizes that she has a chance to start her
  life over, to avoid her depression and her
  marriage to Charlie. However, just because she
  knows the future, does that mean she can really
  avoid it? Written by Lex

75

• Aliens Sigourney Weaver
• Crimes of the Heart Jessica Lange, Sissy
  Spacek, Diane Keaton
• Ruthless People Bette Midler, Danny DeVito

76
Aliens

• After colonist, Ellen Ripley survived her
  disastrous ordeal. Nobody believed her story
  about the "Aliens" being on the planet LV-426.
  However, approximately 50 years later, the colony
  on LV-426 was completely destroyed. The
  government has decided to send Ripley out of
  cryostasis and to aid a team of tough, rugged
  space marines into the desolate planet to find
  out if there are aliens, or survivors. But, what
  Ripley will begin to realize that her worst
  nightmare is about to come true. Written by John
  Wiggins

77
Crimes of the Heart

• Three sisters with quite different personalities
  and lives reunite when the youngest of them,
  Babe, has just shot her husband. The oldest
  sister, Lenny, takes care of their grandfather
  and is turning into an old maid, while Meg, who
  tries to make it in Hollywood as a
  singer/actress, has had a wild life filled with
  many men. Their reunion causes much joy, but also
  many tensions. Written by Leon Wolters

78

• Crocodile Dundee Paul Hogan
• Top Gun Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis
• Stand by Me Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix

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Crocodile Dundee

• Michael J. "Crocodile" Dundee is an Australian
  crocodile hunter who lives in the Australian
  outback and runs a safari business with his
  trusted friend and mentor Walter Reilly. After
  surviving a crocodile attack, a New York
  journalist named Sue arrives to interview Mick
  about how he survived and learns more about the
  crocodile hunter. After saving Sue from a
  crocodile, Sue invites Mick to visit New York
  City, since Mick has never been to a city. Mick
  finds the culture and life in New York City a lot
  different than his home and he finds himself
  falling in love with Sue. Written by Daniel
  Williamson

80
Top Gun

• Maverick is a hot pilot. When he encounters a
  pair of MiGs over the Persian Gulf, his wingman
  is clearly outflown and freaks. On almost no
  fuel, Maverick is able to talk him back down to
  the Carrier. When his wingman turns in his wings,
  Maverick is moved up in the standings and sent to
  the Top Gun Naval Flying School. There he fights
  the attitudes of the other pilots and an old
  story of his father's death in combat that killed
  others due to his father's error. Maverick
  struggles to be the best pilot, stepping on the
  toes of his other students and in a different way
  to Charlie, a civilian instructor to whom he is
  strongly attracted. Written by John Vogel

81
Stand By Me

• Based on Stephen King's Short story "The Body",
  "Stand By Me" tells the tale of Gordie Lachance,
  a writer who looks back on his preteen days when
  he and three close friends went on their own
  adventure to find the body of a kid their age who
  had gone missing and presumed dead. The stakes
  are upped when the bad kids in town are closely
  tailing - and it becomes a race to see who'll be
  able to recover the body first. Written by Dismal
  Angel

82
Top Box Office Stars

• Tom Cruise, Eddie Murphy, Paul Hogan, Rodney
  Dangerfield, Bette Midler, Sylvester Stallone,
  Clint Eastwood, Whoopi Goldberg, Kathleen Turner,
  Paul Newman

83
1987 Openings

• The Last Emperor John Lone
• Fatal Attraction Michael Douglas, Glenn Close
• Moonstruck Cher, Nicholas Cage
• Wall Street Michael Douglas, Charlie Sheen

84
The Last Emperor

• A biography of Aisin-Gioro "Henry" Pu Yi, who at
  the age of three was named the Emperor of China,
  and dies as a gardener at the Botanical Gardens
  of Peking. Told in an interesting
  flashback/flashforward style, we learn of Pu Yi's
  childhood, the time he spent imprisoned in the
  Forbidden City, his term as the emperor of Japans
  Manchuguo, and his eventual release back to
  public life in 1959. Written by Colin Tinto

