Movie Releases by Genre
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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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Creepshow 2
May 1, 1987
Three more bone-chilling tales that include a vengeful wooden Native American, a monstrous blob in a lake, and a hitchhiker who wants revenge and will not die.
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Project X
April 17, 1987
An Air Force pilot (Matthew Broderick) joins a top secret military experiment involving chimps, but begins to suspect there might be something more to the mysterious "Project X".
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The Secret of My Succe$s
April 10, 1987
A talented young man can't get an executive position without rising through the ranks, so he comes up with a shortcut, which also benefits his love life.
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Three for the Road
April 10, 1987
A crafty political aide and his soft-spoken pal are assigned the job of delivering a senator's out-of-control teenage daughter to an institution.
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Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol
April 3, 1987
The motley crew of Police Academy graduates have been assigned to train a group of civilian volunteers to fight crime that is plaguing their streets.
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Blind Date
March 27, 1987
Walter Davis is a workaholic. His attention is all to his work and very little to his personal life or appearance. Now he needs a date to take to his company's business dinner with a new important Japanese client. His brother sets him up with his wife's cousin Nadia, who is new in town and wants to socialize, but he was warned that if she gets drunk, she loses control and becomes wild. How will the date turn out - especially when they encounter Nadia's ex-boyfriend David?
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Hollywood Shuffle
March 20, 1987
An actor (Robert Townsend) limited to stereotypical roles because of his ethnicity, dreams of making it big as a highly respected performer. As he makes his rounds, the film takes a satiric look at African American actors in Hollywood.
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Evil Dead II
March 13, 1987
Ash (Campbell), the sole survivor of "The Evil Dead," continues his struggle with the forces of the dead, with his girlfriend Linda. The two discover a mysterious tape recorder and hear the voice of Professor Knoby reciting passages from the Necronomicon, or Book of the Dead. The professor's words invoke a spell that unleashes the spirit of evil alive in the remote forest surrounding them. Watch in terror as the plot sickens and the supernatural demons invade the cabin on a gory crusade for human victims. In desperation, Ash attempts to escape his horrific fate by battling with the gruesome ghouls with the help of some unexpected visitors. However, he discovers that he is no match for the unspeakable creatures lurking behind every door, and waiting beyond every corner. (Anchor Bay Entertainment)
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Tin Men
March 13, 1987
A minor car accident drives two rival aluminum-siding salesmen to the ridiculous extremes of man versus man in 1963 Baltimore.
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Raising Arizona
March 13, 1987
A surreal, hyperactive farce in which a bumbling petty thief and the lady cop who keeps arresting him fall in love and decide to start a family. When they discover they can't have babies, they steal one from a furniture mogul who has just sired a set of quintuplets. The joys of parenthood are soon marred, however, by the difficulties of raising an infant on the run. The none-too-bright couple must flee across the southwestern desert in order to elude the villainous biker that has been hired to retrieve the tyke. [20th Century Fox]
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Mannequin
February 13, 1987
A young artist, searching for his vocation, makes a mannequin so perfect he falls in love with it. Finding the mannequin in a store window, he gets a job there and his creation comes to life.
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Radio Days
January 30, 1987
A nostalgic look at radio's golden age focusing on one ordinary family and the various performers in the medium.
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Outrageous Fortune
January 30, 1987
Two women unknowingly share the same man, but when he disappears, both go out looking for him and enter his surprisingly dangerous life.
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Crimes of the Heart
January 23, 1987
Three sisters with quite different personalities and lives reunite when Babe, the youngest, has just shot her husband. Oldest sister Lenny takes care of their grandfather and is turning into an old maid. Meg, who aspires to make it in Hollywood as a singer and actress, has had a wild, man-filled life. Their reunion is joyful but also stirs up much tension.
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Brighton Beach Memoirs
December 25, 1986
Eugene, a young teenage Jewish boy, recalls his memoirs of his time as an adolescent youth. He goes through the hardships of puberty, sexual fantasy, and living the life of a poor boy in a crowded house.
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Little Shop of Horrors
December 19, 1986
When geeky Seymour Krelborn discovers a very strange and unusual plant, business starts to turn around at the flower shop where he works and (sadly) lives. When the plant's health is threatened, Seymour desperately discovers the gory secret to keeping it alive. As Seymour grows more and more anemic and the number of bandages adorning his fingers mounts, the plant thrives, business booms and Seymour gets the girl. But as the plant grows bigger, so does its demand for the life-nourishing liquid is craves and Seymour must discover other, bigger sources for feeding it...like the sadistic dentist next door.
