Movie Releases by Genre
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Chances Are
March 10, 1989
Louie Jeffries is happily married to Corinne. On their first anniversary, Louie is killed crossing the road. Louie is reincarnated as Alex Finch, and twenty years later, fate brings Alex and Louie's daughter, Miranda, together. It's not until Alex is invited to Louie's home that he begins to remember his former life, wife and best friend. Of course, there's also the problem that he's attracted to Louie's/his own daughter.
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The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
March 10, 1989
The enchanting adventures of Baron von Munchausen follow him on his journey to save a town from defeat. Being swallowed by a giant sea-monster, a trip to the moon, a dance with Venus and an escape from the Grim Reaper are only some of the improbable adventures. (Sony Pictures)
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Dream a Little Dream
March 3, 1989
An accident puts the consciousness of an elderly dream researcher into the body of a bratty teenager. The problem? The kid prefers dreamworld limbo to real life.
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Skin Deep
March 3, 1989
A womanizing alcoholic writer, whose life seems to be falling apart at the seams, repeatedly finds himself in trouble of one sort or another with the law, ex-girlfriends, and jealous boyfriends.
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High Hopes
February 24, 1989
A slice-of-life look at a sweet working-class couple in London, Shirley and Cyril, his mother, who's aging quickly and becoming forgetful, mum's ghastly upper-middle-class neighbors, and Cyril's pretentious sister and philandering husband. Shirley wants a baby, but Cyril, who reads Marx and wants the world to be perfect, is reluctant. Cyril's mum locks herself out and must ask her snooty neighbors for help. Then Cyril's sister Valerie stages a surprise party for mum's 70th birthday, a disaster from start to finish. Shirley holds things together, and she and Cyril may put aside her Dutch cap after all.
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The 'Burbs
February 17, 1989
An overstressed suburbanite and his fellow neighbors are convinced that the new family on the block are part of a murderous Satanic cult.
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Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
February 17, 1989
Bill Preston and Ted Logan are two totally excellent dudes facing one most heinous history exam. With the help of Rufus an ultra-cool messenger in a time traveling phone booth, the triumphant twosome bag a bevy of historical heavy weights like the "Bodacious Philosopher Socrates, "One Very Excellent Barbarian" Genghis Khan, the "Short Dead Dude" Napoleon and Noah's Wife Joan of Arc to stage the most hysterical high school project ever. History's about to be rewritten by two guys who can't even spell. (MGM)
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Her Alibi
February 3, 1989
A writer of BAD detective novels confronts total writers' block. He pretends to be the alibi of a beautiful woman who was arrested for murder at first thinking her innocent, but as she shows more and more interesting abilities (such as knife throwing) he begins to doubt his first assessment. He is still falling for her, but more and more nervous as time passes, and there are more close calls with death on his part.
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Who's Harry Crumb?
February 3, 1989
Harry Crumb is a bumbling and inept private investigator who is hired to solve the kidnapping of a young heiress which he's not expected to solve because his employer is the mastermind behind the kidnapping.
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Three Fugitives
January 27, 1989
A reformed bank robber is taken hostage by a desperate man during a bank hold up, but is forced to go on the run with his captor when they're both mistakenly thought to be in cahoots.
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Parents
January 27, 1989
A young boy living in 1950s suburbia suspects his parents are cannibalistic murderers.
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The January Man
January 13, 1989
Two years after being forced out of NYPD, quirky Nick is rehired by the mayor to catch a serial killer after the 11th murder of a woman.
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Working Girl
December 23, 1988
Ambitious secretary Tess McGill (Melanie Griffith) makes her up the corporate ladder with a little creative deception by "taking over" when her boss Katherine Parker (Sigourney Weaver) breaks her leg on a ski trip.