85
Fatal Attraction

• Happily married New York lawyer Dan Callagher has
  an affair with his colleague Alex, and the two
  enjoy a love weekend while Dan's wife and kid are
  away. But Alex will not let go of him, and she
  will stop at nothing to have him for herself.
  Just how far will she go to get what she wants?.
  Written by Sami Al-Taher

86
Moonstruck

• Loretta Castorini, a Brooklyn bookkeeper in her
  late 30s whose husband died several years earlier
  in a bus accident, decides it's time to get
  married again. So she accepts the proposal of a
  nice, middle-aged fellow named Johnny Cammareri.
  Loretta is convinced her first marriage was
  cursed because she and her husband had gotten
  married at City Hall this time, she's determined
  to do things right, even as she admits to her
  mother, Rose, that she's not really in love with
  Johnny. (To which Rose replies "Good. When you
  love them, they drive you crazy, 'cause they know
  they can." Rose speaks from rueful experience
  she suspects, with good reason, that her husband,
  Cosmo, is cheating on her.) Loretta is convinced
  that marrying Johnny is the safe and sure thing
  to do - until she meets his estranged younger
  brother Ronny, who tends the ovens in a
  neighborhood bakery. Loretta discovers that in
  startling contrast to the pleasant, mild-mannered
  Johnny, Ronny is moody and passionate what
  follow are complications worthy of a comic opera.
  Written by Eugene Kim

87
Wall Street

• Bud Fox is a Wall Street stockbroker in early
  1980's New York with a strong desire to get to
  the top. Working for his firm during the day, he
  spends his spare time working an on angle with
  the high-powered, extremely successful (but
  ruthless and greedy) broker Gordon Gekko. Fox
  finally meets with Gekko, who takes the youth
  under his wing and explains his philosophy that
  "Greed is Good". Taking the advice and working
  closely with Gekko, Fox soon finds himself swept
  into a world of "yuppies", shady business deals,
  the "good life", fast money, and fast women
  something which is at odds with his family
  including his estranged father and the
  blue-collared way Fox was brought up. Written by
  Murray Chapman

88

• Good Morning, Vietnam Robin Williams
• The Untouchables Kevin Costner, Sean Connery
• Baby Boom Diane Keaton
• Three Men and a Baby Tom Selleck, Steve
  Guttenberg, Ted Danson

89
Good Morning, Vietnam

• A new Disc Jockey is shipped from Crete to
  Vietnam to bring humor to Armed Forces Radio. He
  turns the studio on it's ear and becomes wildly
  popular with the troops but runs afoul of the
  middle management who think he isn't G.I. enough.
  While he is off the air, he tries to meet
  Vietnamese especially girls, and begins to have
  brushes with the real war that never appears on
  the radio. Written by John Vogel

90
The Untouchables

• Young Treasury Agent Elliot Ness arrives in
  Chicago and is deternimed to take down Al Capone
  but he learns that it's not going to be easy,
  because Capone has the police in his pocket. But
  Ness meets Jimmy Malone a veteran patrolman and
  probably the most honorable one in the force. He
  asks Malone to help him get Capone but Malone
  warns him that if he goes after Capone, he is
  going to war. They recruit academy cadet, George
  Stone and Treasury agent Oscar Wallace, who is
  also an accountant, who wants to prosecute Capone
  for tax evasion. When they make headway, Capone
  tries to get them but they are untouchable.
  Written by rcs0411

91
Three Men and a Baby

• Three bachelor friends - architect Peter, artist
  Michael, and actor Jack are sharing an apartment
  in Manhattan. After Jack goes filming in Turkey
  his two flatmates find his baby daughter - which
  Jack doesn't know about - left outside their
  door. The two are left to look after the baby,
  and realise how difficult this can be. How would
  this baby change the life style of these
  confirmed bachelors? Written by Sami Al-Taher

