Movie Releases by Genre
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Rain Man
December 16, 1988
What begins with a cold-hearted attempt by one man to steal his autistic brother's inheritance evolves into a cross-country odyssey of love, family and self-discovery.
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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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The Land Before Time
November 18, 1988
An orphaned brontosaurus teams up with other young dinosaurs in order to reunite with their families in a valley.
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A Cry in the Dark
November 11, 1988
A mother whose child was killed in a dingo attack in the Australian Outback fights to prove her innocence when she is accused of murder.
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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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Bat*21
October 21, 1988
During the Vietnam War, Colonel Hambleton's (Gene Hackman) aircraft is shot down over enemy territory and a frantic rescue operation ensues.
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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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The Accused
October 14, 1988
After a young woman (Jodie Foster) suffers a brutal gang rape in a bar one night, a prosecutor assists in bringing the perpetrators to justice, including the ones who encouraged and cheered on the attack.
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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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Clara's Heart
October 7, 1988
A Jamaican woman becomes the housekeeper for a rich Baltimore family and bonds with a disillusioned teenage boy.
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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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Salaam Bombay!
October 7, 1988
Young Krishna struggles to survive among the drug dealers, pimps, and prostitutes in the back alleys of India.
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Bird
September 30, 1988
Bird, a film burnished with the magic of that 1946 concert encounter between legend and future legend and honored with an Academy Award for Best Sound in its spellbinding recreation of a man and his music. Like jazz itself, Bird rings with counterpoints and embellishments. Past and future overlap as the film explores Yardbird's soaring skill and destructive excesses. (Warner Bros.)
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Dead Ringers
September 23, 1988
The chilling story of identical twin gynecologists--suave Elliot and sensitive Beverly, bipolar sides of one personality--who share the same practice, the same apartment, the same women. When a new patient, glamorous actress Claire Niveau, challenges their eerie bond, they descend into a whirlpool of sexual confusion, drugs, and madness. Jeremy Irons' tour-de-force performance--as both twins?raises disturbing questions about the nature of personal identity. (Criterion Collection)
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Kansas
September 23, 1988
A young man returning home to attend a wedding hooks up with a drifter who turns out to be a violent bank robber. Before he knows it, the man finds himself involved in the robber's plans.
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Patty Hearst
September 23, 1988
In the 1970s, Patricia Hearst is abducted by American revolutionaries, but eventually joins their cause instead.
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Distant Voices, Still Lives
September 11, 1988
The second film in Terence Davies's autobiographical series ('Trilogy', 'The Long Day Closes') is an impressionistic view of a working-class family in 1940s and 1950s Liverpool, based on Davies's own family. The first part, 'Distant Voices', opens with grown siblings Eileen (Angela Walsh), Maisie (Lorraine Ashbourne) and Tony (Dean Williams), and their mother (Freda Dowie) arranged in mourning clothes before the photograph of their smiling father (Pete Postlethwaite). Soon after, the family poses in a similar tableau, but for a happier occasion - Eileen's wedding. While relatives sing at her reception, Eileen hysterically grieves for her dad, and recalls happy times of her youth. Tony and Maisie's memories, however, are more troubled. Davies intermingles and contrasts scenes like the family peacefully lighting candles in church with the brutal man beating his wife and terrorizing his young children. In 'Still Lives', set (and filmed) two years later, the siblings are settled in life, but not all happily. For Eileen, relief from her drab existence comes only when singing at the pub. With his skillfully composed frames and evocative use of music in place of dialogue, Davies creates a lovely, affecting photo album of a troubled family wrestling with the complexity of love.
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Running on Empty
September 9, 1988
The eldest son of a fugitive family comes of age and wants to live a life of his own.
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Eight Men Out
September 2, 1988
A dramatization of the Black Sox scandal when the underpaid Chicago White Sox accepted bribes to deliberately lose the 1919 World Series.
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Tucker: The Man and His Dream
August 12, 1988
In the late 1940s, Preston Tucker had a dream to build the best cars ever made. Pressure from Detroit and government dooms his dream.
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The Last Temptation of Christ
August 12, 1988
A thought-provoking interpretation of the classic tale of Christ, Temptation explores the idea of Christ as a mere mortal, who, at the threshold of self-sacrifice, is tempted by the desire to continue on with his life.
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Monkey Shines
July 29, 1988
A quadriplegic man has a trained monkey help him with his paralysis, until the little monkey begins to develop feelings, and rage, against its new master.
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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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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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Willow
May 20, 1988
A reluctant dwarf must play a critical role in protecting a special baby from an evil queen.
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Wings of Desire
May 6, 1988
Wim Wenders directed this enchanting fantasy about an angel who, while wandering unseen through West Berlin, falls in love with a beautiful circus performer and decides to become human. (MGM)
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Bloodsport
April 29, 1988
Frank Dux (Jean-Claude Van Damme), an American martial artist serving in the military, decides to leave the army to compete in an underground martial arts tournament in Hong Kong where fights to the death can occur.
