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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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The Care Bears Adventure in Wonderland
August 7, 1987
The Care Bears and Alice set out to stop an evil wizard from taking over Wonderland.
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Back to the Beach
August 7, 1987
Frankie and Annette, having grown up and put aside their beach-partying lifestyle, visit their daughter in Southern California and discover there's still some wild times left in them.
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Who's That Girl
August 7, 1987
The life of an uptight tax lawyer turns chaotic when he is asked to escort a young woman newly released from prison, who persuades him to help prove her innocence.
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Stakeout
August 5, 1987
Two detectives observe an escaped convict's ex-girlfriend, but complications set in when one of them falls for her.
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The Lost Boys
July 31, 1987
Strange events threaten an entire family when two brothers move with their divorced mother to a California town where the local teenage gang turns out to be a pack of vampires. (Warner Bros.)
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Summer School
July 22, 1987
High School coach Freddy Shoop (Harmon) has plans: summer in Hawaii. But the vice-principal has plans for Freddy, too. Teaching remedial English. Aloha, paradise. Hello, Summer School. Shoop and his class of likable misfits survive goof-ups and good times on the road to academic success... and the self-respect that goes with it. (Paramount)
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Rita, Sue and Bob Too
July 17, 1987
Realistic story of working-class Yorkshire life, alternately serious and light-hearted, as two schoolgirls have a sexual fling with a married man.
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Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise
July 10, 1987
The rising college nerds set out to a convention in Florida, but are not welcomed by the Alpha Beta representatives.
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Adventures in Babysitting
July 3, 1987
A babysitter must battle her way through the big city after being stranded there with the kids she's looking after.
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Surf Nazis Must Die
July 3, 1987
When the son of a gun-wielding woman is murdered by neo-Nazi surf punks in the post-apocalyptic future, his Mama hunts them down for some bloodthirsty revenge.
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Innerspace
July 1, 1987
A hapless store clerk must foil criminals to save the life of the man who, miniaturized in a secret experiment, was accidentally injected into him.
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Dragnet
June 26, 1987
The equally-straight-laced and "by the book" nephew of Joe Friday must work with his more laid-back partner to solve a mystery.
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Spaceballs
June 24, 1987
When the evil Dark Helmet attempts to steal all the air from planet Druidia, a determined Druish Princess, a clueless rogue and a half-man/half-dog creature who's his own best friend set out to stop him! But with the forces of darkness closing in on them at ludicrous speed, they'll need the help of a wise imp named Yogurt and the mystical power of "The Schwartz" to bring peace - and merchandising rights - to the entire galaxy! (MGM)
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Withnail and I
June 19, 1987
London 1969 - two unemployed and unemployable actors, Withnail and Marwood, fed up with damp, cold, piles of washing-up, mad drug dealers and psychotic Irishmen, decide to leave their squalid Camden flat for an idyllic holiday in the countryside, courtesy of Withnail's uncle Monty's country cottage. But when they get there, it rains non-stop, there's no food, and their basic survival skills turn out to be somewhat limited. Matters are not helped by the arrival of Uncle Monty, who shows an uncomfortably keen interest in Marwood.
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Roxanne
June 19, 1987
An adaptation of "Cyrano de Bergerac", starring a big-hearted, and big-nosed fire chief (Steve Martin) who falls in love with a beautiful astronomer (Daryl Hannah).
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The Witches of Eastwick
June 12, 1987
Three single women in a picturesque village have their wishes granted - at a cost - when a mysterious and flamboyant man enters their lives.
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Harry and the Hendersons
June 5, 1987
Returning from a hunting trip in the forest, the Henderson family's car hits an animal in the road. When they examine the body, they find it's a Bigfoot. Thinking it might be dead, they decide to take it home. But when the Bigfoot wakes up, it turns out he is far from the ferocious monster they feared. He's a friendly giant. In their attempts to keep Harry a secret, the Henderson's have to hide him from the authorities and a man who has made it his goal in life to catch a Bigfoot.
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Ernest Goes to Camp
May 22, 1987
Ernest, a lovable loser who works as a summer camp handyman and dreams of becoming a guidance councilor, must find a way to inspire a group of juvenile delinquents as well as stop a shady strip mining company from closing the camp.
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Tampopo
May 22, 1987
The tale of an enigmatic band of ramen ronin who guide the widow of a noodle shop owner on her quest for the perfect recipe, Tampopo serves up a savory broth of culinary adventure seasoned with offbeat comedy sketches and the erotic exploits of a gastronome gangster. Sweet, sexy, surreal, and mouthwatering, Tampopo remains one of the most delectable examples of food on film. [Janus Films]
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Beverly Hills Cop II
May 20, 1987
Axel Foley returns to Beverly Hills to help Taggart and Rosewood investigate the shooting of Chief Bogomil and a series of "alphabet crimes."
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Ishtar
May 15, 1987
Chuck Clarke (Hoffman) and Lyle Rogers (Beatty) are a couple of no-talent New York singer-songwriters who agree to play the only gig they can find at the Chez Casablanca in Morocco. En route, they become embroiled in various international intrigues in the neighboring (fictional) Ishtar.
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Hot Pursuit
May 8, 1987
Dan (John Cusack) arrives too late for his girlfriend's family's plane to the Caribbean. He gets the next. Once there, Dan's hot pursuit of his girlfriend includes 3 friendly locals, a dubious yacht skipper, corrupt police, hijacker, pirates etc.
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My Life as a Dog
May 1, 1987
A boy and his brother don't get along well. In order to let their ill mother rest, they're separated and sent each one with their relatives.
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