92
Baby Boom

• J.C. Wiatt is a successful New York business
  woman known around town as the "tiger lady." She
  gets news of an inheritance from a relative from
  another country and off the bat she suspects it's
  money. Well it's not money, it's a baby girl. At
  first she doesn't accept until the lady that
  gives the baby to her has to catch her flight.
  J.C. is now stuck with an annoying baby girl. Her
  boyfriend doesn't like the idea of a baby living
  with them and he leaves her. J.C. has enough of
  it and takes her to meet a family ready to adopt
  her. She leaves but hears the baby cry while
  walking away and has to go back. The baby is too
  attached to her now and won't let her go. Later,
  her baby gets into mischief which causes her to
  get fired. Now, she sets her eyes on an old two
  story cottage in Vermont to get out of the New
  York life. When she arrives, the house needs more
  help than originally thought. She gets bored one
  snowy day and decides to make apple sauce. Her
  baby loves it and she decides to sell it. Pretty
  soon everyone wants some of the baby apple sauce.
  J.C. hits it big and falls in love with a local
  veterinarian. Was this fate or destiny? Written
  by Kyle

93
Top Box Office Stars

• Eddie Murphy, Michael Douglas, Michael J. Fox,
  Arnold Schwarzeneggar, Paul Hogan, Tom Cruise,
  Glenn Close, Sylvester Stallone, Cher, Mel Gibson

94
1988

• Gorillas in the Mist Sigourney Weaver
• Mississippi Burning Gene Hackman, Willem Defoe
• Big Tom Hanks
• Who Framed Roger Rabbit? Bob Hoskins

95
Gorillas in the Mist

• Sigourney Weaver stars as Dian Fossey, in this
  true story about Fossey's study of gorillas, and
  her efforts to stop the decimation of the
  endangered apes. Written by Ray Hamel

96
Mississippi Burning

• In 1964, three civil rights workers from the
  North disappear in a small Mississippi town and
  the FBI are sent to investigate. Agent in charge
  Alan Ward does everything by the book. Agent
  Rupert Anderson however was a Sheriff in
  Mississippi before joining the FBI and
  understands the local culture. He's also prepared
  to bend the rules a bit if it will help in the
  investigation. They focus on the Sheriff's office
  and Deputy Clinton Pell in particular as they
  think he may be the weakest link in the
  conspiracy. As the investigation intensifies
  however, the KKK launch a series of attacks
  against the local African-American population.
  With no one on either side prepared to talk, Ward
  agrees to Anderson using his own unorthodox
  methods to learn what happened that night and who
  killed the three men. Written by garykmcd

97
Big

• A young boy named Josh Baskin, wished one day
  from an old machine to be big, despite the fact
  that he does not believe it is going to work. He
  is very surprised, therefore, to find himself the
  next day- to be big. Now he looks like a 30 year
  old guy, but he still behaves like a twelve year
  old boy. He decides to go with his best friend to
  New York, to find the machine that can fix his
  wish. In New York he gets a job in a toy company,
  and develops a relationship with a woman. He
  must learn to get used to the adult world he
  always wanted to be part of. Would he still like
  to remain an adult?

98

• Rainman Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise
• Bull Durham Susan Sarandon, Kevin Costner
• Working Girl Melanie Griffith, Harrison Ford,
  Sigourney Weaver

99
Rainman

• Charlie is a hustler. He's been on his own long
  enough to know how to work people and situations.
  He finds that the father who threw him out as a
  teen ager has died. He's left him a now antique
  convertible and something more important, a
  previously unknown brother, Raymond. Raymond is
  autistic, but is able to calculate complicated
  mathematical problems in his head with great
  speed and accuracy. Their father has left his
  fortune to Raymond who doesn't even understand
  what money is for. Charlie is enraged by what has
  happened and by his father keeping Raymond's
  existence from him for his entire life. He
  kidnaps Raymond from his residential home but
  then finds that Raymond will only fly Qantas. The
  two begin a long road trip that will lead them to
  an understanding of each other. Written by John
  Vogel

