Movie Releases by Genre
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Newsies
April 10, 1992
In 1899 Jack "Cowboy" Kelly (Bale) organizes a newsboys' strike after Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst raised the wholesale price on newspapers.
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Father of the Bride
December 20, 1991
In this update of the Hollywood classic, George Banks, the befuddled father who has a hard time letting go of his young daughter when she unexpectedly announces her plans to wed. Tickling funnybones, this entertaining treat chronicles George's hysterical trials and tribulations leading up to the big event. Father of the Bride promises to love, honor, and deliver the kind of motion picture fun you'll thoroughly enjoy. (Buena Vista Entertainment)
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Hook
December 11, 1991
When Captain Hook kidnaps his children, an adult Peter Pan must return to Neverland and reclaim his youthful spirit in order to challenge his old enemy.
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My Girl
November 27, 1991
A young girl, on the threshold of her teen years, finds her life turning upside down, when she is accompanied by an unlikely friend.
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Beauty and the Beast
November 22, 1991
This 'tale as old as time' follows the adventures of Belle, a bright young woman who finds herself imprisoned in a castle of a mysterious beast. With the assistance of the castle's enchanted staff, a delightful and tender romance develops between these two unlikely friends and Belle soon learns the most important lesson of all - that true beauty comes from within.
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Ernest Scared Stupid
October 11, 1991
Ernest unleashes an ugly troll that plots to transform children into wooden dolls in the town of Briarville, Missouri.
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The Rocketeer
June 21, 1991
The discovery of a top-secret jetpack hurls test pilot Cliff Secord (Billy Campbell) into a daring adventure of mystery, suspense and intrigue. Cliff encounters an assortment of ruthless villains, led by a Hollywood screen star who's a secret spy. With the help of his actress girlfriend, the young pilot battles enormous odds to defeat his foes, who are anxious to use the device in an evil plan to rule the world.
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze
March 22, 1991
The Turtles and the Shredder battle once again, this time for the last canister of the ooze that created the Turtles, with which Shredder wants to unleash an army of new mutants.
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The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter
February 8, 1991
A young boy with a distant father enters a world of make-believe and magic through a portal within an antique book.
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3 Men and a Little Lady
November 21, 1990
Sylvia's work increasingly takes her away from the three men who help bring up Mary, her daughter. When she decides to move to England and take Mary with her, the three men are heartbroken at losing the two most important females in their lives.
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Home Alone
November 16, 1990
Eight-year-old Kevin McCallister has become the man of the house, overnight! Accidentally left behind when his family rushes off on a Christmas vacation, Kevin gets busy decorating the house for the holidays. But he's not decking the halls with tinsel and holly. Two bumbling burglars are trying to break in, and Kevin's rigging a bewildering battery of booby traps to welcome them! (20th Century Fox Corp.)
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The Rescuers Down Under
November 16, 1990
The R.A.S. agents, Miss Bianca and Bernard, race to Australia to save a little boy and a rare golden eagle from a murderous poacher.
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The Witches
August 24, 1990
A young boy stumbles onto a witch convention and must stop them, even after he has been turned into a mouse.
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Problem Child
July 27, 1990
A young boy wreaks havoc on the lives of his adoptive parents.
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Jetsons: The Movie
July 6, 1990
George Jetson is forced to uproot his family when Mr. Spacely promotes him to take charge of a new factory on a distant planet.
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Ernest Goes to Jail
April 6, 1990
Bumbling Ernest P. Worrell is assigned to jury duty, where a crooked lawyer notices a resemblance with crime boss Mr. Nash, and arranges a switch. Nash assumes Ernest's job as a bank employee, while Ernest undergoes Nash's sentence to the electric chair. But instead of killing him, the electrocution gives Ernest superhuman powers, enabling him to escape from jail and foil Nash's attempt to rob the bank.
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
March 30, 1990
Four teenage mutant ninja turtles emerge from the shadows to protect New York City from a gang of criminal ninjas.
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The Wizard
December 15, 1989
A boy and his brother run away from home and hitch cross country with the help of a girl they meet to compete in the ultimate video game championship.
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The Little Mermaid
November 17, 1989
A mermaid princess makes a Faustian bargain with an unscrupulous sea-witch in order to meet a human prince on land.
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All Dogs Go to Heaven
November 17, 1989
Charley B. Barkin, the German shepherd is double-crossed and murdered by his pit bull partner. He returns from heaven to seek revenge but finds redemption instead.
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The Bear
October 27, 1989
An orphan bear cub hooks up with an adult male as they try to dodge human hunters.
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The Adventures of Milo and Otis
August 25, 1989
The adventures of a young cat and a dog as they find themselves accidentally separated and each swept into a hazardous trek.
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Uncle Buck
August 16, 1989
Bachelor and all round slob, Buck, babysits his brother's rebellious teenage daughter and her cute younger brother and sister.