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Beaches
December 21, 1988
When the irrepressible C.C. Bloom (Bette Midler) and the shy and proper Hillary Whitney (Barbara Hershey) first meet under the boardwalk at the beach, all the 11-year-olds have in common is the need for a best friend. Worlds apart in lifestyle and location, their friendship ebbs and flows through a lifetime of highs and lows, career changes, marriages, jealousy, and more. From the boardwalk in Atlantic City to the beach house on the Pacific, BEACHES may remind you of what being a true friend means.
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Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
December 14, 1988
Two wiley con-men living in the south of France join forces to bilk rich American women of their fortunes. WHen one decides to strike out on his own, a bet is made over who can take a rich American heiress for $50,000 first. After much outrageous tomfoolery, the boys learn the heiress has no money and all three join forces. [MGM]
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I'm Gonna Git You Sucka
December 14, 1988
When Junebug Spade is found dead, having OG'd (Over-Gold) on funky gold chains (how did he go to the bathroom with all that on?) his soldier brother, Jack, vows to avenge him and hits the mean streets of his old neighborhood, looking for the nefarious Mr. Big, who's two-bit henchmen push gold chains on the street. The way Jack sees it, Mr. Big has got to pay and with the help of legendary vigilante, John Slade, Jack is gonna git that sucka.
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My Stepmother Is an Alien
December 9, 1988
A creature from another planet tries to seduce a shy Earth physicist to gain control over his researches. The result of this important mission much exceeded her expectations.
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Twins
December 9, 1988
An ambitious genetic experiment takes the wrong turn when two twins - who look nothing alike - are born and then separated. Years later, the unlikely siblings meet: Julius, a highly educated but sheltered giant with a big heart, and Vincent, a pint-sized hustler with an insatiable lust for women and money. With girlfriends in tow and a hitman on their tail, the newfound brothers set off on a wild, cross-country misadventure to find their mother - but end up finding out more about themselves. (Universal Studios)
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The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
December 2, 1988
Leslie Nielsen stars as Police Squad's own granite-jawed, rock-brained cop Frank Drebin, who bumbles across a mind-control scheme to assassinate Queen Elizabeth. Priscilla Presley, O.J. Simpson, a stuffed beaver, two baseball teams and an odd assortment of others join the wacko goings-on and blow the laugh-o-meter to smithereens. (Paramount)
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Cocoon: The Return
November 23, 1988
The senior retirees that left at the end of the first film come back to Earth to visit their relatives. Will they all decide to go back to the planet where no one grows old, or will they be tempted to remain on Earth?
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Scrooged
November 23, 1988
High-spirited high jinks on Christmas Eve put Frank Cross in a ghostly time warp in this take-off of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol." Cross, who has made the meteoric rise from the depths of the mailroom to TV network president, is mean, nasty, uncaring, unforgiving and has a sadistic sense of humor - perfect qualities for a modern-day Scrooge. Before the night is over, he'll be visited by a maniacal New York cab driver from the past, a present-day fairy who's into pratfalls and, finally, a ghoulish seven-foot-headless messenger from the future. (Paramount Pictures)
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High Spirits
November 18, 1988
When a hotelier attempts to fill the chronic vacancies at his castle by launching an advertising campaign that falsely portrays the property as haunted, two actual ghosts show up and end up falling for two guests.
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Oliver & Company
November 18, 1988
A lost and alone kitten joins a gang of dogs engaged in petty larceny in New York City.
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Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
November 11, 1988
The wildly hysterical international box office hit, women on the verge of a nervous breakdown, introduces us to Pepa who has just been jilted by an answering machine. The love of her life, Ivan, has just ended their relationship and she is heartbroken. But misery does love company. (MGM)
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Ernest Saves Christmas
November 11, 1988
Ernest helps Santa Claus as he searches for his successor.
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Things Change
October 21, 1988
Shoe-shiner Gino is hired to take the rap for a mafia murder. Two-bit gangster Jerry watches over Gino and gives him a weekend to remember.