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Two Moon Junction
April 29, 1988
A young Southern débutante (Sherilyn Fenn) temporarily abandons her posh lifestyle and upcoming, semi-arranged marriage to have a lustful and erotic fling with a rugged drifter (Richard Tyson) who works at a local carnival.
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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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Above the Law
April 22, 1988
A former Special Operations Vietnam vet works as a Chicago cop, and uncovers C.I.A. wrongdoing.
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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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Colors
April 15, 1988
Set in the East L.A. barrio, Colors stars Sean Penn and Robert Duvall as very different cops, both in age and temperment, hand picked for the city's anti-gang campaign. As partners, they daily drive their unmarked car through the warring Los Angeles neighborhoods. Their simple code of endurance: Keep peace in the streets at any price! [MGM]
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Bright Lights, Big City
April 1, 1988
A disillusioned young writer living in New York City (Michael J. Fox) turns to drugs and drinking to block out the memories of his dead mother and estranged wife.
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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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Little Nikita
March 18, 1988
An F.B.I. Agent works to uncover an All-American family as Soviet sleeper Agents, and gets caught up in friendship with their unaware son.
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Stand and Deliver
March 11, 1988
The story of Jaime Escalante, a high school teacher who successfully inspired his dropout prone students to learn calculus.
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Prison
March 4, 1988
The spirit of a long-dead prisoner returns for revenge, haunting the prison's new governor.
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Babette's Feast
March 4, 1988
During the late 19th century, a strict religious community in a Danish village takes in a French refugee from the Franco-Prussian War as a servant to the late pastor's daughters.
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Frantic
February 26, 1988
In a hotel room in Paris, a doctor comes out of the shower and finds that his wife has disappeared. He soon finds himself caught up in a world of intrigue, espionage, gangsters, drugs and murder.
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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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Au Revoir les Enfants
February 12, 1988
A French boarding school run by priests seems to be a haven from World War II until a new student arrives. He becomes the roommate of the top student in his class. Rivals at first, the roommates form a bond and share a secret.
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Ironweed
February 12, 1988
An alcoholic drifter spends Halloween in his home town of Albany, New York after returning there for the first time in decades.
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Shoot to Kill
February 12, 1988
An F.B.I. Agent teams up with a tracker to pursue a murderer after he vanishes into the mountains and infiltrates a hiking group.
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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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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
February 5, 1988
In 1968, a Czech doctor with an active sex life meets a woman who wants monogamy, and then the Soviet invasion further disrupts their lives.
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Candy Mountain
February 1, 1988
A struggling musician sets out to find the legendary guitar maker Elmore Silk, with whom he hopes to strike a deal to make himself rich and famous.
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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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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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The Last Emperor
December 18, 1987
The story of Pu Yi's life from his reign as Emperor to his last days as a peasant worker in the People's Republic.
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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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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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Wall Street
December 11, 1987
Bud Fox has his sights set on conquering Wall Street. When legendary broker, Gordon Gekko, takes him under his wing, Fox figures he's on his way. But the road to success is paved with all sorts of corrupt acts that compromise his integrity and sense of self. Will he be able to get out before it's too late, that is, if Gekko will let him out?
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Empire of the Sun
December 9, 1987
Empire of the Sun—based on J. G. Ballard's autobiographical novel—tells the story of a boy, James Graham, whose privileged life is upturned by the Japanese invasion of Shanghai, December 8, 1941. Separated from his parents, he is eventually captured, and taken to Soo Chow confinement camp, next to a captured Chinese airfield. Amidst the sickness and food shortages in the camp, Jim attempts to reconstruct his former life, all the while bringing spirit and dignity to those around him. [Warner Bros. Pictures]
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Manon of the Spring
December 4, 1987
A beautiful but shy shepherdess plots vengeance on the men whose greedy conspiracy to acquire her father's land caused his death years earlier.
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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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Flowers in the Attic
November 20, 1987
Children are hidden away in the attic by their conspiring mother and grandmother.
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Russkies
November 6, 1987
A group of American boys and a shipwrecked Russian sailor become friends in the midst of the Cold War.
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Cry Freedom
November 6, 1987
South African journalist Donald Woods is forced to flee the country, after attempting to investigate the death in custody of his friend, the black activist Steve Biko.
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Less Than Zero
November 6, 1987
A college kid (Andrew McCarthy) returns to Beverly Hills for the holidays at his ex-girlfriend's (Jami Gertz) request, but he discovers that his old best friend (Robert Downey Jr.) has an out-of-control drug habit and has become beholden to some really bad dudes. (James Spader et al) Great soundtrack includes tracks by L.L. Cool J. and Poison.
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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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Death Wish 4: The Crackdown
November 6, 1987
Architect/vigilante Paul Kersey takes on the members of a vicious Los Angeles drug cartel to stop the flow of drugs after his girlfriend's daughter dies from an overdose.
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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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Suspect
October 23, 1987
When a homeless man is accused of murdering a Justice Department file clerk, a public defender is tasked with mounting his legal defense.
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No Man's Land
October 23, 1987
A rookie police officer goes undercover and infiltrates a car stealing ring.