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Kiki's Delivery Service
July 29, 1989
A young witch, on her mandatory year of independent life, finds fitting into a new community difficult while she supports herself by running an air courier service.
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The Karate Kid Part III
June 30, 1989
Ostracised villain John Kreese attempts to gain revenge on Daniel and Miyagi, with the help of a Vietnam War comrade, the wealthy owner of a toxic waste disposal business.
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Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
June 23, 1989
The scientist father of a teenage girl and boy accidentally shrinks his and two other neighborhood teens to the size of insects. Now the teens must fight diminutive dangers as the father searches for them.
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Danny the Champion of the World
April 29, 1989
Somewhere in England in autumn 1955, widowed veteran William Smith and his son, Danny, live an idyllic life together. But their property happens to sit on a piece of land that a local developer named Victor Hazell wants to buy. When he won't take no for an answer, and sets government inspectors and social works onto them, they decide to get even with him and his pheasant-shooting friends in a manner in keeping with their own family tradition.
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Field of Dreams
April 21, 1989
"If you build it, he will come." With thes words, Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella (Costner) is inspired by a voice he can't ignore to pursue a dream he can hardly believe. Supported by his wife Annie (Madigan), Ray begins the quest by turning his ordinary cornfield into a place where dreams can come true. Along the way he meets reclusive activist Terence Mann (Jones), the mysterious "Doc" Graham (Lancaster), and even the legendary "Shoeless Joe" Jackson (Liotta). (Universal)
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Castle in the Sky
April 1, 1989
A young boy and a girl with a magic crystal must race against pirates and foreign agents in a search for a legendary floating castle.
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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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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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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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Ernest Saves Christmas
November 11, 1988
Ernest helps Santa Claus as he searches for his successor.
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Mac and Me
August 12, 1988
An alien trying to escape from NASA is befriended by a wheelchair-bound boy.
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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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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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My Neighbor Totoro
April 16, 1988
When two girls move to the country to be near their ailing mother, they have adventures with the wondrous forest spirits who live nearby.
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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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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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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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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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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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Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
July 24, 1987
The Man of Steel crusades for nuclear disarmament and meets Lex Luthor's latest creation, Nuclear Man.
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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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Benji the Hunted
June 5, 1987
Benji is left in the wilderness after an accident. Will he survive?
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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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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 Transformers: The Movie
August 8, 1986
The Autobots must stop a colossal planet consuming robot who goes after the Autobot Matrix of Leadership. At the same time, they must defend themselves against an all-out attack from the Decepticons.
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Flight of the Navigator
August 1, 1986
In 1978, a boy travels 8 years into the future and has an adventure with an intelligent, wisecracking alien ship.
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Pirates
July 18, 1986
The adventures of pirate Captain Red and his first mate Frog.
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The Great Mouse Detective
July 2, 1986
Basil, the rodent Sherlock Holmes, investigates the kidnapping of a toy-maker and uncovers its link to his arch-enemy, Professor Ratigan.
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Labyrinth
June 27, 1986
Babysitting infant stepbrother Toby on a weekend night isn’t young Sarah’s idea of fun. Frustrated by his crying, she secretly imagines the Goblins from her favorite book, Labyrinth, carrying Toby away. When her fantasy comes true, a distraught Sarah must enter a maze of illusion to bring Toby back from a kingdom inhabited by mystical creatures and governed by the wicked Goblin King. (Sony Pictures)
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The Karate Kid Part II
June 20, 1986
Daniel accompanies his mentor, Mr. Miyagi, to Miyagi's childhood home in Okinawa. Miyagi visits his dying father and confronts his old rival, while Daniel falls in love and inadvertently makes a new rival of his own.
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My Little Pony: The Movie
June 6, 1986
Ponyland comes under attack from the Smooze, a massive purple ooze created by an evil witch who plans to destroy the ponies' annual spring festival.
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SpaceCamp
June 6, 1986
The youthful attendees of a space camp find themselves in space for real when their shuttle is inadvertently launched into orbit.
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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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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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GoBots: Battle of the Rock Lords
March 21, 1986
The Go-Bots fight to rescue the Rock People.
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The Journey of Natty Gann
September 27, 1985
In the 1930s, a tomboy runs away from her guardian to join her single father who is 2,000 miles away, where he has found work.
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Pee-wee's Big Adventure
August 9, 1985
When Pee Wee's beloved bike is stolen, he goes on a cross-country trip to the Alamo because a "physic" tells him it's there. On the way, he finds himself in one oddball encounter after another, from posing as an escaped convict's alibi girlfriend to dancing his way out of a biker brawl in a bar to riding in a big-rig with cackling Large Marge (one year after her death). With so much going on, Pee Wee's adventure could be a Hollywood movie.