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Mystic Pizza
October 14, 1988
The coming-of-age story of three best friends (Taylor, Gish, Roberts) who work at a pizzeria in the seaside town of Mystic, Connecticut. (MGM)
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Memories of Me
October 7, 1988
On his girlfriend's insistence, a disgruntled man tries to make peace with his high-spirited, street-smart and often irritatingly careless father, a failed actor who never quit his dream to be a success.
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Punchline
October 7, 1988
A medical school dropout and a housewife/mom try to make it as stand-up comedians. They become friends and help each other out at an NYC comedy club.
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Elvira: Mistress of the Dark
September 30, 1988
Upon arriving in a small town where she has inherited a rundown mansion, a famous horror hostess battles an evil uncle, and townspeople who want her burned at the stake.
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Crossing Delancey
September 16, 1988
A Manhattan single meets a man through her Jewish grandmother's matchmaker.
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Hot to Trot
August 26, 1988
Fred P. Chaney receives as inheritance after the death of his mother a speaking horse that also has good knowledge about the stock-market. With the help of this horse Fred gains a lot at the stock-market of Chicago.
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Married to the Mob
August 19, 1988
After her husband is killed, Angela sees a way out of the Mafia. However, her husband's boss has other ideas - he wants her for himself. Undercover FBI agent Mike Downey finds himself falling in love with her too.
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Young Guns
August 12, 1988
When his mentor is gunned down in cold blood, William Bonney sees fit to avenge him. With his friends backing him up, William delivers his own personal brand of justice, acting as judge, jury and executioner all with one pull of the trigger. News of his notorious actions spreads wide and far and soon the name of "Billie the Kid" becomes legendary.
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Cocktail
July 29, 1988
Brian Flanagan is a young, confident, and ambitious bartender who, with the help of a seasoned pro , becomes the toast of Manhattan's Upper East Side. But when he moves to Jamaica and meets an independent artist, their vivid romance brings a new perspective to the self-centered bartender's life. (Buena Vista Entertainment)
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A Fish Called Wanda
July 29, 1988
In this zany comedy, four disparate characters (John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline, and Michael Palin) attempt a daring jewel heist.
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Big Top Pee-wee
July 22, 1988
Pee-wee Herman is now a small-town farmer with a fiancée, but when a traveling circus comes to town, he finds himself falling for the trapeze artist.
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Caddyshack II
July 22, 1988
When a crass new-money tycoon's membership application is turned down at a snooty country club, he retaliates by buying the club and turning it into a tacky amusement park.
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Midnight Run
July 20, 1988
Bounty hunter Jack Walsh (De Niro) is offered $100,000 from a bail bondsman to capture fugitive accountant Jonathan "the Duke" Mardukas (Grodin) and bring him to Los Angeles in time for his trial date. Walsh must avoid a rival bounty hunter, the FBI, and the mob to earn his payday.
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License to Drive
July 6, 1988
A teen decides to go for a night on the town with his friends despite flunking his driver's test.
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Coming to America
June 29, 1988
A very wealthy and pampered African prince comes to America in search of a bride. Accompanied by his closest companion, he quickly finds a job, new friends, new digs, new enemies - and lots of trouble. (Paramount Pictures)
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit
June 21, 1988
Gumshoe detective Eddie Valiant (Hoskins) is on the job in both Hollywood and Toontown, and the line between reality and fantasy gets blurred as Eddie tries to solve a major "who dunnit." He's thrown for quite a set of curves when he meets Jessica Rabbit, the sultry "toon" who whispers "I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way." When Eddie gets mixed up with the fast-talking "toon" Roger Rabbit (Fleischer) he finds himself crossing paths with such characters as the hilarious Baby Herman, Benny the Cab, the sinister Judge Doom and more, in a wacky adventure of a lifetime. (Buena Vista)
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The Great Outdoors
June 17, 1988
A Chicago man's hope for a peaceful family vacation in the woods is shattered when the annoying in-laws drop in.