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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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Someone to Watch Over Me
October 9, 1987
A married New York cop falls for the socialite murder witness he's been assigned to protect.
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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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Near Dark
October 3, 1987
A small-town farmer's son reluctantly joins a traveling group of vampires after he is bitten by a beautiful drifter.
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The Belly of an Architect
October 1, 1987
An architect supervising an exhibition starts to have mysterious stomach pains while his life slowly falls apart.
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The Big Town
September 25, 1987
It is 1957. J.C. Cullen is a young man from a small town, with a talent for winning at craps, who leaves for the big city to work as a professional gambler. While there, he breaks the bank at a private craps game at the Gem Club, owned by George Cole, and falls in love with two women, one of them Cole's wife. Infuriated, Cole wagers everything on the craps table, including the Gem Club itself, and he and Cullen have it out.
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Maurice
September 18, 1987
Cambridge students Clive (Grant) and Maurice (Wilby) fall in love, but Clive soon decides he must take his place in society and marry. Maurice's life is changed when he meets Alec Scudder (Graves), the gamekeeper at Clive's estate.
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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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The Principal
September 18, 1987
A teacher is assigned to be the principal of a violent and crime-ridden high school.
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Fatal Attraction
September 18, 1987
Fatal Attraction is a story too terrifying to resist, a crackling, tension-packed thriller hinged on the triangle of a man, a wife and vengeful "other woman." This sexy, chic, scary box-office smash grabs hold early-then tops itself with an unforgettably nerve-jolting finale. [Paramount Pictures]
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Matewan
August 28, 1987
A labor union organizer comes to an embattled mining community brutally and violently dominated and harassed by the mining company.
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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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Hamburger Hill
August 28, 1987
A very realistic interpretation of one of the bloodiest battles of the Vietnam War.
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Dirty Dancing
August 25, 1987
A young girl (Grey) vacationing with her parents in the conservative Catskills falls for the hotel's maverick dance instructor (Swayze).
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The Big Easy
August 21, 1987
Set in New Orleans. Remy McSwain, lieutenant in Homicide finds that he has two problems, the first of a series of gang killings and Ann Osborne, a beautiful attorney from the D.A.'s police corruption task force in his office. He begins a relationship with her as the killings continue only to have charges filed against him for accepting bribes as he stumbles on a police corruption Sting. While this is happening, the criminals insist that none of the crime gangs are behind the killings.
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No Way Out
August 14, 1987
A coverup and witchhunt ensue after a politician (Gene Hackman) accidentally puts his mistress (Sean Young) in jeopardy.
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North Shore
August 14, 1987
An Arizona surfer, laughed at by the veteran boarders in Hawaii, finds a mentor - and a girlfriend - and prepares to ride the giant waves of Oahu.
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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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La Bamba
July 24, 1987
Biographical story of the rise from nowhere of early rock and roll singer Ritchie Valens who died at age 17 in a plane crash with Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper.
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RoboCop
July 17, 1987
When Officer Alex J. Murphy (Weller) is murdered in a futuristic crime-ridden Detroit, scientists and doctors decide to turn him into a "Robocop". He seeks revenge when memories of his past life return.
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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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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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Full Metal Jacket
June 26, 1987
The story of an 18-year-old marine recruit named Private Joker - from his carnage-and-machismo boot camp to his climactic involvement in the heavy fighting in Hue during the 1968 Tet Offensive. [Warner Bros.]
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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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The Believers
June 10, 1987
A New York psychiatrist finds that a brujerÃa-inspired cult, which believes in child sacrifice, has a keen interest in his own son.
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The Untouchables
June 3, 1987
Federal Agent Eliot Ness sets out to stop Al Capone with a small, hand-picked team.
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Gardens of Stone
May 8, 1987
A Sergeant must deal with his desires to save the lives of young soldiers being sent to Viet Nam. Continuously denied the chance to teach the soldiers about his experiences, he settles for trying to help the son of an old Army buddy.
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River's Edge
May 8, 1987
A high school slacker commits a shocking act and proceeds to let his friends in on the secret. However, the friends' reaction is almost as ambiguous and perplexing as the crime itself.
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Prick Up Your Ears
May 8, 1987
This film is the story of the spectacular life and violent death of British playwright Joe Orton. In his teens, Orton is befriended by the older, more reserved Kenneth Halliwell, and while the two begin a relationship, it's fairly obvious that it's not all about sex. Orton loves the dangers of bath-houses and liaisons in public restrooms; Halliwell, not as charming or attractive as Orton, doesn't fare so well in those environs. While both long to become writers, it is Orton who achieves fame - his plays "Entertaining Mr. Sloane" and "Loot" become huge hits in London of the sixties, and he's even commissioned to write a screenplay for the Beatles. But Orton's success takes him farther from Halliwell, whose response ended both his life and the life of the up-and-coming playwright.
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American Ninja 2: The Confrontation
May 1, 1987
On a remote Caribbean island, Army Ranger Joe Armstrong investigates the disappearance of several marines, which leads him to The Lion, a super-criminal who has kidnapped a local scientist and mass-produced an army of mutant Ninja warriors.
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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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