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The Golden Child
December 12, 1986
A private detective specializing in missing children is charged with the task of finding a special child who dark forces want to eliminate.
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Three Amigos!
December 12, 1986
Three actors accept an invitation to a Mexican village to perform their onscreen bandit fighter roles, unaware that it is the real thing.
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Heartbreak Ridge
December 5, 1986
A old-school, hard-nosed, hard-living Marine gunnery sergeant Tom Highway (Clint Eastwood) clashes with his superior officers and his ex-wife (Marsha Mason) as he takes command of a motley crew recon platoon with a bad attitude. He teaches them to improvise, adapt and overcome like Stoney Jackson used to say.
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Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
November 26, 1986
To save Earth from an alien probe, Admiral Kirk and his fugitive crew go back in time to 20th century Earth to retrieve the only beings who can communicate with it, humpback whales.
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Firewalker
November 21, 1986
A pair of adventurers try to track down an ancient Aztec/Mayan/Egyptian/Apache hoard of gold.
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An American Tail
November 21, 1986
While emigrating to the United States, a young Russian mouse gets separated from his family and must relocate them while trying to survive in a new country.
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The Decline of the American Empire
November 14, 1986
Eight friends who spend a weekend discussing their feelings about sex, love and marriage.
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Something Wild
November 7, 1986
Charles (Daniels) accepts a ride from Lulu (Griffith) and finds himself on the road to her hometown. At her high school reunion they meet her ex-husband Ray Sinclair (Liotta) who wants her back.
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Soul Man
October 24, 1986
To achieve his dream of attending Harvard law school, a rich UCLA Grad (C. Thomas Howell) poses as a young black man to receive a full scholarship.
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Trick or Treat
October 24, 1986
Sammi Curr was an infamous rock star who died under mysterious circumstances. Now, he wants to come back to life. Doing so requires possessing radio waves and automobiles, and making a few human sacrifices.
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True Stories
October 10, 1986
A small but growing Texas town, filled with strange and musical characters, celebrates its sesquicentennial and converge on a local parade and talent show.
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Jumpin' Jack Flash
October 10, 1986
Terry works for a bank, and uses computers to communicate with clients all over the world. One day she gets a coded message from an unknown source. After decoding the message, Terry becomes embroiled in an espionage ring. People are killed, and Terry is chased. Throughout she remains in contact with this unknown person, who needs Terry to help save his life.
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Peggy Sue Got Married
October 10, 1986
Peggy Sue (Kathleen Turner) faints at a high school reunion. When she wakes up, she finds herself in her own past, just before she finished school.
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Tough Guys
October 3, 1986
Two elderly gangsters are released from prison only to find they have trouble fitting in as old men who still take no guff from anyone.
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Crocodile Dundee
September 26, 1986
An American reporter goes to the Australian outback to meet an eccentric crocodile poacher and invites him to New York City.
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Down by Law
September 20, 1986
Two innocent people are arrested. An interesting third person, with broken English, joins them in their cell. On his idea, they decide to escape from the prison. Their journey is the rest of the movie.
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Sherman's March
September 5, 1986
Armed with a 16mm camera and a grant to make a documentary about the lingering aftermath of William Tecumseh Sherman’s 1864 march to the sea, Ross McElwee gets sidetracked. After his girlfriend breaks up with him, Ross shifts his attention from the historical to the personal, to the battlefield of modern love, and embarks on a sociological chronicle that documents the courting rites and rituals of the New South. A generous and humanistic portrait of several remarkable women that Ross meets along the way, Sherman’s March sketches its characters with novelistic sensitivity: Pat, an aspiring actress with a yen for Burt Reynolds; Claudia, a roller-skating interior designer; Jackie, the activist whose anti-nuclear advocacy dovetails with Ross’s deepest fears; and above all, Charleen Swansea, Ross’s mentor and a one-woman Greek chorus of unsolicited romantic counsel.
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Shanghai Surprise
August 29, 1986
Glendon Wasey is a fortune hunter looking for a fast track out of China. Gloria Tatlock is a missionary nurse seeking the curing powers of opium for her patients. Fate sets them on a hectic, exotic, and even romantic quest for stolen drugs. But they are up against every thug and smuggler in Shangai.