100
Bull Durham

• Veteran minor-league catcher Crash Davis is
  assigned to the Class A Durham Bulls to handle
  the team's star rookie, wild pitcher "Nuke"
  LaLoosh. Team groupie Annie Savoy romances both
  players, creating a comic triangle. Written by
  Scott Renshaw

101
Working Girl

• Tess McGill is a hard working young woman who is
  determined to reach the top of the stockmarket
  world by hard work but as she turns 30 she is
  stuck in secretarial work so when she starts
  working for Katherine Parker she is glad that
  Katherine is willing to accept input and ideas
  from her. However when Katherine goes on holiday
  and breaks her leg she asks Tess to look after
  things and this causes Tess to discover that
  Katherine is going to pinch her big idea that
  would save a large company from a a foreign
  takeover. Enraged that her boyfriend is also
  cheating on her, Tess sets out to do a deal by
  using her idea herself while Katherine is away.
  She teams up with Jack Trainer to close the deal
  before Katherine's return and the two slowly fall
  in love little knowing that Jack is Katherine's
  boyfriend... Written by Lee Horton

102

• Die Hard Bruce Willis

103
Die Hard

• New York cop John McClane flies to Los Angeles on
  Christmas eve to spend the holidays with his
  family. He arrives at the Nakatomi corp. building
  for his wife's office party. International
  terrorists take over the building and hold every
  one as hostage to steel 600 million of bonds
  from the vaults of the building. Now its up to
  McCLane to face the terrorists and save his wife
  and the other hostages. Written by Sami Al-Taher

104
Box Office Stars

• Tom Cruise, Eddie Murphy, Tom Hanks, Arnold, Paul
  Hogan, Danny DeVito, Bette Midler, Robin
  Williams, Tom Selleck, Dustin Hoffman

105
1989

• Born on the Fourth of July Tom Cruise
• Field of Dreams Kevin Costner, James Earl
  Jones, Burt Lancaster
• When Harry Met Sally Billy Crystal, Meg Ryan,
  Carrie Fisher

106
Born on the Fourth of July

• The biography of Ron Kovic. Paralyzed in the
  Vietnam war, he becomes an anti-war and pro-human
  rights political activist after feeling betrayed
  by the country he fought for. Written by Murray
  Chapman

107
Field of Dreams

• Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella hears a voice in his
  corn field tell him, "If you build it, he will
  come." He interprets this message as an
  instruction to build a baseball field on his
  farm, upon which appear the ghosts of Shoeless
  Joe Jackson and the other seven Chicago White Sox
  players banned from the game for throwing the
  1919 World Series. When the voices continue, Ray
  seeks out a reclusive author to help him
  understand the meaning of the messages and the
  purpose for his field. Written by Scott Renshaw

108
When Harry Met Sally

• Harry and Sally meet when she gives him a ride to
  New York after they both graduate from the
  University of Chicago. The film jumps through
  their lives as they both search for love, but
  fail, bumping into each other time and time
  again. Finally a close friendship blooms between
  them, and they both like having a friend of the
  opposite sex. But then they are confronted with
  the problem "Can a man and a woman be friends,
  without sex getting in the way?" Written by Greg
  Bole

109

• Glory Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington,
  Cary Elwes, Morgan Fleeman
• Driving Miss Daisy Morgan Freeman, Jessica
  Tandy, Dan Aykroyd

110
Glory

• Based on the letters of Colonel Robert G. Shaw.
  Shaw was an officer in the Federal Army during
  the American Civil War who volunteered to lead
  the first company of black soldiers. Shaw was
  forced to deal with the prejudices of both the
  enemy (who had orders to kill commanding officers
  of blacks), and of his own fellow officers.
  Written by Murray Chapman

111
Driving Miss Daisy

• An elderly Jewish widow living in Atlanta can no
  longer drive. Her son insists she allow him to
  hire a driver, which in the 1950s meant a black
  man. She resists any change in her life but,
  Hoke, the driver is hired by her son. She refuses
  to allow him to drive her anywhere at first, but
  Hoke slowly wins her over with his native good
  graces. The movie is directly taken from a stage
  play and does show it. It covers over twenty
  years of the pair's life together as they slowly
  build a relationship that transcends their
  differences. Written by John Vogel