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Follow That Bird
August 2, 1985
Big Bird is sent to live far from Sesame Street by a pesky social worker. Unhappy, Big Bird runs away from his foster home, prompting the rest of the Sesame Street gang to go on a cross-country journey to find him.
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The Black Cauldron
July 24, 1985
Fantasy, magic, and fun are all brewed together in Disney's legendary adventure The Black Cauldron. Whoever releases the mysterious Black Cauldron's power will be invincible. The fearsome Horned King will do anything to possess it, but he is challenged by the most unlikely adversary: a young assistant pig keeper named Taran, who dreams of doing heroic deeds. With a motley team of the brave Princess Eilonwy, a minstrel named Fflewddur Fflam and Hen Wen, a remarkable pig who can predict the future, Taran embarks on a quest to stop the Black Cauldron's evil once and for all. Will he have the courage to succeed? [Disney] The story is based on "The Chronicles of Prydain," a series of books for young people by Lloyd Alexander that won critical and popular acclaim in the mid-1960's.
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Explorers
July 12, 1985
Ben Crandall, an alien-obsessed kid, dreams one night of a circuit board. Drawing out the circuit, he and his friends Wolfgang and Darren set it up, and discover they have been given the basis for a starship. Setting off in the ThunderRoad, as they name their ship, they find the aliens Ben hopes they would find... but are they what they seem?
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Return to Oz
June 21, 1985
Dorothy finds herself back in the land of her dreams where she makes delightful new friends like Tik Tok, Jack Pumpkinhead, and the Gum, as well as dangerous new enemies, the creepy Wheelers, the head-hunting Princess Mombi, and the evil Nome King. With every twist in the yellow brick road, Dorothy's struggle to return home becomes more challenging and foreboding. And the future of Oz rests in her hands. Will Dorothy be able to restore its rightful heir to the throne of the Emerald City? (Disney)
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The Goonies
June 7, 1985
Following a mysterious treasure map into a spectacular underground realm of twisting passages, outrageous booby-traps and a long-lost pirate ship full of golden dubloons, the kids race to stay one step ahead of a family of bumbling bad guys... and a mild-mannered monster with a face only a mother could love. [Warner Bros.]
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The Care Bears Movie
March 29, 1985
The Care Bears team up with a troubled brother and sister who just moved to a new town to help a neglected young magician's apprentice whose evil spell book causes sinister things to happen.
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He-Man and She-Ra: The Secret of the Sword
March 22, 1985
Prince Adam is sent to the world of Etheria to find his long abducted sister, Adora, and awaken her to her own destiny.
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Cloak & Dagger
August 10, 1984
Davey Osborne (Henry Thomas) is an imaginative youngster who loves role-playing games, and who often enlists the aid of his best friend, an imaginary super-spy named Jack Flack (Dabney Coleman). One day he witnesses a real murder of an FBI agent who passes a videogame called "Cloak & Dagger" to him before he dies. When the police come, the body is gone, and no one will believe him, including his father, Col. Hal Osborne. Soon Davey finds himself up to his neck in hairbreadth escapes, real bullets, and slam-bang action as the hitmen close in. Can Jack save him before time runs out?
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Phar Lap
August 10, 1984
The life of the 1930s Australian champion race horse who dies mysteriously in California.
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The NeverEnding Story
July 20, 1984
A dreamy young boy discovers an extraordinary storybook-and the fantastical world within its pages. (Warner Bros.)
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The Muppets Take Manhattan
July 13, 1984
Kermit and his friends go to New York to get their musical on Broadway only to find it's a more difficult task than they anticipated.
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The Karate Kid
June 22, 1984
A martial arts master agrees to teach karate to a bullied teenager.
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A Christmas Story
November 18, 1983
This delightfully funny holiday gem tells the story of Ralphie Parker a 1940's nine-year-old who pulls out all the stops to obtain the ultimate Christmas present. (Warner Bros.)
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The Black Stallion Returns
March 25, 1983
When the Black is stolen in exotic Morrocco, his young owner must embark on a series of daring adventures to get him back. (MGM)
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The Dark Crystal
December 17, 1982
On another planet in the distant past, a Gelfling embarks on a quest to find the missing shard of a magical crystal, and so restore order to his world.
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The Last Unicorn
November 19, 1982
A brave unicorn and a magician fight an evil King who is obsessed with attempting to capture the world's unicorns.
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The Secret of NIMH
July 16, 1982
To save her ill son, a field mouse must seek the aid of a colony of rats, with whom she has a deeper link than she ever suspected.
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Author! Author!
June 18, 1982
While facing the stress of his play being produced on Broadway, a playwright deals with having to raise his son, his stepdaughters, and his stepsons.