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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2
August 22, 1986
A radio host is victimized by the cannibal family as a former Texas Marshall hunts them.
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Night of the Creeps
August 22, 1986
Alien brain parasites, entering humans through the mouth, turn their host into a killing zombie. Some teenagers start to fight against them.
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Armed and Dangerous
August 15, 1986
A fired cop and useless lawyer sign up as security guards and find they've joined a corrupt union.
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One Crazy Summer
August 8, 1986
An would-be teenage cartoonist (John Cusack) and his oddball friends come to the aid of a singer (Demi Moore) trying to save her family property from developers.
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She's Gotta Have It
August 8, 1986
The story of Nola Darling's simultaneous sexual relationships with three different men is told by her and by her partners and other friends. All three men wanted her to commit solely to them; Nola resists being "owned" by a single partner.
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A Fine Mess
August 8, 1986
An actor and a chef fathom a plot to fix a horse race and attempt at capitalizing it, while striving to tackle two of the hitmen responsible for the scheme.
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Howard the Duck
August 1, 1986
A sarcastic humanoid duck is pulled from his homeworld to Earth where he must stop an alien invader.
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Nothing in Common
July 30, 1986
A successful ad man (Tom Hanks) must juggle his ever-demanding career while his parents' marriage breaks up.
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Haunted Honeymoon
July 25, 1986
Two radio voice actors are getting married. Larry has fits of fear. A shrink needs 36 hours to scare him to death and cure him - during a family reunion at a scary family castle.
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Heartburn
July 25, 1986
An autobiographical look at the breakup of Ephron's marriage to Carl "All the President's Men" Bernstein that was also a best-selling novel. The Ephron character, Rachel is a food writer at a New York magazine who meets Washington columnist Mark at a wedding and ends up falling in love with him despite her reservations about marriage. They buy a house, have a daughter, and Rachel thinks they are living happily ever after until she discovers that Mark is having an affair while she is waddling around with a second pregnancy.
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Maximum Overdrive
July 25, 1986
A group of people try to survive when machines start to come alive and become homicidal.
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Meantime
July 23, 1986
When one brother gets a job from their wealthy aunt, the other becomes increasingly jealous.
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Pirates
July 18, 1986
The adventures of pirate Captain Red and his first mate Frog.
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Club Paradise
July 11, 1986
Injured while risking his life to save an angry German shepard, Chicago Firefighter Jack Moniker retires and moves to a small carribean island named St. Nicholas. There, he is befriended by the owner of a run-down resort, Ernest Reed. Greedy developers are schemeing to wrest Reed's coveted beach front property from him for non-payment of taxes. Jack comes to Ernest's rescue, and together they renovate and reopen the resort catering to affluent Americans. The film follows the zany exploits of the proprietors, guests and various colorful island denizans, as they break in the new "Club Paradise".
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About Last Night...
July 2, 1986
Based on the David Mament play, "Sexual Perversity in Chicago." Rob Lowe and Demi Moore star in this adaptation of David Mamet's play, Sexual Perversity in Chicago. They meet, have a one night stand, fall in love, break up, and seek the counsel of their best friends played by Jim Belushi and Elizabeth Perkins.
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Big Trouble in Little China
July 2, 1986
An All-American trucker gets dragged into a centuries-old mystical battle in Chinatown.
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Under the Cherry Moon
July 2, 1986
Two con artist brothers attempt to swindle a soon-to-be wealthy heiress but things get complicated when one falls in love with her.
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Ruthless People
June 27, 1986
A couple, cheated by a vile businessman, kidnap his wife in retaliation, without knowing that their enemy is delighted they did.
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Running Scared
June 27, 1986
Two street-smart Chicago cops have to shake off some rust after returning from a Key West vacation to pursue a drug dealer who nearly killed them in the past.
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Legal Eagles
June 20, 1986
A New York district attorney works and flirts with his adversary and her kooky artist client, who is on trial for a murder she didn't commit.
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Back to School
June 13, 1986
Self-made millionaire Thorton Mellon (Rodney Dangerfield) decides to enroll in college to help his son adjust to life at school and on the diving team. Hilarity ensues.