112

• Dead Poets Society Robin Williams
• Batman Michael Keaton, Jack Nicholson
• The Little Mermaid

113
Dead Poets Society

• Painfully shy Todd Anderson has been sent to the
  school where his popular older brother was
  valedictorian. His room-mate, Neil, although
  exceedingly bright and popular, is very much
  under the thumb of his overbearing father. The
  two, along with their other friends, meet
  Professor Keating, their new English teacher, who
  tells them of the Dead Poets Society, and
  encourages them to go against the status quo.
  Each, in their own way, does this, and are
  changed for life. Written by Liz Jordan

114
Batman

• Gotham City dark, dangerous, 'protected' only by
  a mostly corrupt police department. Despite the
  best efforts of D.A. Harvey Dent and police
  commissioner Jim Gordon, the city becomes
  increasingly unsafe...until a Dark Knight arises.
  We all know criminals are a superstitious,
  cowardly lot...so his disguise must be able to
  strike terror into their hearts. He becomes a
  bat. Enter Vicky Vale, a prize-winning photo
  journalist who wants to uncover the secret of the
  mysterious "bat-man". And enter Jack Napier,
  one-time enforcer for Boss Grissom, horribly
  disfigured after a firefight in a chemical
  factory...who, devoid of the last vestiges of
  sanity, seizes control of Gotham's underworld as
  the psychotic, unpredictable Clown Prince of
  Crime...the Joker. Gotham's only hope, it seems,
  lies in this dark, brooding vigilante. And just
  how does billionaire playboy Bruce Wayne fit into
  all of this? Written by Gregory A. Sheets

115
The Little Mermaid

• This is the story of a little mermaid named
  Ariel, who dreams of going on land. When her
  father, King Triton, Forbids her to go on land,
  Ariel visits Ursula who her father had banished.
  Even though she helps her get to land, what Ariel
  doesn't know is that Ursula has plans to destroy
  her to get revenge on her father.

116

• Sea of Love Al Pacino, Ellen Barkin
• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade Harrison
  Ford, Sean Connery
• The War of the Roses Kathleen Turner, Michael
  Douglas, Danny DeVito

117
Sea of Love

• Seen-it-all New York detective Frank Keller is
  unsettled - he has done twenty years on the force
  and could retire, and he hasn't come to terms
  with his wife leaving him for a colleague.
  Joining up with an officer from another part of
  town to investigate a series of murders linked by
  the lonely hearts columns he finds he is getting
  seriously and possibly dangerously involved with
  Helen, one of the main suspects. Written by
  Jeremy Perkins

118
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

• Three years after he recovered The Ark of the
  Covenant. Jones recovered an artifact that he
  found as a kid, the Cross of Francisco De
  Coronado from treasure hunters. Now, Jones
  discovers the history of another biblical
  artifact called "The Holy Grail". He was also
  informed that his father, Henry Jones is missing.
  Jones has to find his father who is looking for
  the Grail. However, Jones will become involved in
  the search of the Holy Grail along with his
  father, as well as fighting the Nazis to reach
  it. Written by John Wiggins

119
The War of the Roses

• The Roses, Barbara and Oliver, live happily as a
  married couple. Then she starts to wonder what
  life would be like without Oliver, and likes what
  she sees. Both want to stay in the house, and so
  they begin a campaign to force each other to
  leave. In the middle of the fighting is D'Amato,
  the divorce lawyer. He gets to see how far both
  will go to get rid of the other, and boy do they
  go far.. Written by Rob Hartill

120
Top Box Office Stars

• Jack Nicholson, Tom Cruise, Robin Williams,
  Michael Douglas, Tom Hanks, Michael J. Fox, Eddie
  Murphy, Mel Gibson, Sean Connery, Kathleen Turner