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Red Heat
June 17, 1988
Two cops, one from Russia, the other from Chicago, team up to capture a Russian drug dealer hiding out somewhere in America.
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Waxwork
June 17, 1988
A wax museum owner uses his horror exhibits to unleash evil on the world.
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Bull Durham
June 15, 1988
A romantic love story set in the dirt and grit of minor league baseball. Sarandan is a groupie for the Carolina Durham Bulls who chooses a protege each season to school in the art of love. This season she picks the team's untameable pitcher but eventually abides her true passion, the team's catcher, Costner. (MGM)
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Big Business
June 10, 1988
Two couples of sisters from New York and from the countryside discover that they are connected in an incredible way.
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Big
June 3, 1988
At a carnival, young Josh Baskin wishes he was big only to awake the next morning and discover he is! With the help of his friend Billy, Josh lands a job at a toy company. But the more he experiences being an adult, the more Josh longs for the simple joys of childhood. [Twentieth Century Fox]
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Funny Farm
June 3, 1988
A couple swap city life for the country, but their picturesque new hometown turns out to be just a little bit different to what they were expecting.
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Killer Klowns from Outer Space
May 27, 1988
Aliens who look like clowns come from outer space and terrorize a small town.
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Crocodile Dundee II
May 25, 1988
Australian outback expert protects his New York love from gangsters who've followed her down under.
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Critters 2
April 29, 1988
Eggs of the small, furry alien carnivores are left behind on Earth and, after hatching, again set their appetites on the town of Grover's Bend.
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Bagdad Cafe
April 22, 1988
A lonely German woman ends up in the most desolate motel on Earth and decides to make it brighter.
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Brain Damage
April 22, 1988
One morning, a young man wakes to find that a small, disgusting creature has attached itself to the base of his brain stem. The creature gives him a euphoric state of happiness but demands human victims in return.
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Tokyo Pop
April 15, 1988
Bleach-blonde wannabe rocker Wendy (Carrie Hamilton) is disillusioned with her life in New York City. After receiving a postcard from Japan saying “wish you were here,” she spontaneously hops on a plane to Tokyo with dreams of making it big as a singer. Quickly finding herself broke and a fish out of water, she moves into a youth hostel for gaijin (foreigners) and takes up work as a hostess at a karaoke bar. Just when she’s at her breaking point, she meets Hiro (Diamond Yukai), a rock ‘n’ roller whose band is looking for their big break. They form a romantic and musical connection and Hiro convinces Wendy to become their lead singer. Through a combination of hustle and luck, they stumble into their 15 minutes of fame, but Wendy soon comes to realize that being a gaijin rocker may be nothing more than a passing fad.
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18 Again!
April 8, 1988
In this feel-good body-switchers comedy, aging worldly-wise businessman Jack Watson swaps bodies with his grandson David in the wake of an automobile accident. George Burns shines in his final leading role.
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Beetlejuice
March 30, 1988
What's a couple of stay-at-home ghosts to do when their beloved home is taken over by trendy yuppies? They call on Beetlejuice (Michael Keaton), the afterlife's freelance bio-exorcist to scare off the family – and everyone gets more than she, he or it bargains for! [Warner Bros]
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Biloxi Blues
March 25, 1988
A group of young recruits go through boot camp during the Second World War in Biloxi, Mississippi. From the play by Neil Simon.
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Johnny Be Good
March 25, 1988
It's recruiting time and despite being short and scrawny, Johnny Walker is America's hottest young football prospect. His dilemma: should he take one of the many offers from college talent scouts or should he attend the local state college with his girlfriend and give up his football career?
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Police Academy 5: Assignment: Miami Beach
March 18, 1988
Commandant Lassard, leader of the Police Academy (1984), flies to Florida to receive an award. In the city he meets the cynical Captain Harris who wants to take Lassard's job. Harris wants to put himself in a favourable light in front of the high military hierarchy but, at the airport, Lassard exchanges his bag with another one...Hilarity ensues.