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Never Too Young to Die
June 13, 1986
After a top-secret agent is murdered, his estranged son, a high-school gymnast, teams up with his dad's attractive female partner to stop the psychopathic hermaphroditic gang leader who killed him and now plans a major terrorist attack.
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Ferris Bueller's Day Off
June 11, 1986
Ferris Bueller. Larger than life. Blessed with a magical sense of serendipity. He's a model for all those who take themselves too seriously. A guy who knows the value of a day off. Ferris Bueller's Day Off chronicles the events in the day of a rather magical young man, Ferris (Broderick). One spring day, toward the end of his senior year, Ferris gives into an overwhelming urge to cut school and head for downtown Chicago with his girl (Sara) and his best friend (Ruck), to see the sights, experience a day of freedom and show that with a little ingenuity, a bit of courage and a red Ferrari, life at 17 can be a joy! (Paramount)
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Jake Speed
May 30, 1986
In a world where, unbeknownst to the public, all famous pulp fiction heroes are real, one of them, Jake Speed, agrees to help desperate Margaret Winston save her sister from sadistic white slaver Sid, who's operating in Africa.
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Big Trouble
May 30, 1986
Insurance agent plots with client to kill her nutty husband.
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Short Circuit
May 9, 1986
Number 5 of a group of experimental robots in a lab is electrocuted, suddenly becomes intelligent, and escapes.
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No Retreat, No Surrender
May 2, 1986
Jason Stillwell, a Bruce Lee fan, is beaten numerous times and trains from the ghost of Lee. Jason then must use his newly acquired skills to save Seattle from a crime syndicate, whose top martial artist is the deadly Ivan.
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Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling
May 2, 1986
After severely burning himself in a drug incident, a comedian has a near death experience in which he reviews his life.
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Crimewave
April 25, 1986
A pair of crazy exterminator/hitmen kill the owner of a alarm security company, and stalk the partner who hired them, his wife, and a nerd framed for the murder.
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Three Men and a Cradle
April 25, 1986
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Wise Guys
April 18, 1986
Harry Valentini and Moe Dickstein are both errand boys for the Mob. When they lose two hundred fifty thousand dollars, they are set up to kill each other. But they run off to Atlantic City, and comedy follows.
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The Toxic Avenger
April 11, 1986
Tromaville has a monstrous new hero. The Toxic Avenger is born when meek mop boy Melvin falls into a vat of toxic waste. Now evildoers will have a lot to lose.
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Critters
April 11, 1986
A group of small, furry aliens makes lunch out of the locals in a farming town.
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My Beautiful Laundrette
April 4, 1986
An ambitious Pakistani Briton and his white boyfriend strive for success and hope when they open a glamorous laundromat.
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A Room with a View
April 1, 1986
Based on E.M. Forster's novel, Lucy, a young English woman (Bonham Carter), and her aunt (Smith) travel to Florence in the early 1900's. When Lucy encounters a British gentleman in Italy and finds herself falling in love, she must choose between him and her fiancé back in England.
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Last Resort
April 1, 1986
George Lollar takes his family on vacation with "Club Sand", a shoddy and untrustworthy company. On their tropical island, they find soldiers everywhere, an unhelpful staff, inhospitable accomodation and undesirable holiday makers, but everyone except for George manages to have fun in the sun.
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Lucas
March 28, 1986
A socially inept fourteen year old (Corey Haim) experiences heartbreak for the first time when his two best friends -- Cappie, an older-brother figure, and Maggie, the new girl with whom he is in love -- fall for each other.
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The Money Pit
March 26, 1986
A young couple struggles to repair a hopelessly dilapidated house.
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Hamburger: The Motion Picture
March 22, 1986
Russell has been expelled from several schools for lewd, crude and nude conduct. Busterburger University is his last chance at education and satisfying his disappointed parents.
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Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation
March 21, 1986
The Care Bears try to help a young girl at summer camp who, in an effort to revamp her dorky social status to agility and skill, enters into a sinister bargain with a shape-shifting demon posing as a young boy.
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Chopping Mall
March 21, 1986
Eight teenagers are trapped after hours in a high-tech shopping mall and pursued by three murderous security robots out of control.
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Police Academy 3: Back in Training
March 21, 1986
The alumni of Commandant Lassard's Police Academy (1984) return to the school to train new recruits and prevent its closure.
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Gung Ho
March 14, 1986
When a Japanese car company buys an American plant, the American liaison must mediate the clash of cultures.
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