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Annie
June 18, 1982
The story of a plucky, red-haired girl who dreams of life outside her dreary orphanage. One day, Annie (Quinn) is chosen to stay for one week with the famous billionaire "Daddy" Warbucks (Finney). One week turns into many and the only person standing in the way of Annie's fun is Miss Hannigan, the gin-soaked ruler of the orphanage (Burnett). (Sony)
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E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
June 11, 1982
When an imaginative boy meets a lost alien, it is the beginning of one of cinema's most endearing friendships as Elliot (Henry Thomas) helps the marvelous creature he calls E.T. find his way back home before government agents can capture him.
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The Watcher in the Woods
October 9, 1981
An American family moves into a spooky manor house located within a wooded area in the English countryside. Before long they start to see some odd things, like mirrors that don't reflect, and the ghost of a blindfolded girl. The new tenants learn that 30 years ago, a teenage girl, who bears an uncanny resemblance to their daughter Jan, disappeared nearby. Soon, the supernatural presence starts contacting both sisters.
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Condorman
August 7, 1981
Cartoonist Woody becomes the superhero he draws. Using his gadgets he helps a Soviet spy defect to the West.
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The Fox and the Hound
July 10, 1981
Two childhood friends find themselves forced to become enemies.
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The Great Muppet Caper
June 26, 1981
Kermit, Gonzo, and Fozzie are reporters who travel to Britain to interview a rich victim of jewel thieves and help her along with her secretary, Miss Piggy.
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Clash of the Titans
June 12, 1981
Perseus must battle both Medusa and the Kraken to save the Princess Andromeda.
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Popeye
December 12, 1980
The cartoon comes to the big screen as mysterious Popeye the Sailorman docks in Sweethaven where he falls for Olive Oyl, fights with Bluto and becomes a mama to "infankt" Sweetpea.
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My Bodyguard
September 26, 1980
When a boy comes to a new school and gets harassed by a bully, he acquires the services of the school's most feared kid as a bodyguard.
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Herbie Goes Bananas
June 25, 1980
Our favorite little VW beetle helps its owners break up a counterfeiting ring in Mexico.
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Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (and Don't Come Back!!)
May 30, 1980
Charlie Brown and his friends travel to Europe as exchange students.
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The Black Stallion
October 13, 1979
A boy forges a special friendship with a wild stallion after both are shipwrecked on a deserted island. (MGM)
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Unidentified Flying Oddball
July 26, 1979
[Also known as "A Spaceman in King Arthur’s Court"] Astronaut Tom Trimble and his robot companion are unexpectedly hurled backward in time during a routine space flight and end up prisoners at the Court of King Arthur in sixth-century England. Adding to Tom's plight is his discovery of a sinister plot to overthrow the King, with the outcome resting on the flash-and-dazzle of the equipment at hand – from the 20th century. [Disney]
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The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again
June 27, 1979
The adventures of two idiotic outlaw wannabees, Amos and Theodore.
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The Muppet Movie
June 22, 1979
After a fateful meeting with a big-time talent agent, Kermit the Frog heads for Hollywood dreaming of show biz. Along the way, Fozzie Bear, the Great Gonzo and the dazzling Miss Piggy join him in hopes of becoming film stars too. But all bets are off when Kermit falls into the clutches of Doc Hopper (Charles Durning), a fast-food mogul seeking to promote his French-fried frog-leg franchise. (Walt Disney)
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The Wiz
October 24, 1978
An adaptation of "The Wizard of Oz" that tries to capture the essence of the African-American experience.
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The Bad News Bears Go to Japan
June 30, 1978
In this third film of the Bad News Bears series, Tony Curtis plays a small time promoter/hustler who takes the pint-sized baseball team to Japan for a match against the country's best little league baseball team which sparks off a series of adventures and mishaps the boys come into.
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The Cat from Outer Space
June 9, 1978
Three scientists help an Alien feline, stranded on Earth, to repair its damaged spacecraft in order to return home but their efforts are hampered by inept army officials and foreign spies.
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Return from Witch Mountain
March 10, 1978
The entire city of Los Angeles teeters on the brink of nuclear disaster when the greedy criminals manipulate a young boy's supernatural powers for their own devious gain. But the youth's sister and a streetwise band of truants join forces in a desperate attempt to save the city from destruction.
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Candleshoe
December 16, 1977
Small-time crook Harry Bundage discovers that the old manor house where Lady St. Edmund resides, with three orphans and her butler Priory is the resting place for a hoard of treasure. Unfortunately, he doesn't know where it is. Bundage recruits urchin Casey Brown to dupe Lady St. Edmund into thinking that she is her long-lost granddaughter, so she can search for clues to the location of the treasure. Unbeknownst to Bundage AND her ladyship, Lady St. Edmund is flat broke, and Priory and the children help her ladyship try to keep her home and pride. Joined by Casey, they do all the chores and Priory acts as the butler, gardener, chauffeur and an old major all at the same time!
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