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Vice Versa
March 11, 1988
A divorced executive named Marshall and his 11-year-old son, Charlie, casually touch a magical Tibetan skull, releasing a mysterious power that transfers Marshall's mind to Charlie's body and vice versa. Their problems have just begun.
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Moving
March 4, 1988
Arlo accepts what seems to him to be a dream promotion to Idaho. He soon discovers, however, that moving has its own share of problems.
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Hairspray
February 26, 1988
In Hairspray, Tracy Turnblad uses her huge hair, big grin and great moves to become the queen of the local TV dance revue, using her newfound popularity to fight for integration in 1962's Baltimore. [New Line Cinema]
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Hope and Glory
February 19, 1988
Bill, a young boy living on the outskirts of London experiences the exhilaration of World War II. During this period, Bill learns about sex, death, love, hypocrisy, and the faults of adults as he prowls the ruins of bombed houses.
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School Daze
February 12, 1988
A not so popular young man wants to pledge to a popular fraternity at his historically black college.
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Satisfaction
February 12, 1988
A group of teenagers have a band, Mystery, with Jennie as the lead singer. They go to a bar at the coast and play during the summer. Jennie falls in love with the owner of the bar, Martin. They get an offer to play in Europe and perhaps become famous. But are they ready for it?
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Action Jackson
February 12, 1988
Vengence drives a tough Detroit cop to stay on the trail of a power hungry auto magnate who's systematically eliminating his competition.
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Cherry 2000
February 5, 1988
In 2017, a successful businessman travels to the ends of the earth to find that the perfect woman is always under his nose. He hires a sexy renegade tracker to find an exact duplicate of his android wife.
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She's Having a Baby
February 5, 1988
Young newlyweds find out just how unprepared they are for their future together.
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King Lear
January 22, 1988
A descendant of Shakespeare tries to restore his plays in a world rebuilding itself after the Chernobyl catastrophe obliterates most of human civilization.
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For Keeps?
January 15, 1988
After she gets pregnant, a teenage girl (Molly Ringwald) must decide whether she should keep the baby or not.
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Return of the Living Dead II
January 15, 1988
Curious kids unearth the barrels that helped revive the dead of the first film, which proves the second time's an undead charm.
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Good Morning, Vietnam
January 15, 1988
In 1965, an unorthodox and irreverent DJ named Adrian Cronauer begins to shake up things when he is assigned to the U.S. Armed Services radio station in Vietnam.
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Tales from the Gimli Hospital
January 1, 1988
While their mother is dying in the modern Gimli, Manitoba hospital, two young children are told a tale by their Icelandic grandmother about Einar the Lonely, his friend Gunnar, and the angelic Snjofridur in a Gimli of old.
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Eddie Murphy: Raw
December 18, 1987
Eddie Murphy in a stand-up performance recorded live. For an hour and a half he talks about his favourite subjects: sex and women.
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Moonstruck
December 18, 1987
In this romantic comedy, Loretta (Cher), a young widow, feels unlucky in love and is content to wed a man she does not love (Danny Aiello)...until she meets and falls hopelessly in love with his younger brother (Nicholas Cage).
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*batteries not included
December 18, 1987
Apartment block tenants seek the aid of alien mechanical life-forms to save their building from demolition.
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Broadcast News
December 16, 1987
Tom Grunick, a rising anchorman, has plenty of on-camera savvy, personality and good looks but little in the way of brains. He may be dumb as a doornail but Tom's got the star presence his network needs. Then there's Aaron Altman, a less than good-looking newsman, who's dedicated, diligent and down-to-earth. Aaron would love to be an anchor but he freezes up the moment he's in front of the camera. Spunky, smart news producer Jane Craig is excellent at her job but has difficulty handling the pressure. Can these workaholics mask their personal quirks long enough to jump-start their professional lives? (20h Century Fox)
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Overboard
December 16, 1987
A cruel and beautiful heiress mocks and cheats over a hired carpenter. When she gets amnesia, he decides to introduce her to working-class life by convincing her they're husband and wife.
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Throw Momma from the Train
December 11, 1987
A bitter ex-husband and a put-upon momma's boy both want their respective former spouse and mother dead. Who will pull it off?
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Planes, Trains & Automobiles
November 25, 1987
A man must struggle to travel home for Thanksgiving with an obnoxious slob of a shower curtain ring salesman as his only companion.
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3 Men and a Baby
November 25, 1987
Three bachelors find themselves forced to take care of a baby left by one of the guys' girlfriends.
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Teen Wolf Too
November 20, 1987
Todd Howard is a struggling teenager. Nothing seems to be going very well for him, until he turns into a wolf.
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Hiding Out
November 6, 1987
A stockbroker on the run from the mob decides to hide out from them by enrolling as a student in high school.
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Sammy and Rosie Get Laid
October 30, 1987
Sammy and Rosie are an unconventional middle-class London married couple. They live in the midst of inner-city chaos, surround themselves with intellectual street people, and sleep with everybody - except each other! Things become interesting when Sammy's father, Raffi, who is a former Indian government minister, comes to London for a visit. Sammy, Rosie, and Raffi try to find meaning through their lives and loves.
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Barfly
October 16, 1987
Based on the life of successful poet Charles Bukowski and his exploits in Hollywood during the 60s, 70s, and 80s.
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Slumber Party Massacre II
October 16, 1987
Courtney Bates, the younger sister of Valerie, and her friends go to their condo for a weekend getaway, but Courtney can't get rid of the haunting feeling that a supernatural rockabilly driller killer is coming to murder them all.
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Three O'Clock High
October 9, 1987
A nerd gets himself in hot water with the new bully, a quiet bad boy who challenges him to fight on the grounds of their high school after the day's end.
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Baby Boom
October 7, 1987
The life of super-yuppie J.C. Wiatt (Diane Keaton) is thrown into turmoil when she inherits a baby from a distant relative.
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Like Father Like Son
October 2, 1987
A mysterious potion switches the personalities of a buttoned-up doctor and his laid-back son.
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The Princess Bride
September 25, 1987
A young boy listens to while his grandfather reads him the adventures of Buttercup (Wright), the most beautiful woman in the world, and Westly (Elwes), the man she loves, in the fairy-tale kingdom of Florin. [MGM]
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Real Men
September 25, 1987
A womanizing CIA agent and an insecure insurance agent are paired together to make sure a deal goes through with aliens for the future of mankind.
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Amazon Women on the Moon
September 18, 1987
A spoof 1950s science fiction movie, interspersed with various comedy sketches concerning late night television.
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The Pick-up Artist
September 18, 1987
A womanizer (Robert Downey Jr.) meets his match when he falls for a woman in debt to the mafia (Molly Ringwald).
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House II: The Second Story
August 28, 1987
The new owner of a sinister house gets involved with reanimated corpses and demons searching for an ancient Aztec skull with magic powers.
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Jean de Florette
August 28, 1987
A greedy landowner and his backward nephew conspire to block the only water source for an adjoining property in order to bankrupt the owner and force him to sell.
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The Garbage Pail Kids Movie
August 22, 1987
Dodger must confront the struggles of life as he is visited by the Garbage Pail Kids and intimidated by some older bullies.
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Born in East L.A.
August 21, 1987
When a native-born American citizen of Mexican descent is mistakenly deported to Mexico, he has to risk everything to get back home.
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The Monster Squad
August 14, 1987
A young group of monster fanatics attempt to save their hometown from Count Dracula and his monsters.
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Can't Buy Me Love
August 14, 1987
A nerdy outcast secretly pays the most popular girl in school one thousand dollars to be his girlfriend.
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